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Our MATCH Team

Prepared by:
Kristine M. Gleason, R.Ph.
Research Pharmacist Coordinator, Quality and Patient Safety
Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Molly R. McDaniel, PharmD
Research Pharmacist Coordinator, Quality and Patient Safety
Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Gerard Castro, MPH
Project Director, International Center for Patient Safety
The Joint Commission

Contributors:
Cynthia Barnard, MBA, MSJS, CPHQ
Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Mary Lou Green, MHA
Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Nancy Kupka, DNSc, MPH, RN
The Joint Commission

David Liebovitz, MD
Northwestern Memorial Hospital; Northwestern University

David Liss, BA
Northwestern University

Denise Rooney, RN, BSN, OCN
Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Principal Investigator:
Gary A. Noskin, MD
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Grant No. 5 U18 HS015886
 Northwestern University, Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) and The Joint Commission.

Acknowledgements:
 We acknowledge the support of AHRQ (grant no. 5 U18 HS015886) and our AHRQ Project Officer, Robert Borotkanics. We would like to thank the MATCH Team, NMH Medication Reconciliation DMAIC Team and Medication Reconciliation Leadership Team for their support and participation. We would also like to thank the NMH Patient Safety Team for their support, and NMH Internet Strategies for their assistance. We thank Katie Dejuras, Kate Paredes and Marilyn Szekendi for their helpful comments, and Roger LaHayne for providing medication reconciliation coach support. Lastly, we acknowledge Stephanie Kitt, Jennifer Sayers and the Clinical Information Systems Team for their assistance from a technology perspective.

Additional MATCH Team Members:

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
 Gary A. Noskin, MD - Principal Investigator
David W. Baker, MD, MPH
Joseph Feinglass, PhD
Lee Lindquist, MD, MPH
Chalie Zei, BA

The Joint Commission
 Richard Croteau, MD
Mary Fialkowski, MBA
Jerod Loeb, PhD

For more information regarding the organizations involved in this toolkit, please visit the following websites:

Northwestern Memorial Hospital
http://www.nmh.org/nmh/aboutus/main.htm

Northwestern University
http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/about/index.html

Northwestern University Institute for Healthcare Studies
http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/ihs/program-centers/index.html

Northwestern University Center for Patient Safety
http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/ihs/program-centers/cps/index.html

The Joint Commission
http://www.jointcommission.org/


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