Please join us for Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday, July 11, 2014 for the presentation titled:

“Electronic Medical Records, Physician Stress and the Journey Towards Balance”

By

Stewart Babbott, MD, FACP

Professor of Medicine

University of Kansas Medical Center

Kansas City, KS

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Auditorium E, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Co-sponsored by General Internal Medicine and the Department of Medicine

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Objectives – Participants will be able to:

1. Review results from the Minimizing Errors, Maximizing Outcomes study and the secondary analysis on Electronic Medical Records and Physician Stress
2. Define the clinical and organizational levels at which to address these findings
3. Present approaches which can help address practice challenges

Stewart Babbott, MD, FACP

Dr. Babbott is the Director, Division of General and Geriatric Medicine and Professor of Medicine in the School of Medicine, at the University of Kansas. The Division of 60 faculty includes office based and hospital based internists, and subspecialty trained geriatrics physicians. The clinical services include academic and teaching hospital services, private and residency based office practice, geriatrics focused consultative and longitudinal care in the office and skilled facilities, and palliative care in the hospital as well as selected subspecialty offices.

Dr. Babbott’s clinical responsibilities are in office-based medicine with both private care and teaching medical students and residents. He is a core faculty member in the Internal Medicine Residency program. He is Vice-Chair for Community Outreach in the Department of Medicine, and has been involved with efforts around staffing a Federally Qualified Health Center which includes resident education. He is Chair of the Sub-Committee on Professionalism in the Graduate Medical Education Committee. He is one of two faculty members asked by the Dean, School of Medicine to represent the School in the AAMC’s new Council of Faculty and Academic Societies. Over 2013-2014 he is President of the Association of Chiefs and Leaders of General Internal Medicine, an organization affiliated with the Society of General Internal Medicine. Most recently, he has assumed the Chair of the newly developed Academy of Medical Educators in the School of Medicine at the University of Kansas. He is involved in the Kansas Chapter of the American College of Physicians as Chair of the Finance Committee.