American Association for Physician Leadership names Dr. Scott Ellner inaugural winner of Roger Schenke Award

The American Association for Physician Leadership has announced Scott Ellner, DO, has been awarded the inaugural Roger Schenke Award. The association presented Dr. Ellner the award at its annual meeting April 18 in Las Vegas.

The Roger Schenke Award, created in 2014 for the 40th anniversary of the association, honors select individuals for their vision, commitment and innovation in creating education and training programs to improve patient safety and enhance physician leadership. It is named after Roger Schenke, who founded the organization in 1975.

Dr. Ellner serves as president of the Saint Francis Medical Group, vice chairman of the department of surgery and director of surgical quality at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Conn. He played a key role in the founding of the Connecticut Surgical Quality Collaborative, a coalition of 22 Connecticut hospitals and three state medical groups that work together to improve patient safety by training perioperative teams to reduce errors and improve care.

As founder of the Saint Francis Surgical Quality Task Force, Dr. Ellner has implemented training for all perioperative teams and instituted evidence-based protocols to reduce risk of human error in St. Francis' operating rooms. Under his guidance, training sessions for multidisciplinary teams were developed using data and analysis from several years of operating room safety questionnaires and surveys on patient safety culture. These sessions have produced better communication both within and between teams, empowering them to "stop the line" whenever a potential threat to patient safety is encountered.

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