Raj Behal, MD, MPH, Chief Quality Officer & Associate Dean at Stanford.
Dr Behal leads and collaborates with
clinicians to achieve organizational vision to be among the nation’s leaders in
quality, patient safety and efficiency. He developed the Lean Care Maps methods
to analyse and reduce variations in care, manage outcomes, reduce costs of
care, and to identify program growth opportunities. Significant reductions in
costs, hospital length of stay and in inpatient mortality (HSMR 58) were
achieved as a result of these initiatives. Dr Behal led implementation of the
medical home model in primary care practices to improve co-ordination of care
for chronic diseases. He has created structured methods for analysing and
reducing sentinel events and mortality.
Dr Behal has worked with more than 40 US
academic medical centre members to reduce mortality rates, improve patient
safety and to redesign quality infrastructure. He developed the risk adjustment
methodology for mortality now used among the US academic medical centres. He
chaired and served on several workgroups convened by the American Medical
Association to develop national quality measures.
Dr Behal has conducted workshops in patient
safety, mortality reduction and leadership in the US as well as in England,
Sweden, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand and in the Middle East. He serves as faculty
for the Harvard Leadership Development Program for Physicians in Academic Health
Centres. He teaches change management concepts at the Stanford Leadership
Program.
As a Board-certified internist, he is active in
teaching and in patient care.
He
received an MPH in Clinical Effectiveness from the Harvard School of Public
Health and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Medical Informatics from a
joint Harvard/MIT program.
Accommodation & Travel/Flight Arrangements
Delegates are responsible for making their own accommodation and travel/flight arrangements. The Crowne Plaza has discounted room rates available for the duration of the conference. These are held until 31 days prior to the event. Each booking will require a credit card to hold the booking. The Health Roundtable at the rates set out below:
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