Some members of the UAB Medicine Quality and Patient Safety team.
TEAM
Loring W. Rue III, MD, FACS, serves as chief medical
officer of UAB Health System, ensuring that safe and
high-quality patient care is provided across UAB Medicine.
In this role, Dr. Rue is responsible for the quality, patient
safety, and clinical effectiveness programs within the
health system, and he serves as the senior physician
leader for improvement activities across UAB Medicine.
Emily A. Boohaker, MD, FACP, is UAB Medicine’s
associate chief medical officer for Quality and Patient
Safety, overseeing quality, patient safety, and infection
prevention initiatives for inpatient units and ambulatory
clinics. She also chairs the UAB Medicine Patient Safety
Committee and the UAB Health System Quality Council.
Dr. Boohaker is a certified IASSC Lean Six Sigma
Green Belt.
Scott Buchalter, MD, is the chief quality education officer
for UAB Medicine and a professor of medicine in the
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine.
He also directs the UAB Medicine Quality Academy and
has played an integral role in developing major efforts to
improve the patient experience.
Bernard C. Camins, MD, MSc, is the health care
epidemiologist for UAB Health System and an associate
professor of medicine. He has been involved in health
care-associated infection (HAI) prevention research
for more than 15 years and in clinical trials to reduce
hemodialysis-related bloodstream infections and
community-associated MRSA soft tissue infections. At
UAB, he and the Department of Infection Prevention and
Control are leading quality improvement initiatives to
decrease the incidence of HAIs.
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