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About Us
Dr. Render is Director of the VA Getting at Patient Safety (GAPS) Center, funded to advance safety in healthcare. The GAPS Center has as its focus creating learning in order to advance a safety culture and understanding and improving tools that support technical work and safety in healthcare. In addition, she is an intensivist and health services researcher at the University of Cincinnati and the VA Healthcare System of Ohio. Her current interests are improving quality in the intensive care unit, creating components of a patient safety culture, and in patient safety broadly. Dr. Render is a member of ATS, and board certified in Internal Medicine, Critical Care and Pulmonary. Dr. Render participates in both local safety efforts in Cincinnati including development with the Greater Cincinnati Health Coalition a Patient Safety Collaborative that includes most healthcare organizations in the greater Cincinnati area, and the University of Cincinnati Patient Safety Workgroup. She has evaluated national VA software programs and implemented scenario based usability testing for the Office of Information at the VA. Her funded research interests have included development of an automated ICU severity of illness model using the VA database with the long-range goal of advancing quality of ICU care, evaluating healthcare costs within the Department of Veterans Affairs, analysis of new paths to failure with bar coding, and usability of Reminders in the VA computer system. Dr. Render and the GAPS Center have actively been developing reproducible strategies to create components of a patient safety culture using VISN 10 as a test environment.
E-Mail: marta.render@va.gov
Phone: (513) 475-6366
Fax: (513) 487-6691
Mailing address:
Cincinnati VA Medical Center
3200 Vine Street ML 111
Cincinnati, OH 45220
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