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 conference will review data on the most complex pediatric genetic cases at MCJCHV and will be reviewed by cardiology, CT surgery, Genetics, ethics, critical care providers, ENT, Pulmonology, General Surgery, anesthesia, and palliative care teams. The content will focus on establishing a standardized approach in the management of children with genetic diagnoses without clear standards of practice. Plan for comparing/contrasting any relevant diagnostic data.

• 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. o 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 performa...

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

Current practice is a spectrum, and these are commonly discussed as part of our conference. We examine the current care models from physicians in both university-based and private practice-based groups and how these models affect patient care and patient care results in their various institutions.

This is a multidisciplinary conference intended for patient management discussions regarding managing thoracic surgery patients with esophageal disorders.

Case based discussion of system wide clinical practice opportunities involving perioperative and medical case scenarios. Cases are presented, interactive discussion with attendees on opportunities and challenges, review of key practice recommendations on case based topic presented.

Pediatric Heart Institute MMI is offered weekly. Participants will engage in education on identifying and discussing disease specific, patient specific, and system specific issues surrounding morbidity or mortality in Pediatric Cardiac patients both surgical and non-surgical and improving patient outcomes. A variety of topics from researchers in several disciplines from across the VU and VUMC institutions will be covered.

Designed for practicing general surgeons (and those in training), Surgery Morbidity and Mortality Conference offers an educational session focused on complications that have occurred within the department. Residents present and faculty discuss recent complications (morbidities) and deaths (mortalities) that have occurred in patients on all general surgical services. Each week, 2 services present their cases to the entire faculty and resident team (including medical students). This is rotated so ...

Selection for Advance Heart Failure Therapy Conference is offered weekly. Participants will engage in education on indications for advanced heart failure therapies (mechanical assist devices and transplant) and improving patient outcomes. A variety of topics from researchers in several disciplines from across the VU and VUMC institutions will be covered.