Nick Ingraham Appointed CQODE Co-Director

We are excited to welcome Dr. Nick Ingraham as Scientific co-Director of our Clinical Quality, Outcomes, Discovery and Evaluation (CQODE) Core. Dr. Ingraham will co-lead CQODE alongside Drs. Schelomo Marmor and Chris Tignanelli.

Dr. Ingraham is a health services researcher within the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. His work focuses on improving the care critically ill patients receive by better facilitating and reducing barriers to the use of evidence-based practices in the ICU.

In 2018, Dr. Ingraham worked with Dr. Tignanelli to build an ICU datamart that would make accessing data more efficient. This datamart would become the framework for a COVID database that led to the creation of CQODE.

Dr. Ingraham says his early involvement in CQODE, as well as his passion for team-based projects and efficient research motivated him to join CQODE leadership.

“I want people to be able to efficiently get data, analyze data, and get these phenomenal ideas on how to improve patient care to the actual proof in a more efficient way,” said Dr. Ingraham. “What CQODE does is try to shorten that length of time from the idea to the evidence.”

His main goal is to address issues that arise as CQODE continues to scale up. This involves balancing efficient and streamlined data delivery with the ability to give investigators individualized and granular data.

He is also interested in planning for future collaborations with other institutions by standardizing aspects of CQODE and making external data sharing easier.

“If we think about that now as we’re developing internally,” said Dr. Ingraham, “I think we’ll be much farther ahead than others when we think about collaborating outside of the University.”

For his first steps as co-Director, Dr. Ingraham is going to focus on making the CQODE database more dynamic, allowing data to be more quickly modified for individual investigators.