Recent Publications and Presentations
Publications
THINQ Collaborative: A Novel Quality Improvement Training Program for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students →
Perceptions and Behaviors of Nurses and Physicians During Bedside Rounds in Medical-Surgical Units →
Physician Behaviors Associated with Increased Physician and Nurse Communication During Bedside Interdisciplinary Rounds →
Prognostication Accuracy, Confidence, and Decisional Conflict Across Training Levels of Internal Medicine Providers →
Inspiring the Future of Medicine: The Healthcare Improvement & iNnovation in Quality (THINQ) Collaborative at UCLA Health →
Using Decisional Conflict to Evaluate Patient Engagement During Hospital Discharge →
Leveraging lean principles in creating a comprehensive quality program: The UCLA health readmission reduction initiative →
Presentations
- THINQ Tank: An Interprofessional Healthcare Quality Improvement Case Competition for Undergraduate Students. Team Members: Michael Wong, Caitlin Chen, Bianca Nguyen, Sylvia Lambrechts, Jeffrey Fujimoto, Anna Dermenchyan; 2025 Society of Hospital Medicine Converge Conference.
- The Role of Human Scribing and its Effectiveness in Alleviating Clinician Burnout. Team Members: Elizabeth Kaplan, Talia Rajasekar, Jeremy Cote, Andre Fabian, Renesh Gudipati, Ishita Kaloti, Bianca Nguyen, Anna Dermenchyan; 2024 DoM Research Day and 2024 UCLA Nursing Science and Innovation Conference.
- AI-Driven Medical Scribing and its Effectiveness in the Clinical Setting. Team Members: Trisha Nagin, Ashlen Bullock, Sameera Gurram, Kyle Lee, Sristi Palimar, Bianca Nguyen, Anna Dermenchyan; 2024 DoM Research Day and 2024 UCLA Nursing Science and Innovation Conference.
- Nursing Recommendations to Improve Medication Reconciliation Within the Discharge and Care Transition. Team Members: Sachi Sengupta, Alejandro Quezada, Jordan La, Skyllar Kuppinger, Stella Wang, Zaina Sharqawi, Bianca Nguyen, Anna Dermenchyan; 2024 DoM Research Day Winner and 2024 UCLA Nursing Science and Innovation Conference.
- Literature Review of the Current State of Interpreter Use in Healthcare. Team Members: Michael Wong, Sami Siddiqui, Gift Nnamdi, Bianca Nguyen, Anna Dermenchyan; 2024 DoM Research Day and 2024 UCLA Nursing Science and Innovation Conference.
- Exploring Physician-Nurse Relations Through the Lens of Intersectionality. Team Members: Bianca Nguyen, Dylan Mai, Manny Venegas, Pearl Omo-Sowho, Lauren Han, Aishwarya Natarajan, Anna Dermenchyan; 2022 DoM Research Day and 2023 UCLA Nursing Science and Innovation Conference.
- Behaviors Associated with Increased Physician and Nurse Communication During Bedside Interdisciplinary Rounds. Team members: Kelly X. Huang, Caitlin K. Chen, Antonio M. Pessegueiro, Anna Dermenchyan, Aishwarya Natarajan, Sitaram S. Vangala, Erin Dowling, Wendy M. Simon; 2022 DoM Research Day.
- Establishment of a Sepsis Patient and Family Advisory Council at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center. Team members: Abhinav Kareddy, Aishwarya Atmakuri, Brent Arakaki, Summer Gupta, Anna Dermenchyan, Russell Kerbel; 2022 DoM Research Day.