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Sign up for the Seventh Annual Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice conference

Join health care leaders who need to know about:

• Quality mandates that determine federal payments to hospitals
• Innovation for quality
• Changing the culture of health care from punishment to reporting
• Amending safety issues
• Magnet recognition for improved patient outcomes

These are some of the topics to be discussed by a national slate of speakers June 26 - 28 at the Seventh Annual Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice at the Crowne Plaza Riverwalk Hotel and Conference Center, 111 E. Pecan St., in San Antonio. Among the lecturers are:

• Veronica Nieva, Ph.D., vice president of Westat Inc. and national director for the new AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange
• David Kuhl, M.D., Ph.D., director of Canadian Centre for Practice Renewal
• Heidi King, Department of Defense team coordinator for the evidence-based team communication program, TeamSTEPPSTM™
• Jane Englebright, Ph.D., R.N., chief nursing officer of Hospital Corporation of America
• Lt. Col. Donald W. Robinson, director of the Army Trauma Training Center in Miami

Each of these renowned speakers promises to energize, inspire and deliver cutting-edge guidance on improving health care from an interprofessional perspective.

“We expect more than 400 health care providers and quality managers to attend and leave ignited for improvement,” said Kathleen Stevens, Ed.D., R.N., director of the Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice (A.C.E.) in the School of Nursing at the UT Health Science Center. A.C.E., a national leader in evidence-based quality improvement and patient safety, was established in 2000. This center of excellence is dedicated to bridging research into practice. This is accomplished through collaboration with national and international entities such as the Cochrane Collaboration and the United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Conference lectureships are provided by Methodist Healthcare System, Veterans Healthcare Administration and A.C.E. A.C.E. is the conference sponsor with UT Health Science Center and community members on the program committee.

View the brochure for more information. For obtain special UT Health Science Center faculty registration rates, contact A.C.E event planner Linda Spain, (210) 567-1791.