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Kedar Mate, MD, Chief Innovation and Education Officer, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), oversees the development of innovative new systems designs to implement high-quality, low-cost health care both in the US and in international settings. An internal medicine physician, Dr. Mate is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill-Cornell Medical College and a Research Associate at Harvard Medical School's Division of Global Health Equity. His current research activities include improving population management, behavioral health integration, health equity, addressing complex needs patients, and ambulatory patient safety. Dr. Mate serves as a senior advisor to IHI's programs in the US, Asia, and the Middle East and he serves as an IHI principal investigator on multiple research awards. Previously he worked with Partners In Health, served as a special assistant to the Director of the HIV/AIDS Department at the World Health Organization, and led IHI's national program in South Africa. Dr. Mate has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and white papers and he has delivered keynote speeches in forums all over the world.
Kavita P. Bhavan, MD, MHS, holds the titles of Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases, UT Southwestern; Service Chief Infectious Diseases, Parkland Health &Hospital System; and Medical Director, Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Clinic and Infectious Diseases Ambulatory Clinics, Parkland Health & Hospital System, Dallas, Texas. Dr. Bhavan's current research focuses on "self-care models" for patients discharged from the hospital to receive outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) to treat a variety of infections requiring extended courses of therapy. While many patients in the US with insurance are discharged into traditional OPAT settings including visiting home health service, infusion center or nursing home, uninsured patients often remain in the hospital to compete their treatment. Dr. Khavan's team developed a unique model whereby patients with low literacy levels were taught and trained to self-administer their own IV antibiotics by gravity at home and published on clinical outcomes. Researchers are now looking at the collateral impact of this self-care model on chronic disease states/comorbid conditions.
Alex Anderson is a research associate with IHI's Innovation Team, a founder of IHI's Diversity and Inclusion Council, and a lead of IHI's internal equity team. His innovation work focuses on identifying solutions to problems involving disparate segments of complex systems. Mr. Anderson also works to improve IHI's operations, processes, and culture to increase equity for all staff. He received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where his studies concentrated on Business and Public Policy as well as Operations Information Management Systems.
