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The Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy provides data tools and effective processes for promoting professional accountability for our partners throughout the United States and abroad. Our proprietary systems known as PARS ® (Patient Advocacy Reporting System) and CORS sm (Co-worker Observation Reporting System) use data gathered from over 42,000 national healthcare professionals, over a million codable reports and evidence based processes to promote professionalism, reduce malpractice risk and increase patient satisfaction. Based at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and partnering with more than 170 healthcare organizations, we are dedicated to supporting our partners’ objectives of professionalism as the foundation of safe, quality healthcare. Allow us to demonstrate our effectiveness within our scope of expertise with a tailored or customized program specifically for your organization.Our Process —or.
What does an organization do when individual or group behaviors undermine the best attempts to create a safe, respectful, and reliable environment? You need a plan and the right people, processes and systems. The Vanderbilt Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy has conducted more than 20 years of research to help medical centers and physician groups make healthcare kinder, safer and more reliable.
Our internationally recognized faculty have years of experience in healthcare leadership and professional accountability. CPPA’s leadership training, “Promoting Professionalism” will provide practical tactics for attendees who wish to implement these tools in their own organizations. Is the Senior Vice President for Quality, Safety and Risk Prevention, and the Joseph C. Ross Chair for Medical Education and Administration at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Hickson received a BS from the University of Georgia, his MD from Tulane University School of Medicine, and completed his pediatric residency and fellowship in General Academic Pediatrics at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital. Since 1990, Dr. Hickson’s research has focused on why families choose to file suit and how to identify and intervene with high risk physicians. His work has resulted in over 170 peer review articles and chapters.
In 2017, he was appointed to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Board of Directors. He is the Past Chair of the National Patient Safety Foundation Board of Directors and has received awards for Excellence in Research and Teaching from the Ambulatory Pediatric Association and the Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy’s Award for National Healthcare Patient Advocacy. Is a practicing physician, researcher, teacher, and administrator. He has led School of Medicine programs, including the Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy, the Master of Public Health Program and the Pediatrics Office for Faculty Development. He is an internationally recognized expert in medication safety in children and has published over 100 scholarly articles to date. Cooper has been involved with the Vanderbilt PARS® program since 2009 and served first as a messenger and currently as Chair of the Vanderbilt Professionalism Committee. In his role as Vice President for Patient and Professional Advocacy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Dr.
Cooper oversees the Medical Center’s professional programs and provides leadership and direction for the Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy. Cooper is the lead author of the 2017 study published in JAMA Surgery which demonstrates the relationship between unsolicited patient complaints and increased risk for postoperative complications. Is a partner in Reiter Burns, LLP in Chicago. He has served as Senior Vice-President, General Counsel and Secretary of the Loyola University Health System and the Loyola University Physician Foundation and was Executive Vice-President, General Counsel and Secretary of Palos Health, a community hospital. He has also served as a director and board chair of Captive Insurance Companies underwriting medical risks. Since receiving his Illinois attorney license in 1981, he has concentrated his practice of law in health-related areas including medical staff matters, contracting, compliance, litigation and complex transactions, including developing structures in response to the many challenges posed by health reform.
Reiter is a graduate of Boston University and the University of Miami School of Law. He is admitted to practice in the state and federal (trial bar) courts in Illinois.CME Credit. Pricing. REMINDER. You will need to click the SUBMIT button at the bottom of your registration; you will receive an automated email once you've successfully registered.
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Payment is done separately after the registration is complete.There are two payment options for our Promoting Professionalism Course:CHECK PAYMENTPlease mail to:Vanderbilt Center for Patient and Professional AdvocacyATTN: Professional Accountability Course2135 Blakemore AvenueNashville, TN Attn: Keith RawlingsCREDIT CARD PAYMENTTo pay by credit card please use our Credit Card Payment Form found at the link. It can be printed then faxed or mailed to the CPPA Office via the instructions on the form.
