This series will be a 1-hour, monthly CME-accredited series, held on the 3rd Wednesday of every month from 7-8 am, focusing on multidisciplinary analysis and discussion of complex pediatric surgical and radiology cases to enhance diagnostic accuracy, timely surgical decision-making, imaging interpretation, and collaborative treatment planning for complex pediatric surgical conditions.

This series will be two 1-hour Morbidity, Mortality, and Improvement activities on the 2nd and 3rd Wednesdays of every month, taking place from 8-9 AM, focusing on analysis of adverse outcomes, near misses, and opportunities for improvement in clinical practice.

The Multidisciplinary Perioperative MM&I Conference is offered quarterly on the 1st Friday of March, June, September, and December from 6:30am to 8:00am in Langford Auditorium at VUMC, and depending on circumstance, sometimes held virtually. The conference consists of presentations of cases in which outcomes were not expected and/or not desirable or presentations of relevant quality-related issues that impact providers in the perioperative spaces followed by discussion of strengths and weaknesse...

This series will be a 1-hour Tumor Case conference on the 1st Wednesday of every month from 8-9 AM. A multidisciplinary meeting focused on cancer case management, geared toward educational excellence, to update clinicians on current evidence-based guidelines, improve interpretation of molecular diagnostics, and enhance coordination of multimodal treatment planning. This will ensure optimal patient outcomes and alignment with best practices in tumor cases.

Monthly hybrid meeting involving all members of the service line: faculty, students, house staff, RN's, APPs, perfusion. Review of mortalities using phase of care analysis and dashboard performance including blood utilization, renal failure, and other STS metrics.

Morbidity, Mortality, and Improvement conference for the Pediatric Burn patient population. Discussion will also be had regarding current patients in the hospital as well as complex patients that are being followed in the outpatient setting.

This series will be a 1-hour CME & MOC II credit activity, with learning objectives, held on the 4th Wednesday of every month from 8-9 am, featuring a Pathology case review discussion that also includes a component of morbidity and mortality review of the cases discussed.

To evaluate the care of a trauma patient from a clinical and systems perspective and to perform interdisciplinary implementation of improvement strategies. It is responsible for establishing objective criteria for identifying issues for review and determining compliance with standard of care. Recommendations and/or action plans with associated re-evaluation (if applicable) will be made when areas needing improvement are determined. Provide the structure and organization to promote performance im...

Monthly MMI meeting that goes over recent pediatric transplant cases, with lessons learned, practice changes, and corrective action planning.

Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Conference is offered weekly. Participants will engage in education on strategies for managing our challenging cardiac surgery patient cases, multi-disciplinary approaches to peri-operative care and address patient care issues that overlap specialties and how these relate patient outcomes. A variety of topics from researchers in several disciplines from across the VU and VUMC institutions will be covered.