In this episode of the Compass HQIC Network Podcast series, health care providers will learn how to avoid adverse drug events (ADE) through appropriate medication reconciliation. The duration of this episode is less than 20 minutes.
The speaker, Steve Tremain, MD, is a physician improvement advisor at Cynosure Health. Dr. Tremain has been board certified in family medicine for 35 years and is now retired from clinical practice. He worked as a hospital-based clinician and teacher and served as Chief Medical Officer for a large integrated public hospital system for more than 20 years. Dr. Tremain was the executive sponsor for improvement teams that were awarded mentor status by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in the areas of medication reconciliation, rapid response teams and ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Currently Dr. Tremain works as a national and international improvement advisor and serves as the national clinical lead for the Convergenc/Cynosure HQIC efforts to reduce hospital-based harm due to ADEs. Previously, he helped lead AHA/HRET's efforts to reduce ADEs from 2012-2019. In addition, he teachers and consults regarding the culture of safety, process reliability, leadership and physician engagement throughout the United States and Canada.
Dr. Tremain is a Certified Physician Executive and a Fellow of the American College of Physician Executives. He received his medical degree from the UCLA School of Medicine.