Heart Failure Quality Improvement Advisory Board and Workgroups

SHM thanks all of the members of the National Advisory Board and the members of the Discharge Planning, Polypharmacy. Team Communications, and Palliative Care Workgroups, who encompass a distinguished panel of experts with representation from the Case Management Society of America, the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the American Medical Directors Association, the American Hospital Association, the American College of Cardiology, and the Heart Failure Society of America, and other organizations whose expertise was essential to the construction of these resources.

National Advisory Board

Chair: Lakshmi Halasyamani, MD
Heart Failure Initiative Project Director
Lead Author and Editor of the Heart Failure QI Implementation Guide, Hospital Admissions and Daily- Rounding Checklist, Inpatient Goal Form, and Conceptual Model for Teamwork
Associate Chair, Department of Medicine
St. Joseph Mercy Medical Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Representing the American Association of Critical Care Nurses

Kathleen McCauley, PhD, FAAN, RN, CS
Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Nursing - CE
Class of 1942 Term Associate Professor of Nursing, and Associate Dean for Academic Programs
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Justine Medina, RN, MS
Director of Professional Practice and Programs
American Association of Critical Care Nurses
Aliso Viejo, California

Representing the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses

Nancy Albert PhD, CCNS, CCRN, CAN, FAHA, FCCM
Director- Nursing Research & Innovation and CNS- Kaufman Center for Heart Failure
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Representing the American College of Cardiology

Todd Koelling, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Representing the American Hospital Association and ACC

Michael Bakerman, MD, FACC, MMM, FACP

Representing the American Medical Directors Association

Charles A. Cefalu, MD, MS
Professor and Chief, Department of Medicine
LSU Health Science Center
New Orleans, Louisiana

Representing the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

Lynette Moser, Pharm.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences- Wayne State University Clinical Specialist – Cardiology
St. John Hospital and Medical Center
Detroit, Michigan

Representing the Case Management Society of America

Cheri Lattimer, RN, BSN
Executive Director
Case Management Society of America
Little Rock, Arkansas

Representing the Heart Failure Society of America

Kirkwood F. Adams, Jr., MD
Director of Heart Failure Program
HFSA
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Representing the Society of Hospital Medicine

Jason Stein, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

Preetha Basaviah, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine Associate Director Practice of Medicine Course
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California

Tina Budnitz, MPH
Senior Advisor for Quality Initiatives
Society of Hospital Medicine
Norcross, Georgia

Palliative Care for the Heart Failure Patient CME/ CE Module Content Experts & Reviewers

Chad Whelan, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Tracy Minichiello, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine Associate Director, Categorical Internal- Medicine Residency Program
University of California at San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Susannah T. Clark, MD
Clinical Instructor Hospitalist Program, Division of General- Internal Medicine
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, New Hampshire

Eva Chittenden, MD
UCSF Hospitalists Group Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF Assistant Director of the UCSF Palliative Care Service
University of California at San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Jason Stein, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

Discharge Planning Workgroup

Wassim H. Fares, MD
Co-author of the HF Specific Discharge Planning Checklist & Co-leader for the Discharge Transition CME/CE Module
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of General Internal Medicine Section of Hospital Medicine
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, Ohio

Nurcan Ilksoy, MD
Content Expert of the Heart Failure Resource Room & Co-author of the HF Specific Discharge Planning Checklist
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

Timothy M. Capstack, MD
Hospitalist Eastern Maine Inpatient Care
Eastern Maine Medical Center
Bangor, Maine

Lenore Blank, MSN, NP-C
Co-leader for the Discharge Transition CME/CE Module
Administrative Manager Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension Program
Hackensack University Medical Center
Hackensack, New Jersey

JoAnn Green, MSN, RN, CCRN
Clinical Nurse Specialist Consultant
Riverview, Florida

Polypharmacy Workgroup

Lindsay M. Arnold, Pharm.D.
Lead author of the Medication Education Reference Guide
Internal Medicine Clinical Pharmacy Specialist
Boston Medical Center
Department of Pharmacy
Boston, Massachusetts

Paula M. Podrazik, MD
Lead author of the Potentially Hazardous Interactions for the Heart Failure Patient Reference Guide
Assistant Professor of Medicine Section of Geriatrics Department of Medicine
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Meghan Walsh, MD, MPH
Associate Program Director of Medical Education
Hennepin County Medical Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Charles A. Cefalu, MD, MS
Professor and Chief, Department of Medicine
LSU Health Science Center
New Orleans, Louisiana

Lynette Moser, Pharm.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Wayne State University Clinical Specialist - Cardiology
St. John Hospital and Medical Center
Detroit, Michigan

Team Communications Workgroup

Lakshmi K. Halasyamani, MD
Associate Chair, Department of Medicine
Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital
Ann Arbor, Michigan

James Haering, DO
Medical Director
Sparrow Hospitalist Service
Lansing, Michigan

Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia

Connie Lewis MSN, ACNP, ANP
Heart Failure Coordinator
Centennial Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee

Deb Myers, RN, MS, FNPC
Methodist Medical Group Heart Lung and Vascular Institute
Peoria, Illinois