Quality Improvement Academy Class of 2025
The Annual Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS) Poster Symposium took place on May 21, 2025, at the Griffis Faculty Club. The event has brought together institutional leaders, clinicians, researchers and staff across all disciplines to celebrate the impactful and collaborative advancements in patient care for over a decade
This year’s symposium was supported through the co-sponsorship of the Quality Improvement Academy (QIA) Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian Department of Nursing, and the Physician Organization’s Division of Quality and Patient Safety, highlighted 40 quality improvement projects from 15 Departments across Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and NewYork-Presbyterian Queens.
Projects were selected through a peer-review process by Quality Improvement Academy (QIA) alumni, the Weill Department of Medicine’s (WDOM) Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Committee (QIPS), NewYork-Presbyterian Nursing, and the Weill Cornell Medicine Housestaff Quality Council. Four projects from the Department of Medicine, Pediatrics, Pharmacy, and Nursing received special distinctions based on their rigorous methodology, innovative approach, and sustained impact on patient care.
Pictured left to right: Dr. Robert Kim, Dr. Cecilia Nicol, Bryan Keane, Dr. Stephanie Sirna, Dr. Maeve Ward, Dr. Anna Alperovich, Dr. Jennifer Lee
The event also celebrated QIA's ninth graduating class of 15 physicians and nurses from six clinical departments. The Class of 2025 graduates from the Department of Medicine presented their projects earlier in the day at Grand Rounds. Congratulations to Drs. Anna Alperovich (Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology), Cecilia E. W. Nicol (Division of General Internal Medicine), Stephanie Sirna (Division of General Internal Medicine) with her Co-PI Bryan Keane(NYP-Department of Nursing) and Maeve Ward (Division of General Internal Medicine).
Dr. Jennifer I. Lee, Director of QIA, expressed thanks to the Department Chairs and institutional leaders for supporting their faculty in this year's QIA class: Drs. Myles Wolf (Weill Department of Medicine), Sallie Permar (Department of Pediatrics), Rahul Sharma (Department of Emergency Medicine), Laura Riley (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology), Robert Min (Department of Radiology), Stephen J. Peterson (Department of Medicine/ NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital), Pramod Narula and Bruce Greenwald (Department of Pediatrics/NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital), Joan Halpern (Vice President/Chief Nursing Officer, NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center and Ambulatory Care Network - East), and German Rodriguez (Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer/NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, QIA Class of 2022). Congratulations to the QIA Class of 2025 for their remarkable achievements and for joining our community of now over 100 QIA alumni!
Thank you to all who attended the May 21st celebration of quality improvement and to all those committed to making care better every day.