Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative
Working Together to Achieve Rapid and Sustained Improvement for Surgical Patients
Coordinating Center
Remi Love, MPPA
Project Manager
Lindsey Kreutzer, MPH
Project Manager
Meagan Shallcross, MPH
Research Project Manager
Brianna D’Orazio, BA, MPH
Project Manager
Kirsty Engelhardt, BA
Program Coordinator
Ying Shan, MS
Statistical Analyst
Reiping Huang, PhD
Research Associate
Nathan Monson, MS
Developer
Karen Miller, BS
Administrative Assistant
Eileen Ngo, MPH
Administrative Assistant
Erin Wymore, MS
Research Project Manager
Karl Bilimoria, MD, MS
Program Director
Anthony Yang, MD, MS
Associate Director
Julie Johnson, MSPH, PhD
Associate Director of Evaluation
David Bentrem, MD
Project Leader
Jeanette Chung, PhD
Statistician
Amy Halverson, MD
ACS Chapter Liaison
Yue-Yung Hu, MD, MPH
Project Leader
Michael McGee, MD
Project Leader
Ryan Merkow, MD, MS
Project Leader
Kevin O’Leary, MD
Project Leader
David Odell, MD, MMSc
Project Leader
Mehul Raval, MD
Project Leader
Jonah Stulberg, MD, PhD, MPH
Project Leader
Mark Williams, MD
Consultant
Caryn Etkin, PhD, MPH
Administrative Director
Process Improvement Leaders
Katie Dienes, MS, LSSBB
Process Improvement Leader
Mark Schumacher, MS
Process Improvement Leader
McKay Barra
Process Improvement Coach
Barb Buckley, RN, MS
Process Improvement Coach
Sara Howland, MA
Process Improvement Coach
Jorge Munoz, MS, MBA
Process Improvement Coach
Current Fellows
Rhami Khorfan, MD
2018-2020
MeiXi Ma, MD
2018-2020
Cary Schlick, MD
2018-2022
Tarik Yuce, MD
2018-2020
Lindsey Zhang, MD
2018-2020
Brian Brajcich, MD
2019-2021
Matthew Chia, MD
2019-2021
Martha-Conley Ingram, MD
2019-2021
Chelsea Fischer, MD
2019-2021
Past Fellows
Ryan Ellis, MD
2017-2019
Lina Hu, MD
2017-2019
Jessica Liu, MD
2017-2019
Julia Coughlin, MD
2017-2019
Eddie Blay, MD
2016-2018
Kathryn Engelhardt, MD
2016-2018
Daniel "Brock" Hewitt, MD
2016-2018
Kristen Ban, MD
2015-2017
Elizabeth Berger, MD
2014-2016
Julia Berian, MD
Christina Minami, MD
2014-2016
Mike Wandling, MD
2014-2016
Ravi Rajaram, MD
2013-2015