Pranavi V. Sreeramoju is passionate about improving healthcare delivery for all patients. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine – Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA. She serves as a physician leader who bridges clinical services and financial departments by championing financial efforts among clinicians and helping financial experts develop strategies that are meaningful from a clinical perspective. She has also served as healthcare epidemiologist and Chief of Infection Prevention at Parkland Health and Hospital System and for 3 years at UT Health in San Antonio. In these roles, she oversaw programs to prevent healthcare-associated infections in large complex academic healthcare systems and demonstrated improvement in patient outcomes while managing institutional risk, establishing training rotations and research infrastructures to support healthcare epidemiology. Her research interests include epidemiology of infections associated with healthcare, socioadaptive approaches including positive deviance, and healthcare finance. She received her medical degree from Jawaharlal Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education and Research in Puducherry, India, and received her fellowship training in infectious diseases at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She obtained an MPH in epidemiology from Tulane University, New Orleans, and an MBA in healthcare organizational leadership from Naveen Jindal School of Management, UT Dallas. She has received multiple awards including the ‘Top 50 leaders in Patient Safety in 2015’ by Becker’s Hospital Review and she is the recipient of Judene Bartley Award for Public Policy and Advocacy in 2015 jointly awarded by the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America and the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. She has mentored several residents, fellows, and students during her career. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed medical journals. She loves blogging, traveling and reading.
Stephen Weber is the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President for Clinical Excellence at the University of Chicago Medicine. In this capacity he oversees clinical quality, patient safety and value-based care for the academic health system. He previously served as Chief Healthcare Epidemiologist and Medical Director of Infection Control at Chicago. A Professor of Medicine in the Section of Infectious Diseases and Global Health, he continues to see patients in both the inpatient and ambulatory settings.
Dr. Weber’s original research focus was the prevention and management of infection caused by multi-drug resistant organisms among hospitalized patients. He later examined public policy and regulation related to infection control and served for a decade as the Chair of Public Policy and Government Affairs for the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
In his current role, Dr. Weber has developed and supported programs focused on clinician engagement and high reliability practice with a goal to achieving perfect care.
Alexis Snyder is a Patient Family Advisor and Patient Engagement Specialist. As a parent of an adolescent with complex medical needs, Snyder has a unique perspective on healthcare delivery and the systems of care available to patients today, especially those with medical complexity. She is a strong advocate, advisor and facilitator who lends her talents to several regional and national organizations and advisory panels, to promote patient centered care and research, such as the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and the Health Information and Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC) of the Office of the National Coordinator. Snyder provides a family voice to the planning and development, and implementation and evaluation of policies, programs and research that affect the quality of care and services delivered to patients and their families. Threw consultation and workshops Snyder provides best practice strategies for authentic engagement to assure the patient and family voice, as well as the voice of the greater community and the underserved, is always present and well represented. Snyder’s background includes work in a variety of health and human services related industries, such as community residences, long term care facilities and hospitals where she worked with diverse populations of patients and families. She and her daughter also work to spread awareness and understanding for invisible disabilities. Her blog series, Invisible Disabilities, has received global recognition. Additional publications include a co-authored article in JAMA Pediatrics: “What Parents of Children with Complex Medical Needs Want their Child’s Physicians to Understand.” Originally from Long Island, New York
