Amy Abbott, Ph.D, RN, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing and a Staff Nurse at Creighton University Medical Center in the Adult Intensive Care Unit.  Dr. Abbott’s research interests include patient safety in nursing education and practice, symptom clusters, symptom management, and health information technology. Although her background is in quantitative research methods including cluster and factor analysis, she has had some experience with mixed methods with the BRIC team.  Her recent projects include Transitions in Care, and Nursing Students Perspectives of the Interprofessional Patient Safety Course (IPE 410) for which she received a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grant.    Dr. Abbott is the faculty advisor for the Creighton University Student Nurses Association.  Additionally she is a member of the International Honor Society of Nursing as well as the American Nurses Association, the Nebraska Nurses Association, and the American Association of Critical Care Nurses.

Shirley Blanchard, Ph.D., OTR/L, ABDA, is an Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy in the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions.  Her research interests include rural health, obesity and depression among ethnic minority women, and adolescent obesity. She has disseminated research results to the National Institute of Health’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), Athens Institute for Education and Research, Center for Disease Control National Health Summit, the American Public Health Association, and the National Medical Association.  She is an invited member to the NIDDK’s Network of Minority Researchers and chairs the Oversight Committee.  Dr. Blanchard teaches the following courses: Clinical Conditions, Occupation, Adaptation, and Technology, and Physical Rehabilitation in Occupational Therapy II.

A. James Bothmer, MALS, is the Director of the Creighton University Health Sciences Library.  His research interests include archiving and organizing digital information, knowledge management, health information literacy, and informatics.  Mr. Bothmer is the Assistant Vice President of Health Sciences and Director of the Health Sciences Library/Learning Resources Center and serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries.  He recently published in the Nebraska Library Association Quarterly and Evidence Based Library and Information Practice.

J. Chris Bradberry, Pharm.D., is the Dean of the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions.  He has research interests in dyslipidemias, outcomes of pharmacist management of hypercholesterolemia, compensation for cognitive services, and the application of cardiovascular risk reduction efforts in the ambulatory patient.  Dr. Bradberry is an active member of the Board of Directors of the Midwest Lipid Association, a Fellow in the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Fellow of the American Pharmacists Association, Fellow of the American Heart Association, and a Diplomate of the Accreditation Council for Clinical Lipidology.  He has held offices in local and state pharmacy organizations and national offices in ASHP and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.  Dr. Bradberry is active in the APhA, ASHP, ACCP, AACP, the National Lipid Association and the Midwest Lipid Association, the Nebraska Pharmacists Association, the Southwest Iowa Pharmacist’s Association, the American Heart Association, and the American Diabetes Association.

JD Bramble, Ph.D., M.P.H., is an Associate Professor in the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions and the Director of the Health Services Administration Certificate Program. Dr. Bramble teaches courses on research methodology and biostatistics, as well as health care management and patient safety.  He has been involved in many funded grant projects, published in both books and health science research journals, had book reviews accepted for publication, been an adjunct journal reviewer, and has presented at many conferences and meetings.  Dr. Bramble also has a secondary appointment in the School of Medicine’s Department of Anesthesiology and holds a CHRP faculty membership since 2004.  In addition to teaching courses in biostatistics and research methodology, Dr. Bramble participates in the interprofessional education course “Foundations in Patient Safety.”

Bartholomew E. Clark, R.Ph., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions in the Department of Pharmacy Sciences.  Dr. Clark practiced pharmacy in a variety of community and institutional settings.  Prior to his Ph.D. work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,  Dr. Clark served as the Professional Affairs Manager for the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy.  Dr. Clark’s dissertation research examined professional and workplace attributes that contribute to a pharmacists organizational commitment.  His ongoing research interests include: 1) pharmacists’ workplaces, work organizations,  and professionalism, 2) health services and patient safety, and 3) transparency in the pharmacy benefits management (PBM) industry.  His faculty responsibilites at Creighton include teaching in Pharmacy Practice Management, Pharmacy Practice Law, and Foundations in Patient Safety.   He serves as a peer reviewer for the journals Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy and Journal of Pharmacy Teaching.  Dr. Clark is a member of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the American Pharmacists Association, and the Nebraska Pharmacists Association.  He has been published in peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed publications.

Sue Crawford, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations.  She is a Faculty Associate in the Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society.  Her research interests include public policy, religion and politics, and health policy.  Dr. Crawford’s recent projects include Exploring the Interactions of Community Infrastructures, Health Professionals and Organization, and Consumers about their Health Data—A Mixed Methods Study, Measuring Liberal Religion Project, and consulting work with the City of Omaha.  She is a member of the Religions and Politics and Health Policy sections of the American Political Science Association.

Andjela Drincic, M.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Medicine, division of Endocrinology.  She completed her fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism at Northwestern University in 1999.    Her research interests include patient safety, diabetes, and the pituitary field.  Dr. Drincic has worked with the BRIC project and is involved in various clinical research projects in endocrine division.  She serves as a Program Director of Endocrinology and Metabolism fellowship.  She is a member of the Endocrine Society, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, the American Diabetes Association, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists-Midwest Chapter where she serves as the treasurer and is a member of the Board of Directors. 

Kevin Fuji, Pharm.D., graduated from the Creighton University School of Pharmacy and Health Professions in 2007 and is in his second year of a Health Services Research Fellowship with an emphasis in Patient Safety.  His research interests include patient safety, health information technology, and personal health records.  Dr. Fuji’s recent projects include Electronic and Personal Health Record Adoption in Pharmacy Practice in Nebraska (ACCP Ambulatory Care PRN Pilot), Pharmacists for Patient Safety (Dyke Anderson Patient Safety) and Exploring the Interaction of Community Infrastructures, Health Professionals and Organizations, and Consumers about their Health Data (Records) – A Mixed Methods Study.  He also is co-coordinator of the IPE 410 Foundations in Patient Safety course.  Dr. Fuji utilizes quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods techniques in his research.

Kimberly Galt, Pharm.D., Ph.D.(c), is Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Associate Dean for Research, School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, and Director of CHRP.  She received her professional degrees from the University of Michigan and near completion of her Ph.D. in Qualitative, Quantitative, Psychometric and Mixed Methods from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has extensive research and publishing experience in her career; with more than 60 publications and technical reports for use in translation of research to practice and policy and a funded research record exceeding 3 million dollars.  Her post-graduate training has emphasized outcomes research, continuous quality improvement and management, integration of computing technologies into research, teaching and clinical healthcare practice uses within the health professions, and research methods.  As a methodologist she focuses on the use of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods as research methodologies applied in health services delivery and research. She has developed and managed pharmacist’s primary care consultative ambulatory practice sites in the private and Veterans Affairs systems, supervised specialized drug information and clinical pharmacy services, and practiced general hospital, community and long-term care pharmacy. She is actively conducting research in patient safety with an emphasis on the impact of health information technology.  She has held appointments as a member of the Health Information Technology National Resource Center Steering Committee for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2005-2008) and a member of the Health Care Technology and Decision Sciences Study Section, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2005 – 09); served as an expert panel member on AHRQ Panels for Health Center IT, Medication Gap Research, and AHRQ Practice Based Research Network Resource Center.  She has also served as a Special Emphasis Panel reviewer for AHRQ’s Health IT Demonstration Grant and Planning Grant portfolio.  Dr. Galt chaired the Inter-professional Taskforce to Develop a Patient Safety Curriculum for Creighton University involving 18 individuals from a variety of health and professional disciplines resulting in a campus-wide offering to Creighton student’s now in its fifth year.

Karen Paschal, PT, DPT, MS, is an Associate Professor at Creighton University in the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, Department of Physical Therapy.  She has participated as a member of interdisciplinary teams to design and implement interdisciplinary clinical care models, education and research.  Her research interests include health services issues related to the adoption and use of health information technology, consumer access to health information, and patient safety utilizing qualitative and mixed methods.  Dr. Paschal’s recent projects include physician adoption of electronic health records in ambulatory care clinics in Nebraska and South Dakota and the access and use of health information by community leaders, health professionals and consumers in rural communities.  She serves as co-chair of the education subcommittee of the Health Information Security and Privacy Work Group and a member of the Personal Health Record Work Group of the Nebraska e-Health Council.

Bill Raynovich, EdD, MPH, NREMTP, is an Associate Professor and Director of Creighton’s Emergency Medical Services Education Program.  His research and scholarship interests include emergency medical services clinical care, leadership, management and education. He also has interests in public health and disaster management.  Dr. Raynovich has conducted research using surveys, naturalistic inquiries, and action research methods, as well as participating in several experimental clinical research projects.  He is currently working on research projects involving the expansion of the scope of practice of rural and critical care paramedics and he has recently completed a nationwide survey regarding the education and practices in critical care transport.

Linda Scheirton, Ph.D., is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions at Creighton University.  She holds academic appointments as an Associate Professor in the Doctor of Occupational Therapy Program, Physical Therapy Program, and Pharmacy Program; and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Periodontics in the School of Dentistry.  Dr. Scheirton is a Faculty Associate in the Center for Health Policy and Ethics.  Her research interests include bioethics, hospital ethics committees, moral management of practitioner errors, patient safety, Alzheimers disease and its ethical implications, and ethics of health care advertising.  Dr. Scheirton has interdisciplinary experience in health care ethics, health care administration, clinical practice, academic teaching, and university administration.  She has participated in the ethics consultation service for three hospital ethics committees.  Her most recent research effort focuses on error reduction in occupational therapy and physical therapy practice as well as the moral management of practitioner errors. She has written textbook chapters, journal articles, and training manuals on patient safety.  Dr. Scheirton is also the CHRP Patient Safety Organization Coordinator.

Mark Siracuse, Pharm.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions in the department of Pharmacy Sciences.  His research interests include economic and public policy issues related to pharmaceuticals, patient safety, health information technology, pharmacy student issues, and medication therapy management.  When researching he utilizes factor analysis, structural equation modeling, multiple linear regression, descriptive analysis, and mixed methods.  Dr. Siracuse’s recent projects include State of Patient Safety in Nebraska Pharmacy, Status of Health Information Technology in South Dakota: Focus on Electronic Health Records in Physician Offices, and Status of Health Information Technology in Nebraska: Focus on Electronic Health Records in Physician Offices.  He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association and the Chair for the e-prescribing work group of the Nebraska e-Health Council.