Awards & Honors

The 7th Annual Michigan Summit on Quality Improvement & Patient Safety

2022 Winners of Live Stream Slide Presentations
1st Place Resident Certificate $500	Alaa Taha, MD, PGY 1 Overutilization of Amylase and Lipase Testing in Acute Pancreatitis Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital
2nd Place Resident Award Certificate $400	Mohammed Ershad, MBBS, PGY 2 Prescribing inhaled corticosteroids to patients with acute asthma exacerbation discharged from the Emergency Department Detroit Medical Center
3rd Place Resident Award Certificate $300	Verisha Khanam, MD, PGY 3 Improving Resident Error Reporting – A Qi Initiative Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital
QI Scholar Award Certificate $500	Jacob Im, MD Development of a Post-Graduate QI Curriculum; A Tale of Two Cases Kresge Eye Institute, Wayne State University School of Medicine

2022 Winners of Voice-Over PowerPoint Presentations
1st Place Resident Certificate $250	Striving For Early Discharges by Streamlining the Coordination and Staff Medicine Team Efficiency: High-Value Care-Patient Care Basel Abdalazeem, MD, PGY 2 McLaren Flint Faculty Sponsor: Kavitha Kesari, MD, MS, FACP
2nd Place Resident Award Certificate $200	Standardizing Treatment of Inpatient Asymptomatic Hypertension: A QI Initiative Trishya Reddy, MD, PGY 2 Ascension Providence, Wayne State University Internal Medicine Faculty Sponsor: Vesna Tegeltija, MD, MBA
3rd Place Resident Award Certificate $150 (Tied)	Reducing Surgical Site Infections After Cesarean Birth in Obese Patients Using a Post-Operative Abdominal Pannus Retractor: A QI Project Jessica Montgomery, MD, PGY 2 St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor Faculty Sponsor: Brian Popp, MD
3rd Place Resident Award Certificate $150 (Tied)	Improving ICU Transition of Care: A QI Initiative David Samrah, MD, PGY 1 Ascension Providence Rochester, Wayne State University Internal Medicine Faculty Sponsor: Zain Kulari, MD
1st Place Fellow Award Certificate $250	A Performance Improvement Initiative Targeting Adherence to Sepsis Power Plan and Surviving Sepsis Campaign 2021 Guidelines Anas Riehani, MD, Fellow Wayne State University School of Medicine Faculty Sponsor: Zahia Esber, MD
Honorable Mention	Impact of a Quality Improvement Initiative on Naloxone Co-Prescription for Patients on Opioids in a Primary Care Clinic Jamila Asif, MBBS, PGY 2 Beaumont Hospital Dearborn Faculty Sponsor: Insaf Mohamma, PharmD, BCACP
Honorable Mention	Improvement for Dysphagia Screen Compliance as part of ED Code Stroke Performance Metrics at Henry Ford Macomb Thomas Leitzsch, DO, PGY 3 Henry Ford Macomb Hospital Faculty Sponsor: Jason Muir, DO

17th Annual Excellence in Medical Education Leadership Award

The Excellence in Medical Education Leadership Award is given to recognize those individuals with outstanding contributions and unwavering commitment to the success of SEMCME.

Robert Dodds, MD

Program Director;
OB/GYN Residency Program, Ascension Health – Michigan Providence Southfield/Novi Hospitals

Associate Clinical Professor, Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Adjunct Clinical Professor, American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine

Lawrence R. Fischetti, PhD

Director of Behavioral Science
Family Medicine Residency Program,
Beaumont Hospital-Wayne

Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Family Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine

Honoring Allen Silbergleit, MD, Phd

SEMCME is saddened by the loss of one of its founders, Allen Silbergleit, MD, PhD. Dr. Silbergleit was an extraordinary contributor to our organization and the greater medical community. He will be missed.

Trustee Emeritus
March 8, 1928 – October 23, 2021

Founding Participant – Oakland Health Education Program (OHEP)
OHEP Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Medical Education, July 2003
Founding Member of SEMCME
Chairman Emeritus of Surgery Committee
Developed SEMCME surgery course curriculum
Annual Resident Research Forum – sponsorship of multiple award-winning residen
The Allen Silbergleit, MD, PhD Annual Lecture in Medicine and Surgery