Vineet M. Arora
Arora speaks at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics in 2012
Alma materWashington University in St. Louis
Johns Hopkins University
AwardsElected Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine (2019)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago

Vineet M. Arora is an American medical researcher who is the Herbert T. Abelson Professor of Medicine and Dean for Medical Education at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine. Her research considers clinical medicine and medical education, with a focus on the improvement of the quality of care in teaching hospitals.

Early life and education

Arora studied biology at Johns Hopkins University and graduated in 1994.[1][2] She earned her medical degree at Washington University in St. Louis in 1998. She was a medical resident at the University of Chicago, where she specialised in internal medicine.[3] She was chief medical resident when the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education announced duty hours in 2003, and became interested in patient safety.[4] In 2001 she was made a house physician in Oak Park, Illinois.[5]

Research and career

Arora is an academic physician. She joined the faculty at the University of Chicago School of Medicine in 2005.[6] Her research considers ways to improve the education of medical students and, in turn, improve the quality of the care that physicians deliver to people in hospital. She has studied the sleep that patients get in hospital, and showed that hospitalised patients receive two hours less sleep a night than they would in the outside world.[7] This sleep loss can increase the risk of cardiometabolic challenges, such as high blood pressure. In 2016 Arora launched the Sleep for Inpatients: Empowering Staff to Act (SIESTA) clinical trial, which looks to support frontline staff in improving inpatient sleep.[7] SIESTA is an educational intervention that looks to train healthcare workers in recognising patient's lack of sleep.[8] As well as studying the sleep of patients, Arora has investigated the impact of on-duty napping on the fatigue of mental health workers.[9] As part of the study, Arora studied the patterns of first year medical residents at the Pritzker School of Medicine. The participants wore actiwatches, which recorded movement around hospitals, and were kept on schedules with and without scheduled naps. The medical residents who had scheduled naps reported considerably less fatigue.[10]

Alongside her research on sleep, Arora has worked on improving patient handovers;[11] emphasising the need for effective communication, making it clear who the most ill patient is, the development of standardised strategies and improve written and verbal handoffs.[12][13] In the annual meeting of the Society of Hospital Medicine, Arora pointed out that “In business and restaurants, they have to get the order right or you won't go back... and in medicine we have a culture of errors,”.[14] She has argued that whilst technology can be a great tool to improve a handover, over-reliance can cause significant errors.[15] In verbal handovers, departing physicians have the opportunity to share their clinical judgements, as well as identifying their most in-need patients.[15]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Arora called for governors to implement social distancing measures and stay at home orders, as well as providing healthcare workers with personal protective equipment (PPE) and appropriate healthcare.[16] In May 2020 it emerged that Vitamin D can reduce complications amongst patients with coronavirus disease.[17] She investigated the impact of Vitamin D treatment and testing positive for SARS-CoV-2.

Academic service

Arora serves as Dean and Associate Chief Medical Officer at the University of Chicago.[3] She is on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine.[18] An advocate for equity in healthcare, Arora joined the Time's Up healthcare movement in 2019.[19] She has campaigned for an end to the gender pay gap; where men receive considerably more than women for equal work.[20][21] In an analysis of 10,000 physician faculty members at twenty four medical schools in the United States, researchers identified that women surgeons earn $44,000 less than their male counterparts.[20] In 2018 Arora was named the University of Chicago Associate Chief Medical Officer for the clinical learning environment.[22] In 2020 she was made the Herb T. Abelson Professor of Medicine.[23]

Awards and honours

Selected publications

  • Hasan, Omar; Meltzer, David O.; Shaykevich, Shimon A.; Bell, Chaim M.; Kaboli, Peter J.; Auerbach, Andrew D.; Wetterneck, Tosha B.; Arora, Vineet M.; Zhang, James; Schnipper, Jeffrey L. (2010-03-01). "Hospital Readmission in General Medicine Patients: A Prediction Model". Journal of General Internal Medicine. 25 (3): 211–219. doi:10.1007/s11606-009-1196-1. ISSN 1525-1497. PMC 2839332. PMID 20013068.[29]
  • Farnan, Jeanne M.; Snyder Sulmasy, Lois; Worster, Brooke K.; Chaudhry, Humayun J.; Rhyne, Janelle A.; Arora, Vineet M. (2013-04-16). "Online Medical Professionalism: Patient and Public Relationships: Policy Statement From the American College of Physicians and the Federation of State Medical Boards". Annals of Internal Medicine. 158 (8): 620–627. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-158-8-201304160-00100. ISSN 0003-4819. PMID 23579867. S2CID 24921697.[30]
  • Arora, Vineet; Johnson, Julie (2006-11-01). "A Model for Building a Standardized Hand-off Protocol". The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 32 (11): 646–655. doi:10.1016/S1553-7250(06)32084-3. ISSN 1553-7250. PMID 17120925.[31]
  • Edelson, Dana P.; Litzinger, Barbara; Arora, Vineet; Walsh, Deborah; Kim, Salem; Lauderdale, Diane S.; Hoek, Terry L. Vanden; Becker, Lance B.; Abella, Benjamin S. (2008-05-26). "Improving In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Process and Outcomes With Performance Debriefing". Archives of Internal Medicine. 168 (10): 1063–1069. doi:10.1001/archinte.168.10.1063. ISSN 0003-9926. PMID 18504334.[32]

References

  1. ↑ "10 Questions: Vineet Arora, MD". www.medpagetoday.com. 2014-04-16. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  2. ↑ "Chicago, IL: Improving Sleep and Safety with Better Systems with Dr. Vineet Arora | Johns Hopkins Alumni". alumni.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  3. 1 2 "About our Deans | Pritzker School of Medicine | The University of Chicago". pritzker.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  4. ↑ "In Conversation with…Vineet Arora, MD, MA". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ↑ "| Biological Sciences Division | The University of Chicago". biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  6. ↑ "Vineet Arora". news.uchicago.edu. 2 April 2020. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  7. 1 2 3 "The American Society for Clinical Investigation". Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  8. ↑ "SIESTA: Sleep for Inpatients: Empowering Staff to Act | Center for Continuing Medical Education". cme.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  9. ↑ Arora, Vineet; Dunphy, Carrie; Chang, Vivian Y.; Ahmad, Fawaz; Humphrey, Holly J.; Meltzer, David (2006-06-06). "The Effects of On-Duty Napping on Intern Sleep Time and Fatigue". Annals of Internal Medicine. 144 (11): 792–8. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-144-11-200606060-00005. ISSN 0003-4819. PMID 16754921. S2CID 38899080.
  10. ↑ "Small naps a big help for young docs on long shifts". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  11. ↑ "UpToDate". www.uptodate.com. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  12. ↑ Berthold, Jessica. "Improving handoffs through better communication". acphospitalist.org. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  13. ↑ Arora, Vineet M.; Manjarrez, Efren; Dressler, Daniel D.; Basaviah, Preetha; Halasyamani, Lakshmi; Kripalani, Sunil (September 2009). "Hospitalist Handoffs: A Systematic Review and Task Force Recommendations". Journal of Hospital Medicine. 4 (7): 433–440. doi:10.1002/jhm.573. ISSN 1553-5592. PMC 3575739. PMID 19753573.
  14. ↑ "Handoff Plan Should Include Rationale, Precise Language". www.mdedge.com. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  15. 1 2 "Avoiding Common Hand-off Mistakes". www.the-hospitalist.org. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  16. ↑ "Governors Need to Act to Stem the Tide of COVID-19". USNews. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  17. ↑ "Vitamin D likely to reduce complications among coronavirus patients, study finds". The Independent. 2020-05-11. Archived from the original on 2022-08-17. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  18. ↑ "Board of Directors | Governance | About ABIM | ABIM.org". www.abim.org. Archived from the original on 2020-07-25. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  19. ↑ "Why I Joined TIME'S UP Healthcare and Why You Should, Too #TIMESUPHC". The Hospital Leader - The Official Blog of the Society of Hospital Medicine. 2019-02-27. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  20. 1 2 Louis, Catherine Saint (2016-07-11). "Dr. Paid Less: An Old Title Still Fits Female Physicians". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  21. ↑ Arora, Vineet M. (2016-09-01). "It Is Time for Equal Pay for Equal Work for Physicians—Paging Dr Ledbetter". JAMA Internal Medicine. 176 (9): 1305–1306. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.3289. ISSN 2168-6106. PMID 27399962.
  22. ↑ "'Bridging leaders' link quality, medical education". www.the-hospitalist.org. 4 October 2019. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  23. ↑ "Twenty-two UChicago faculty receive named, distinguished service professorships". www.myscience.org. 30 December 2019. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  24. ↑ "Awards of Excellence". www.hospitalmedicine.org. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  25. ↑ "Walter J. McDonald Award for Early Career Physicians | Awards, Masterships & Competitions | ACP". www.acponline.org. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  26. ↑ HealthLeaders. "20 People Who Make Healthcare Better – 2011". www.healthleadersmedia.com. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  27. ↑ "Two UChicago physicians elected to National Academy of Medicine". University of Chicago News. 21 October 2019. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  28. ↑ "National Academy of Medicine elects 100 new members". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  29. ↑ Hasan, Omar; Meltzer, David O.; Shaykevich, Shimon A.; Bell, Chaim M.; Kaboli, Peter J.; Auerbach, Andrew D.; Wetterneck, Tosha B.; Arora, Vineet M.; Zhang, James; Schnipper, Jeffrey L. (2010-03-01). "Hospital Readmission in General Medicine Patients: A Prediction Model". Journal of General Internal Medicine. 25 (3): 211–219. doi:10.1007/s11606-009-1196-1. ISSN 1525-1497. PMC 2839332. PMID 20013068.
  30. ↑ Farnan, Jeanne M.; Snyder Sulmasy, Lois; Worster, Brooke K.; Chaudhry, Humayun J.; Rhyne, Janelle A.; Arora, Vineet M. (2013-04-16). "Online Medical Professionalism: Patient and Public Relationships: Policy Statement From the American College of Physicians and the Federation of State Medical Boards". Annals of Internal Medicine. 158 (8): 620–627. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-158-8-201304160-00100. ISSN 0003-4819. PMID 23579867. S2CID 24921697.
  31. ↑ Arora, Vineet; Johnson, Julie (2006-11-01). "A Model for Building a Standardized Hand-off Protocol". The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 32 (11): 646–655. doi:10.1016/S1553-7250(06)32084-3. ISSN 1553-7250. PMID 17120925.
  32. ↑ Edelson, Dana P.; Litzinger, Barbara; Arora, Vineet; Walsh, Deborah; Kim, Salem; Lauderdale, Diane S.; Hoek, Terry L. Vanden; Becker, Lance B.; Abella, Benjamin S. (2008-05-26). "Improving In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Process and Outcomes With Performance Debriefing". Archives of Internal Medicine. 168 (10): 1063–1069. doi:10.1001/archinte.168.10.1063. ISSN 0003-9926. PMID 18504334.
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