Rapidly changing technologies and advances offer enormous potential. Yet preventable harms and other challenges in healthcare delivery continue to occur at significant rates.
Heightened, sustained research is vital to determine not only the shifting reasons why these issues persist, but to test and implement the best tools and processes for mitigating them at scale.
That’s why Columbia is a leader in patient safety, quality, health services, and comparative effectiveness research. As one of the few institutions in the nation offering a 2-year fellowship focused on quality and patient safety and by training our faculty in the fundamentals of quality through the Quality and Patient Safety Academy, we are mobilizing responsive research and training programs that evaluate and deploy effective patient safety interventions and quality improvement processes.
Join us in our commitment to achieve zero preventable harm. Become familiar with Columbia’s patient safety leadership, training, innovative programs, and outreach initiatives. Because now more than ever, faster than ever, we need to deliver meaningful gains and solutions on both intractable and emerging patient safety issues.
– Ali G. Gharavi, MD
