Virtual Conference
8th - 11th July 2021
Together with Centro Regionale Gestione Rischio Clinico e Sicurezza del Paziente (GRC) and the Italian Network for Safety in Healthcare, ISQua is delighted to host our next Conference in Florence, Italy.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the decision has been taken to convert the conference to a virtual format.
We want to be able to guarantee all our delegate’s and speaker’s safety and this is not possible holding an in-person conference.
We are confident that this format will not impact your learning experience, we are ensuring that all sessions are being converted to the virtual format.
Registration for the Virtual Conference will open soon!

ISQua Membership Values & Benefits
Knowledge
Access articles, presentations, reports and recordings from international healthcare experts. Receive updates on activities of interest to you.
Network
Connect with our global Community. Join special interest groups focusing on the aspects of health care the matter to you.
Voice
Make your Voice heard and be recognised as a part of an international community working to enhance patient safety and quality improvement.
Conference Registration
ISQua will open registration for the virtual conference in the coming weeks. Since we are aware that budgets may influence your chance to attend the event, we have decided to reduce the registration fees and to extend Early Bird to Wednesday, 28th April 2021.
There are even more savings on registration fees for ISQua Members. Discounts are available for delegates from LMICs. You can find out what classification your country falls under here.
There are even more savings on registration fees for ISQua Members.
Join now to access these exclusive rates.
Please contact isqua2020@rossoevolution.com for any registration queries.
Call For Papers Now Closed
Nearly 2,000 abstracts from 95 countries were received!
Each abstract will now go through a double-blind review by our expert reviewers and successful authors will be contacted with the results shortly.
Conference Tracks
The theme for this year's conference is 'Emotion, Inspiration and Creativity: Pathways to Global Health Quality'.
The renaissance in Italy was a period of rebirth with new ideas discoveries and the flowering of wonderful art. As we move from Cape Town to Florence, so we are taking the quality and safety movement to a new level. We hope that there will be the rebirth of our belief systems in the goodness of health and the ability to deliver safe and effective people-centred care.
For the conference, we chose three key essential components of the Renaissance - Emotion, Inspiration and Creativity as we believe these will the pathway to Global Health Quality.
1. Policy for Quality and Safety
2. Developing Leaders for quality and safety
3. Economic benefits of improving quality and safety
4. Behavioural Economics
Committees

Co - Chairs
- Riccardo Tartaglia; The Italian Network for Safety in Health Care (INSH)
- Jeffrey Braithwaite; ISQua President- Elect
Committee
- Sara Albolino; GRC-WHO Collaborating Centre
- John Brennan; General Practitioner
- Silvio Brusaferro; University of Udine
- Stephen Clark; ISQua Board Member (conf 2021)
- Helen Crisp; Independent Consultant
- Vittorio Fineschi; University le Sapienza, Rome
- Federico Gelli; Italia in Salute
- Peter Lachman; ISQua CEO
- Eugene Nelson; The Dartmouth Institution
- Wendy Nicklin; ISQua President
- Sabina Nuti; Santanna school, Pisa
- Rohit Ramaswamy; Gillings School of Global Public Health
- Walter Ricciardi; University Sacro Cuore
- Jacqui Stewart; COHSASA
- Carlo Rinaldo Tomassini; Dept. of Health Tuscany
- Shin Ushiro; ISQua Board Member
- Manvir Victor; ISQua Patient Representative
The Programme and Planning Committee oversees the development of the scientific programme and is responsible for ensuring the quality of the content of the conference.
Local Organising Committee Members
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Sara Albolino; GRC-WHO Collaborating Centre
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Giulia Dagliana; GRC-WHO Collaborating Centre
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Michela Tanzini; GRC-WHO Collaborating Centre
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Giulio Toccafondi; GRC-WHO Collaborating Centre
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Francesco Venneri; INSH & GRC-WHO Collaborating Centre
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Elena Beleffi; GRC-WHO Collaborating Centre
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Stavros Prineas; ErroMed, Australia
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Francesco Ranzani; GRC-WHO Collaborating Centre
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Elisabetta Flore; GRC-WHO Collaborating Centre
The Local Organising Committee (LOC) supports the Programme and Planning Committee (PPC) to include work from regional hospitals and institutions. THe LOC are responsible for designing educational visits to local Institutions of excellence for our international delegates while taking every opportunity to promote the conference to local delegates.
2020 Health Assessment Lab/Medical Outcomes Trust John Ware and Alvin Tarlov Career Achievement Prize
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Nominations Solicited for 2020 Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs) Career Achievement Prize of $20,000 (USD)
We are no longer seeking nominations for the 2020 Health Assessment Lab/Medical Outcomes Trust* John Ware and Alvin Tarlov Career Achievement Prize in Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs), which includes a $20,000 honorarium.
The award is named in honor of the Health Assessment Laboratory/Medical Outcomes Trust's founders, Dr. John E. Ware, Jr., and Dr. Alvin Tarlov - two of the world's leading pioneers in the development and use of patient reported outcome measures.
* The Health Assessment Lab/Medical Outcomes Trust is a free-standing not-for-profit organization with the goal of advancing state-of-the-art tools for measuring health care services and health outcomes from the patient/person point of view. |