Join a panel of experts from the ASHP Foundation Research Advisory Council as they discuss similarities and differences between improvement and implementation science and how to incorporate rigor in projects to expand dissemination opportunities and practice change.
SHOW REFERENCES & RESOURCES
- Revised Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence SQUIRE 2.0
- Explanation and elaboration of the SQUIRE (Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting Excellence) Guidelines, V.2.0: examples of SQUIRE elements in the healthcare improvement literature
- Improvement Science and Implementation Science in Cancer Care: Identifying Areas of Synergy and Opportunities for Further Integration
Francesca (Fran) Cunningham (she/her) is the associate chief consultant, PBM in the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Director of the VA Center for Medication Safety. Her program serves as VA’s comprehensive pharmacovigilance program with a major focus on drug and vaccine safety surveillance assessing the potential risks of new molecular entities or older agents with newly identified adverse events. 
Laney K. Jones (she/her) is the implementation sciences medical director at Amgen, Medical Affairs, US Medical. Jones received her PharmD from Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, Master of Public Health from Mailman School of Public Health, and Implementation Science certificate from the University of California San Francisco. She completed a K12 in implementation science at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on using implementation science to improve care delivery in cardiology and pharmacy. 
James M. Hoffman is the senior vice president for quality and safety and a faculty member in the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. Hoffman oversees St. Jude’s quality and safety programs and helps St. Jude conduct robust improvement projects to improve patient care. He is on a research team working to learn how to make care improvements more quickly across children’s hospitals. 
