An official, Author-hosted presentation will take place from 8:00-9:00 am on Saturday, April 30, 2016 at the Hilton Anatole Dallas.
Abstract authors will have the opportunity to discuss their posters with physician attendees. Posters will then be on display for viewing throughout the rest of the day. Selected physician judges will review the abstracts and determine scores.
Quality Improvement
Cliff T. Fullerton, MD, MS
Dr. Fullerton is the chief medical officer (CMO) for Baylor Scott & White Quality Alliance (BSWQA), and chief officer for population health at Baylor Scott & White Health. During Dr. Fullerton's tenure at the Baylor Health Care System (BHCS), he has been extensively involved with the 650-physician Health Texas Provider Network (HTPN), where he has served as chief quality officer as well as president of his practice, Family Medical Center in Garland/North Garland. From his work in HTPN, he moved to BHCS, where he started the Institute of Chronic Disease and Care Redesign and was the CMO for Baylor's 2,400-physician accountable care organization, Baylor Quality Alliance. With the BHCS and Scott & White Health merger, Dr. Fullerton moved into his current position as chief officer for population health while maintaining his CMO role at BSWQA, which has grown to 3,800 physicians. Dr. Fullerton served on the board of HTPN from 1998 to 2011. He was a board member of the Texas Academy of Family Physicians Foundation from 1997 to 2002. He is a board member of Predisan USA, a nonprofit organization that supports medical missions in Olancho, Honduras, where it has a full-time staff of 82 health educators, administrative staff, nurses, and physicians. Dr. Fullerton is a member of the BHCS Operating Board, the American Academy of Family Practice, and the TMA Council on Health Care Quality. He earned his medical degree at The University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical School. He served his internship at UT-Southwestern Medical School/Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, and his residency in family medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center in Oklahoma City. He received his master's of science in health care management from The University of Texas at Dallas.
Quality Research
Pranavi Sreeramoju, MD, MPH, CMQ, FHEA, FIDSA
Dr. Sreeramoju is an associate professor in medicine-infectious diseases at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and chief of infection prevention at Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas. Her areas of expertise include implementation science, outcomes evaluation, hospital safety culture, horizontal adaptive interventions such as positive deviance, quality improvement, patient safety, and epidemiology of health care-associated infections. Dr. Sreeramoju chairs the infection prevention and control committee at Parkland, and is a fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). She serves on several national and regional quality and safety committees including the education committee of the American College of Medical Quality, the SHEA Public Policy and Government Affairs Committee, and the TMA Council on Health Care Quality. She is a recipient of the Outstanding Infectious Diseases Teacher of the Year award in 2011. She was featured in the Women in Medicine series in 2014 by the Dallas Medical Journal. She has been named one of the Top 50 leaders in Patient Safety in 2015 by Becker's Hospital Review, and was awarded the 2015 Judene Bartley Advocacy in Action Scholarship established by SHEA and the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology
Clinical
Lianne Marks, MD, Ph.D., F.A.C.P.
Dr. Marks is an internal medicine physician at Baylor Scott
& White Health and associate professor of internal medicine at Texas
A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine in Round Rock. She served as
the clerkship director of internal medicine at Texas A&M Health Science
Center College of Medicine from February 2009 to October 2010 and more recently
regional chair in internal medicine as well as assistant dean in educational
development for the college. Dr. Marks graduated cum laude from the
University of Florida in Gainesville with a degree in molecular neuroscience.
She received her doctoral degree in immunology in 2002 from the University of
Miami Medical School and her medical degree at the same institution in 2004.
She completed her internal medicine residency in 2007 at The University of
Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Dr. Marks is board certified in
internal medicine and joined Scott & White in 2007. She is a member of the
Williamson County Medical Society and TMA. She is a fellow and member of
the Board of Directors of the Texas Chapter American College of Physicians for
several years and now serves on two national committees for the American
College of Physicians.