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Special Interest
Keynotes
The Forum sessions with the highest enrollment numbers will
also serve as this year's Special Interest Keynotes. All keynotes
will take place in the Palms Ballroom.
A12: Emerging Best Practices to Sustain Improvement
Tuesday, December 6 • 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM
Presenters: Richard Scoville, PhD, Improvement Advisor and Consultant, IHI;
Kevin Little, PhD, Principal, Informing Ecological Design, LLC; Jeffrey Rakover,
Research Associate, IHI; Lisa Griffee, Director of Lean Operations, GBMC
HealthCare System; Barbara Holder, RN, QI/Infection Control/Safety Officer,
Andrews Institute Ambulatory Surgery Center, LLC
B15: High Reliability and Robust Process Improvement
Tuesday, December 6 • 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM
Presenters: M. Michael Shabot, Executive Vice President/Chief Clinical Officer,
Memorial Hermann; Mark Chassin, President and Chief Executive Officer,
The Joint Commission
C12: Beyond Projects: How to Create a System of Safety
Tuesday, December 6 • 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM
Presenter: Carol Haraden, Vice President, IHI
D13: High-Impact Leadership
Wednesday, December 7 • 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM
Presenters: Michael Pugh, President, MdP Associates, LLC; Stephen Swensen, MD,
Medical Director, Leadership & Organization Development, Mayo Clinic
E6: Practical Strategies for Managing Successful
Improvement Projects
Wednesday, December 7 • 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM
Presenters: Christina Gunther-Murphy, Executive Director, IHI; Karen Baldoza,
MSW, Executive Director, IHI; Julianna Spranger, Quality Improvement Specialist,
University Hospital; Gregg Heatley, MD, Vice Chair, Ophthalmology, UW Health
Learning Formats
We offer a variety of different learning
formats to improve your educational
experience. Choose the learning session that
best meets your learning needs. Look for the
icon under each session.
Buzz Session
Highly interactive sessions designed
to stimulate thinking in small group
discussions.
Rapid Fire
Fast-paced presentations designed
to keep the information flowing and
the audience fully engaged.
Flipped Classroom
Attendees become the teachers
by completing pre-work before
the conference, then applying
new knowledge through exercises
and discussion. (Note: No on-site
enrollment for these sessions.)
Case Study
Presenters provide realistic,
complex, and contextually rich
situations and offer intensive analysis
of individual processes or scenarios.
Controversy Panel
Panelists engage in friendly debate
about a controversial issue, process,
or behavior.
Simulation Encounter
Attendees learn from imitating or
estimating how an event, process,
skill, or behavior might occur in a
real-life situation.
Lecture
Highly didactic, content-rich
sessions.
Storyboard Walkaround
Attendees will learn on their feet,
as presenters guide them through
a gallery of improvement projects
represented on 3'x5' storyboards.
For presenter bios and session descriptions, download the IHI Onsite App
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