Shobha L. Rao, MD
Candidate for Midwest SGIM Secretary/Treasurer -elect
PERSONAL STATEMENT
I would like to introduce myself. My name is Shobha Rao. I am currently an academic hospitalist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL, where I have had the privilege to practice for the last 11 years. During my years at Rush, I have been primarily a general medicine ward and co-management attending. My interests lie in medical education and QI/safety and I have been fortunate to be able to bridge the two as the assistant IM clerkship director. During this time, I have developed an M3 QI/safety curriculum and am now part of a taskforce to develop a longitudinal QI/safety thread throughout the 4 years. As an offshoot of this, I co-created our hospitalist quarterly patient safety conference which has been exciting because it has led to a few important QI/safety initiatives at our institution, including our promising whiteboard initiative, which has improved our patient and inter-professional communication at RUMC.
SGIM, at the regional and national level, has provided me with so many benefits over the last 5 years I have been a member. I have formed mentor-mentee relationships, opportunities for scholarships which included presenting posters and facilitating workshops, and collaborations with other motivated and innovative SGIM members. I also have the honor to be one of the associate editors of SGIM Forum, which happened because of the connections I was able to make at a national meeting. This engagement in this organization inspires me to engage in activism, not only at an institutional level, but also on a national stage. At the national meeting in May, my heart was warmed by the number of our members turned out on a national stage at the “March for Science” march. It is what has drawn me to stay engaged in this community of physicians committed to the compassionate care of patients, advocacy, and education. The ethos of SGIM speaks to my own commitment to patient care, communication and improvement in the quality of care we deliver to patients. I would be very excited and honored to be part of the leadership of Midwest SGIM and have a voice in the growth of SGIM.
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EDUCATION
1993 –1997 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
B.A. Biology, Concentration in Cell and Molecular Biology
1998 – 2002 University of Illinois College of Medicine, Peoria, Illinois
M.D. May 2002
2002 – 2006 William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan
Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Chief Pediatric Resident, Department of Pediatrics
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Assistant Professor, Assistant Attending, Hospitalist
HONORS AND AWARDS
2013 RUMC “Hero of the Heart” Award
2014 Rush University Hospitalists “Excellence in Medical Student Teaching”
2015 Rush University Hospitalist “Excellence in Clinic Care” Award
2015 RUMC “Patient Satisfaction Star” Award
TEACHING
2007-2017 Assistant Core Clerkship Director in Internal Medicine
- Lectures/teaching sessions provided to M3 students on the third year IM clerkship twice weekly
- Co-Developed simulation/clinical reasoning/safety curriculum for M3 IM clerkship students
- Developed an M3 safety curriculum
2006 - present Assistant Professor/Assistant Attending in Internal Medicine
- General Medical Ward Attending
- Co-developed an intern handoff curriculum
2015 - present Rush Medical College Faculty Advisor
2015 – present Hospitalist Patient Safety Conference Director
- Co-created a quarterly QI/safety conference for the hospitalist groups that have led to multiple QI/safety initiatives in the hospital
SCIENTIFIC AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
2017 “The Whiteboard Initiative – Improving Patient and Multidisciplinary
Communication” Rao, S, Priede, L, Mateo, R, Drunasky, M
- SGIM, Washington, DC, 2017
- International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, London, 2017
2016 - present Associate Editor, SGIM Forum
2016 - 2017 Irwin Press Patient Experience Grant for the “Whiteboard
Initiative”
- A multidisciplinary project to improve patient communication and interprofessional Communication
- Provided with Health Sciences Management Student for data collection and statistical analysis for one year
2016 “For the Story,” Narrative Medicine Workshop, SGIM National Meeting
- Co-facilitator
2016 “The patient who coughed up a Lung, “ Zhao, X,MD, Rao, S, MD
- presented at ACP, 2016
- presented at SGIM, 2016
2016 “Championing the Cause – An Innovative Student Led Curriculum, “ Gupta, S, Rao, S, Dutta, S, Gimbel, L, Tucker, H
- presented at CGEA, 2016
- presented at International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, Sweden and Singapore, 2016
2015 Midwest SGIM
- Oral presentation on handoff curriculum
- Workshop on handoff curriculum for interns
- Workshop on bedside teaching
2014 Quality and Safety Educators Academy Participant
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Rao, Shobha Book Chapter “Perioperative Medication Management,” Common Surgical Diseases: An Algorithmic Approach to Problem Solving, 3rd edition (editors: Theodore J. Saclarides, Keith W. Millikan, Jonathan A. Myers)