Be a Builder: Blueprints for outpatient and consult service programmatic growth in an academic department

Friday, February 28, 2025

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM MST

Location: 103 A-B

Course Director(s)

Karen Barr, MD

Associate Professor
University of Pittsburgh/UPMC

Faculty(s)

Kerry DeLuca, MD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
UPMC
Kali Webb, DO (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
UPMC

Speaker(s)

Haylie Kromer, DO

Resident Physician
UPMC

Disclosure(s):

Karen Barr, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Kerry DeLuca, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Kali Webb, DO: No financial relationships to disclose

Haylie Kromer, DO: No financial relationships to disclose

Brief Session Description : Expanding clinical services, building new programs, and integrating learners into the process can be an exciting career opportunity. However, navigating this in the complex world of modern academic health care systems can be challenging. Using examples from a new prehabilitation clinic in the outpatient setting and a new system to evaluate frailty in transplant candidates in acute care consults, we will give practical advice on how to move from an idea to a program, integrating evidence based measures into clinical assessments in order to demonstrate their value, and hear the trainee perspective of getting involved in growing programs.