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Director of Hospital Medicine Research
University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Dr. Vaughn is a practicing hospitalist, an Assistant Professor of Medicine (tenure track), and the Director of Hospital Medicine Research in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Her research focuses on improving the safety of hospitalized patients with common infections, particularly pneumonia and urinary tract infection. To do so, she has focused on combating diagnostic error and overuse, particularly antibiotic overuse at transitions of care. As a practicing hospitalist, Dr. Vaughn work to understand the role hospitalists play in inappropriate antibiotic prescribing related to common infections. These interests span various areas, including understanding drivers and appropriateness of use, physician decision-making and cognitive error, organizational culture. Dr. Vaughn has had three grants through the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to develop and test measures to improve diagnosis of infections in hospitalized patients and a K08 Career Development Award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to improve antibiotic prescribing at transitions of care. She has authored over 50 peer-reviewed papers including in JAMA, BMJ, JAMA Internal Medicine, and Annals of Internal Medicine. She also serves as hospitalist lead for the Antimicrobial Use Initiative within the Hospital Medicine Safety Consortium (HMS) which helps hospitals use their own data to improve the care of patients with infection. As Director of Hospital Medicine research at the University of Utah, Dr. Vaughn is building a research mentorship program to improve the care of hospitalized patients. Dr. Vaughn also serve on multiple national committees, including the Society of Hospital Medicine’s Research Committee, the IDSA/ATS CAP guidelines, and IDSA Respiratory Tract Infection steering group, and SHEAs diagnostic stewardship taskforce.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
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