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Dr. Bilimoria is a surgical oncologist and a health services researcher focused on quality improvement, implementation science, and health policy. He is a Vice President for Quality for the Northwestern Medicine health system. He is also the Vice Chair for Quality in the Department of Surgery and the John B. Murphy Professor of Surgery. His clinical practice is focused on melanoma and sarcoma. Dr. Bilimoria is the Director of the Surgical Outcomes and Quality Improvement Center of Northwestern University (SOQIC), a center of 35 faculty and staff focused on national, regional, and local quality improvement research and practical initiatives. He is the Director of the 56-hospital Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative (ISQIC) and Principal Investigator of the 151-hospital FIRST Trial. He is a Faculty Scholar at the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Bilimoria is the President of the Association for Academic Surgery. Dr. Bilimoria’s research agenda focuses on improving healthcare quality and delivery by (1) developing better ways to provide hospitals with comparative data, (2) providing hospitals with the tools to use their data to undertake internal hospital quality improvement efforts, (3) providing patients with better comparative data through public reporting which can assist them in selecting the best hospitals and physicians for their care, and (4) performing evaluations of policies that impact healthcare quality. Across Northwestern’s seven hospitals, he has integrated research and innovation into the quality improvement enterprise in order to move toward a true learning healthcare system. He has published more than 300 scientific articles, including numerous publications in JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Bilimoria’s research is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Health Care Services Corporation, and numerous others, totaling over $30,000,000. He was recently listed by Becker’s as one of the “Top 50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety” in the U.S.
Certifications and Licenses
General Surgery |
Training Experience
1999 | Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
2008 | Postdoctoral Fellowship, American College of Surgeons |
2010 | Residency, Northwestern University, McGaw Medical Center |
2011 | Fellowship, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
Education/Academic qualification
MS, Northwestern University
… → 2008
MD, Indiana University Bloomington
… → 2003
Research interests
- Health Services Research
- Melanoma
- Quality Improvement
- Skin Cancer
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Implementing Preoperative Nutrition, Prehabilitation, and Smoking Cessation Programs in the Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative (ISQIC) with the American College of Surgeons’ Strong for Surgery Program
McGee, M. F., Bilimoria, K. Y., Johnson, J. & Etkin, C. D.
8/6/20 → 8/5/21
Project: Research project
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Characterizing Geographic Networks in Interfacility Trauma Transfers
7/1/20 → 6/30/22
Project: Research project
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COllaborative Northwestern Surgical Oncology Research Training (CONSORT)
Bilimoria, K. Y. & Khan, S. A.
7/1/20 → 6/30/25
Project: Research project
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Establishing Learning Curves for General Surgery Residents
Bilimoria, K. Y., Fryer, J. P. & Hu, Y.
Association for Surgical Education Foundation
1/1/19 → 12/31/20
Project: Research project
Research Output
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A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Clinician Education Modules on Reducing Surgical Opioid Prescribing
Shallcross, M. L., Stulberg, J. J., Schäfer, W. L. A., Buckley, B. A., Huang, R., Bilimoria, K. Y. & Johnson, J. K., Jan 2021, In: Journal of Surgical Research. 257, p. 1-8 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Association for Academic Surgery Presidential Address—Fanning the Burnout Fire: How Our Misconceptions and Good Intentions Could Fail Tomorrow's Surgeons
Bilimoria, K. Y., Jan 2021, In: Journal of Surgical Research. 257, p. A1-A11Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Formative Evaluation of a Peer Video-Based Coaching Initiative
Kreutzer, L., Hu, Y. Y., Stulberg, J., Greenberg, C. C., Bilimoria, K. Y. & Johnson, J. K., Jan 2021, In: Journal of Surgical Research. 257, p. 169-177 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Comprehensive Estimation of the Costs of 30-Day Postoperative Complications Using Actual Costs from Multiple, Diverse Hospitals
Merkow, R. P., Shan, Y., Gupta, A. R., Yang, A. D., Sama, P., Schumacher, M., Cooke, D., Barnard, C. & Bilimoria, K. Y., Oct 2020, In: Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 46, 10, p. 558-564 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A comprehensive national survey on thoughts of leaving residency, alternative career paths, and reasons for staying in general surgery training
Ellis, R. J., Holmstrom, A. L., Hewitt, D. B., Engelhardt, K. E., Yang, A. D., Merkow, R. P., Bilimoria, K. Y. & Hu, Y. Y., Feb 2020, In: American journal of surgery. 219, 2, p. 227-232 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
4 Scopus citations