Quality Improvement Committee
Quality Improvement Committee
- Create blueprint to facilitate the engagement of all SVS members in QI through education, benchmarking and sharing best practices.
- Explore avenues/opportunities for all SVS members to participate in QI with VQI as a preferred resource, but encouraging other options if VQI is not a viable option for a member.
- Increase awareness/education about best practices, appropriateness, and opportunities for improvement by leveraging/reporting from large administrative data sets.
- Develop recommendations regarding QI point of focus (physician or center level data) and the type of QI information that will be provided to members and the public to strengthen vascular quality.
- Engage with public and private payers to explore potential for data sharing/modelling that improves and incentivizes quality, appropriate care.
Committee Members
| Ashley Vavra, MD, MPH – Chair | Karina Newhall |
| Mrinal Shukla, MD - Vice Chair | Cassius Iyad Ochoa-Chaar, MD |
| Jocelyn Beach, MD | Rhusheet Patel, MD |
| Sarah Deery, MD, MPH | Peter Rossi, MD |
| Jared Feyka, MD | Gregory Salzler, MD |
| Nicholas Gilbert, MD | Fahad Shuja, MD |
| Ali Khalifeh, MD | Christopher Smolock, MD |
| Isabella Kua, MD | Daniel Torrent, MD |
| Jose Oyama Moura-Leite, MD | Nikolaos Zacharias, MD |
| Massimo Napolitano, MD |
If you have any questions regarding this committee, please contact: Reva Bhushan at rbhushan@vascularsociety.org