Elizabeth Habermann, Ph.D., named to National Quality Forum’s National Quality Partners Opioid Stewardship Action Team

Elizabeth Habermann, Ph.D.

Elizabeth Habermann, Ph.D., scientific director of the Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, was named to the National Quality Forum’s National Quality Partners Opioid Stewardship Action Team. The team of U.S. researchers will work with institutions, physicians and researchers to find solutions to the opioid epidemic. The group will release its findings in March 2018 at the National Quality Forum’s annual conference.

Dr. Habermann is the senior author of a study published in July in the Annals of Surgery that examined the prescribing practices after surgery at Mayo Clinic.

She also is an associate professor of health services research in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science.