Associate Chief Medical Officer, Clinical Optimization and Revenue Integrity
Loyola University Medical Center
Aziz Ansari, DO, SFHM, FAAHPM, FACP is a Professor of Medicine and is the Associate Chief Medical Officer for Clinical Optimization and Revenue Integrity at Loyola University Medical Center. He graduated from Midwestern University and completed his residency training at Loyola University Medical Center. He is a practicing and board-certified hospitalist and palliative care physician. His responsibilities include utilization management (UM), clinical documentation improvement (CDI), care management, inpatient clinical operations, length of stay reduction, overseeing unit medical directors, developing the physician advisor program and incorporating palliative medicine in care delivery for patients with serious illness.
Dr. Ansari has over a decade of speaking and teaching experience and lectures frequently on the impact hospital medicine has on the mid-revenue cycle, the role of primary palliative care in improving health care delivery, primary communication skills in serious illness, opioid prescribing, and the role of cultural humility in challenging one's implicit biases at the bedside. Specifically, this has led to the development of a bedside pocket tool and publications addressing cultural humility in patient care and leadership. Lastly, Dr. Ansari has several years of leadership experience in developing primary palliative care training conferences for healthcare executives and clinicians.
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