Project Team
Project BOOST (Better Outcomes for Older adults through Safe Transitions) Project Team
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Project BOOST Team
Mark V. Williams, MD, FHM
Principal Investigator
Advisory Board Co-Chair
Professor & Chief, Division of Hospital Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Tina Budnitz, MPH
BOOST Project Director
Senior Advisor to the CEO
Society of Hospital Medicine
Atlanta, GA
Eric A. Coleman, MD, MPH
Advisory Board Chair
Associate Professor
Division of Health Care Policy & Research
University of Colorado at Denver, Health Sciences Center
Denver, CO
Daniel Dressler, MD, MSc, FHM
Co-Investigator
Director of Education, Section of Hospital Medicine
Associate Program Director, J Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency
Director, Internal Medicine Teaching Services
Emory University Hospital
Victoria E. Forth, MA
Project Coordinator
Division of Hospital Medicine
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Jeffrey L. Greenwald, MD, FHM
Co-Investigator
Director, Hospital Medicine Unit
Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA
Lakshmi Halasyamani, MD, FHM
Co-Investigator
Associate Chair, Department of Medicine
St Joseph Mercy Medical Center
Ann Arbor, MI |
Eric Howell, MD, FHM
Co-Investigator
Director of the Hospitalist Division
Director, Hospital Care
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Baltimore, MD
Kathleen Kerr
Senior Advisor
Society of Hospital Medicine
San Francisco, CA
Greg Maynard, MD, FHM
Co-Investigator
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Hospital Medicine
UCSD Medical Center
San Diego, CA
Janet Nagamine, RN, MD, FHM
Co-Investigator
Kaiser Permanente/Safe and Reliable Healthcare
Santa Clara, CA
Lauren Valentino
Project Coordinator
Society of Hospital Medicine
Philadelphia, PA
Arpana R. Vidyarthi, MD
Co-Investigator
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director of Quality, Division of Hospital Medicine
Director of Quality and Safety Programs, GME
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Joy Wittnebert
Senior Project Manager
Society of Hospital Medicine
Philadelphia, PA
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Project BOOST Advisory Board
SHM thanks all the members of the Project BOOST Advisory Board, who encompass a distinguished panel of experts with representation from the fields of hospital medicine, pharmacy, nursing, case management, social work and other organizations whose expertise was essential to the construction of the implementation guide for Improving Hospital Care Transitions for Older Adults.
Eric Coleman, MD, MPH
Advisory Board Chair
Associate Professor
Division of Health Care Policy & Research
University of Colorado at Denver, Health Sciences Center
Barbara Berkman, DSW, PhD
Helen Rehr/Ruth Fizdale Professor of Health & Mental Health
Columbia University School of Social Work
Tom Bookwalter, PharmD
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
UCSF Hospitalist Group
Daniel S. Budnitz, MD, MPH, CDR, USPHS
Division of Health Care Quality and Promotion
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Rebecca Burkholder, JD
Vice President of Health Policy
National Consumers League
Gavin Hougham, PhD
Senior Program Officer
The John A. Hartford Foundation
Stephen F. Jencks, MD
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Allan M. Korn, MD, FACP
Senior Vice President, Clinical Affairs & Chief Medical Officer
BlueCross BlueShield Association
Seth Landefeld, MD, FACP
American Geriatrics Society
UCSF Hospitalist Group
Cheryl Lattimer, RN
Executive Director
Case Management Society of America
Carol Levine
Director, Families and Health Care Project
United Hospital Fund
Robert Palmer, MD, MPH
Vice-Chair for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
Department of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
William Lyons, MD
American Geriatrics Society
Section of Geriatrics
Nebraska Medical Center
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Lorraine C. Mion, PhD, RN, FAAN
Director of Nursing Research & Geriatric Nursing
Nursing Business Office
Hamman 4 MetroHealth Medical Center
Assaf Morag, MD
Senior Platform Enabling Manager
Intel Corporation - Digital Health
Janet Nagamine, MD
Kaiser Permanente/Safe and Reliable Healthcare
Mary D Naylor, PhD, FAAN, RN
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Gail Povar, MD, MPH
Clinical Professor of Medicine
The George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Cameron Medical Group
Deborah Queenan, MSW
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Jean Range
Executive Director, Business Development
The Joint Commission
Patricia Rutherford, RN, MS
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Eric Warm, MD
Society of General Internal Medicine
University of Cincinnati
Larry Wellikson, MD, FHM
Chief Executive Officer
Society of Hospital Medicine
Mark Williams, MD, FHM
Principal Investigator
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Hospital Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Daniel B. Wolfson, MHSA
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
ABIM Foundation |
Society of Hospital Medicine Staff
Director, Education and Quality Initiatives
Geri Barnes, M.T. (ASCP), M.S.
Senior Advisor for Quality Initiatives
Tina Budnitz, MPH
Senior Advisor, Research
Kathleen Kerr
Senior Project Manager
Joy Wittnebert
Interactive Services Manager
Bruce Hansen
Interactive Developer
Leonard Malcom
Funding
The John A. Hartford Foundation
SHM is dedicated to the continuous improvement of the products and services that we offer. This resource room and the BOOST Implementation Guide continue to be a work in progress and reflect the constantly changing state of the evidence and best practices; we highly encourage and welcome constructive criticism and feedback via email to BOOST@hospitalmedicine.org.
Read what the advisory board has to say about Project BOOST
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