“Advancing Quality Improvement with Implementation Science,”  presented by Amy Tyler, MD, MSCS, a hospitalist and associate professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado and the director of Quality Improvement for the Section of Hospital Medicine. 

This webinar will highlight ways implementation science overlaps with QI. Participants will learn how implementation science concepts can enhance QI efforts and vice versa. Thinking about their own QI projects or project ideas, participants will learn how to employ familiar QI tools (fishbone diagram and key driver diagram) adapted to incorporate implementation science frameworks to identify barriers and facilitators to change in their local setting and understand how to incorporate implementation outcomes into their QI projects. 

Dr. Tyler is a hospitalist and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado and the Director of Quality Improvement for the Section of Hospital Medicine. Tyler is fellowship trained in health services research and implementation science. She completed a two-year outcomes research fellowship at the Adult and Child Consortium for Outcomes Research and Delivery Science, and was a scholar in the National Institutes of Science (NIH) Training Institute for Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (TIDIRH) and the National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute (NHLBI).

The UR CTSI EQ-DI Seminar series is hosted by the UR CTSI’s equity-focused dissemination and implementation (EQ-DI) function, which promotes and supports collaboration and team science, working with engaged stakeholders, community members and researchers from across the University of Rochester and the region, to accelerate translational science and improve population health.