Bruce Spurlock
April 16, 2018
|By Sketchbook
Education:
- Bachelors of Arts in Economics (AB) – University of California, Berkeley
- Doctor of Medicine (MD) – University of California, Davis
Licensures/Certifications:
- Internal Medical Residence, Chief Resident – Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Santa Clara, CA
Recent Speaking Engagements:
- Healthcare Research and Educational Trust (HRET) National Collaborative, July 2013 “Making national initiatives a reality with physician leaders”
- National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) Annual Meeting, May 2013 “Reducing harm in the ICU and learning how to accelerate implementation”
- International High Reliability Organizing Conference, April 2013 “Organizational Change, HRO and Implications for Healthcare”, “Resilience, Variation and Standardization in Healthcare”
- American College of Physician Executives (ACPE) Annual Meeting, April 2013 “Engaging Physicians with Sticky Messages”
- National Pay-for-Performance Summit, February 2013 “Hospital Transparency and Performance Incentives: Will New CMS Initiatives make State and Regional Programs Obsolete?”
Committees (Past/Present):
- Safety Net Institute Board (SNI)
- California Nursing Outcomes Coalition Board (CalNOC)
- California Hospital Assessment and Reporting Task Force Board (CHART)
- California Quality Collaborative Executive Committee (CQC)
- Maternal Data Center Advisory Committee
- Stanford Center for Health Policy Stakeholders Advisory Committee
Recent Publications/Reviews:
- Kathleen M. Carrothers, MPH; Juliana Barr, MD, FCCM; Bruce Spurlock, MD; M. Susan Ridgely, JD; Cheryl L. Damberg, PhD; E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH: Issues Influencing Implementation and Outcomes Associated with an Integrated Approach to Managing Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in Adult ICUs (Accepted for Pubilcation 2013)
- Pedroja A, Blegen M, Abravanel R, Spurlock B: Two Approaches for Measuring Harm in Hospitals. (Accepted for Publication 2013).
- Measure for Measure: Analyzing California Hospital Characteristics and Performance; California HealthCare Foundation; December 2008
- Sebat F, Musthafa AA, Johnson D, Kramer A, Shoffner D, Eliason M, Henry K, Spurlock B: Effect of a rapid response system for patients in shock on time to treatment and mortality during 5 years. Crit. Care Med. 2007; 35(11):2568-2575
- Legislating Medication Safety: The California Experience; California HealthCare Foundation; October 2003
- Spurlock B, Teske P, Abravanel R, DeBaun B, Carrothers K: Faster and Further: Accelerating Improvement with the BEACON Collaborative. (Submitted)
Past Work:
- BEACON San Francisco Bay Area Patient Safety Collaborative – Executive Director
- California Healthcare Association (CHA) – Executive Vice President
- The Permanente Medical Group, Inc. – Senior Physician in Internal Medicine