The University of Washington MHA Program is pleased to announce that Professor Thomas Norris, MD, just received the 2010 John G. Walsh award from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) in honor of his contributions to the advancement of family medicine. This is one of AAFP’s highest awards, which recognizes lifetime leadership contributions. Dr. Norris is Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Family Medicine for the UW School of Medicine, and teaches in our Certificate Program in Medical Management. He developed rural family medicine residency programs in Montana and at MultiCare Health System's Tacoma Family Medicine, which is affiliated with the UW School of Medicine. He also played a key role in establishing the UW Physicians Network, which is the University of Washington's network of community-based primary care clinics.
Medical Education & Biomedical Informatics Instructor Scott Coplan, MPA, and Lecturer, David Masuda, MD, co-authored the book, Project Management for Healthcare Information Technology (HIT), which McGraw-Hill will publish in February 2011. The book explores the challenges that health care delivery organizations face moving from paper to electronic health records. To avoid as many failures as possible, maximize the efficiency of available project resources and streamline the path toward digital medicine, this book integrates project management, IT management, and change management into a single methodology that organization leaders, managers, and clinicians can follow. While individually these disciplines have critical key success factors, the book describes how HIT project leaders will perform best with this integrated approach.
Additional publications by our faculty include the following:
Thomas R. McCormick, DMin, Senior Lecturer Emeritus and Executive MHA instructor of Ethical Issues in Health Services published the article, "Ethical Conflicts in Caring for Patients with Cochlear Implants" in the Journal of Otology & Neurotology, October 2010, Volume 31, Issue 8.
Clinical Instructor and Health Care Ethicist, Mary Beth Foglia, RN, PhD, published an article with colleagues in the October 21, 2010 New England Journal of Medicine entitled, “The Disclosure Dilemma – Large-Scale Adverse Events” (Dudzinski, D.M., Hebert, P.C., Foglia, M.B., and Gallagher, T.H.).