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EDUCATION INNOVATION PROJECT
CURRENT COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Planning Committee:

Andrew Varney, MD-Co-Chair	Susan Hingle, MD Co-Chair	Christine Todd, MD	Shailesh Nandish, MD
Mark Francis, MD	Praveen Kandula, MD	Alan Deckard, MD	Maureen Francis, MD
David Steward, MD, MPH	Frank Aguirre, MD	Kent Kapitan, MD	Janak Koirala, MD
Nicole Roberts, PhD	Deb Klamen, MD	Waneta McKemie, RN	Lois Harber, RN
Reed Williams, PhD	Lisa Lumar , NP	Jatinder Ahluwalia, MD	Olympia Spurling, LCSW
Cathy Brower	Kay DeFord	Elaine Woolard	Sue Houston
Michael Clark

Quality Improvement Committee:
The 2006-2007 QI Resident Project Teams are:

Group 1 Mentor: Susan Hingle, MD Topic: Pneumococcal Vaccination Resident Participants: Faten Suhail, MD Armine Tumyan, MD Sushma Sukavasi, MD Syedda Rumman, MD Aneela Mahmud, MD	Group 2 Mentor: Maureen Francis, MD Topic: Colon Cancer Screening Resident Participants: Meenalochani Narayanan, MD Thandiwe Gray, MD Kishore Maganty, MD Mohammed Ahmed, MD Swetha Kandula, MD
Group 3 Mentor: Maureen Francis, MD Topic: Diabetic Registry Resident Participants: Andreea Coca, MD Gaurav Sangwan, MD Kalyani Vallurupalli, MD Ibrahim Mansour, MD	Group 4 Mentor: Alan Deckard, MD Topic: Optimizing Heart Failure Treatment in Hospitalized Patients Resident Participants: Aniyizhai Annamalai, MD Azra Jabeen, MD Joji Varghese, MD Daryl Pinedo, MD Lakshmi Paruchuri, MD
Group 5 Mentor: Shailesh Nandish, MD Topic: Osteoporosis Prevention Resident Participants: Nitin Patel, MD Sudhir Hansalia, MD Aamir Bahreman, MD Reza Pirsheli, MD Mohammed Parvez, MD	Group 6 Mentor: Shyam Bhat, MD Topic: Improving Coding Accuracy Resident Participants: Michael Martin, MD Sheikh Latif, MD

The current active members of the QI (both in and outpatient) committee are:

Andrew Varney, MD Co-Chair	Maureen Francis, MD Co-Chair	Alan Deckard, MD Co-Chair
Kent Kapitan, MD Co-Chair	Christine Todd, MD Co-Chair	Frank Aguirre, MD Co-Chair
Stephen Stone, MD	Deb Klamen, PhD	Patricia Hopkins-Price, PhD
Janak Koirala, MD	Tony DeMartini, MD	Nancy Khardori, MD
Nicole Roberts, PhD	Praveen Kandula, MD	Mark Francis, MD
Carmel Fratianni, MD	Robert Bussing, MD	Brenda Vilayhong
Mark Weaver, MD	Robert Vautrain, MD	Kathy Mahaffey
Lorie Carroll	Waneta McKemie, RN	Kay DeFord
Cathy Brower	Elaine Woolard	Michael Clark

Communications Committee:

Susan Hingle, MD Co-Chair	Jatinder Ahluwalia, MD Co-Chair	Olympia Spurling, LCSW Co-Chair
Gary Rull, MD	Richard Pameter, PhD	Andrzej Bartke, PhD
Haitham Bakir, MD	Shyam Bhat, MD	Sumanta Mitra, MD
Nicole Roberts, PhD	Wilfred Lam, MD	Marina Russo, MD
Sherry Robinson, PhD	Ross Silverman, JD	Tim Koschmann, PhD
Tami Engel, MD	Sue Houston
Steve Sandstrom	Michael Clark

Evaluation Committee:

Andrew Varney, MD Chair	Karen Broquet, MD	Susan Hingle, MD
Michal Masternak, PhD	Gaurav Sangwan, MD	Richard Rosher, MD
Syeda Rumman, MD	Regina Kovach, MD	David Resch, MD
Christine Todd, MD	Billie Edson	Tim Koschmann, PhD
Michael Clark	Kay DeFord

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