Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative Program Leads
Darrell "Skip" Campbell Jr., M.D.
Darrell A. Campbell Jr., M.D., is chief medical officer and chief of clinical affairs at the University of Michigan Health System, where he is responsible for the overall quality of care delivered at the University of Michigan Health System. He is also Henry King Ransom professor of surgery in the department of surgery and has for many years specialized in solid organ transplantation, particularly kidney, liver and pancreas. Dr. Campbell has a special interest in patient safety.
Dr. Campbell received his Bachelor of Science degree in zoology from Michigan State University in 1968 and graduated with distinction from George Washington University, earning a doctor of medicine degree in 1972. Subsequently, Dr. Campbell received his general surgery training at the University of Michigan Medical School from 1972 through 1979. During this period, he spent two years as an investigator in the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, working in the laboratory of Ronald B. Herberman, chief of immunodiagnostics. Following general surgery training, Dr. Campbell began his special interest in transplantation. He spent six months on sabbatical with Professor Sir Roy Calne learning the intricacies of liver transplantation in Cambridge, England, in 1986. Subsequently he became chief of the section of general surgery and continued in this position until 1997.
In recent years, Dr. Campbell has become interested in the related subjects of patient safety and quality of care and has worked with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan to develop the Michigan Surgical Quality Collaborative. He has also been active in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, where he served as chairman of its Advisory Board. Dr. Campbell won the Michigan Hospital Association's Patient Safety and Quality Leadership Award in 2005, and he was the recipient of the 2007 John M. Eisenberg Award for Patient Safety and Quality.
Laurel Phillips, R.N., M.S.N.
As the MSQC administrative director, Phillips places great emphasis on the fact that good customer service is the best way to support the MSQC program at the Michigan sites. She assists Michigan sites in making optimal use of their MSQC data and works with sites to identify best practice measures that then may be shared among all MSQC participants.
Phillips started her career as a float nurse working in a community hospital caring for patients of all ages on a wide variety of units. She then became head nurse of an inpatient psychiatric unit for boys and taught psychiatric and medical surgical nursing before embarking on her best work so far, raising three children. She continues to stay involved with a program that studies patients and their families facing advanced cancer. She received her B.S.N. from Nazareth College in Kalamazoo and her M.S.N. from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She also completed additional coursework at the University of Michigan in Nursing Business and Health Systems and is a member of Sigma Theta Tau.
About the Coordinating Center
The University of Michigan serves as the Coordinating Center and is responsible for collecting and analyzing comprehensive clinical data from the participating hospitals. It uses these analyses to examine practice patterns, to generate new knowledge linking processes of care to outcomes, and to identify best practices and opportunities to improve quality and efficiency. The Center further supports participants in establishing quality improvement goals and assists them in implementing best practices.
