Foundation’s Sepsis Conference attracts 200-plus
The Sepsis Strike Force
The DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) Foundation’s “Fifth Annual Sepsis Conference” attracted 220 attendees last Thursday at the Hurst Conference Center.
Themed “Sepsis is no Picnic!”, this year’s event included eight sessions. Speakers and topics included:
- • “Sepsis 2026: The first hour, the following 72, and the rest of their life” with Dr. Dhruvangkumar Modi of Texas Health Presbyterian Denton;
• “Nutritional Support of the Septic Patient” with Kristin Guhr of Tarrant County College;
• “Conquering Pediatric Sepsis: It’s a Team Approach” with Erin Schultz of Cook Children’s Medical Center;
• “From Data to Direction: Elevating Sepsis Programs” with Malika Qureshi, MBA, BSN, RN, CPHQ, Sepsis Program Coordinator at JPS Health Network;
• “Sepsis-3 in Practice: Designing a Pre-Bill Validation Program That Improves Quality and Compliance” with Guzel Wardell of Methodist Health System;
• “Utility of Lactic Acid to Identify Sepsis during Labor” with Dr. Jennifer Lopez ther Associate Program Director for OBGYN Residency Program at JPS Health Network;
• “Surviving Sepsis Campaign 2026” with Dr. Jocelyn Zee of JPS Health Network;
• and “Kidney Injury in the Septic Patient” with Dr. Michael R. Wiederkehr of Baylor University Medical Center Dallas.
You can find their presentations here.
There were five poster abstracts submitted by Baylor Scott & White Centennial, Baylor University Medical Center Dallas, Carrollton Regional Medical Center, JPS Health Network and Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas.
You can find the poster presentations here.
This year’s Clover Awards were presented to:
- • Susan Baty RN, Quality Department – Sepsis Coordinator, Methodist Health System;
• Malika Qureshi, JPS Health Network Sepsis Coordinator;
• Deb Vopal, Texas Health Resources/Clinical Decision Support (Informatics);
• Andrew Bayat, MD, Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital, Intensive Care Unit.
Gold Sponsors were Cytovale and Encompass Health. Serving as Silver Sponsors were Flosonics Medical, MeMed and Siemens Healthineers. Birch Medical and Wellness, Gourmet Gift Baskets, Kendra Scott, Perot Museum and Total Wine were this year’s In-Kind Sponsors.
The conference was hosted by the Sepsis Strike Force. Coordinated by Patti Taylor, director of quality and patient safety at the DFWHC Foundation, the group was formed in 2017 with the intention of providing evidence-based clinical guidelines, protocols and best practices regarding sepsis.
For questions, please contact Patti at ptaylor@dfwhcfoundation.org.
