Transcending the Checklist:
Understanding, Adopting, and Elevating Shared Decision Making

A webinar series in three parts.

Enrollment in these webinars is being done in a bundle – anyone who signs up for one is automatically signed up for all, with encouragement for registrants to attend all three.

IF YOU ARE REGISTERING BEFORE SEPTEMBER 25th:
When choosing ticket type, please choose the first date, September 25th. Your one-time enrollment will register you for all three webinars.

IF YOU ARE REGISTERING AFTER SEPTEMBER 25th:
When choosing ticket type, please choose the closest future date. Your one-time enrollment will register you for all remaining webinars.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This webinar will be held on Zoom. You will receive the Zoom link the day before each webinar.

September 25th | Shared Decision Making 101: Understanding Shared Decision Making

Shared decision making is a key component of patient-centered care but can be misunderstood or rushed-through. What exactly is shared decision making, why is this so important to improving patient's experiences and involvement in their care, and how can providers use shared decision making in clinical care? This webinar will feature an overview of the Bree Collaborative's recommendations for Shared Decision Making as developed by a workgroup of subject matter experts. The speakers will discuss when shared decision making is appropriate, benefits to patients and to providers, and how to champion shared decision making within your own organization. This webinar is appropriate for providers of all types (physicians, nurses, clinicians, specialists), health system leadership, patient safety and quality professionals, policy makers, and anyone concerned with increasing use of shared decision making.

Speakers: Ginny Weir and Emily Transue

Ginny Weir has a background in health policy, health services delivery research, and clinical practice change. She currently directs the Washington state-based Dr. Robert Bree Collaborative, bringing diverse stakeholders together to improve health care quality, outcomes, and affordability. She has a Master’s Degree in Public Health from the University of Washington, is a member of the board of the Washington State Public Health Association, and seeks to strengthen the relationship between public health and health care delivery.

Emily Transue, MD, MHA, FACP is the Associate Medical Director for the Washington State Health Care Authority. She received her B.S. from Yale University, M.D. from Dartmouth Medical School, and Master of Health Administration from the University of Washington. She is a general internist who practiced for 15 years as a primary care provider before shifting to roles in leadership and management. She is the author of two books, On Call and Patient by Patient, about the experience of practicing medicine. At the Health Care Authority, her role includes clinical leadership of the Employee and Retiree Benefits division, oversight of the Shared Decision Making program, and supporting the work of Healthier Washington and the Medicaid Transformation Project.

October 30th | Shared Decision Making 102: Adopting Shared Decision Making

Now that you have gained a better understanding of how to define Shared Decision Making and its benefits in concept, it’s time to explore how to go about getting boots on the ground and putting these techniques into practice. This webinar will cover some tips, best practices and firsthand advice for adopting SDM, “transcending the checklist” to more fully integrate SDM into practice as a care philosophy, real world examples of its adoption, and means of overcoming barriers, using the findings of the Bree Collaborative's Shared Decision Making workgroup and others. This webinar is appropriate for providers of all types (physicians, nurses, clinicians, specialists), health system leadership, patient safety and quality professionals, policy makers, and anyone concerned with increasing use of Shared Decision Making practices in healthcare.

Speaker: Angela Sparks and Randal Moseley

Dr. Angie Sparks, MD, FAAFP is a Family Physician at Kaiser Permanente Burien Medical Center. She is Medical Director for Clinical Knowledge Development & Support with Kaiser Permanente’s Clinical Improvement and Prevention team working on quality improvement, clinical practice guidelines, continuing medical education, and medical practice communications. Current projects include antibiotic stewardship, shared decision making, and opioid safety guideline teams. She is a clinical leader in translating evidence and quality into clinical practice, supporting the needs of KP’s care teams with best approaches.

Prior to this role, she was the Assistant Physician in Chief at the Group Health Olympia Medical Center where she practiced for 7 years. She is an alumna of Cornell University and the University of Washington School of Medicine. Her residency in Family Medicine was Ventura County Medical Center in Ventura, CA. She is Vice President of the Washington Academy of Family Physicians and represents KP on the Robert Bree Collaborative.

Randal Moseley, MD, FACP received his M.D. from the University of Washington, and completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Utah. He is board certified in internal medicine, with added qualifications in geriatrics. His practice experience includes ambulatory general internal medicine, geriatrics, and hospital medicine. He is the founder of the Confluence Health hospitalist service and is currently the Medical Director of Quality for the organization. He currently serves on the Bree Collaborative and their Shared Decision Making committee. He has instituted work on shared decision making, including authoring decision aids

November 14th | Shared Decision Making 103: Elevating Shared Decision Making to Uphold Health Equity

Whether your organization has adopted or is in the process of adopting Shared Decision Making techniques, there are important elements to consider to ensure that your adoption of these practices is empowering to patients of all backgrounds. This webinar will cover methods of elevating your organizational and individual SDM practices through a lens of health literacy, equity, and cultural competency by understanding and addressing language barriers, cognitive biases, and known disparities that can affect a patient's comprehension and awareness of their treatment options, hinder their involvement and empowerment in their own care, and decrease the positivity of their care experiences and outcomes. This webinar is appropriate for providers of all types (physicians, nurses, clinicians, specialists), health system leadership, patient safety and quality professionals, policy makers, and anyone concerned with increasing use of Shared Decision Making practices in healthcare.

Speaker: Rashmi Sharma

Rashmi K. Sharma, MD, MHS, Dr. Sharma completed medical school and residency at the University of Washington followed by a General Internal Medicine Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University where she received a Masters in Health Sciences from the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Following fellowship, she served as a faculty member in the Division of Hospital Medicine, Section of Palliative Medicine at Northwestern University. She joined the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Washington in October 2015 and serves as a faculty member in the Center for Scholarship in Patient Care Quality and Safety and the UW Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence. She was selected by the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine as 1 of 44 Hospice and Palliative Medicine Inspirational Leaders Under 40 in 2014 and was the recipient of the 2016 Hastings Center Cuniff-Dixon Early Career Physician Award for the quality of her research in palliative care and care of patients at the end of life. She is a board-certified palliative care physician and attends on the inpatient palliative care consult service at the University of Washington Medical Center. Her research focuses on communication and decision making in the setting of serious illness with a focus on vulnerable populations.