The Clinical Institute at St. Joseph Hospital is a vehicle to develop evidence-based clinical practice guidelines to ensure delivery of best practice medicine to patients.
Current Clinical Institute Initiatives
| Team |
Leaders |
Initiatives |
Women's Health |
Lily Ramirez-Boyd, M.D. |
1) Inductions |
|
Marc (Tony) Zepeda, M.D.
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| Critical Care |
Amir Ghiassi, M.D.
James Roum, M.D. |
1) Pneumonia
2) Anemia Screen |
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2) Sepsis
3) Reducing mortality
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Surgical Care
|
Hisham El-Bayar, M.D. |
1) VTE prophylaxis |
| |
John Harris, M.D.
|
2) Peri-Anesthesia Measures
3. Surgical Site Infection Prevention |
Primary Care Inpatient
|
Brian Boyd, M.D.
Roger Chang, M.D. |
1) Behavioral Health
2) Envirionmental Associated
Infection Prevention |
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3) Stroke
4) End of life care
|
Primary Care Outpatient
|
Susan Ban, M.D.
Lawrence Ehrlich, D.O.
|
1) Heart failure
2) Hepatitis B
3) COPD
4) Ophthalmology |
Cancer Care
|
James Padova, M.D.
Lawrence Wagman, M.D. |
1) Malignant Pleural Effusions |
Behavioral Health
|
Himisiri De Silva, M.D.
Vinayak Shanbhag, M.D. |
1) Intake |
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