Description of Research Expertise

Dr. Itri develops educational approaches combined with information-technology tools to improve quality and patient safety. During residency, he created a software application that monitors radiology resident and fellow performance on-call, and instituted multiple interventions that have significantly decreased major discrepancies in trainee preliminary interpretations, improved turnaround times for stat studies, and improved fluoroscopy times for residents performing fluoroscopy studies. He also created the software program that allows the Thoracic and Abdominal Imaging sections to reliably track complications and diagnostic yield for all image-guided procedures, and is participating in developing processes to improve both fellow and faculty performance using this tool. Dr. Itri is currently leading multiple quality improvement projects for the Department of Radiolog at Penn, including an IRB-approved study to improve patient care by promoting incident reporting by housestaff through the use of a “Good Catch” Program and a Quality and Safety journal club.