Agenda for Change

Faced with a rapidly evolving landscape and overwhelming expectations, the CIR Policy and Education Initiative (PEI) is poised to prepare tomorrow’s physician leaders to play a critical role in this very necessary and exciting transformation. Click the image to download our "Agenda for Change" PowerPoint presentation.

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Resident Patient Safety Scholars

PEI sponsored the following residents to attend patient safety conferences in June 2013 thanks to generous funding from the New York Patient Care Trust Fund:

AAMC Integrating Quality Meeting - June 6-7, 2013 Chicago, IL (Click here to download posters)

• Sarah Baron, MD (Internal Medicine, Bellevue Medical Center)
• Renee Jones-March, MD  (Internal Medicine, Harlem Hospital)
• Nathaniel Margolis, MD (Radiology, Bellevue Medical Center)
• Edwardo Martinez, MD (Internal Medicine, Harlem Hospital)
• Say Salomon, MD (Internal Medicine, Woodhull Medical Center)

Telluride Patient Safety Roundtable and Summer Camp:

• Rick Gustave, MD, MPH (Emergency Medicine, Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center)
• Say Salomon, MD [Internal Medicine, Woodhull Medical Center

Donor privacy policy

CIR Policy & Education Initiative places the highest priority on protecting the privacy of our donors and holds all information in strict confidence. Donor information is never traded, sold, or rented. If you have questions or concerns, simply contact the CIR Policy & Education initiative office by phone at (212) 356-8100 or email info@cirpei.org.

Leadership in Academic Medicine

On May 18,, 2013 the CIR PEI hosted a program at the Westin Boston Copley Place Hotel entitled Physician Leadership for the 21st Century.

Guest Speakers

Linda Pololi, MD. MB. BS. Director, National Initiative on Gender, Culture and Leadership in Medicine

Stephen Martin, MD, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine & Community Health, UMass Medical School

Donor privacy policy

CIR Policy & Education Initiative places the highest priority on protecting the privacy of our donors and holds all information in strict confidence. Donor information is never traded, sold, or rented. If you have questions or concerns, simply contact the CIR Policy & Education initiative office by phone at (212) 356-8100 or email info@cirpei.org.

Medication Safety Grand Rounds

Thakur Hameer, MD, Abdul Mondul, MD, Mei Kong, RN, Nelly Pakh, Pharm.DFollowing the November 30, 2011 medication safety conference, members of the HHC labor-management team began preparing a grand rounds power point presentation to take on the road – seven HHC acute care hospitals in four months!

The multi-disciplinary presentation highlights an original video depicting the terrible consequences of preventable medication errors on patients. It also provides important information on how to achieve effective pain management and use opioids appropriately, as well as emphasizing the key to reducing medication errors – improving teamwork and communication.

The presenting team includes Drs. Marian Irizzary and Thakur Hameer, CIR resident leaders at Lincoln, Nelly Pakh, a pharmacist and 1199 SEIU delegate at Lincoln, and Mei Kong, RN Abdul Mondul, MD from NYC HHC. By mid-autumn, 2012, the grand rounds will have reached more than 800 HHC front line providers. The project is funded by grants from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the CIR Patient  Care Trust Fund.

Haiti 2013

A team of CIR physicians is volunteering in Haiti this week and CIR Communications Coordinator Erin Malone will be reporting back, sharing photos and reflections. Described as both "difficult and amazing," report backs from Haiti have helped to shed light on the importance of access to healthcare abroad and at home. The last issue of Vitals highlight the experience of residents in the global community and by accounts from the residents this recent mission to Haiti also provided another opportunity to reflect on challenges at home and abroad. Below are excerpts from some of the blogs submitted by Erin chronicalling the documentation of CIR volunteers and Haiti and the realities for physicians, patients, volunteers and their families. Day 1 ...I sat in Miami International Airport at 4am, awaiting my 6:55 am flight to Port-Au-Prince. I was heading to Haiti to document the largest envoy of physicians CIR had funded since the earthquake in 2010. Four doctors would be arriving on the same day to provide much needed medical assistance at the Bernard Mevs/Project Medishare Hospital. We make our way through customs, which is merely a formality as there is little infrastructure to enforce any customs regulations. The volunteers pitch in to get luggage and bags of supplies out to the waiting van. I am asked for the baggage claim tags for the 4 large bags I am carrying but I only have the one for my own. The security personnel shrugs and lets me pass.

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