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QA Process & QA Committee
Trust your patients and your reputation to vRad.
vRad strives to maintain the highest professional standards for its consulting radiologists by employing a stringent quality management protocol. The protocol is under the direction of vRad’s Chief Medical Officer, but is implemented on a day-to-day basis by its Quality Assurance (QA) Review Committee. The QA Committee is comprised of practicing vRad radiologists selected to ensure a complete cross section of subspecialty training in all aspects of radiology.
Know your risk.
How vRad delivers critical detail.
vRad’s 5-point rating scale:
1 = A missed finding with no significant clinical consequences or required follow-up.
2 = A typical missed finding causing a delay in diagnosis but no significant adverse acute patient outcomes.
3 = A missed finding with a significant affect on acute patient management.
4 = Conspicuous missed finding of life-threatening significance to patient management.
5 = Gross negligence.
How vRad enhances the standard.
vRad supplements our 5-point scale with an ADDITIONAL 3-points that deliver a level of detail better defining discrepancies in terms of patient outcomes:
A = acute change in care
B = chronic change in care
C = no change in care
vRad’s QA process is changing the paradigm of quality care and the services you provide to patients; giving you more accurate and actionable discrepancy analysis.
Quality Assurance Committee Members
Eduard Michel, MD, PhD
- Undergraduate Education: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Medical Degree: University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Graduate School: Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Residency: Diagnostic Radiology, University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinic, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Fellowship: Neuroradiology, Fairview-University of Minnesota Medical Center; Philips Interventional MR, Fairview-University of Minnesota Medical Center
- Board Certifications: American Board of Radiology, CAQ Neuroradiology
- Academic Experience: 1998-Present: Assistant Professor of Radiology, Neuroradiology, University of Minnesota Medical School and 2003-Present: Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Minnesota Medical School
Steven Brick, MD
- Undergraduate Education: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
- Medical Degree: Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
- Internship: Internal Medicine, The State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York
- Residency: Diagnostic Radiology, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia
- Chief Resident: The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia
- Fellowship: CT/US/MR, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Board Certification: American Board of Radiology
- Academic Experience: Assistant Professor of Radiology, Division of Body Imaging, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia
Gary Weiss, MD
- Undergraduate Education:State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
- Medical Degree: University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida
- Residency: Diagnostic Radiology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
- Fellowship: MRI/Musculoskeletal, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial, Miami, Florida
- Board Certifications: American Board of Radiology
- Academic Experience: 1986-1987: Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of South Florida - Tampa, Florida
Julie Shaffrey, MD
- Undergraduate Education: The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
- Medical Degree: The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
- Internship: Sinai Hospital, Baltimore, MD
- Residency: Diagnostic Radiology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
- Board Certification: American Board of Radiology
Ben Strong, MD
- Undergraduate Education: University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
- Medical Degree: University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona
- Internship: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire
- Residencies: Internal Medicine, Dartmouth- Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, and Diagnostic Radiology, Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona
- Fellowship: PET, MRI, Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona
- Board Certifications: American Board of Radiology, American Board of Internal Medicine
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