Presenter

Julie K. Johnson, MSPH, PhD is a Research Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an Associate Chair of Quality in the Department of Surgery. Her career interests involve building a series of collaborative relationships to improve the quality and safety of health care through teaching, research, and clinical improvement. She uses qualitative methods to study processes of care with the ultimate goals of translating theory into practice, assess local QI readiness and local contextual adaptations, create patient and provider tools to facilitate implementation, and coordinate data collection for rapid cycle learning. As a teacher, Dr. Johnson has a special interest in developing and using serious games to engage learners around important concepts related to understanding and improving the quality and safety of healthcare.