Angela Keniston Email & Phone Number

Angela Keniston, PhD, MSPH is the Director of Data and Analytics for the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Colorado. Her role includes research design, data collection, management, and analysis, qualitative and quantitative methods, mixed methods approaches, implementation science, user-centered design, and stakeholder engagement planning and execution. Dr. Keniston is passionate about health information technology design to improve quality of care for the hospitalized patient while supporting the clinicians delivering care. Applying this skill set acquired over 20 years of healthcare experience, she has built a national reputation as a methodologist in the field of hospital medicine, in particular in implementation science and the application of qualitative methods.As a part of the Hospital Medicine ReEngineering Network (HOMERuN), Dr. Keniston serves as a co-lead for the COVID-19 Workforce Planning workgroup. This group has conducting artifact reviews, quantitative analysis of survey data, and qualitative analysis of focus groups to understand the ways in which health systems, hospitals, and hospital medicine divisions adapted work tasks, the work environment, and staffing models to meet the challenge of caring for the hospitalized patient. She is a part of a research team funded by the Center for Health, Work & Environment at the University of Colorado to conduct a pilot Total Worker Health© project to determine frameworks for safe work standards that improve worker wellbeing, patient care, and operational and financial metrics. Finally, she is co-investigator on the Achieving Diagnostic Excellence through Prevention and Teamwork (ADEPT) grant. The goals of this grant are to understand the factors that produce problems in making accurate and timely diagnoses as well as factors that are part of making a great diagnosis, or ‘good catches’ to help hospitals improve diagnostic processes and improve patient outcomes. Twitter: @KenistonAngelahttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1399-2881https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/angela.keniston.3/bibliography/public/