May 17, 2007
Radiology welcomes medical quality expert May 21
By Marianne L. Goldin
Department of Radiology
Dr. Stephen Swensen, noted medical quality expert, will present a special Department of Radiology Grand Rounds: The Business Case for Quality, Monday, May 21, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in Hogness Auditorium, Health Sciences Center. There will be a live telecast to the Harborview Medical Center Research & Training auditorium. A reception outside Hogness precedes the lecture at 5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Swensen is director for quality and a professor of radiology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minn. He is chair of the Radiological Society of North America Continuous Improvement Initiative Steering Committee, as well as the Mayo Clinic Quality Oversight Committee. He is nationally recognized as a teacher and researcher, particularly in the field of thoracic imaging.
In his lecture at the UW, Swensen will discuss the business perspective behind pay-for-performance initiatives and arguments for evidence-based clinical quality and safety assurance mechanisms.
Swensen received a medical degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison and completed residency training in radiology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and fellowship in pulmonary radiology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard. He also has a master’s degree in medical management from the H. John Heinz III School of Management at Carnegie Mellon University. He joined the faculty of the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine in 1988 and was chair of the Department of Radiology from 1998 to 2006. He has been director of quality for the Mayo Clinic since 2005.
He sits on the board of directors at TeraMEDICA TM, a Milwaukee-based medical software company that specializes in enterprise-level management of patient records and imaging. Swensen is president of the Fleischner Society, an exclusive international group comprised of leading experts on chest disease dedicated to the improvement and further development of chest imaging.
Swensen is a fellow of the American College of chest Physicians and of the American College of Radiology. He is past president of the American Society of Clinic Radiologists, the Society of Thoracic Radiology, the Mayo Thoracic Society, and the Society of Thoracic Radiology.
Swensen has served on the editorial boards of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Academic Radiology, and RSNA News, and has reviewed for Chest, American Journal of Roentgenology, Journal of Bronchology, Journal of Thoracic Imaging, and Radiology.
As of this printing, he has authored 115 peer-reviewed articles, six books, nine book chapters, notably “Thoracic Radiology: A Teaching File,” and the popular “High-Resolution CT of the Chest: Comprehensive Atlas,” co-authored with UW Radiology’s Dr. Eric Stern.
Related Event
Dr. Swensen will also present a resident lecture titled CT Screening for Lung Cancer: More Harm than Good? in the Harborview Medical Center Radiology Nelson Conference Room. This lecture will be telecast to the UW Health Sciences RR-202 Radiology Conference Room on May 21, from noon to 1 p.m.
For more information about either event,please contact Marianne Goldin at 206-616-4143 or mgoldin@u.washington.edu.
