May 15, 2003

VCU's Department of Health Administration Executive Fellowship in Patient Safety

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By Amy Edwards
Department of Health Administration

The Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Health Administration is pleased to announce its first Executive Fellowship in Patient Safety class graduation. Thirty-seven fellows from across the United States completed a one-year, distance-learning program, which assisted fellows in designing and implementing a patient safety project in their healthcare facilities.

The department wishes to extend a special invitation to the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center and the University community to attend the presentation ceremony and to listen to graduation speaker, Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D., the Director of the Agency for Healthcare & Research Quality (AHRQ).

The ceremony will take place at the VCU Medical Center, 10 a.m., Sunday, May 18, at the Richmond Academy of Medicine, 1200 E. Clay St., Richmond. RSVPs are not required, but the favor of a reply to Karen Swisher (kswisher@hsc.vcu.edu) would be appreciated.

The department also will start its second Executive Fellowship in Patient Safety on June 11. If you or someone in your organization might be interested in applying for the 2003-2004 Executive Fellowship in Patient Safety, please visit our website, www.had.vcu.edu and/or contact kswisher@hsc.vcu.edu.

About Carolyn M. Clancy
Prior to her appointment as Director of AHRQ in February, Dr. Clancy had served as AHRQ's acting director since March 2002 and before that director of AHRQ's Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research (COER). Dr. Clancy is a general internist and health services researcher, and a graduate of Boston College and the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Following clinical training in internal medicine, Dr. Clancy was a Henry Kaiser Family Foundation Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. She was also an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the VCU School of Medicine in Richmond prior to joining AHRQ (then named the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research) in 1990. Her major research interests include women's health, primary care, access to care and the impact of financial incentives on physicians' decisions.