San Antonio Military Medical Center
San Antonio, Texas
Lieutenant Colonel Renée I. Matos, MD, MPH, FAAP, FCCM is the Assistant Dean of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (SAUSHEC), where she oversees quality improvement and patient safety for 37 GME training programs with 600 residents and fellows. She is also a pediatric intensivist, the Pediatric Critical Care Consultant to the Air Force Surgeon General, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Uniformed Services University. Lt Col Matos has deployed three times as a Critical Care Air Transport Physician and has transported over 50 critically ill children and adults across the world, including bombing and volcano victims during international disasters. Some of her awards include 3 Air Force Commendation Medals, 2 Meritorious Service Medals, and she received the Military Health System Department of Defense Quality and Patient Safety Award four times. She has served on multiple national committees, is a Pediatric Fundamentals of Critical Care Support Course Director and Consultant, has 18 peer-reviewed publications, 3 book chapters, multiple local and national presentations, and has developed 2 courses. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she was the lead editor for 7 editions of the DoD COVID-19 Practice Management Guide, which has over 150 contributors and continues to be used globally to guide bedside clinicians and commanders across all military services. Her interests include resuscitation, quality improvement, patient safety, critical care air transport, graduate medical education, and maintaining sanity at home with her husband and 7 children.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM US CST