Quality Improvement Basics Webinar Series

This six-part webinar series is designed primarily to provide ID Fellows, other trainees and early career clinicians with the core knowledge and skills needed to successfully participate in and prepare to lead quality and quality improvement initiatives. Faculty are IDSA members and staff with experience in quality. It is best to view sessions in order as this reflects the typical sequence of quality initiatives.

Session 

Objectives (After the session, participants will be able to): 

Presenter(s)

1. Quality Improvement Methods 

  • Discuss various methodologies, their relation to traditional scientific methods, and the importance of QI in ID and during public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic
Theresa Madaline, MD, FIDSA, FACP, CPHQ
Associate Chief Quality Officer
New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University

2. Quality Improvement: Process Improvement Tools

  • Utilize common process improvement tools including rapid cycle tests and process analysis tools
  • Apply common tools to ID projects
Fran Griffin, RRT, MPA
Associate Director 
Clinical Quality & Innovation, IDSA

3. Measurement & Display of Data 

  • Describe the types of measures used in improvement work
  • Analyze data in run charts to assess for variation and improvement
  • Display ID quality improvement data effectively
Fran Griffin, RRT, MPA
Associate Director 
Clinical Quality & Innovation, IDSA

4. Project Design & Implementation 

  • Identify a topic for and ID QI project
  • Design an ID QI project with appropriate goals, measures, stakeholders, resources and timeline
  • Implement a successful ID QI project
Cory Hussain, MD, FAMIA
Associate Chief Medical Information Officer for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Equity 
Denver Health

5. Publishing Quality Improvement Work

  • Describe the difference between quality projects and research
  • Summarize the various pathways to submit quality publications
  • Submit quality improvement work for journal publication
Pranavi Sreeramoju, MD, MBA, MPH
Healthcare Executive, Quality Improvement Professional, Editor and Author

6. ID Physicians as Performance Improvement Leaders

  • Discuss why ID physicians pursuing performance improvement, antimicrobial stewardship, infection control and prevention, and public health emergencies are well-positioned for leadership roles

Michael Edmond, MD, MPH, MPA
Chief Quality Officer and Associate Chief Medical Officer
University of Iowa Health Care

Target Audience

  • Members of IDSA and HIVMA

  • Infectious diseases (ID) physicians and fellows

  • HIV care providers

  • Advanced practice providers (APPs) in ID and HIV (e.g., nurse practitioners, physician assistants)

  • Pharmacists involved in ID/HIV care or stewardship

  • Public health professionals working in infectious diseases

  • Medical and public health students with an interest in quality improvement

  • ID/HIV program administrators and policy staff

  • Clinicians and researchers interested in quality improvement

Course summary
Course opens: 
01/21/2026
Course expires: 
01/21/2028
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