Assistant Professor of Surgery (Trauma and Critical Care), Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Dr. Stey is passionate about addressing inefficiencies to improve health carequality and cost for all patients. She obtained her Masters at the London Schoolof Economics and Political Science and was then selected as one of the RobertWood Johnson Clinical Scholars at the University of California Los Angeleswhere she worked in quality measurement. Dr. Stey has been funded by theAmerican Association for the Surgery of Trauma, The American College ofSurgeons, National Institutes of Health and the Doris Duke Foundation. Herprimary funded line of inquiry focuses on investigating the US’ trauma systemand how to get the right patients to the right place at the right time. She was thefirst to demonstrate the reasons severely injured patients never reach high leveltrauma centers. For this work, Dr. Stey was named Director of the IllinoisSurgical Quality Improvement Collaborative, a 55 hospital collaborative focusedon improving quality of care. Her ongoing research focuses on how to improvequality and value of care utilizing implementation science with an underlyinggoal of helping the US health care system become more efficient and equitablefor all critically ill and injured Americans.