Presentations

The following is a complete list of presentations for this year's Summit. Presentations will be made available, as we receive the files. Past years’ presentations are available by viewing Past Summits

• October 17, 2018 Presentations
• October 18, 2018 Presentations
• Poster Presentations

October 17, 2018

Morning Keynote

• #WeAreNotWaiting | Dana Lewis

Morning Workshops/Breakout Sessions

• Session A1: Design – Methodologies and Mindsets | Stacy Chang, Lucas Artusi
• Session A2: Blanket Exercise | Sherri Di Lallo, Chrystal Plante, Paul Bergen, Therese Moberly
• Session A3: Making Chit Cat: A Producer’s Guide to Presenting at PechaKucha (NOTE: file size 800mB) | David Plouffe, Zoe Klintberg
• Session A4: Everyday HeRO: Getting Ahead of Harm | Jodi Ploquin, Roxanne Stelmaschuk, Tom Lloyd
• Session A5: The Emerging Art of Design Facilitation | Keren Perla, Roya Damabi

Lunchtime Sessions

• Design – Provoking Systemic Change in Healthcare | Stacey Chang
• AHS Steps up to Say Sorry Really, Really Well | Jodi Ploquin, Bruce MacLeod

Afternoon Workshops/Breakout Sessions

• Session B1: Spread the Word: Innovation + Improvement Science = System Transformation | Christine Quinn, Elizabeth Cote-Boileau, Carol Anderson, Lesly Deuchar, Ronal W. Damant
• Session B2: Liberating Structures: Come Learn How to do Them and Why They are so Hot! | Joshua McCutcheon, Erin Rohl
• Session B3: Being a Better You: We Grow One AHA Moment at a Time! | Gina Botelho, Sandra Campbell
• Session B4: Using Patient Needs to Create Better Care – We all Play a Role in Research | Marty Enokson, Mary Forhan, Susanna Koczkur, Marni Bercov, Danielle Johnston
• Session B5: Just Ask Questions! Using Coaching & Collaboration to Advance Improvement | John Clarke
• Session C1: Indigenous Truths: Demystifying Common Societal Misconceptions of Indigenous Peoples | Chelsea Crowshoe
• Session C2: Outcome Improvements from Ground Up! | Virginia Meyer, Carmella Steinke, Matthew Kealey

Afternoon Keynote

• The Future of People Powered HealthTM | Leslee Thompson

October 18, 2018

Early Morning Sessions

• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Derek Luk
• Who are the People in my Neighbourhood? Calgary Zone IQM

Morning Keynote

• Nothing for Us, Without Us: Moving from Action to Impact | Alika Lafontaine

Morning Breakout Sessions

• Session D1: We Can’t Give Away What we Don’t Have: Engagement Through Indigenous Ways of Knowing Community | Sherri Di Lallo, Therese Moberly, Chrystal Plante
• Session D2: Fishbowl: Accepted Quality Improvement Abstracts (no presentation)
• Session D3: Care & Dignity in the Streets of Calgary | Simon Colgan, Rachael Edwards
• Session D4: Curiosity + Creativity = Patient Engagement in 2025 | Phil Bobawsky, Maya Pajevic
• Session D5: Health as an Ecosystem: Huh? | Meghan Belland, Alison Connors

Afternoon Breakout Sessions

• Session E1: Cannabis Legalization – You’ve got Questions, We’ve got Answers!
• Session E2: Accepted Transformation Through Innovation Abstracts (no presentation)
• Session E3: AHA! Ask Him Anything | Jason White
• Session E4: Bring it! To Work Every Day… | Jake Jennings, Maya Pajevic
• Session E5: Colour the World you Want to See | Kevin Hare, Fabio Feldman

Afternoon Keynote

• Start-Up Thinking for Government: Real Life Testimony | Jason White

Poster Presentations

Stream 1: Transformation through Innovation

• Autism, Surgery and a Robot—Supporting Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Scheduled for Surgery with help from MEDi Robot
• Bariatric Friendly Hospital Initiative: Improving Care for Patients Living With Obesity.
• Complex Care Clinic for General Neurology Patients with Complex Neurological Conditions
• Creating a Patient–Centred Mindset in Group Education Design
• Educating Sexual Health Champions in Oncology
• Engagement of Physicians and Improvement of Patient Experience in Medical Assistance in Dying
• Getting to 1+1=3: Decreased cognition + increased aggression SHOULD NOT EQUAL untreated pain
• How do YOU keep patients safe?: Moving AHS towards a proactive patient safety model
• Liver Health Assessment and Triage—An Innovative Model for Service Delivery and Improvement of Liver Health at the University Hospital
• New ways to use clinic data: better information means better interactions
• Operation Innovation: Zone Patient Flow, with a New Way of Working
• Partnering with family at the bedside and beyond: Family– administered delirium detection in the intensive care unit (ICU)
• Path to Care: Alberta Referral Directory.ca
• Putting the TA in TJA
• QA2QI: The Quality & Clinical Performance Team’s Journey to Improve Continuing Care Client Experience, and Re imagine themselves in the Process.
• Safer and Welcoming Continuing Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer + Clients
• Scrums - they’re not just for rugby!
• Sexual & Reproductive Health Social Media Accounts: Promoting Healthy Sexuality amongst Youth
• Sharing Patients’ Health Perspective in a Timely Manner “Patient reported outcomes dashboards”
• The AHS Indigenous Patient Journey Projects
• The Complex Care Hub: Thinking Outside Hospital Walls To Transform the How, Where and Who of Acute Care Delivery
• The Nudge Project: Innovative engagement solutions to address management of Urinary tract infections (UIT) in a community ER
• Using Digital Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) Reports in Ambulatory Oncology Care: Establishing what is Meaningful
• Using Facilitated Audit and Feedback Sessions and Physician Reports to help Emergency Physicians identify opportunities for practice improvement
• What if citizens...?

Stream 2: Successful Quality Improvement Projects

• What’s App Doc? Transforming the consult experience for patients and families with an AHS Consult Recording App
• A Quality Improvement Project to Improve the Decision Making Process of High-Risk Sterile Compounded Preparations
• A Team Approach to Quality Improvement for an Urban In-Home Stroke Rehabilitation Program
• A virtual quality improvement collaborative improves children’s pain outcomes during emergency department visits across the province
• Breaking down barriers: improving fall risk screening in renal patients
• Closing the loop to accelerate diagnosis and management of breast cancer
• Collaborative Care: Making a Difference!
• Does Standardized Care Improve Efficiency and Wait Times While Maintaining Client Experience?
• Evaluation of the Diabetic Foot Care Clinical Pathway in Alberta
• First Ever Triage Dental Assistant
• FMC Unit 57 Pass Meds Process Improvement Success
• Hospitalist Opioid Action Plan (HOAP) Phase 1: Reducing Harm for Patients with High Risk—One Year Later
• Impact of Nurse Practitioners on Emergency Department Utilization and Outcomes at the Strathcona Community Hospital
• Implementation of COSTaRS: The Alberta Experience
• Implementing a New Diabetic Algorithm for Ophthalmology Day Surgery Patients at the Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH)
• Improving Collaboration and Access to Rehabilitation for Stroke Patients at Grey Nuns Community Hospital
• Improving Data Entry in a Referral Management System
• Improving Quality Data to Support Outpatient Appoint­ment Management in Ambulatory Neurology Clinics
• Latent Tuberculosis Management for Dialysis Patients in the Southern Alberta Renal Program: A local gap in care
• Line Optimization OR Project: Closing the LOOP on Safe Central Line Insertion in the Operating Room at Alberta Children’s Hospital
• LPNs in AHS’s Emergency Departments, Mental Health units, and Labour & Delivery units: Recommendations to Improve LPN Optimization
• My Choice, My Care “Improving patient transition to dialysis”
• No Apparent Harm? We can do better!
• Optimizing Provincial Rectal Cancer Care and Treatment
• Parents + Play = Potential
• Pre-visit Planning to Improve Patient Preparedness for Clinic Visits
• Reducing blood loss in hip and knee replacement surgery
• Reducing Excessive Laboratory Investigations for Preeclampsia: A Quality Improvement Project
• Rehabilitation Model of Care: Enhancing care in the community through consistent evidence–informed rehabilitation services for clients and families across Alberta
• Safest Together: creating a high reliability culture of safe pediatric patient care
• Self–Managed Care Orientation: Client Driven Improvements
• South Health Campus Endoscopy Patient Flow Improvement Project
• Successful Nation-wide Collective Impact in Patient Safety
• The Impact of Novel Infection Control Interventions on Hospital Acquired Clostridium Difficile Infection and Patient Outcome
• The Waitlist Dilemma: Quality Improvement Project–Brooks Outpatient Physiotherapy Services
• Translating Knowledge from Medical Legal Claims to Improve Patient Safety
• Understanding Patient Experience of Shared Decision– Making in Community Rehabilitation: Steps to Realizing Patient–Centred Care
• University of Alberta Hospital Anatomical Pathology Turnaround Time Improvement Project
• Reducing low–value care for bronchiolitis patients

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