During this webinar, the presenter will discuss and illustrate how he has adapted various social media and business strategies to compliment traditional scholarly methods (publication, conference presentations) to disseminate his research, conducted over two decades, on contextualization of care. 

Presenter – Saul Weiner

Saul Weiner is professor of medicine, pediatrics and medical education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and deputy director of the research Center of Innovation for Complex Chronic Health Care at the Veterans Health Administration. His research, which focuses on contextualizing care, employs unannounced standardized patients, patients who audio record their visits, and clinical decision support tools enhanced with patient contextual information in the electronic medical record.  His book, Listening for What Matters: Avoiding Contextual Errors in Health Care, published by Oxford University Press, received the 2017 American Publishers Award for Professional & Scholarly Excellence in the Life Sciences from the American Association of Publishers. His latest book is On Becoming a Healer: The Journey from Patient Care to Caring About Your Patients, published by Johns Hopkins University Press (April 2020).  He also co-hosts the podcast, On Becoming a Healer. His website is contextualizingcare.org. Dr. Weiner is also co-founder of the Institute for Practice and Provider Performance Improvement, also called “I3PI,” which applies methods for directly observing care to health plans and individual practices seeking to enhance value-based care.

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3pm CET

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