Past QISP Projects

QISP 2020 Scholars

  1. Tichelle Porch
  2. Sharon Obami
  3. Iboro Ikene
  4. Helen Elizabeth Old
  5. Emily Hatheway
  6. Tristan Chari
  7. Tara Thomason
  8. Vikram Gupta
  9. Meredith Zingale
  10. Kira Panzer
  11. MJ Lee
  12. Namrata Joshi
  13. Diego Galan
  14. Adaobi Onunkwo
  15. Mel Rosen
  16. Richard Milante
  17. Robert Glowacki
  18. Karley Whelan
  19. David Zablocki
  20. Margaret Tran
  21. Max Sumner
  22. Olivia Fernandes
  23. Shivani Chandrashekaran
  24. Yi Wang

QISP 2019 Scholars 

  1. Patrick Cox
  2. Toby Hollis
  3. Janice Wong
  4. JT Tanaka
  5. Savannah Harshbarger
  6. Caroline Leahy
  7. Jenna Frush
  8. Justine McKittrick
  9. Fabian Jimenez-Contreras
  10. Krunal Amin
  11. Jonathan Giuliano
  12. Allison Olivia
  13. Sandra Au
  14. Parth Chodavadia
  15. Amanda Mathews
  16. Madison Krischak
  17. Norah Karlovich
  18. Danae Olaso
  19. Linda Phung
  20. Maya Torain
  21. Ryan Chiang
  22. Alexander Gunn
  23. Alexis Musick
  24. Christopher Orchard
  25. Shashank Rajkumar
  26. Spencer Chang
  27. Justin Ma
  28. Christine Chow
  29. Sean Tanino
  30. Megan Smith
  31. Sonali Biswas
  32. Helen Diafotis
  33. Julia Isaacson
  34. Leland Pung
  35. Jared Gloria

QISP 2018-2019 Projects

“Mediastinitis as a Complication of Tracheostomy in Patients Post Median Sternotomy or Clamshell Incision”- Allison Oliva, Julie Doberne, Jacob Klapper

“Instituting New Management Guidelines for Prophylactic Postpartum Anticoagulation”- Helen Daifotis , Julia Isaacson, Kelli Kurtovic

“Early Mobilization for Elective Back Surgery Patients at Duke University Hospital”- Amanda Matthews

“Validation of Electronic Medical Record Search Query in Identification of Patients with IV Drug Use and Opioid Misuse”- Maya Torain, Linda Phung

“Improving responsiveness of hospital staff through purposeful rounding”- Christine Chow, Justin Ma, Sean Tanino

“Naloxone Prescribing Initiative: Improving Prescription Rates within the Duke University Hospital System”- Spencer Chang

“Did You Wash Them?”: Implementation of a Standardized Hand Hygiene Practice in thePediatric Emergency Department”- Jenna Frush, Justine McKittrick

*****Evaluating Pharmacy-Provider Discrepancies In Discharge Medication Reconciliation- Alex Gunn, Alexis Musick


QISP 2017-2018 Scholars

  1. Sarah Neils
  2. Nicole Chen
  3. Charlotte Ryan
  4. Sylvia Choi
  5. Caray Slaughter
  6. Taylor Hughes
  7. Cason Robbins
  8. Keven Ji
  9. Priscila Cunha
  10. Pratik Doshi
  11. Jennifer Tu
  12. Jordan Hildenbrand
  13. Ethan Borre
  14. Vivian Lei
  15. Rasheedat Zakare
  16. Emma Ryan
  17. Elizabeth Kobe
  18. Karishma Sriram
  19. Tracy Han
  20. Minahil Shahid
  21. Briana Shipley
  22. Jake Hines
  23. Lukas Warren
  24. Yufen Lin
  25. Alexandria Hurley
  26. Elish Mahajan

QISP 2016-2017 Scholars

  1. Sasha Frankel
  2. Sijia Wei
  3. Jacqueline Lawrence
  4. Christelle Tan
  5. Jennifer Foreman
  6. Kareem Barghouti
  7. Sarah Greene
  8. Kelly Sullivan
  9. Benjamin Andrew
  10. Joey Glass
  11. Patrick McDonagh
  12. Brooke Evans
  13. Priscille Schettini
  14. Safa Kaleem
  15. Sandra Chacon
  16. Allison Kratka
  17. Caitlin Marks
  18. Allen Wang
  19. Sue Yao
  20. William Haltermann
  21. Aven Garms
  22. Tammy Hsu
  23. Umar Qadri
  24. Amanda Lucier
  25. Nicole Dalal
  26. Chloe Peters
  27. Ouwen Huang
  28. Qi Yu
  29. Daniel Ballard
  30. Leslie Chang
  31. Jenna Frush
  32. Melissa Ross
  33. Janet Collins
  34. Supriya Davis
  35. Amy Bowen
  36. Matt Conley

QISP 2015-2016 Scholars:

  1. Alexandra Paul
  2. Alexis Burbank
  3. Anand Shah
  4. Ann Mills Lassiter
  5. Anthony Lin
  6. Brahma Natarajan
  7. Brittany Holland
  8. Chioma Udemgba
  9. Colin Martz
  10. Eliza Adelson
  11. Elle Xie
  12. Elliot Le
  13. Elyse Schmidt
  14. Emma Fixsen
  15. Emmanuel Abolo
  16. Gireesh Reddy
  17. Isaac Bleicher
  18. James Helzberg
  19. James Tian
  20. Jasmine Roddey
  21. Kelsey Corrigan
  1. Kevin Anderson
  2. Lauren Metayer
  3. Lauren Oliver
  4. Lauren Teague
  5. Maria Crennan
  6. Mary Greer Simonton
  7. Melissa Bebb
  8. Natalie Skeiky
  9. Noelle Kelly
  10. Owen McClellan
  11. Patrick O’Shea
  12. Rylan Collins
  13. Sarvesh Agarwal
  14. Selena An
  15. Shay Behrens
  16. Stephanie Pagliuca
  17. Temitope Gafaar
  18. Wesley Norris
  19. William Wang
  20. Yingna Liu
  21. Zachary Dionise

Examples of 2015-2016 project opportunities include:

  • Standardizing Text Paging to Improve Physician-Nurse Communication: A Pilot Study
  • Standardizing Protocols in the Duke Outpatient Clinic.
  • Developing patient literacy evaluation processes
  • Assessing the efficiency of primary-care-to-specialty-care referrals
  • Creating pediatric care guidelines and improving adherence to evidence based care
  • Reconciling quality indicators in surgery across multiple databases
  • Developing a balance sheet of provider performance to improve efficiency in outpatient, underserved settings

And many others! Ranging from topics in surgery, pediatrics, hospital medicine, urology, emergency medicine, outpatient medicine, hospital patient-flow management, pharmacy, and more.

2014-2015 QISP scholars:

  1. Heather Langerman, MBA 2015
  2. Abby Johnston, MD 2018
  3. Geoffrey Hamlyn, MPP 2016
  4. Rishonda Thomas, MPP 2016
  5. David Cohen, MBA 2016
  6. Emily Riehl, MPP 2015
  7. Callie Berkowitze, MD 2018
  8. Adeola Awodele, MD 2017, MS Global Health 2016
  9. Madelyn Stevens, MD 2018
  10. Carmen Cummings, MPP 2015
  11. Malhar Patel, MD 2018
  12. Gary Sulioti, MD 2018
  13. Drew Thabault, ABSN 2015
  14. Calvin Zhang, MBA 2016
  15. SooMin Lee, MBA 2016

2014-2015 Example Projects:

  • Redefining the Full Fever Workup to reduce low-value lab-ordering by Duke residents
    • Tasks: Chart review, resident teaching
  • Improving usage of Duke Medicine’s standard hospital discharge template
    • Tasks: EMR combing, peer institution review
  • Assessing barriers to care encountered by cancer patients
    • Tasks: Mystery shopping!
  • Evaluating documentation practices in an outpatient primary care clinic
    • Tasks: Chart auditing, survey analysis, EMR smart-phrase instruction