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Second Annual International Improvement Science Symposium Paris 2012

We invite you to the Second Annual International Improvement Science Symposium presented by the BMJ Group and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in partnership with the Health Foundation.

The 2012 International Improvement Science Symposium offers a unique opportunity to link research and action. Researchers benefit from discussions with field improvement professionals (CEOs, quality managers, doctors, and other health professionals) to identify relevant research questions; and conversely, field professionals are provided the opportunity to participate in reflection on evidence-based innovations. The program will feature several keynote presentations from international experts who will address provocative and topical subjects.

The Aims of the International Improvement Science Symposium are to:

1. Create the opportunity for research teams to connect and share their work
2. Enhance the visibility of good research for Forum delegates
3. Offer researchers the opportunity to identify the burning research questions from improvement experts attending the Forum
4. Contribute to innovation in healthcare improvement research by providing a unique setting:

• For young scholars to test their work in the presence of senior researchers
• To test innovations that might seed the larger Forum agenda
• To test innovative research meeting processes

Keynote speakers include:

Mary Dixon-Woods

Mary Dixon-Woods BA DipStat MSc DPhil is Professor of Medical Sociology at the Department of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leicester, UK, where she leads the Social Science Applied to Healthcare Improvement Research Group. A graduate of the University of Oxford, her research focuses on application of social science method and theory to important problems in healthcare. She has special interests in healthcare improvement and patient safety, healthcare ethics, and methods for synthesising diverse forms of evidence.

Mary's research programme is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Medical Research Council, the Department of Health, the Health Foundation, Wellcome Trust, and others. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, one book and five book chapters. Mary is an associate editor of BMJ Quality and Safety, co-editor of Chronic Illness, and a member of the editorial boards for three further journals. She is Deputy Chair of the Wellcome Trust’s Expert Review Group on Ethics and Society, and a member of the NIHR Health Services Research panel. She is a former member of the Medical Research Council's Methodology Research Programme, the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Programme for the East Midlands, the NIHR Programme for Applied Research, and the Hope Foundation.

Mary won the University of Leicester's Frank May prize 2005 in recognition of research excellence. Queen Mary, University of London, awarded her a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship in 2007 to pursue research on public trust in medical research - the only UK fellow in that year. She held a fellowship under the ESRC's Public Services Programme (2008-2009) to study regulation of doctors. Mary was elected as an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2011. She has been a member of the Health Foundation's Improvement Science Network since 2010.

Programme

Delegates will be invited to the International Forum welcome reception immediately following the Science Symposium.

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