Education
MD, Stanford School of Medicine, 1995
MSc, Stanford School of Medicine, 1995
AB, Cornell University, 1990
Overview
Sydney Dy, MD, MS, FAAHPM is a Professor of Health Policy and Management, Medicine and Oncology, focusing in quality of care, safety, and decision-making research, particularly in patients with cancer and serious and terminal illness. She performs quality measurement development, testing and implementation, particularly in palliative care, patient safety and primary care. Her research includes systematic literature reviews, primary qualitative and quantitative data collection, analyses of secondary databases, and quality and safety measurement and improvement.
Dr. Dy helped develop and lead many of the first palliative care programs at Johns Hopkins for over 15 years and served as Medical Director for Hopkins' cancer symptom clinic, palliative care case management and hospice programs for many years. Dr. Dy now practices with the Primary Care for Cancer Survivors Program and palliative care at Johns Hopkins Green Spring. She also serves as director of the PhD concentration in Health Services Research and Policy.
Current projects include:
Quality and safety:
- Patient-reported outcome measures for older adults in primary care and with multiple chronic conditions
- Community-based palliative care patient-reported outcome quality indicators
Patient- and family-centered care:
- Improving family-centered advance care planning in primary care, with a focus on dementia
- Evaluating patient safety in the patient-centered medical home
- Evaluating fatigue and fatigability in older cancer patients
- Describing the lived experience of persons with sickle cell disease after bone marrow transplant
- Developing a patient-centric risk model of medication errors in care transitions
- Improving physician-patient-family communication in oncology care and cancer survivorship
- Educating oncology health care professionals on biopsychosocial approaches to cancer pain management with more judicious use of opioids
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Here are a couple of videos of recent presentations on her work in end-of-life care:
https://www.jhsph.edu/about/dean-mackenzie/deans-lectures/index.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FlkyYx4Ueg&feature=youtu.be
http://webcast.jhu.edu/Mediasite/Play/7321facdf176441f8a6b8015c6ef646d1d
https://pcrc.app.box.com/s/fm2e1ltxpo1s5pppcxtp2m9emo5k3eon
And links to summaries of some projects and tools on the CHSOR website:
http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/health-services-outcomes-research/research/end-of-life-care/
http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/health-services-outcomes-research/research/What-is-patient-safety-in-the-medical-home.html