Speakers:
Speaker 1: Dr. Allan Garland received a B.S. from the University of Michigan and M.A. from Harvard University. He completed his MD, Internal Medicine residency, and research/clinical fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at the University of Chicago. In faculty positions at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey, and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Ohio, he was the director of their Medical Intensive Care Units. He came to the University of Manitoba in 2007, where he is Professor of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, adjunct scientist at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, and since 2012 has been co-head of Critical Care Medicine. His research interests include: (1) epidemiology and long-term outcomes of critical illness, (2) disparities in ICU access, (3) performance improvement, especially the relationships between clinical outcomes and ICU organization/structure, (4) end-of-life care, (5) variation in medical practice, and (6) statistical modeling methods.
Speaker 2: Dr. AbdulRazaq (Abdi) Sokoro is the Chief Operating Officer of Provincial Diagnostic Services at Shared Health Manitoba and Associate Head of the Department of Pathology at the University of Manitoba’s Max Rady College of Medicine as well as an Associate Professor in the Departments of Pathology and Internal Medicine. Dr. Sokoro holds a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry and Zoology from Egerton University in Njoro, Kenya as well as a PhD in Toxicology from the University of Saskatchewan, and a post-doctoral clinical fellowship training in Clinical Biochemistry from the Max Rady College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba. He is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Clinical Biochemistry, Canada and the Association for Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine in the United States. He is also the medical lead for Choosing Wisely Manitoba team.
Overview:
The presentation will cover the impact of clinical decisions on laboratory utilization, the fiduciary responsibilities of health practitioners, including laboratory specialist, to resource stewardship, and ways to tackle resource stewardship in the laboratory.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
1) Define resource stewardship
2) Describe the importance of physician leadership in clinical resource stewardship
3) Identify ways to implement resource stewardship in clinical practice