Wendy Nickel: Thank you both for being here today to share a little bit about your surgery story. My name is Wendy Nickel. I'm the president of the Healthcare Improvement Foundation and I have a deep background in shared decision making between patients and clinicians. I'm really excited to speak with both of you and better understand what led you …

Christine Schleider: Thank you, Judy, Kathy, and Lee, for being here today. I appreciate the opportunity to get together and talk about this very important topic of surgical opioid stewardship. The climate today around surgical prescribing is so different than it was when we all started as nurses. As surgical nurses, we were the ones who took care …

Today’s episode titled top 5 things your surgeon wants you to know features Dr. Scott Cowan, a cardiothoracic surgeon and associate professor at Thomas Jefferson University hospital and Dr. Matthew Philp a colorectal surgeon and associate professor of clinical surgery at Temple Health. Both Dr. Cowan and Dr. Philp also serve as clinical advisors fo…

Opioid Best Practices for Surgical Residents is hosted by Dr. Kristin Noonan from Abington Hospital Jefferson Health where she serves as the director of surgical quality and safety as well as one of the associate program directors for the general surgery residency. Dr. Noonan is a bariatric surgeon who has worked closely with residents on opioid re…

This episode is hosted by Dr. Henry Pitt from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital where he serves as the Chief of Oncologic Quality. Dr. Pitt trained in surgery and began his career as a hepato-pancreato-biliary surgeon. Today he will be interviewing Dr. Michael Englesbe from University of Michigan…

This episode, titled Conversations on Pain, is hosted by Susan Cosgrove from the Health Care Improvement Foundation where she serves as the Director of Health Literacy. Susan joined HCIF in 2013, bringing expertise in sociology, public affairs, and population health programming. Today she will be speaking with Thomas Workman from the American Insti…

Opioid Conversations with Surgeons explores current topics and innovative approaches to surgical opioid stewardship, focusing on both clinician and patient perspectives.By Penn