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Gordon Schiff, M.D.

        

Gordon Schiff currently Professor of Medicine at Rush University, and a senior attending Physician at Cook County (Stroger) Hospital where he has worked for more than 30 years since starting as a volunteer in the Emergency Room in 1970 as a premedical student, and later as a resident and attending physician. Until this past July he was Director of Clinical Quality Research and Improvement, for the Department of Medicine, Cook County (Stroger) Hospital.  He is staying on at the hospital as a voluntary attending to finish seeing his clinic patients and work on several grant projects.  He directed Cook County's General Medical Clinic (Chicago’s largest primary clinic) for nearly a decade.  His was PI and Director of AHRQ-funded Rush-Cook County Developmental Center for Research in Patient Safety (DCERPS , Diagnosis Errors and Evaluation Research Project (DEER), whose activities and recommendations are summarized in a recently published chapter in the AHRQ Advances in Patient Safety monograph (Vol 2). He continues to chair the Cook County Hospital's formulary committee, and its drug utilization evaluation committee. He has worked extensively with U.S.P as a member of its Safe Medication Use expert panel, as well as a Chair of its the Consumer Interest panel. He is currently PI of the Attorney General’s Prescribers and Consumer Education Grant Project entitled Formulary Leveraged Improved Prescribing (FLIP) initiative at Cook County and the UIC College of Pharmacy and Dept of Medicine.    

Dr Schiff has published numerous patient safety and medication prescribing improving articles in Annals of Int Med, JAMA, Arch Intern Med, Medical Care, Am J Health System Pharm. Most recently he was editor of special issue (2/2005) of Jt Commission Jl on Quality and Safety devoted to safety and reliability of handling of critical lab and radiology results. This has recently been expanded into a book published by Joint Commission Resources, Getting Results: Reliably Communicating and Acting on Critical Test Results in 2006  (Dr. Schiff is editor and author of 5 chapters). He is author of the section on Diagnostic Error in the forthcoming WHO monograph Current Issues in Patient Safety:  A Global Perspective being Prepared by: The Committee on Research Priorities World Alliance for Patient Safety / World Health Organization.  

He is longtime member of the editorial Board of Medical Care, and Journal of Public Health Policy, and recently chaired the search committee that selected the new Medical Care journal editors. He is currently Chair of the Medical Care of the American Public Health Association (APHA), and recipient of the 2005 Institute of Medicine Chicago (IOMC) patient safety leader of the year award, and the Institute for Safe Medical Practices (ISMP) 2006 Lifetime Achievement award.  

On 12/1/07, he will be joining Harvard Medical School and Partners Brigham and Women’s Hospital to work in patient safety and medical informatics as a clinician investigator and teach at the Harvard School of Public Health Clinical Effectiveness course  

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