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Contact Information
David R. Buchanan, MD
Section
Head
Section of Social Medicine
1900 W. Polk, 9th Floor
Chicago, IL 60612
david_buchanan@rush.edu
Lisa Stevak, MA, MEd
Section Coordinator
Tel: 312-864-7333
Fax: 312-864-9500
lisa_stevak@rush.edu
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April 16, 2007
Presenter:
Gordy Schiff
Agenda
9:30-
9:35
Business Items: Update of Section
Member Activities
9:35-10:30
Gordon Schiff, Director of Clinical Quality Research and
Improvement in the Department
of Medicine at Stroger Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Rush
Medical School is the
principal investigator on the two-year grant-funded
Formulary Leveraged Improved
Prescribing
(FLIP)
Project. The project will create educational tools to assist
hospital
formulary committees (an advisory group that approves medications
that can be
dispensed at a health care facility) evaluate the risks and
benefits of new medications,
and educate physicians and pharmacists about how to best learn
about and choose
those new medications. Dr. Schiff will discuss the marketing of medicine
and the
importance of educating
health professionals about the safety of prescribing
prescription medications.
Dr Schiff and co-investigator
Bruce Lambert, associate professor
in UIC’s College of
Pharmacy, are collaborating on the project.
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