Karl Y Bilimoria

Associate Professor, Surgery, Surgical Oncology Division
Associate Professor, Medical Social Sciences
John Benjamin Murphy Professorship in Surgery, Surgery, Surgical Oncology Division

Emailk-bilimoria@northwestern.edu

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Research Interests

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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Grants

1 Not started
10 Active
15 Finished

Preventing Opioid Misuse through Safe Opioid Use Agreements between Patients and Surgical Providers (PROMISE ME)

Bilimoria, K. Y., Johnson, J. & Stulberg, J. J.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

4/1/20 → 3/31/23

Project: Research project

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

SECOND Trial

Bilimoria, K. Y., Chung, J. W., Hu, Y., Johnson, J. & Yang, A. D.

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education

12/1/18 → 11/30/22

Project: Research project

SECOND Trial

Bilimoria, K. Y., Chung, J. W., Hu, Y., Johnson, J. & Yang, A. D.

American College of Surgeons

12/1/18 → 11/30/22

Project: Research project

Implementation and Evaluation of an Expanded Bilingual Electronic Symptom Management Program across a Multi-site, Fully-integrated Comprehensive Cancer Center

Bass, M., Bilimoria, K. Y., Cella, D., Garcia, S. F., Kallen, M. A., Kircher, S. M., Penedo, F. J., Scholtens, D. M., Shahabi, S., Smith, J. D., Wehbe, F. & Yanez, B. R.

National Cancer Institute

9/24/18 → 6/30/23

Project: Research project