Resident quality improvement research

14th Annual Henry Ford Rochester Hospital

Quality Improvement Research Day

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Noon - 4:30 pm (Zoom)

The Office of Graduate Medical Education and Henry Ford Rochester Hospital held the 14th Annual QI Research Day program on Tuesday, April 22, via Zoom. The QI Research Day provides residents and faculty in our Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Transitional Year programs with an opportunity to showcase their outstanding QI research projects.

Here's the final program, and here's a recording of the entire event. The recording will expire in 120 days from 4/23/25.

The top four scorers of the QI Research Day will go on to the 2025 SEMCME Research Forum & QIPS Summit, held jointly as a live event on Thursday, May 22, in the Somerset Inn in Troy. For details, visit SEMCME or contact GME Research Manager Heidi Kenaga.

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Here are the QI Day winning teams:

#1: (IM) Enhancing Colorectal Cancer Screening Adherence through Targeted Interventions in a Resident-Based Community Clinic

Co-authors: Ayushi Garg (presenter), Nour Aldaoud, Jai Kumar (respondent), and Javaria Asif

Faculty mentor: Vesna Tegeltija

#2: (IM) Improving Sepsis Care in a Community Hospital: A QI Initiative

Co-authors: Rochelle Jayavendra (presenter), Muhammad Siddiqui (respondent), and Nabeel Badar

Faculty mentor: Vesna Tegeltija

#3: (FM) POCUS Bingo

Co-authors: Jodi Hastings (presenter), Candis Jarbo, Jacob Rubin, Sara Dervishi, Oladipupo Dehinbo, and Simon Galkin (respondent)

Faculty mentor: Kathryn Cox

#4: (IM) Improving Discharge Before Noon Initiative in a Community Hospital

Co-authors: Kyle Gifford (presenter), Palpasa Bhui, and Abdul Waqas (respondent)

Faculty mentor: Vesna Tegeltija

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Our judges included:

Camelia Arsene, MD, PhD, MHS, the Director of Undergraduate Medical Education and the Associate Program Director of the Transitional Residency Program at Trinity Health Oakland Hospital. She is also a clinical associate professor in the WSUSOM. Dr. Arsene has has held leadership positions in medical and public health education and research for most of her career. She earned a Master’s Degree in Health Sciences from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a PhD in Medicine (Public Health and Epidemiology) from the University of Warwick.

Sean McCormick, MD, assistant program director of the Emergency Medicine residency program in the WSUSOM and formerly medical director at Detroit Receiving Hospital. He serves on the emergency medicine CQI Committee and has expertise in process improvement. Dr. McCormick received his MD from the Ohio State University College of Medicine and completed a residency in emergency medicine from the WSUSOM.

Michael Twiner, MD, PhD, a 2016 graduate of the WSUSOM who originally trained as an molecular toxicologist. He is currently an assistant clinical professor in the Dept. of Emergency Medicine at Wayne State and practices at Detroit Receiving Hospital and Sinai Grace Hospital. Dr. Twiner’s research focuses on hypertension and heart failure in underserved communities in and around Detroit. He has authored more than 40 research papers.

The keynote speaker was Robert Flora, MD, MPH, MBA

Chief Academic Officer, Vice President of Academic Affairs, McLaren Health Care

Faculty advisors:

Sarwan Kumar, MD

Internal Medicine Program Director

Vesna Tegeltija, MD

Internal Medicine Associate Program Director

Zain Kulairi, MD

Internal Medicine clinical faculty

Joseph Vercellone, MD

Internal Medicine clinical faculty

Eleanor King, MD

Family Medicine Program Director

Andrea Milne, MD, PhD

Family Medicine Associate Program Director

Kathryn Cox, MD

Family Medicine clinical faculty

Heidi Hilton, DO

Family Medicine clinical faculty

Tess McCready, DO

Transitional Year Program Director