Health Disparities Research Working Group | November 13, 2025

The Health Disparities Research Working Group is delighted to welcome Jacqueline Kruser, MD, MS on November 13 to discuss her current work: 

Ensuring equitable design of a novel intervention: The ICU Care Plan

About the talk: The Kruser Research team recently completed a human-centered Design Thinking project with older adults and their family caregivers who live across the state of Wisconsin.

In this WPP-supported project, Kruser sought to develop and refine a new tool to help critically ill patients, their families, and their clinicians make a collaborative plan for ICU care. This new tool, called the ICU Care Plan, was developed in English and for use during an in-person ICU family meeting. However, through their human-centered design process, they identified a need to adapt the tool for use in other languages and contexts.

In this presentation to the UW Health Disparities Research Working Group, Dr. Kruser seeks feedback and input on how best to accomplish rigorous and equitable adaptation of the ICU Care Plan.

Dr. Kruser (Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine) is a pulmonologist and critical care physician whose research aims to improve healthcare delivery and decision making for patients with critical illness.

In-person attendance is strongly encouraged and appreciated.