Featured Posters:
Poster Presentation: ‘The Mortality Model: Engaging Patients in Serious Illness Conversations Sooner to Enhance their Care Pathway Outcomes’ October 2024, the University of Chicago Quality & Safety Symposium. Awarded Poster of Distinction.
Poster Presentation: ‘Implementing Quality and Performance Metrics For Spine Patients’ October 2024, the University of Chicago Quality & Safety Symposium.
Poster & Podium Presentation: ‘Blood Culture Bottle Shortage: An Informatics Intervention’, October 2024, the University of Chicago Quality & Safety Symposium. Awarded Poster of Distinction.
Poster Presentation: ‘Breaking the Mold: Driving Value and Quality Outcomes through a Comprehensive Co-Management Care Model’, October 2024, The University of Chicago Quality & Safety Symposium
Poster Presentation: ‘Acute Spinal Cord Injury Pathway’, October 2024, The University of Chicago Quality & Safety Symposium
Poster Presentation: ‘Bone Health Clinic Phase 1’, October 2023, The University of Chicago Quality & Safety Symposium
Poster Presentation: ‘Spine Pathway Phase 2 – Implementation & Review’, October 2023, The University of Chicago Quality & Safety Symposium
Poster Presentation: ‘Use of OARA (Outpatient Arthroplasty Risk Assessment) Score to Improve & Predict Same Day Discharge in Elective Arthroplasty Patients’, October 2023, The University of Chicago Quality & Safety Symposium
Poster Presentation: “Recovery Coach – Engaging Patent Recovery at Home”, October 2023, The University of Chicago Quality & Safety Symposium
Poster Presentation: “Spine Pathway Inception and Build: Phase 1”; October 2022, the University of Chicago Quality & Safety Symposium. Awarded Poster of Distinction.
Poster Presentation: “The Social Work Role: Where do Oncology Social Workers fit into the Clinical Trials Process?”; June 2019, Association of Oncology Social Work
Poster Presentation: “A Vision for the Future: Embracing Technology for the Next Generation of Medical Social Workers”; October 2017, Society for Social Work Leadership Conference
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Speaking Engagements & Featured Presentations:
Speaker: “Advance Care Planning in the community”, March 2025, Cancer Support Community, part of the EAP lecture series
Speaker: “Relaxation at work- guided hypnosis for coping with stress in the workplace”, March 2025, American Academy of Pediatrics, Featured speaker for wellness retreat
Speaker: ‘Medical Aid in Dying: focus on Oncology”; March 2024, The James Cancer Center, Oncology Grand Rounds, Ethics Approved Presentation
Speaker: ‘Medical Aid in Dying: focus on Oncology Social Work”; November 2023, Association of Oncology Social Work, Ethics Approved Presentation
Speaker: “Medical Aid in Dying”; October 2023, Rush University: Grand Rounds in Supportive Oncology
Speaker: “How Simulation Centers Can Enhance Advance Care Planning Training for Interdisciplinary Teams”; June 2023, Association of Oncology Social Work
Speaker: “Medical Aid in Dying: Opportunities and Challenges for Social Work Practice”; June 2023, Association of Oncology Social Work. Ethics Approved Presentation
Panel Moderator: “Patient Navigation in Oncology”; June 2023, Association of Oncology Social Work
Speaker: “Advance Care Planning: Taking an Innovative Approach to Clinician Education”; January 2023, CHeSS & HDSI Outcomes Research Workshop, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Speaker: “Social Work Productivity- Using quantitative data to show qualitative work”; June 2022, Association of Oncology Social Work
Speaker/Panelist: “Suicide Risk Assessment and Intervention in an Oncology Setting”; June 2022, Association of Oncology Social Work
Speaker/Panelist: “Advance Care Planning: Implementing an Educational Program to Improve Advance Care Planning Discussion with Oncology Patients and Families”; June 2021, Association of Oncology Social Work
Buitrago, J., Adkins, S., Hawkins, M., Iyamu, K., & van Oort, T. (2019). Adult survivorship: considerations following CAR T-cell therapy. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 23(2), S42-S48. 10.1188/19.CJON.S1.42-48
Speaker/Panelist: “Caring for Patients Undergoing Car-T Cell Therapies”; April 2017, Global Academic Program (GAP) Conference
Teresa van Oort received a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) at Texas Tech University, a Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) at Texas State University and a Master of Science in Social Work (MSSW) degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Teresa worked in consulting with Advisory Board Company after completing an Executive Fellowship and becoming Assistant Market Administrator with Kindred. After which she obtained her MSSW completing her clinical internship in the critical care step down unit with Seton before going to MD Anderson Cancer Center where Teresa first worked on the hematology unit as a Social Work Counselor providing coordination of patient’s bio-psycho-social needs, comprehensive assessment and counseling services before transitioning into leadership as the Clinical Program Manager in a hybrid clinical/administrative capacity focusing on departmental and institutional operational priorities, analytics & metrics, information technology, process & standards improvement. Upon relocation to Chicago, Teresa worked as a Sr. Project Manager at University of Chicago Medicine with the Quality Performance and Improvement team. Teresa currently works at the Association for Cancer Care Centers, ACCC, as a Program Manager focusing on oncology related quality improvement and AI/informatics programs. She is also a Lecturer at The University of Chicago, teaching classes focused on social work’s role in healthcare settings & ethics. She engages in consulting/speaking engagement on a variety of topics strategy (wellness & mental health, suicide, ACP, SDOH, MAID, patient needs assessment, social work technology and AI, analytics and productivity measures). She is an award-winning presenter, having spoken at local, national, and international conferences on advance care planning, suicide assessment, medical aid in dying, quality and performance improvement projects and productivity metrics.