Health Management Consultant
Iowa Health System
Clinical Performance Improvement
1200 Pleasant St.
ERC-2
Des Moines
IAUSA
50309
Email:
abramsma@ihs.org
Biographical Sketch: Dr. Abrams is in Clinical Performance Improvement at Iowa Health System (IHS), where she leads their health literacy work and serves as faculty for resident education in quality and community pediatrics. IHS was among eight health systems nationwide identified by the 2005 AMA Hospital Recognition Project for Innovative Approaches to Patient-Centered Communication for its work in health literacy. Dr. Abrams co-chairs the American Academy of Pediatrics Health Literacy Project Advisory Committee, and served on the AMA Health Literacy and Patient Safety Work Group. She is Medical Director for Reach Out and Read - Iowa, working to make literacy promotion a standard part of pediatric well child care. Her interests focus on fostering interaction between diverse clinical and public health practitioners to increase awareness about and action toward using health literacy and population-based preventive and health-promoting interventions to improve the health of patients and families.