Education and Training

The Patient Safety Research Fellowship is designed to train medicine and pediatric clinician-researchers in innovative, interdisciplinary, and systems-based approaches for improving the safety, quality, and effectiveness of care. The fellowship is unique in its focus on hospital medicine and patient safety, providing clinician-researchers with the knowledge and skills to act as independent investigators and to lead patient safety and health services research. This program is a Ruth L. Kirschstein Institutional National Research Service Award funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). This hospital-focused research fellowship complements the division’s longstanding Primary Care Research Fellowship. 

Contact Information

For more information about the Patient Safety Research Fellowship, please contact the following:

I-Fong Sun Lehman, DrPH, MS
Director, Center for Patient Safety Research
isun1@cumc.columbia.edu

The Center for Patient Safety Research has secured a two-year research training program sponsored by New York State’s Department of Health, specifically, the Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program (ECRIP). This postdoctoral research training focuses on using Health IT to Identify and Prevent Patient Safety Hazards.  

This training program is designed to train junior faculty clinician-researchers in innovative, interdisciplinary, and systems-based approaches for improving the safety, quality, and effectiveness of care. It provides clinician-researchers with the knowledge and skills to pursue academic careers and become future leaders in hospital-based patient safety and health services research. It leverages the vast research resources available at Columbia University, including the Mailman School of Public Health and the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, as well as its affiliation with the NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. 

Contact Information

For more information about the Patient Safety Research Program, please contact the following:

I-Fong Sun Lehman, DrPH, MS
Director, Center for Patient Safety Research
isun1@cumc.columbia.edu

The Center for Patient Safety Research is a growing team that has made major contributions to patient safety science, and continues to apply rigorous research methods to measure medical errors and evaluate the impact of patient safety interventions. The Center for Patient Safety Research is seeking Columbia University Irving Medical Center House Staff (“Scholars”) with a strong interest in patient safety to join us for a research elective. Over the course of this elective, Scholars will have the opportunity to develop their own patient safety research project or contribute to ongoing patient safety research projects, examine existing data sets to answer salient research questions, work with experienced researchers, statisticians, and programmers, and author or co-author a manuscript for publication. 

Contact Information

For more information about the Patient Safety Research Elective, please contact the following:

I-Fong Sun Lehman, DrPH, MS
Director, Center for Patient Safety Research
isun1@cumc.columbia.edu

Systems, Leadership, Integration, and Management (SLIM) is a unique program designed to provide Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S) medical students with the background, knowledge, and essential problem-solving skills to become agents of health system transformation. Jason Adelman, MD, MS, Executive Director of Patient Safety Research, Chief Patient Safety Officer, and Associate Chief Quality Officer at NYP/Columbia University Irving Medical Center is the faculty adviser for the SLIM program. The SLIM Summer Patient Safety Research Intensive is a 10-week program where Columbia University medical students have the opportunity to develop patient safety research projects or contribute to ongoing projects, examine existing data sets to answer salient research questions, work with experienced researchers, statisticians, and programmers, and co-author a manuscript for publication. SLIM Summer Patient Safety Research Students have the opportunity to receive a $3,500 stipend for the summer. 

Contact Information

For more information about the SLIM Summer Patient Safety Research Intensive, please contact the following:

I-Fong Sun Lehman, DrPH, MS
Director, Center for Patient Safety Research
isun1@cumc.columbia.edu

Scholarly Projects in Patient Safety present Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S) medical students a unique opportunity to expand their knowledge and skill set for conducting patient safety and health services research. Students interested in a Scholarly Project with the Center for Patient Safety Research will have the opportunity to join an existing patient safety research project, or develop a new project based on a recent adverse event, root cause analysis, or patient safety hazard observed during a clinical rotation. Students commit to 4 months of working on their project; the first 2 months (and preferably 3 months) need to be consecutive so students can be immersed in the team and project, under the supervision of Jason Adelman, MD, MS, Executive Director of Patient Safety Research, Chief Patient Safety Officer, and Associate Chief Quality Officer at NYP/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. The remaining months will be used for data analysis and writing a Capstone and possible research paper.

Contact Information

For more information about the Scholarly Projects in Patient Safety, please contact the following:

I-Fong Sun Lehman, DrPH, MS
Director, Center for Patient Safety Research
isun1@cumc.columbia.edu