John W. Whittington, MD, Patient Safety Officer and Director of Knowledge Management, OSF Healthcare

      This will be an interactive discussion of the challenges and opportunities to get physicians more engaged with quality and safety system work in your organization. We will have time for didactic teaching as well as table discussion. We will focus on practical ideas that you can use in your organization.
      After this presentation you will be able to:

• Articulate the problems that hinder physicians' involvement withsafety and quality.
• Describe a framework to improve physician involvement with safety and quality.
• Apply practical improvement ideas that will help get physicians involved.