This is a regular scheduled series meeting that is scheduled the first Tuesday of each month. The series content is for our Provider Builder program. Provider Builders are clinicians who are engaged with PennChart and Epic processes and understand the enterprise goal of organizational improvement. Clinical content for the meeting involves all clinical settings in the health system. Topics are structured to address gaps in patient care, education needs to manage those gaps, and review outcome...

To help provide an environment where patient care is the main priority and residents, fellows, and other members of the interprofessional healthcare team are able to provide quality patient care. Quality patient care will be assured through review of peer-reviewed literature, multidisciplinary cooperation, and following of established clinical practice guidelines.

These sessions will bring content experts from many aspects of the University including Penn Medicine and CHOP to address relevant and contemporary issues in delivering care to medically underserved patient populations.

Neurosurgery Quality Conference provides a didactic learning opportunity for health care professionals to be exposed to advances in the fields of neurosurgery, neuroscience, preoperative and perioperative medicine, quality improvement, systems based practice and societal and community implications of neurosurgical practice. This educational activity is intended to provide the neurosurgical team with an opportunity to obtain new knowledge of technical and treatment advances and be aware of chang...

Review of interesting nuclear medicine / radiology cases, including rare pathology, infrequently performed studies, new radiotracers, and other educational material.

The goal of this case conference is to enhance understanding of diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of thoracic cancer.

Case review to enhance understanding of diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of plasma cell dyscrasias.

Intended for researchers and those involved in research oversight, this activity provides an overview of ethical principles of biomedical research in global settings, with a special emphasis on research in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We will begin with an 8-principle framework for conducting ethical research, then examine areas requiring special attention, including:Determining ethical standards of care for the control arm of trials.Adapting the informed consent process to various ...

At a tertiary care center, we have access to a broad range of uncommon and problematic cases that have educational value to the broader radiology community. Previously, the best of these cases have been identified by faculty at HUP and reviewed internally in a series “peer learning conference” to illustrate pitfalls in interpretation as well as to showcase and educate others regarding “best practices”. These conferences have been highly valued by our faculty. We would now like to offer the sam...

This is a recurring multi-disciplinary tumor board to review thyroid cancer and thyroid neoplasm cases and provide team-based management recommendations.