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	Previous Events Improving Care Transitions June 18, 2008 Click here for handouts The speaker, Eric Coleman, MD, MPH, is a nationally known care transitions subject matter expert and researcher. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine within the Divisions of Health Care Policy and Research and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and the Director of the Care Transitions Program that works to improve quality and safety during times of care “hand-offs”. He is also the Executive Director of the Practice Change Fellows Program designed to build leadership capacity among healthcare professionals who are responsible for geriatric programs and service lines. As a board-certified geriatrician, Dr. Coleman maintains direct patient care responsibility for older adults in ambulatory, acute, and sub-acute care settings. His research has focused on enhancing the role of patients and caregivers in improving the quality of their care transitions across acute and post-acute settings; measuring quality of care transitions from the perspective of patients and caregivers; implementing system-level practice improvement interventions; and using health information technology to promote safe and effective care transitions. Dr. Coleman concurrently pursued his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco and a Master's in Public Health and Aging from the University of California, Berkeley. He completed residency training in primary care internal medicine, fellowship training in The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and geriatric medicine at the University of Washington.

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Previous Events

Improving Care Transitions
June 18, 2008
Click here for handouts

The speaker, Eric Coleman, MD, MPH, is a nationally known care transitions subject matter expert and researcher. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine within the Divisions of Health Care Policy and Research and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and the Director of the Care Transitions Program that works to improve quality and safety during times of care “hand-offs”. He is also the Executive Director of the Practice Change Fellows Program designed to build leadership capacity among healthcare professionals who are responsible for geriatric programs and service lines.

As a board-certified geriatrician, Dr. Coleman maintains direct patient care responsibility for older adults in ambulatory, acute, and sub-acute care settings. His research has focused on

enhancing the role of patients and caregivers in improving the quality of their care transitions across acute and post-acute settings;
measuring quality of care transitions from the perspective of patients and caregivers;
implementing system-level practice improvement interventions; and
using health information technology to promote safe and effective care transitions. Dr. Coleman concurrently pursued his medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco and a Master's in Public Health and Aging from the University of California, Berkeley. He completed residency training in primary care internal medicine, fellowship training in The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and geriatric medicine at the University of Washington.