Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
12:00 - 12:45 p.m. ET
As part of its commitment to champion diversity, health equity, and inclusion, the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS), the Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association (MHA), and the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Massachusetts Chapter
have partnered to develop a series of webinars that encourage dialogue and share best practices.
Join us for a lunchtime webinar as expert faculty Dr. Karthik Sivashanker, Vice President of Equitable Health Systems in the Center for Health Equity at the American Medical Association, shares how to leverage patient-safety programs to advance equity
in health systems and practices, and design and implement interventions that support equity. This session will address how existing infrastructure and technologies to measure, monitor, and improve quality and safety can also be used to create a fairer
system for patients.
View a flyer for this webinar here.
Speaker:
Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, CPPS
Dr. Karthik Sivashanker is the Vice President of Equitable Health Systems in the Center for Health Equity at the American Medical Association, and a Medical Director in Quality, Safety, and Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is a psychiatrist
at Justice Resource Institute. Dr. Sivashanker attended college and medical school at Northwestern University in Illinois. He completed psychiatry residency at NYP Weill Cornell in New York and a psychosomatic medicine fellowship at Brigham and Women's
Hospital. He is a graduate of the Harvard Medical School Fellowship in Patient Safety and Quality and received a Master’s in Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. As a former Fulbright scholar, he conducted research in Venezuela
on the vertical transmission of HIV/AIDS in rural mountain communities. As a former VA Under Secretary for Health Diffusion of Excellence Gold Fellow, he led efforts to standardize and improve the process of substance use screening and triage for
Veterans. His work has focused on driving racial justice and equity in the health care arena by leveraging high-performance quality and safety practices to systematically make inequities visible and to address and resolve them as an integral part
of health care delivery
Please send any questions about Focus on DHE&I: Diversity, Health Equity, and Inclusion Best Practices webinars to Bissan Biary.
