The AQES is an advanced, certificate of completion, 12-month series quality improvement education course by application only. It’s designed for teams of UPMC clinical and operational leaders with prior quality improvement experience who can marshal support to implement change and are working on a strategically important improvement project. The course is made of up six didactic sessions presented by outside experts and UPMC leaders, as well as collaboration with the project coach and coursework through the Wolff Learning Academy. The goal of the series is that participants will both learn how to implement successful QI projects and become the next generation of quality leaders at UPMC. All projects must be around one of the following topics: patient safety, readmissions, patient experience, mortality or complications/infections. Please see the guidelines for projects and participants best suited for the program.   Contact Stephanie Knoch with questions.  Please note: the program is highly selective and will be limited to 5 projects.

Applications for the 2022 AQES Series will open Fall 2022 - Click here to be added to application list

View the 2022-2023 AQES Speaker Series

2022 AQES Session Dates and Topics (Sessions are held virtually from 9:00am-12:00pm unless noted)
February 16, 2022 – Allan Frankel, MD: Organizational Readiness and Making Change Stick (8:00am - 12:00pm)
March 9, 2022 – Denise Rousseau, PhD: Constructing Organizational Support for Improvement 
March 30, 2022 –  Ayse Gurses, PhD, MS, MPH and Shawna Perry, MD: Human Factors and Systems Engineering Approach to Improve Patient Safety and Health Care Worker Safety
April 20, 2022 – Mark Roberts, MD: Interpreting Data to Advance Quality Improvement   
May 11, 2022 – Roger Resar, MD: How to Design Reliable Process in Healthcare  
June 10, 2022 – Laura Damschroder, MS, MPH: Managing and Driving Change Through Implementation Science
February 2023 - Graduation and Project Presentations