Mark e. splaine, md, ms is the founder and managing director of Eduhealth llc.
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Background
Dr. Splaine is an accomplished education and administrative leader with 19 years of experience as a designer, implementer, and evaluator of innovative, interprofessional classroom, online, and blended programs using multiple technologies to enhance the learning experience. His education experience includes creating, implementing, assessing, and continually improving educational offerings for learners that promote developing knowledge and skills for improving the quality and safety of care for individuals and communities. This work involves understanding how individuals can learn together and from one another, as well as how to best incorporate different educational technologies and assessments to promote learning for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Africa.
Dr. Splaine's research and implementation experience includes developing and studying opportunities to incorporate the use of measurement, analytic methods, and collaborative learning to enhance practice in health care and public health settings. The major goals of this work are to make statistics more easily understandable and useful; to develop practical methods to measure clinical processes and outcomes that can be incorporated into care settings; to teach about how health professionals can use continuous quality improvement as a way to enhance their practice and the value they provide to individuals and communities; and to study models of collaborative learning that enhance health outcomes. This work includes projects in the U.S., U.K., Europe, and Africa.
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Education & Training
Master’s in Evaluative Clinical Science at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (1994-1996)
Ambulatory Care Fellow in Internal Medicine at Veterans Administration Medical Center, White River Junction, VT (1994-1996)
Resident in General Internal Medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH (1991-1994)
Doctor of Medicine with honors at Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH (1987-1991)
Bachelor of Arts in Biochemical Sciences cum laude at Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (1982-1986)
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Selection of recent publications
Bazos DA, Ayres LaFave LR, Suresh G, Shannon KC, Nuwaha F, Splaine ME. The gas cylinder, the motorcycle and the village health team member: A proof of concept study for the use of the Microsystems Quality Improvement Approach to strengthen the routine immunization system in Uganda. Implementation Science. 2015; 10:30 (8 March 2015).
Brown JR, Solomon RJ, Sarnak MJ, McCullough PA, Splaine ME, Davies L, Ross CS, Dauerman HL, Stender JL, Conley SM, Robb JF, Chaisson K, Boss R, Lambert P, Goldberg DJ, Lucier D, Fedele FA, Kellett MA, Horton S, Phillips WJ, Downs C, Wiseman A, MacKenzie TA, Malenka DJ for the Northern New England Cardiovascular Disease Study Group. Reducing contrast-induced acute kidney injury using a regional multicenter quality improvement intervention. Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. 2014; 7:1-8. doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.114.000903.
Patrician PA, Dolansky MA, Pair V, Bates M, Moore SM, Splaine M, Gilman SC. The Veterans Affairs National Quality Scholars program: a model for interprofessional education in quality and safety. J Nurs Care Qual. 2013; 28(1):24-32. doi: 10.1097/NCQ.0b013e3182678f41.
Kirkland KB, Homa KA, Lasky RA, Ptak JA, Taylor EA, Splaine ME. Impact of a hospital-wide hand hygiene initiative on healthcare-associated infections: results of an interrupted time series. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012; 21(12):1019-26. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2012-000800. Epub 2012 Jul 21.
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