Program Mentors

James P. Crane, MD Associate Vice Chancellor for Clinical Affairs, WUSM cranej@wustl.edu Curriculum vitae Link to PubMed		Dr. Crane is the associate vice chancellor for clinical affairs and professor of obstetrics and gynecology and of radiology at Washington University School of Medicine. He also is chief executive officer of the school’s faculty group practice, which ranks as the third-largest academic medical practice in the United States. Dr. Crane oversees several clinical practice support operations and works with the 14 clinical department chairs and 1,045 faculty physicians to coordinate clinical program development and to make the school’s clinical enterprise more efficient and responsive to the needs of patients and referring physicians. In the greater community, Dr. Crane is actively involved in efforts to eliminate health disparities and improve access to care for the uninsured. He serves on the board of the St. Louis Regional Health Commission and is past chair of the St. Louis Integrated Health Care Network, a newly created organization bringing together the area’s major safety-net institutions.
Wm. Claiborne Dunagan, MD, MS Professor of Medicine Divisions of Infectious Diseases and General Medical Sciences, WUSM Vice President, QualityBJC HealthCare cdunagan@bjc.org Link to PubMed		Dr. Dunagan provides quality leadership for BJC HealthCare through his role as director of the Center for Healthcare Quality and Effectiveness, a multidisciplinary resource responsible for supporting BJC's member organizations in measuring and enhancing the quality of care. The Center comprises a diverse group of health-care professionals, including epidemiologists, analysts, computer programmers, industrial engineers and quality consultants. Dr. Dunagan's primary research efforts include investigations of methods for assessing and improving healthcare quality, with particular emphasis in patient safety research, medical informatics, and infection control. Nationally, he represents BJC Healthcare at the National Quality Forum, the principal body for endorsing consensus quality standards for healthcare providers in the U.S.
Bradley Evanoff, MD, MPH Associate Professor, Internal Medicine Director, Division of General Medical Sciences Head, Section of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, WUSM bevanoff@im.wustl.edu Curriculum vitae Link to PubMed		Dr. Evanoff is interested in workplace health and safety, and how working conditions for health care workers affect safety and quality of care. He is the Program Director for the postdoctoral program through the Clinical Research Training Center. Dr. Evanoff is also the co-PI of the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) at Washington University School of Medicine and the Director of Novel Methodologies and Pilot Studies within the ICTS. Another main interest is the education of clinical researchers.
Victoria Fraser, MD Medical Director, PSQ J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine Co-Director Infectious Diseases Division, WUSM vfraser@im.wustl.edu Curriculum vitae NIH Biosketch Link to PubMed		Dr. Fraser is Director of the Goldfarb Patient Safety and Quality fellowship and the Director of the Clinical Research Training Center (CRTC) within the Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences at Washington University School of Medicine. She is also the co-director of the division of Infectious diseases. Her research interests include: 1) healthcare epidemiology, (risk factors, outcomes and costs of nosocomial infections, antibiotic resistance, and adverse events), 2) health services research, and 3) infectious disease epidemiology. She and her group design and implement large cohort studies and intervention studies to improve quality of care, health care outcomes and reduce adverse events.
Jonathan Gottlieb, MD Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, BJH jeg3054@bjc.org Link to PubMed		As Chief Medical Officer of Barnes Jewish Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine, Dr. Gottlieb's current professional interests are focused on patient safety, clinical quality, performance improvement and clinical benchmarking. He served on the medical Leadership Council of the University Healthsystem Consortium, and in 2006 he completed the Patient Safety Officer Executive Development Program of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Bruce Hall, MD, PhD, MBA Surgical Outcomes Associate Professor, Surgery, WUSM Associate Professor, Healthcare Economics, Olin School of Business, WU hallb@wustl.edu Curriculum vitae Link to PubMed		Dr. Hall has dual appointments in the Department of Surgery and Olin School of Business and is particularly interested in the application of advanced statistical models to the issues of care and outcomes in surgery. Nationally he serves as co-chair of the Evaluation and Measurement committee for the ACS-NSQIP, serves on the ACS-NSQIP Policy Advisory Committee, serves on the Patient Safety and Quality Committee for the ACS, represents the ACS to the NQF, and is a member of the physician engagement group for the Joint Commission.
Katie Henderson, MD Instructor of Medicine Patient Safety Fellow, WUSM khenders@wustl.edu Curriculum vitae		Dr. Henderson joined the Washington University faculty in 2001 after completing a residency in Internal Medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. She was the inaugural Barnes-Jewish Hospital patient safety fellow. During her tenure as the patient safety fellow, she contributed to several large safety initiatives including an interdepartmental central line training program and the launch of the hospital’s first acute care team (rapid response team). She also participated in a research project looking at a clinical validation of the AHRQ patient safety indicator for postoperative VTE.
David P. Jaques, MD Vice President, Surgical Services, BJH dpj3427@bjc.org Link to PubMed Curriculum vitae		Dr. Jaques is Vice President, Surgical Services at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and has operational oversight for the 60 Operating Rooms at BJH. He was a member of the first AHA/National Patient Safety Foundation sponsored Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship training program in August 2003. He chaired the Patient Safety Committee at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center before joining BJH in August 2006. His interests in designing patient safety into the Operating Room have led to a number of design and performance innovations in ORs. Dr. Jaques has published in a number of areas of outcomes research in Surgical Oncology.
Denise M. Murphy, RN, MPH, CIC Vice President for Patient Safety and Quality, BJH dmm1158@bjc.org Link to PubMed		Denise Murphy is Vice President, Safety and Quality at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and was the 2007 President of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). Murphy spent seven years as director of health-care epidemiology and patient safety for BJC HealthCare, a 13 hospital network. In addition to her BSN and MPH, Murphy also graduated from the first AHA/National Patient Safety Foundation sponsored Leadership Fellowship training program in August, 2003. Her presentations and publications have focused on prevention of surgical site and bloodstream infections and ventilator –associated pneumonia, establishing or re-designing infection prevention and patient safety services, and the business of infection control, patient safety and performance improvement.
Jay Piccirillo, MD, FACS Professor, Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Director, Clinical Outcomes Research Office, WUSM piccirij@wustl.edu Curriculum vitae Link to PubMed		Dr. Piccirillo completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellowship in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research at Yale University. He is a member of the National Quality Forum -- Quality of Cancer Care Measures Project and Co-chairman of the Quality Assurance Subcommittee of the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Cancer Committee. Another main interest is the education of clinical researchers.
Coreen Vlodarchyk, MS, BSN Vice President, Patient Care Services, BJH crv0122@bjc.org Curriculum vitae Link to PubMed		As Vice President of Patient Care/CNE, my responsibility to our patients is to provide safe, competent care. The role of the recipient(s) of the Goldfarb Fellowship will be another partnership with the Patient Care Leadership. These people will be clinical resources and content experts for our team and continue to strengthen the multidisciplinary relationships with BJH.