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Clinical Collaboration Expert
Joins UC Department of Surgery
Paul M. Uhlig, M.D., MPA, will join UC as Vice President,
Associate Chief of Staff for Clinical Improvement of University
Hospital around September 19th, 2005. Dr. Uhlig, a cardiothoracic
surgeon, was a member of the Departments of Surgery and Biomedical
Engineering at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. His
professional interests include patient safety, health care innovation,
and care process transformation. In October 2002, Dr. Uhlig and the
cardiac surgery team he led at Concord
Hospital, Concord, New Hampshire,
received the John M. Eisenberg Patient
Safety Award for System Innovation
given by the National Quality Forum
and the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Health Care
Paul Uhlig, MD, MPA
Organizations. This award was for
developing the Concord Collaborative
Care Model, a method of collaborative
practiced based on human factors science,
with active involvement of
patients and families in all aspects of
care and decision making.
Dr. Uhlig will report directly to Reuven Pasternak, M.D., the new
Chief Medical Officer of the Alliance and to James Kingsbury,
Executive Director of University Hospital. He will work in the areas
of performance improvement, collaborative rounds, care team building,
NewyoU initiatives, patient safety and new care models. Dr.
Uhlig will also be on the College of Medicine faculty in the
Department of Surgery as a cardiothoracic surgeon, and will work
with the U.C. Institute for the Study of Health.
Dr. Uhlig is well known to University Hospital; he has assisted in
facilitating "Collaborative Rounds" and brought his Harvard
research team to University Hospital to study our rounds. He has
presented at several Grand Rounds and spoke to our NewyoU
Physician Leaders Group and Medical Director Training Program.
Dr. Uhlig received his MD degree from the University of Kansas
School of Medicine, where he received the Thomas G. Orr award as
outstanding student in surgery. He completed his residency training
in general surgery and general thoracic surgery at the Massachusetts
General Hospital, and in cardiothoracic surgery at Indiana
University. He was also a research fellow in cardiovascular physiology
at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of
California, San Francisco. For the academic year 1996-1997 Dr.
Uhlig was the Thoracic Surgery Foundation Alley-Sheridan Scholarin-Residence
at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University, where he studied health care policy and
received a Master of Public Administration degree.
A fourth-generation physician, Dr. Uhlig and his wife, Anna, have
four sons.
UC Surgeons Participate in
Community Cancer Education Day
UC Surgeons participated at UC Community Cancer
Education Day held Saturday, June 25, 2005, at the
Kingsgate Conference Center. Faculty members included
Drs. Syed Ahmad, Bruce Bracken, James Donovan, John
Kitzmiller, Andrew Lowy, Michael Reed, Steven Rudich,
and Elizabeth Shaughnessy.
UC President Nancy Zimpher introduces panel discussion of
colorectal cancer led by Dr. Andrew Lowy (at left).
Dr. Elizabeth Shaughnessy (in red jacket) speaks with a
visitor at Community Cancer Education Day.
Drs. James Donovan (far left) and John Kitzmiller (far right)
speak with visitors at Community Cancer Education Day.