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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.” |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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