Matt Pesyna

Narine Sargsyan, MD, recently was named the 2021 Alton Memorial Hospital (Alton, Ill.) Chairman’s Award winner. Serving as BJC Medical Group’s hospitalist medical director and hospital department chief of medicine, Dr. Sargsyan won the award based on the nominations of her fellow physicians.

The Chairman’s Award goes to an Alton Memorial staff member acknowledged for contributions to the facility and the community, including promotion and execution of outstanding customer service. Dr. Sargsyan has been a point person for Alton’s treatment of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, recruiting new hospitalists to treat hospital inpatients. She also served on a committee selecting the inaugural resident class for the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine’s Family Residency program.
 

Alice Tang, DO, recently was named chief medical officer at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center (Woodbridge, Va.). The former medical director at Sentara Lake Ridge Hospital also directed the stroke program at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center, so she is familiar with her new facility.

The hospital medicine veteran specialized in emergency medicine and earned her health care MBA from George Washington University. Dr. Tang said her goal as CMO is to enhance the care environment while simultaneously raising the level of the care given by Sentara providers.
 

Faisal Keen, MD, has been named 2021 Physician of the Year at Sarasota Memorial Hospital’s Sarasota (Fla.) campus. The award winner was selected by a panel of SMH physician leaders.

Dr. Keen has been a hospitalist at SMH Sarasota for the past 6 years.

In presenting Dr. Keen with the award, the staff paid particular compliment to the care he provided to the facility’s hundreds of COVID-19 patients throughout the pandemic. At one point during the surge, Dr. Keen worked 30 shifts during a single month. Among the praises he received during the award presentation were those for his efforts in hurricane preparedness and helping physicians at SMH utilize technology in their patient care.
 

Jeffrey Crowder, MSPA, PA-C, recently became the first physician assistant to be named chief of hospitalist service at Maine Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Augusta, Me.). He is the first PA to hold the position at any Maine VA hospital. Mr. Crowder held the role in an acting position for the previous year, helping Maine VA Augusta navigate the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mr. Crowder will oversee 13 physicians and 9 PAs in providing care to Maine’s veterans. Included in the facility are intensive care and medical surgery units. Mr. Crowder’s group is responsible for part-time coverage at the 60-bed Togus Community Living Center.
 

Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center (West Burlington, Iowa) has expanded its hospitalist program, adding the service to its Fort Madison campus. The health system’s hospitalist program was initiated at SEIRMC’s West Burlington campus back in 2010. That facility now includes 12 full-time and five part-time hospitalist physicians.

OB Hospitalist Group (Greenville, S.C.) has been acquired by Kohlberg & Company LLC (Mount Kisco, N.Y.), giving the nation’s largest dedicated obstetric hospitalist provider a new stakeholder. OBHG hopes to expand its services, which already include 200 hospital partners across 34 states.

OBHG’s network of providers includes more than 1,100 clinicians, with sites normally featuring an OB emergency department with a practicing ob.gyn. on site around the clock. Kohlberg & Company was founded in 1987 and has organized nine private equity funds, raising $12 billion of equity capital.

Narine Sargsyan, MD, recently was named the 2021 Alton Memorial Hospital (Alton, Ill.) Chairman’s Award winner. Serving as BJC Medical Group’s hospitalist medical director and hospital department chief of medicine, Dr. Sargsyan won the award based on the nominations of her fellow physicians.

The Chairman’s Award goes to an Alton Memorial staff member acknowledged for contributions to the facility and the community, including promotion and execution of outstanding customer service. Dr. Sargsyan has been a point person for Alton’s treatment of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, recruiting new hospitalists to treat hospital inpatients. She also served on a committee selecting the inaugural resident class for the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine’s Family Residency program.
 

Alice Tang, DO, recently was named chief medical officer at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center (Woodbridge, Va.). The former medical director at Sentara Lake Ridge Hospital also directed the stroke program at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center, so she is familiar with her new facility.

The hospital medicine veteran specialized in emergency medicine and earned her health care MBA from George Washington University. Dr. Tang said her goal as CMO is to enhance the care environment while simultaneously raising the level of the care given by Sentara providers.
 

Faisal Keen, MD, has been named 2021 Physician of the Year at Sarasota Memorial Hospital’s Sarasota (Fla.) campus. The award winner was selected by a panel of SMH physician leaders.

Dr. Keen has been a hospitalist at SMH Sarasota for the past 6 years.

In presenting Dr. Keen with the award, the staff paid particular compliment to the care he provided to the facility’s hundreds of COVID-19 patients throughout the pandemic. At one point during the surge, Dr. Keen worked 30 shifts during a single month. Among the praises he received during the award presentation were those for his efforts in hurricane preparedness and helping physicians at SMH utilize technology in their patient care.
 

Jeffrey Crowder, MSPA, PA-C, recently became the first physician assistant to be named chief of hospitalist service at Maine Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Augusta, Me.). He is the first PA to hold the position at any Maine VA hospital. Mr. Crowder held the role in an acting position for the previous year, helping Maine VA Augusta navigate the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mr. Crowder will oversee 13 physicians and 9 PAs in providing care to Maine’s veterans. Included in the facility are intensive care and medical surgery units. Mr. Crowder’s group is responsible for part-time coverage at the 60-bed Togus Community Living Center.
 

Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center (West Burlington, Iowa) has expanded its hospitalist program, adding the service to its Fort Madison campus. The health system’s hospitalist program was initiated at SEIRMC’s West Burlington campus back in 2010. That facility now includes 12 full-time and five part-time hospitalist physicians.

OB Hospitalist Group (Greenville, S.C.) has been acquired by Kohlberg & Company LLC (Mount Kisco, N.Y.), giving the nation’s largest dedicated obstetric hospitalist provider a new stakeholder. OBHG hopes to expand its services, which already include 200 hospital partners across 34 states.

OBHG’s network of providers includes more than 1,100 clinicians, with sites normally featuring an OB emergency department with a practicing ob.gyn. on site around the clock. Kohlberg & Company was founded in 1987 and has organized nine private equity funds, raising $12 billion of equity capital.

Narine Sargsyan, MD, recently was named the 2021 Alton Memorial Hospital (Alton, Ill.) Chairman’s Award winner. Serving as BJC Medical Group’s hospitalist medical director and hospital department chief of medicine, Dr. Sargsyan won the award based on the nominations of her fellow physicians.

The Chairman’s Award goes to an Alton Memorial staff member acknowledged for contributions to the facility and the community, including promotion and execution of outstanding customer service. Dr. Sargsyan has been a point person for Alton’s treatment of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, recruiting new hospitalists to treat hospital inpatients. She also served on a committee selecting the inaugural resident class for the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine’s Family Residency program.
 

Alice Tang, DO, recently was named chief medical officer at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center (Woodbridge, Va.). The former medical director at Sentara Lake Ridge Hospital also directed the stroke program at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center, so she is familiar with her new facility.

The hospital medicine veteran specialized in emergency medicine and earned her health care MBA from George Washington University. Dr. Tang said her goal as CMO is to enhance the care environment while simultaneously raising the level of the care given by Sentara providers.
 

Faisal Keen, MD, has been named 2021 Physician of the Year at Sarasota Memorial Hospital’s Sarasota (Fla.) campus. The award winner was selected by a panel of SMH physician leaders.

Dr. Keen has been a hospitalist at SMH Sarasota for the past 6 years.

In presenting Dr. Keen with the award, the staff paid particular compliment to the care he provided to the facility’s hundreds of COVID-19 patients throughout the pandemic. At one point during the surge, Dr. Keen worked 30 shifts during a single month. Among the praises he received during the award presentation were those for his efforts in hurricane preparedness and helping physicians at SMH utilize technology in their patient care.
 

Jeffrey Crowder, MSPA, PA-C, recently became the first physician assistant to be named chief of hospitalist service at Maine Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Augusta, Me.). He is the first PA to hold the position at any Maine VA hospital. Mr. Crowder held the role in an acting position for the previous year, helping Maine VA Augusta navigate the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mr. Crowder will oversee 13 physicians and 9 PAs in providing care to Maine’s veterans. Included in the facility are intensive care and medical surgery units. Mr. Crowder’s group is responsible for part-time coverage at the 60-bed Togus Community Living Center.
 

Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center (West Burlington, Iowa) has expanded its hospitalist program, adding the service to its Fort Madison campus. The health system’s hospitalist program was initiated at SEIRMC’s West Burlington campus back in 2010. That facility now includes 12 full-time and five part-time hospitalist physicians.

OB Hospitalist Group (Greenville, S.C.) has been acquired by Kohlberg & Company LLC (Mount Kisco, N.Y.), giving the nation’s largest dedicated obstetric hospitalist provider a new stakeholder. OBHG hopes to expand its services, which already include 200 hospital partners across 34 states.

OBHG’s network of providers includes more than 1,100 clinicians, with sites normally featuring an OB emergency department with a practicing ob.gyn. on site around the clock. Kohlberg & Company was founded in 1987 and has organized nine private equity funds, raising $12 billion of equity capital.

Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc, FHM, recently became chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora. He had previously been the chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Michigan Health system. He assumed his new role in October 2021.

Dr. Chopra, who specializes in research and mentorship in patient safety, helped create innovations in care delivery at the University of Michigan, including direct care hospitalist services at VA Ann Arbor Health Care and two other community hospitals.

In his safety-conscious research, Dr. Chopra focuses on preventing complications created within the hospital environment. He also is the first hospitalist to be named deputy editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine. He has written more than 250 peer-reviewed articles. Among the myriad awards he has received, Dr. Chopra recently earned the Kaiser Permanente Award for Clinical Teaching at the UM School of Medicine.
 

Steve Phillipson, MD, FHM, has been named regional director of hospital medicine at Aspirus Health (Wausau, Wisc.). Dr. Phillipson will oversee the hospitalist programs at 17 Aspirus hospitals in Wisconsin and Michigan.

Dr. Phillipson has worked with Aspirus since 2009, with stints in the emergency department and as a hospitalist. As Aspirus Wausau Hospital director of medicine, he chaired the facility’s COVID-19 treatment team.
 

Hackensack (N.J.) Meridian University Medical Center has hired Patricia (Patti) L. Fisher, MD, MHA, to be the institution’s chief medical officer. Dr. Fisher joined the medical center from Central Vermont Medical Center where she served as chief medical officer and chief safety officer, with direct oversight of hospital risk management, operations of all hospital-based services, IS services and quality including patient safety and regulatory compliance.

As a board-certified hospitalist, Dr. Fisher also served as clinical assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Vermont, Burlington. Dr. Fisher earned her medical degree from The University of Texas in Houston and completed residency through Forbes Family Practice Residency in Pittsburgh.
 

Martin Chaney, MD, has been chosen by the Maury Regional Health Board of Trustees to serve as interim chief executive officer. He was formerly the chief medical officer at MRH, which is based in Columbia, Tenn. Dr. Chaney began his new role in October, replacing Alan Watson, the CEO since 2012.

Dr. Chaney has spent 18 of his 25 years in medicine with MRH, where most recently he has focused on clinical quality, physician recruitment, and establishing and expanding the hospital medicine program.
 

Hyung (Harry) Cho, MD, SFHM, has been placed on Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Innovators list for 2021, getting recognized for innovation and leadership in creating value and safety initiatives in New York City’s public health system. Dr. Cho became NYC Health + Hospitals’ first chief value officer in 2019, and his programs have created an estimated $11 million in savings per year by preventing unnecessary testing and treatment that can lead to patient harm.

A member of the Society of Hospital Medicine’s editorial advisory board, Dr. Cho is also SHM’s hospitalist liaison with the COVID-19 Real-Time Learning Network, which collaborates with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
 

Raymond Kiser, MD, a hospitalist and nephrologist at Columbus (Ind.) Regional Health, has been named the Douglas J. Leonard Caregiver of the Year. The award is given by the Indiana Hospital Association to health care workers whose care is considered exemplary by both peers and patients.

Dr. Kiser has been with CRH for 7 years, including stints as associate chief medical officer and chief of staff.
 

Justin Buchholz, DO, has been elevated to medical director of the hospitalist teams at Regional Medical Center (Alamosa, Colo.) and Conejos County Hospital (La Jara, Colo.). Dr. Buchholz has been a full-time hospitalist and assistant medical director at Parkview Medical Center (Pueblo, Colo.) for the past 3 years. He also worked on a part-time basis seeing patients at the Regional Medical Center.

Dr. Buchholz completed his residency at Parkview Medical Center and was named Resident of the Year in his final year with the internal medicine program.
 

Kenneth Mishark, MD, SFHM, a hospitalist with the Mayo Clinic Hospital (Tucson, Ariz.), will serve on the board of directors for Anigent, a drug diversion-prevention company based in Chesterfield, Mo. He will be charged with helping Anigent better serve health systems with its drug-diversion software.

Dr. Mishark is vice-chair of diversion prevention across the whole Mayo Clinic. A one-time physician in the United States Air Force, Dr. Mishark previously has been the Mayo Clinic’s Healthcare Information Coordination Committee chair.
 

Core Clinical Partners (Tulsa, Okla.) has announced it will join with Hillcrest HealthCare System (Tulsa, Okla.) to provide hospitalist services to Hillcrest’s eight sites across Oklahoma. The partnership will begin at four locations in December 2021, and four others in March 2022.

In expanding its services, Core Clinical Partners will create 70 new physician positions, as well as a systemwide medical director. Core will manage hospitalist operations at Hillcrest Medical Center, Hillcrest Hospital South, Hillcrest Hospital Pryor, Hillcrest Hospital Claremore, Bailey Medical Center, Hillcrest Hospital Cushing, Hillcrest Hospital Henryetta, and Tulsa Spine and Specialty Hospital.

Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc, FHM, recently became chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora. He had previously been the chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Michigan Health system. He assumed his new role in October 2021.

Dr. Chopra, who specializes in research and mentorship in patient safety, helped create innovations in care delivery at the University of Michigan, including direct care hospitalist services at VA Ann Arbor Health Care and two other community hospitals.

In his safety-conscious research, Dr. Chopra focuses on preventing complications created within the hospital environment. He also is the first hospitalist to be named deputy editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine. He has written more than 250 peer-reviewed articles. Among the myriad awards he has received, Dr. Chopra recently earned the Kaiser Permanente Award for Clinical Teaching at the UM School of Medicine.
 

Steve Phillipson, MD, FHM, has been named regional director of hospital medicine at Aspirus Health (Wausau, Wisc.). Dr. Phillipson will oversee the hospitalist programs at 17 Aspirus hospitals in Wisconsin and Michigan.

Dr. Phillipson has worked with Aspirus since 2009, with stints in the emergency department and as a hospitalist. As Aspirus Wausau Hospital director of medicine, he chaired the facility’s COVID-19 treatment team.
 

Hackensack (N.J.) Meridian University Medical Center has hired Patricia (Patti) L. Fisher, MD, MHA, to be the institution’s chief medical officer. Dr. Fisher joined the medical center from Central Vermont Medical Center where she served as chief medical officer and chief safety officer, with direct oversight of hospital risk management, operations of all hospital-based services, IS services and quality including patient safety and regulatory compliance.

As a board-certified hospitalist, Dr. Fisher also served as clinical assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Vermont, Burlington. Dr. Fisher earned her medical degree from The University of Texas in Houston and completed residency through Forbes Family Practice Residency in Pittsburgh.
 

Martin Chaney, MD, has been chosen by the Maury Regional Health Board of Trustees to serve as interim chief executive officer. He was formerly the chief medical officer at MRH, which is based in Columbia, Tenn. Dr. Chaney began his new role in October, replacing Alan Watson, the CEO since 2012.

Dr. Chaney has spent 18 of his 25 years in medicine with MRH, where most recently he has focused on clinical quality, physician recruitment, and establishing and expanding the hospital medicine program.
 

Hyung (Harry) Cho, MD, SFHM, has been placed on Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Innovators list for 2021, getting recognized for innovation and leadership in creating value and safety initiatives in New York City’s public health system. Dr. Cho became NYC Health + Hospitals’ first chief value officer in 2019, and his programs have created an estimated $11 million in savings per year by preventing unnecessary testing and treatment that can lead to patient harm.

A member of the Society of Hospital Medicine’s editorial advisory board, Dr. Cho is also SHM’s hospitalist liaison with the COVID-19 Real-Time Learning Network, which collaborates with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
 

Raymond Kiser, MD, a hospitalist and nephrologist at Columbus (Ind.) Regional Health, has been named the Douglas J. Leonard Caregiver of the Year. The award is given by the Indiana Hospital Association to health care workers whose care is considered exemplary by both peers and patients.

Dr. Kiser has been with CRH for 7 years, including stints as associate chief medical officer and chief of staff.
 

Justin Buchholz, DO, has been elevated to medical director of the hospitalist teams at Regional Medical Center (Alamosa, Colo.) and Conejos County Hospital (La Jara, Colo.). Dr. Buchholz has been a full-time hospitalist and assistant medical director at Parkview Medical Center (Pueblo, Colo.) for the past 3 years. He also worked on a part-time basis seeing patients at the Regional Medical Center.

Dr. Buchholz completed his residency at Parkview Medical Center and was named Resident of the Year in his final year with the internal medicine program.
 

Kenneth Mishark, MD, SFHM, a hospitalist with the Mayo Clinic Hospital (Tucson, Ariz.), will serve on the board of directors for Anigent, a drug diversion-prevention company based in Chesterfield, Mo. He will be charged with helping Anigent better serve health systems with its drug-diversion software.

Dr. Mishark is vice-chair of diversion prevention across the whole Mayo Clinic. A one-time physician in the United States Air Force, Dr. Mishark previously has been the Mayo Clinic’s Healthcare Information Coordination Committee chair.
 

Core Clinical Partners (Tulsa, Okla.) has announced it will join with Hillcrest HealthCare System (Tulsa, Okla.) to provide hospitalist services to Hillcrest’s eight sites across Oklahoma. The partnership will begin at four locations in December 2021, and four others in March 2022.

In expanding its services, Core Clinical Partners will create 70 new physician positions, as well as a systemwide medical director. Core will manage hospitalist operations at Hillcrest Medical Center, Hillcrest Hospital South, Hillcrest Hospital Pryor, Hillcrest Hospital Claremore, Bailey Medical Center, Hillcrest Hospital Cushing, Hillcrest Hospital Henryetta, and Tulsa Spine and Specialty Hospital.

Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc, FHM, recently became chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora. He had previously been the chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Michigan Health system. He assumed his new role in October 2021.

Dr. Chopra, who specializes in research and mentorship in patient safety, helped create innovations in care delivery at the University of Michigan, including direct care hospitalist services at VA Ann Arbor Health Care and two other community hospitals.

In his safety-conscious research, Dr. Chopra focuses on preventing complications created within the hospital environment. He also is the first hospitalist to be named deputy editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine. He has written more than 250 peer-reviewed articles. Among the myriad awards he has received, Dr. Chopra recently earned the Kaiser Permanente Award for Clinical Teaching at the UM School of Medicine.
 

Steve Phillipson, MD, FHM, has been named regional director of hospital medicine at Aspirus Health (Wausau, Wisc.). Dr. Phillipson will oversee the hospitalist programs at 17 Aspirus hospitals in Wisconsin and Michigan.

Dr. Phillipson has worked with Aspirus since 2009, with stints in the emergency department and as a hospitalist. As Aspirus Wausau Hospital director of medicine, he chaired the facility’s COVID-19 treatment team.
 

Hackensack (N.J.) Meridian University Medical Center has hired Patricia (Patti) L. Fisher, MD, MHA, to be the institution’s chief medical officer. Dr. Fisher joined the medical center from Central Vermont Medical Center where she served as chief medical officer and chief safety officer, with direct oversight of hospital risk management, operations of all hospital-based services, IS services and quality including patient safety and regulatory compliance.

As a board-certified hospitalist, Dr. Fisher also served as clinical assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Vermont, Burlington. Dr. Fisher earned her medical degree from The University of Texas in Houston and completed residency through Forbes Family Practice Residency in Pittsburgh.
 

Martin Chaney, MD, has been chosen by the Maury Regional Health Board of Trustees to serve as interim chief executive officer. He was formerly the chief medical officer at MRH, which is based in Columbia, Tenn. Dr. Chaney began his new role in October, replacing Alan Watson, the CEO since 2012.

Dr. Chaney has spent 18 of his 25 years in medicine with MRH, where most recently he has focused on clinical quality, physician recruitment, and establishing and expanding the hospital medicine program.
 

Hyung (Harry) Cho, MD, SFHM, has been placed on Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Innovators list for 2021, getting recognized for innovation and leadership in creating value and safety initiatives in New York City’s public health system. Dr. Cho became NYC Health + Hospitals’ first chief value officer in 2019, and his programs have created an estimated $11 million in savings per year by preventing unnecessary testing and treatment that can lead to patient harm.

A member of the Society of Hospital Medicine’s editorial advisory board, Dr. Cho is also SHM’s hospitalist liaison with the COVID-19 Real-Time Learning Network, which collaborates with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
 

Raymond Kiser, MD, a hospitalist and nephrologist at Columbus (Ind.) Regional Health, has been named the Douglas J. Leonard Caregiver of the Year. The award is given by the Indiana Hospital Association to health care workers whose care is considered exemplary by both peers and patients.

Dr. Kiser has been with CRH for 7 years, including stints as associate chief medical officer and chief of staff.
 

Justin Buchholz, DO, has been elevated to medical director of the hospitalist teams at Regional Medical Center (Alamosa, Colo.) and Conejos County Hospital (La Jara, Colo.). Dr. Buchholz has been a full-time hospitalist and assistant medical director at Parkview Medical Center (Pueblo, Colo.) for the past 3 years. He also worked on a part-time basis seeing patients at the Regional Medical Center.

Dr. Buchholz completed his residency at Parkview Medical Center and was named Resident of the Year in his final year with the internal medicine program.
 

Kenneth Mishark, MD, SFHM, a hospitalist with the Mayo Clinic Hospital (Tucson, Ariz.), will serve on the board of directors for Anigent, a drug diversion-prevention company based in Chesterfield, Mo. He will be charged with helping Anigent better serve health systems with its drug-diversion software.

Dr. Mishark is vice-chair of diversion prevention across the whole Mayo Clinic. A one-time physician in the United States Air Force, Dr. Mishark previously has been the Mayo Clinic’s Healthcare Information Coordination Committee chair.
 

Core Clinical Partners (Tulsa, Okla.) has announced it will join with Hillcrest HealthCare System (Tulsa, Okla.) to provide hospitalist services to Hillcrest’s eight sites across Oklahoma. The partnership will begin at four locations in December 2021, and four others in March 2022.

In expanding its services, Core Clinical Partners will create 70 new physician positions, as well as a systemwide medical director. Core will manage hospitalist operations at Hillcrest Medical Center, Hillcrest Hospital South, Hillcrest Hospital Pryor, Hillcrest Hospital Claremore, Bailey Medical Center, Hillcrest Hospital Cushing, Hillcrest Hospital Henryetta, and Tulsa Spine and Specialty Hospital.

Chi-Cheng Huang, MD, SFHM, was recently was named one of the Notable Asian/Pacific American Physicians in U.S. History by the American Board of Internal Medicine. May was Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. Dr. Huang is the executive medical director and service line director of general medicine and hospital medicine within the Wake Forest Baptist Health System (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and associate professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine.

Dr. Huang is a board-certified hospitalist and pediatrician, and he is the founder of the Bolivian Children Project, a non-profit organization that focuses on sheltering street children in La Paz and other areas of Bolivia. Dr. Huang was inspired to start the project during a year sabbatical from medical school. He worked at an orphanage and cared for children who were victims of physical abuse. The Bolivian Children Project supports those children, and Dr. Huang’s book, When Invisible Children Sing, tells their story.
 

Joshua Lenchus, DO, RPh, SFHM, has been elected president of the Florida Medical Association. It is the first time in its history that the FMA will have a DO as its president. Dr. Lenchus is a hospitalist and chief medical officer at the Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Mark V. Williams, MD, MHM, will join Washington University School of Medicine and BJC HealthCare, both in St. Louis, as professor and chief for the Division of Hospital Medicine in October 2021. Dr. Williams is currently professor and director of the Center for Health Services Research at the University of Kentucky and chief quality officer at UK HealthCare, both in Lexington.

Dr. Williams was a founding member of the Society of Hospital Medicine, one of the first two elected members of the Board of SHM, its former president, founding editor of the Journal of Hospital Medicine, and principal investigator for Project BOOST. He established the first hospitalist program at a public hospital (Grady Memorial in Atlanta) in 1998, and later became the founding chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine in 2007 at Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago. At the University of Kentucky, he established the Center for Health Services Research and the Division of Hospital Medicine in 2014.

At Washington University, Dr. Williams will be tasked with translating the division of hospital medicine’s scholarly work, innovation, and research into practice improvement, focusing on developing new systems of health care delivery that are patient-centered, cost effective, and provide outstanding value.
 

Jordan Messler, MD, SFHM, has been named the new chief medical officer at Glytec (Waltham, Mass.), where he has worked as executive director of clinical practice since 2018. Dr. Messler will be tasked with leading strategy and product development while also supporting efforts in quality care, customer relations, and delivery of products.

Glytec provides insulin management software across the care continuum and is touted as the only cloud-based software provider of its kind. Dr. Messler’s background includes expertise in glycemic management. In addition, he still works as a hospitalist at Morton Plant Hospitalist Group (Clearwater, Fla.).

Dr. Messler is a senior fellow with SHM and is physician editor of SHM’s official blog The Hospital Leader.
 

Tiffani Maycock, DO, recently was named to the Board of Directors for the American Board of Family Medicine. Dr. Maycock is director of the Selma Family Medicine Residency Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she is an assistant professor in the department of family medicine.

Dr. Maycock helped create hospitalist services at Vaughan Regional Medical Center (Selma, Ala.) – Selma Family Medicine’s primary teaching site – and currently serves as its hospitalist director and on its Medical Executive Committee. She has worked at the facility since 2017.
 

Preetham Talari, MD, SFHM, has been named associate chief of quality safety for the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Kentucky’s UK HealthCare (Lexington, Ky.). Dr. Talari is an associate professor of internal medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the UK College of Medicine.

Over the last decade, Dr. Talari’s work in quality, safety, and health care leadership has positioned him as a leader in several UK Healthcare committees and transformation projects. In his role as associate chief, Dr. Talari collaborates with hospital medicine directors, enterprise leadership, and medical education leadership to improve the system’s quality of care.

Dr. Talari is the president of the Kentucky chapter of SHM and is a member of SHM’s Hospital Quality and Patient Safety Committee.
 

Adrian Paraschiv, MD, FHM, is being recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Trusted Internist and Hospitalist in the field of Medicine in acknowledgment of his commitment to providing quality health care services.

Dr. Paraschiv is a board-certified Internist at Garnet Health Medical Center in Middletown, N.Y. He also serves in an administrative capacity as the Garnet Health Doctors Hospitalist Division’s Associate Program Director. He is also the Director of Clinical Informatics. Dr. Paraschiv is certified as the Epic physician builder in analytics, information technology, and improved documentation.
 

DCH Health System (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) recently selected Capstone Health Services Foundation (Tuscaloosa) and IN Compass Health Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.) as its joint hospitalist service provider for facilities in Northport and Tuscaloosa. Capstone will provide the physicians, while IN Compass will handle staffing management of the hospitalists, as well as day-to-day operations and calculating quality care metrics. The agreement is slated to begin on Oct. 1, 2021, at Northport Medical Center, and on Nov. 1, 2021, at DCH Regional Medical Center.

Capstone is an affiliate of the University of Alabama and oversees University Hospitalist Group, which currently provides hospitalists at DCH Regional Medical Center. Its partnership with IN Compass includes working together in recruiting and hiring physicians for both facilities.
 

UPMC Kane Medical Center (Kane, Pa.) recently announced the creation of a virtual telemedicine hospitalist program. UPMC Kane is partnering with the UPMC Center for Community Hospitalist Medicine to create this new mode of care.

Telehospitalists will care for UPMC Kane patients using advanced diagnostic technique and high-definition cameras. The physicians will bring expert service to Kane 24 hours per day utilizing physicians and specialists based in Pittsburgh. Those hospitalists will work with local nurse practitioners and support staff and deliver care to Kane patients.
 

Wake Forest Baptist Health (Winston-Salem, N.C.) has launched a Hospitalist at Home program with hopes of keeping patients safe while also reducing time they spend in the hospital. The telehealth initiative kicked into gear at the start of 2021 and considered the first of its kind in the region.

Patients who qualify for the program establish a plan before they leave the hospital. Wake Forest Baptist Health paramedics makes home visits and conducts care with a hospitalist reviewing the visit virtually. Those appointments continue until the patient does not require monitoring.

The impetus of creating the program was the COVID-19 pandemic, however, Wake Forest said it expects to care for between 75-100 patients through Hospitalist at Home at any one time.

Chi-Cheng Huang, MD, SFHM, was recently was named one of the Notable Asian/Pacific American Physicians in U.S. History by the American Board of Internal Medicine. May was Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. Dr. Huang is the executive medical director and service line director of general medicine and hospital medicine within the Wake Forest Baptist Health System (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and associate professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine.

Dr. Huang is a board-certified hospitalist and pediatrician, and he is the founder of the Bolivian Children Project, a non-profit organization that focuses on sheltering street children in La Paz and other areas of Bolivia. Dr. Huang was inspired to start the project during a year sabbatical from medical school. He worked at an orphanage and cared for children who were victims of physical abuse. The Bolivian Children Project supports those children, and Dr. Huang’s book, When Invisible Children Sing, tells their story.
 

Joshua Lenchus, DO, RPh, SFHM, has been elected president of the Florida Medical Association. It is the first time in its history that the FMA will have a DO as its president. Dr. Lenchus is a hospitalist and chief medical officer at the Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Mark V. Williams, MD, MHM, will join Washington University School of Medicine and BJC HealthCare, both in St. Louis, as professor and chief for the Division of Hospital Medicine in October 2021. Dr. Williams is currently professor and director of the Center for Health Services Research at the University of Kentucky and chief quality officer at UK HealthCare, both in Lexington.

Dr. Williams was a founding member of the Society of Hospital Medicine, one of the first two elected members of the Board of SHM, its former president, founding editor of the Journal of Hospital Medicine, and principal investigator for Project BOOST. He established the first hospitalist program at a public hospital (Grady Memorial in Atlanta) in 1998, and later became the founding chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine in 2007 at Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago. At the University of Kentucky, he established the Center for Health Services Research and the Division of Hospital Medicine in 2014.

At Washington University, Dr. Williams will be tasked with translating the division of hospital medicine’s scholarly work, innovation, and research into practice improvement, focusing on developing new systems of health care delivery that are patient-centered, cost effective, and provide outstanding value.
 

Jordan Messler, MD, SFHM, has been named the new chief medical officer at Glytec (Waltham, Mass.), where he has worked as executive director of clinical practice since 2018. Dr. Messler will be tasked with leading strategy and product development while also supporting efforts in quality care, customer relations, and delivery of products.

Glytec provides insulin management software across the care continuum and is touted as the only cloud-based software provider of its kind. Dr. Messler’s background includes expertise in glycemic management. In addition, he still works as a hospitalist at Morton Plant Hospitalist Group (Clearwater, Fla.).

Dr. Messler is a senior fellow with SHM and is physician editor of SHM’s official blog The Hospital Leader.
 

Tiffani Maycock, DO, recently was named to the Board of Directors for the American Board of Family Medicine. Dr. Maycock is director of the Selma Family Medicine Residency Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she is an assistant professor in the department of family medicine.

Dr. Maycock helped create hospitalist services at Vaughan Regional Medical Center (Selma, Ala.) – Selma Family Medicine’s primary teaching site – and currently serves as its hospitalist director and on its Medical Executive Committee. She has worked at the facility since 2017.
 

Preetham Talari, MD, SFHM, has been named associate chief of quality safety for the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Kentucky’s UK HealthCare (Lexington, Ky.). Dr. Talari is an associate professor of internal medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the UK College of Medicine.

Over the last decade, Dr. Talari’s work in quality, safety, and health care leadership has positioned him as a leader in several UK Healthcare committees and transformation projects. In his role as associate chief, Dr. Talari collaborates with hospital medicine directors, enterprise leadership, and medical education leadership to improve the system’s quality of care.

Dr. Talari is the president of the Kentucky chapter of SHM and is a member of SHM’s Hospital Quality and Patient Safety Committee.
 

Adrian Paraschiv, MD, FHM, is being recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Trusted Internist and Hospitalist in the field of Medicine in acknowledgment of his commitment to providing quality health care services.

Dr. Paraschiv is a board-certified Internist at Garnet Health Medical Center in Middletown, N.Y. He also serves in an administrative capacity as the Garnet Health Doctors Hospitalist Division’s Associate Program Director. He is also the Director of Clinical Informatics. Dr. Paraschiv is certified as the Epic physician builder in analytics, information technology, and improved documentation.
 

DCH Health System (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) recently selected Capstone Health Services Foundation (Tuscaloosa) and IN Compass Health Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.) as its joint hospitalist service provider for facilities in Northport and Tuscaloosa. Capstone will provide the physicians, while IN Compass will handle staffing management of the hospitalists, as well as day-to-day operations and calculating quality care metrics. The agreement is slated to begin on Oct. 1, 2021, at Northport Medical Center, and on Nov. 1, 2021, at DCH Regional Medical Center.

Capstone is an affiliate of the University of Alabama and oversees University Hospitalist Group, which currently provides hospitalists at DCH Regional Medical Center. Its partnership with IN Compass includes working together in recruiting and hiring physicians for both facilities.
 

UPMC Kane Medical Center (Kane, Pa.) recently announced the creation of a virtual telemedicine hospitalist program. UPMC Kane is partnering with the UPMC Center for Community Hospitalist Medicine to create this new mode of care.

Telehospitalists will care for UPMC Kane patients using advanced diagnostic technique and high-definition cameras. The physicians will bring expert service to Kane 24 hours per day utilizing physicians and specialists based in Pittsburgh. Those hospitalists will work with local nurse practitioners and support staff and deliver care to Kane patients.
 

Wake Forest Baptist Health (Winston-Salem, N.C.) has launched a Hospitalist at Home program with hopes of keeping patients safe while also reducing time they spend in the hospital. The telehealth initiative kicked into gear at the start of 2021 and considered the first of its kind in the region.

Patients who qualify for the program establish a plan before they leave the hospital. Wake Forest Baptist Health paramedics makes home visits and conducts care with a hospitalist reviewing the visit virtually. Those appointments continue until the patient does not require monitoring.

The impetus of creating the program was the COVID-19 pandemic, however, Wake Forest said it expects to care for between 75-100 patients through Hospitalist at Home at any one time.

Chi-Cheng Huang, MD, SFHM, was recently was named one of the Notable Asian/Pacific American Physicians in U.S. History by the American Board of Internal Medicine. May was Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. Dr. Huang is the executive medical director and service line director of general medicine and hospital medicine within the Wake Forest Baptist Health System (Winston-Salem, N.C.) and associate professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine.

Dr. Huang is a board-certified hospitalist and pediatrician, and he is the founder of the Bolivian Children Project, a non-profit organization that focuses on sheltering street children in La Paz and other areas of Bolivia. Dr. Huang was inspired to start the project during a year sabbatical from medical school. He worked at an orphanage and cared for children who were victims of physical abuse. The Bolivian Children Project supports those children, and Dr. Huang’s book, When Invisible Children Sing, tells their story.
 

Joshua Lenchus, DO, RPh, SFHM, has been elected president of the Florida Medical Association. It is the first time in its history that the FMA will have a DO as its president. Dr. Lenchus is a hospitalist and chief medical officer at the Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Mark V. Williams, MD, MHM, will join Washington University School of Medicine and BJC HealthCare, both in St. Louis, as professor and chief for the Division of Hospital Medicine in October 2021. Dr. Williams is currently professor and director of the Center for Health Services Research at the University of Kentucky and chief quality officer at UK HealthCare, both in Lexington.

Dr. Williams was a founding member of the Society of Hospital Medicine, one of the first two elected members of the Board of SHM, its former president, founding editor of the Journal of Hospital Medicine, and principal investigator for Project BOOST. He established the first hospitalist program at a public hospital (Grady Memorial in Atlanta) in 1998, and later became the founding chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine in 2007 at Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago. At the University of Kentucky, he established the Center for Health Services Research and the Division of Hospital Medicine in 2014.

At Washington University, Dr. Williams will be tasked with translating the division of hospital medicine’s scholarly work, innovation, and research into practice improvement, focusing on developing new systems of health care delivery that are patient-centered, cost effective, and provide outstanding value.
 

Jordan Messler, MD, SFHM, has been named the new chief medical officer at Glytec (Waltham, Mass.), where he has worked as executive director of clinical practice since 2018. Dr. Messler will be tasked with leading strategy and product development while also supporting efforts in quality care, customer relations, and delivery of products.

Glytec provides insulin management software across the care continuum and is touted as the only cloud-based software provider of its kind. Dr. Messler’s background includes expertise in glycemic management. In addition, he still works as a hospitalist at Morton Plant Hospitalist Group (Clearwater, Fla.).

Dr. Messler is a senior fellow with SHM and is physician editor of SHM’s official blog The Hospital Leader.
 

Tiffani Maycock, DO, recently was named to the Board of Directors for the American Board of Family Medicine. Dr. Maycock is director of the Selma Family Medicine Residency Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she is an assistant professor in the department of family medicine.

Dr. Maycock helped create hospitalist services at Vaughan Regional Medical Center (Selma, Ala.) – Selma Family Medicine’s primary teaching site – and currently serves as its hospitalist director and on its Medical Executive Committee. She has worked at the facility since 2017.
 

Preetham Talari, MD, SFHM, has been named associate chief of quality safety for the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Kentucky’s UK HealthCare (Lexington, Ky.). Dr. Talari is an associate professor of internal medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the UK College of Medicine.

Over the last decade, Dr. Talari’s work in quality, safety, and health care leadership has positioned him as a leader in several UK Healthcare committees and transformation projects. In his role as associate chief, Dr. Talari collaborates with hospital medicine directors, enterprise leadership, and medical education leadership to improve the system’s quality of care.

Dr. Talari is the president of the Kentucky chapter of SHM and is a member of SHM’s Hospital Quality and Patient Safety Committee.
 

Adrian Paraschiv, MD, FHM, is being recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Trusted Internist and Hospitalist in the field of Medicine in acknowledgment of his commitment to providing quality health care services.

Dr. Paraschiv is a board-certified Internist at Garnet Health Medical Center in Middletown, N.Y. He also serves in an administrative capacity as the Garnet Health Doctors Hospitalist Division’s Associate Program Director. He is also the Director of Clinical Informatics. Dr. Paraschiv is certified as the Epic physician builder in analytics, information technology, and improved documentation.
 

DCH Health System (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) recently selected Capstone Health Services Foundation (Tuscaloosa) and IN Compass Health Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.) as its joint hospitalist service provider for facilities in Northport and Tuscaloosa. Capstone will provide the physicians, while IN Compass will handle staffing management of the hospitalists, as well as day-to-day operations and calculating quality care metrics. The agreement is slated to begin on Oct. 1, 2021, at Northport Medical Center, and on Nov. 1, 2021, at DCH Regional Medical Center.

Capstone is an affiliate of the University of Alabama and oversees University Hospitalist Group, which currently provides hospitalists at DCH Regional Medical Center. Its partnership with IN Compass includes working together in recruiting and hiring physicians for both facilities.
 

UPMC Kane Medical Center (Kane, Pa.) recently announced the creation of a virtual telemedicine hospitalist program. UPMC Kane is partnering with the UPMC Center for Community Hospitalist Medicine to create this new mode of care.

Telehospitalists will care for UPMC Kane patients using advanced diagnostic technique and high-definition cameras. The physicians will bring expert service to Kane 24 hours per day utilizing physicians and specialists based in Pittsburgh. Those hospitalists will work with local nurse practitioners and support staff and deliver care to Kane patients.
 

Wake Forest Baptist Health (Winston-Salem, N.C.) has launched a Hospitalist at Home program with hopes of keeping patients safe while also reducing time they spend in the hospital. The telehealth initiative kicked into gear at the start of 2021 and considered the first of its kind in the region.

Patients who qualify for the program establish a plan before they leave the hospital. Wake Forest Baptist Health paramedics makes home visits and conducts care with a hospitalist reviewing the visit virtually. Those appointments continue until the patient does not require monitoring.

The impetus of creating the program was the COVID-19 pandemic, however, Wake Forest said it expects to care for between 75-100 patients through Hospitalist at Home at any one time.

Vineet Arora, MD, MHM, has been appointed dean of medical education for the University of Chicago’s biological sciences division. She began her assignment on July 1, 2021, taking over for the retiring Halina Brukner, MD, a 36-year veteran in medicine.

Dr. Arora will take charge of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education for the University of Chicago’s medical education program, with a focus on simulation-based training. She also will represent the medical school within the university proper, as well as with outside organizations such as the Association of American Colleges, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Dr. Arora has been a faculty member at Chicago Medicine since 2005. She is a professor of medicine, assistant dean for scholarship and discovery, associate chief medical officer for clinical learning, and Master of the Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators. Dr. Arora is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and is on the board of directors for the American Board of Internal Medicine.
 

Zeshan Anwar, MD, SFHM, was named new chief of the section of inpatient internal medicine and director of hospitalist services at Reading Hospital–Tower Health (West Reading, Pa.) in January 2021. He provides support to hospitalists, nurses, pharmacists, care managers, support service professionals and others.

Previously, Dr. Anwar worked as vice chair of the department of medicine and medical director of the hospitalist program at Evangelical Community Hospital (Lewisburg, Pa.). He has a background in education, having taught as an assistant professor of clinical medicine at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine (Scranton, Pa.) since 2014.
 

Katherine Hochman, MD, FHM, has been appointed the first director of the newly established division of hospital medicine at NYU Langone Health in New York. Dr. Hochman is the founder of NYU Langone’s hospitalist program (2004), and the new division was established this year in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Hochman will be charged with expanding on the hospitalist program, analyzing best practices, and educating residents, clinicians, and other health care professionals. She plans to emphasize mentorship and creating career pathways for the program’s students.

Daniel Asher, MD, recently was named a Top Hospitalist by Continental Who’s Who. Dr. Asher is a night hospitalist at Piedmont Columbus Regional (Columbus, Ga.), where he works with residents and consults with other physicians regarding patients at the facility.

Dr. Asher has spent his entire post–medical school career at Piedmont, serving as a family medicine resident from 2018 to 2020. He was named chief resident in 2019-20, and has continued his efforts at the hospital since then, including front-line work with COVID-19 patients.
 

Nicholas O’Dell, MD, has been selected as medical director of the Murray Medical Associates hospitalist program at Murray-Calloway County Hospital (Murray, Ky.). Dr. O’Dell, who has been a hospitalist at the facility since 2014, has served as chief medical officer at the hospital since February 2020. He will continue in his role as CMO, but will no longer see clinical patients.

Brad Tate, MD, has been elevated to associate chief medical officer at Children’s Medical Center Plano (Texas), starting in the new leadership role in June 2021.

Dr. Tate has been affiliated with Children’s Health since 2010, when he was a hospitalist in Plano, as well as medical director of the Children’s Health Medical Group Hospitalist Group. He advanced that program from Plano to the network’s Dallas campus.
 

Touchette Regional Hospital (Centreville, Ill.) has contracted with MEDS Emergency Physician Staffing and Management (O’Fallon, Ill.) to provide inpatient physician and nurse practitioner staffing. The move is an extension of the existing relationship between the two entities, as MEDS has provided emergency room staffing services at Touchette since 2019.

Vineet Arora, MD, MHM, has been appointed dean of medical education for the University of Chicago’s biological sciences division. She began her assignment on July 1, 2021, taking over for the retiring Halina Brukner, MD, a 36-year veteran in medicine.

Dr. Arora will take charge of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education for the University of Chicago’s medical education program, with a focus on simulation-based training. She also will represent the medical school within the university proper, as well as with outside organizations such as the Association of American Colleges, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Dr. Arora has been a faculty member at Chicago Medicine since 2005. She is a professor of medicine, assistant dean for scholarship and discovery, associate chief medical officer for clinical learning, and Master of the Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators. Dr. Arora is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and is on the board of directors for the American Board of Internal Medicine.
 

Zeshan Anwar, MD, SFHM, was named new chief of the section of inpatient internal medicine and director of hospitalist services at Reading Hospital–Tower Health (West Reading, Pa.) in January 2021. He provides support to hospitalists, nurses, pharmacists, care managers, support service professionals and others.

Previously, Dr. Anwar worked as vice chair of the department of medicine and medical director of the hospitalist program at Evangelical Community Hospital (Lewisburg, Pa.). He has a background in education, having taught as an assistant professor of clinical medicine at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine (Scranton, Pa.) since 2014.
 

Katherine Hochman, MD, FHM, has been appointed the first director of the newly established division of hospital medicine at NYU Langone Health in New York. Dr. Hochman is the founder of NYU Langone’s hospitalist program (2004), and the new division was established this year in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Hochman will be charged with expanding on the hospitalist program, analyzing best practices, and educating residents, clinicians, and other health care professionals. She plans to emphasize mentorship and creating career pathways for the program’s students.

Daniel Asher, MD, recently was named a Top Hospitalist by Continental Who’s Who. Dr. Asher is a night hospitalist at Piedmont Columbus Regional (Columbus, Ga.), where he works with residents and consults with other physicians regarding patients at the facility.

Dr. Asher has spent his entire post–medical school career at Piedmont, serving as a family medicine resident from 2018 to 2020. He was named chief resident in 2019-20, and has continued his efforts at the hospital since then, including front-line work with COVID-19 patients.
 

Nicholas O’Dell, MD, has been selected as medical director of the Murray Medical Associates hospitalist program at Murray-Calloway County Hospital (Murray, Ky.). Dr. O’Dell, who has been a hospitalist at the facility since 2014, has served as chief medical officer at the hospital since February 2020. He will continue in his role as CMO, but will no longer see clinical patients.

Brad Tate, MD, has been elevated to associate chief medical officer at Children’s Medical Center Plano (Texas), starting in the new leadership role in June 2021.

Dr. Tate has been affiliated with Children’s Health since 2010, when he was a hospitalist in Plano, as well as medical director of the Children’s Health Medical Group Hospitalist Group. He advanced that program from Plano to the network’s Dallas campus.
 

Touchette Regional Hospital (Centreville, Ill.) has contracted with MEDS Emergency Physician Staffing and Management (O’Fallon, Ill.) to provide inpatient physician and nurse practitioner staffing. The move is an extension of the existing relationship between the two entities, as MEDS has provided emergency room staffing services at Touchette since 2019.

Vineet Arora, MD, MHM, has been appointed dean of medical education for the University of Chicago’s biological sciences division. She began her assignment on July 1, 2021, taking over for the retiring Halina Brukner, MD, a 36-year veteran in medicine.

Dr. Arora will take charge of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education for the University of Chicago’s medical education program, with a focus on simulation-based training. She also will represent the medical school within the university proper, as well as with outside organizations such as the Association of American Colleges, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Dr. Arora has been a faculty member at Chicago Medicine since 2005. She is a professor of medicine, assistant dean for scholarship and discovery, associate chief medical officer for clinical learning, and Master of the Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators. Dr. Arora is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and is on the board of directors for the American Board of Internal Medicine.
 

Zeshan Anwar, MD, SFHM, was named new chief of the section of inpatient internal medicine and director of hospitalist services at Reading Hospital–Tower Health (West Reading, Pa.) in January 2021. He provides support to hospitalists, nurses, pharmacists, care managers, support service professionals and others.

Previously, Dr. Anwar worked as vice chair of the department of medicine and medical director of the hospitalist program at Evangelical Community Hospital (Lewisburg, Pa.). He has a background in education, having taught as an assistant professor of clinical medicine at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine (Scranton, Pa.) since 2014.
 

Katherine Hochman, MD, FHM, has been appointed the first director of the newly established division of hospital medicine at NYU Langone Health in New York. Dr. Hochman is the founder of NYU Langone’s hospitalist program (2004), and the new division was established this year in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Hochman will be charged with expanding on the hospitalist program, analyzing best practices, and educating residents, clinicians, and other health care professionals. She plans to emphasize mentorship and creating career pathways for the program’s students.

Daniel Asher, MD, recently was named a Top Hospitalist by Continental Who’s Who. Dr. Asher is a night hospitalist at Piedmont Columbus Regional (Columbus, Ga.), where he works with residents and consults with other physicians regarding patients at the facility.

Dr. Asher has spent his entire post–medical school career at Piedmont, serving as a family medicine resident from 2018 to 2020. He was named chief resident in 2019-20, and has continued his efforts at the hospital since then, including front-line work with COVID-19 patients.
 

Nicholas O’Dell, MD, has been selected as medical director of the Murray Medical Associates hospitalist program at Murray-Calloway County Hospital (Murray, Ky.). Dr. O’Dell, who has been a hospitalist at the facility since 2014, has served as chief medical officer at the hospital since February 2020. He will continue in his role as CMO, but will no longer see clinical patients.

Brad Tate, MD, has been elevated to associate chief medical officer at Children’s Medical Center Plano (Texas), starting in the new leadership role in June 2021.

Dr. Tate has been affiliated with Children’s Health since 2010, when he was a hospitalist in Plano, as well as medical director of the Children’s Health Medical Group Hospitalist Group. He advanced that program from Plano to the network’s Dallas campus.
 

Touchette Regional Hospital (Centreville, Ill.) has contracted with MEDS Emergency Physician Staffing and Management (O’Fallon, Ill.) to provide inpatient physician and nurse practitioner staffing. The move is an extension of the existing relationship between the two entities, as MEDS has provided emergency room staffing services at Touchette since 2019.

Rebecca Jaffe, MD, has been elevated to the permanent role of director of the division of hospital medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Jaffe has been the interim director since July 2020.

In the position, Dr. Jaffe will be responsible for leading an academic hospital medicine division that includes 36 faculty and 10 advanced-practice providers. She said her focus will be on developing physicians, advanced providers, and the inpatient practice model used while “educating the next generation of creative and compassionate clinicians.”

Dr. Jaffe is associate professor of medicine at Jefferson’s Sidney Kimmel Medical College and the hospital’s director of clinical learning environment improvement.
 

Christopher Freer, DO, recently was named the new senior vice president for emergency hospital medicine for RWJBarnabas Health (West Orange, N.J.). In a concurrent move, Maninder “Dolly” Abraham, MD, was named RWJBH’s chief of hospital medicine. The selections were made as RWJBH has become a direct employer for Envision Physician Services, a former hospital partner.

Dr. Freer has spent the past 5 years with RWJBH, where he has served as emergency services system director since 2015. He previously worked in leadership roles at Saint Barnabas Medical Center.

Dr. Abraham was previously medical director of Saint Barnabas’ hospitalist program, as well as a regional medical director with Envision during her 17 years of experience.
 

Sheetal Patel, MD, has been named the new regional medical director for Eagle Telemedicine (Cincinnati, Ohio), a physician-led company that provides telehospitalist services to hospitals around the country.

Dr. Patel will work closely with hospital administrators and medical directors to provide high-level telemedicine services, as well as devising processes and guidelines to guarantee streamlined care across Eagle’s facilities.

Dr. Patel has spent 4 years as a telehospitalist for Eagle, where she has been in charge of guiding on-site and remote staff members and providing training to new telehospitalists.
 

Timothy Crone, MD, MBA, has been elevated to the role of president of Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital (Canton, Ohio). The move comes as Cleveland Clinic recently added Mercy Medical Center as a full member of its health system.

Dr. Crone has served as chief medical officer at Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital in Cleveland since 2019. Previously, he was a medical director in enterprise business intelligence and analytics in medical operations at Cleveland Clinic’s main campus. He also was vice chairman of hospital medicine and has served as a staff hospitalist since 2010.

In addition to his role as president, Dr. Crone plans to work in patient care at Mercy Hospital.
 

Just prior to the start of 2021, Wake Forest Baptist Health (Winston-Salem, N.C.) established a “Hospitalist at Home” program with the goal of reducing the length of time patients spend in the hospital.

Hospitalist at Home was created as the COVID-19 pandemic threatened hospital capacity. Wakehealth’s innovative approach involves developing an at-home plan with each patient before they leave the facility. Patients include those with COVID-19 who are stable but require supplemental oxygen or have diseases that need intravenous medication administration.

At home, a Wakehealth paramedic visits the patient while a hospitalist communicates and reviews the patient’s care plan via smartphone, tablet, or computer. The visits continue until the patient’s hospital-related care is complete.
 

The Multicare Health System (Tacoma, Wash.) has bulked up its hospitalist program by partnering with nationwide, physician-led health care provider Sound Physicians. The goal is to provide health care management at a regional level instead of individually per hospital.

Sound Physicians, which already contracts to provide hospitalist services at two Multicare facilities in Washington, transitioned its services to three other facilities as of April 5, 2021.
 

Conemaugh Meyersdale Medical Center (Meyersdale, Pa.) has started a hospitalist program at its facility in Somerset County. The program will be led by nurse practitioners Zeke Feyock and Sarah Piscatello.

Rebecca Jaffe, MD, has been elevated to the permanent role of director of the division of hospital medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Jaffe has been the interim director since July 2020.

In the position, Dr. Jaffe will be responsible for leading an academic hospital medicine division that includes 36 faculty and 10 advanced-practice providers. She said her focus will be on developing physicians, advanced providers, and the inpatient practice model used while “educating the next generation of creative and compassionate clinicians.”

Dr. Jaffe is associate professor of medicine at Jefferson’s Sidney Kimmel Medical College and the hospital’s director of clinical learning environment improvement.
 

Christopher Freer, DO, recently was named the new senior vice president for emergency hospital medicine for RWJBarnabas Health (West Orange, N.J.). In a concurrent move, Maninder “Dolly” Abraham, MD, was named RWJBH’s chief of hospital medicine. The selections were made as RWJBH has become a direct employer for Envision Physician Services, a former hospital partner.

Dr. Freer has spent the past 5 years with RWJBH, where he has served as emergency services system director since 2015. He previously worked in leadership roles at Saint Barnabas Medical Center.

Dr. Abraham was previously medical director of Saint Barnabas’ hospitalist program, as well as a regional medical director with Envision during her 17 years of experience.
 

Sheetal Patel, MD, has been named the new regional medical director for Eagle Telemedicine (Cincinnati, Ohio), a physician-led company that provides telehospitalist services to hospitals around the country.

Dr. Patel will work closely with hospital administrators and medical directors to provide high-level telemedicine services, as well as devising processes and guidelines to guarantee streamlined care across Eagle’s facilities.

Dr. Patel has spent 4 years as a telehospitalist for Eagle, where she has been in charge of guiding on-site and remote staff members and providing training to new telehospitalists.
 

Timothy Crone, MD, MBA, has been elevated to the role of president of Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital (Canton, Ohio). The move comes as Cleveland Clinic recently added Mercy Medical Center as a full member of its health system.

Dr. Crone has served as chief medical officer at Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital in Cleveland since 2019. Previously, he was a medical director in enterprise business intelligence and analytics in medical operations at Cleveland Clinic’s main campus. He also was vice chairman of hospital medicine and has served as a staff hospitalist since 2010.

In addition to his role as president, Dr. Crone plans to work in patient care at Mercy Hospital.
 

Just prior to the start of 2021, Wake Forest Baptist Health (Winston-Salem, N.C.) established a “Hospitalist at Home” program with the goal of reducing the length of time patients spend in the hospital.

Hospitalist at Home was created as the COVID-19 pandemic threatened hospital capacity. Wakehealth’s innovative approach involves developing an at-home plan with each patient before they leave the facility. Patients include those with COVID-19 who are stable but require supplemental oxygen or have diseases that need intravenous medication administration.

At home, a Wakehealth paramedic visits the patient while a hospitalist communicates and reviews the patient’s care plan via smartphone, tablet, or computer. The visits continue until the patient’s hospital-related care is complete.
 

The Multicare Health System (Tacoma, Wash.) has bulked up its hospitalist program by partnering with nationwide, physician-led health care provider Sound Physicians. The goal is to provide health care management at a regional level instead of individually per hospital.

Sound Physicians, which already contracts to provide hospitalist services at two Multicare facilities in Washington, transitioned its services to three other facilities as of April 5, 2021.
 

Conemaugh Meyersdale Medical Center (Meyersdale, Pa.) has started a hospitalist program at its facility in Somerset County. The program will be led by nurse practitioners Zeke Feyock and Sarah Piscatello.

Rebecca Jaffe, MD, has been elevated to the permanent role of director of the division of hospital medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Jaffe has been the interim director since July 2020.

In the position, Dr. Jaffe will be responsible for leading an academic hospital medicine division that includes 36 faculty and 10 advanced-practice providers. She said her focus will be on developing physicians, advanced providers, and the inpatient practice model used while “educating the next generation of creative and compassionate clinicians.”

Dr. Jaffe is associate professor of medicine at Jefferson’s Sidney Kimmel Medical College and the hospital’s director of clinical learning environment improvement.
 

Christopher Freer, DO, recently was named the new senior vice president for emergency hospital medicine for RWJBarnabas Health (West Orange, N.J.). In a concurrent move, Maninder “Dolly” Abraham, MD, was named RWJBH’s chief of hospital medicine. The selections were made as RWJBH has become a direct employer for Envision Physician Services, a former hospital partner.

Dr. Freer has spent the past 5 years with RWJBH, where he has served as emergency services system director since 2015. He previously worked in leadership roles at Saint Barnabas Medical Center.

Dr. Abraham was previously medical director of Saint Barnabas’ hospitalist program, as well as a regional medical director with Envision during her 17 years of experience.
 

Sheetal Patel, MD, has been named the new regional medical director for Eagle Telemedicine (Cincinnati, Ohio), a physician-led company that provides telehospitalist services to hospitals around the country.

Dr. Patel will work closely with hospital administrators and medical directors to provide high-level telemedicine services, as well as devising processes and guidelines to guarantee streamlined care across Eagle’s facilities.

Dr. Patel has spent 4 years as a telehospitalist for Eagle, where she has been in charge of guiding on-site and remote staff members and providing training to new telehospitalists.
 

Timothy Crone, MD, MBA, has been elevated to the role of president of Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital (Canton, Ohio). The move comes as Cleveland Clinic recently added Mercy Medical Center as a full member of its health system.

Dr. Crone has served as chief medical officer at Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital in Cleveland since 2019. Previously, he was a medical director in enterprise business intelligence and analytics in medical operations at Cleveland Clinic’s main campus. He also was vice chairman of hospital medicine and has served as a staff hospitalist since 2010.

In addition to his role as president, Dr. Crone plans to work in patient care at Mercy Hospital.
 

Just prior to the start of 2021, Wake Forest Baptist Health (Winston-Salem, N.C.) established a “Hospitalist at Home” program with the goal of reducing the length of time patients spend in the hospital.

Hospitalist at Home was created as the COVID-19 pandemic threatened hospital capacity. Wakehealth’s innovative approach involves developing an at-home plan with each patient before they leave the facility. Patients include those with COVID-19 who are stable but require supplemental oxygen or have diseases that need intravenous medication administration.

At home, a Wakehealth paramedic visits the patient while a hospitalist communicates and reviews the patient’s care plan via smartphone, tablet, or computer. The visits continue until the patient’s hospital-related care is complete.
 

The Multicare Health System (Tacoma, Wash.) has bulked up its hospitalist program by partnering with nationwide, physician-led health care provider Sound Physicians. The goal is to provide health care management at a regional level instead of individually per hospital.

Sound Physicians, which already contracts to provide hospitalist services at two Multicare facilities in Washington, transitioned its services to three other facilities as of April 5, 2021.
 

Conemaugh Meyersdale Medical Center (Meyersdale, Pa.) has started a hospitalist program at its facility in Somerset County. The program will be led by nurse practitioners Zeke Feyock and Sarah Piscatello.

Vivek H. Murthy, MD, was named by President Joe Biden as his selection for Surgeon General of the United States. Dr. Murthy filled the same role from 2014-17 during President Barack Obama’s administration.

Dr. Murthy was a hospitalist and an instructor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School prior to becoming surgeon general the first time. He also is the founder of Doctors for America.
 

David Tupponce, MD, recently was named the new president of Allegheny Health Network’s Grove City (Pa.) Medical Center. He takes over for interim president Allan Klapper, MD, who filled the position since August 2020.

Dr. Tupponce comes to Grove City Medical Center after a successful tenure as president of Central Maine Medical Center (Lewiston, Maine), where he grew its physician group and fine-tuned the hospital quality program. Prior to that, he was chief executive officer at Tenet Healthcare’s Abrazo Scottsdale (Ariz.) Campus and CEO at Paradise Valley Hospital (Phoenix, Ariz.).

Malcolm Mar Fan, MD, has been elevated to medical director of the Hospitalist Group at Evangelical Community Hospital (Lewisburg, Pa.). In the newly established position, Dr. Mar Fan will oversee all operations for the facility’s hospitalist program.

Dr. Mar Fan has been a hospitalist at Evangelical since 2014 after completing his internist residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. He has played a major role on Evangelical’s Peri-operative Glucose Management Committee and its Informatics Committee for Impatient and Outpatient Electronic Health Records.
 

Lyon County (Kansas) recently announced that Ladun Oyenuga, MD, has been appointed as public health officer for the county. She began her tenure on January 1.

Dr. Oyenuga is a hospitalist at Newman Regional Health (Emporia, Kan.). She is a native of Nigeria and did her residency at Harlem (N.Y.) Hospital Center. She has been with Newman since 2017.
 

Cherese Mari Laulhere BirthCare Center (Long Beach, Calif.) recently announced the addition of an OB hospitalist program at Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital. OB hospitalists, or laborists, care for women with obstetrical issues while in the hospital.

At Cherese Mari Laulhere, OB hospitalists will be on hand 24 hours a day to assist patients’ OB/GYNs or to fill in if the personal physician cannot get to the hospital quickly.
 

Hospitalists at Nationwide Children’s (Columbus, Ohio) are now providing care for children who are hospitalized at Adena Regional Medical Center (Chillicothe, Ohio).

It is an expansion of an ongoing partnership between the two hospitals. Adena and Nationwide Children’s have been working together in helping to care for children in the south central and southern Ohio region since 2011. Nationwide Children’s hospitalists will round in special care and the well-baby nursery at Adena, as well as provide education programs for Adena providers and staff.
 

MultiCare Health System (Tacoma, Wash.) has announced that it will expand its hospitalist program partnership with Sound Physicians, also based in Tacoma, to create a region-wide, cohesive group of providers. The goal is to help ensure efficient management of inpatient populations as a region instead of at the individual hospital level, and will allow MultiCare to implement standard tools, processes and regionwide best practices.

The hospitalist programs at Tacoma General Hospital, Allenmore Hospital and Covington Medical Center will transition to Sound Physicians on April 5, 2021. Sound hospitalists are already working at three other MultiCare facilities – Tacoma General Hospital, Allenmore Hospital, and Covington Medical Center.

Vivek H. Murthy, MD, was named by President Joe Biden as his selection for Surgeon General of the United States. Dr. Murthy filled the same role from 2014-17 during President Barack Obama’s administration.

Dr. Murthy was a hospitalist and an instructor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School prior to becoming surgeon general the first time. He also is the founder of Doctors for America.
 

David Tupponce, MD, recently was named the new president of Allegheny Health Network’s Grove City (Pa.) Medical Center. He takes over for interim president Allan Klapper, MD, who filled the position since August 2020.

Dr. Tupponce comes to Grove City Medical Center after a successful tenure as president of Central Maine Medical Center (Lewiston, Maine), where he grew its physician group and fine-tuned the hospital quality program. Prior to that, he was chief executive officer at Tenet Healthcare’s Abrazo Scottsdale (Ariz.) Campus and CEO at Paradise Valley Hospital (Phoenix, Ariz.).

Malcolm Mar Fan, MD, has been elevated to medical director of the Hospitalist Group at Evangelical Community Hospital (Lewisburg, Pa.). In the newly established position, Dr. Mar Fan will oversee all operations for the facility’s hospitalist program.

Dr. Mar Fan has been a hospitalist at Evangelical since 2014 after completing his internist residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. He has played a major role on Evangelical’s Peri-operative Glucose Management Committee and its Informatics Committee for Impatient and Outpatient Electronic Health Records.
 

Lyon County (Kansas) recently announced that Ladun Oyenuga, MD, has been appointed as public health officer for the county. She began her tenure on January 1.

Dr. Oyenuga is a hospitalist at Newman Regional Health (Emporia, Kan.). She is a native of Nigeria and did her residency at Harlem (N.Y.) Hospital Center. She has been with Newman since 2017.
 

Cherese Mari Laulhere BirthCare Center (Long Beach, Calif.) recently announced the addition of an OB hospitalist program at Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital. OB hospitalists, or laborists, care for women with obstetrical issues while in the hospital.

At Cherese Mari Laulhere, OB hospitalists will be on hand 24 hours a day to assist patients’ OB/GYNs or to fill in if the personal physician cannot get to the hospital quickly.
 

Hospitalists at Nationwide Children’s (Columbus, Ohio) are now providing care for children who are hospitalized at Adena Regional Medical Center (Chillicothe, Ohio).

It is an expansion of an ongoing partnership between the two hospitals. Adena and Nationwide Children’s have been working together in helping to care for children in the south central and southern Ohio region since 2011. Nationwide Children’s hospitalists will round in special care and the well-baby nursery at Adena, as well as provide education programs for Adena providers and staff.
 

MultiCare Health System (Tacoma, Wash.) has announced that it will expand its hospitalist program partnership with Sound Physicians, also based in Tacoma, to create a region-wide, cohesive group of providers. The goal is to help ensure efficient management of inpatient populations as a region instead of at the individual hospital level, and will allow MultiCare to implement standard tools, processes and regionwide best practices.

The hospitalist programs at Tacoma General Hospital, Allenmore Hospital and Covington Medical Center will transition to Sound Physicians on April 5, 2021. Sound hospitalists are already working at three other MultiCare facilities – Tacoma General Hospital, Allenmore Hospital, and Covington Medical Center.

Vivek H. Murthy, MD, was named by President Joe Biden as his selection for Surgeon General of the United States. Dr. Murthy filled the same role from 2014-17 during President Barack Obama’s administration.

Dr. Murthy was a hospitalist and an instructor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School prior to becoming surgeon general the first time. He also is the founder of Doctors for America.
 

David Tupponce, MD, recently was named the new president of Allegheny Health Network’s Grove City (Pa.) Medical Center. He takes over for interim president Allan Klapper, MD, who filled the position since August 2020.

Dr. Tupponce comes to Grove City Medical Center after a successful tenure as president of Central Maine Medical Center (Lewiston, Maine), where he grew its physician group and fine-tuned the hospital quality program. Prior to that, he was chief executive officer at Tenet Healthcare’s Abrazo Scottsdale (Ariz.) Campus and CEO at Paradise Valley Hospital (Phoenix, Ariz.).

Malcolm Mar Fan, MD, has been elevated to medical director of the Hospitalist Group at Evangelical Community Hospital (Lewisburg, Pa.). In the newly established position, Dr. Mar Fan will oversee all operations for the facility’s hospitalist program.

Dr. Mar Fan has been a hospitalist at Evangelical since 2014 after completing his internist residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. He has played a major role on Evangelical’s Peri-operative Glucose Management Committee and its Informatics Committee for Impatient and Outpatient Electronic Health Records.
 

Lyon County (Kansas) recently announced that Ladun Oyenuga, MD, has been appointed as public health officer for the county. She began her tenure on January 1.

Dr. Oyenuga is a hospitalist at Newman Regional Health (Emporia, Kan.). She is a native of Nigeria and did her residency at Harlem (N.Y.) Hospital Center. She has been with Newman since 2017.
 

Cherese Mari Laulhere BirthCare Center (Long Beach, Calif.) recently announced the addition of an OB hospitalist program at Miller Children’s & Women’s Hospital. OB hospitalists, or laborists, care for women with obstetrical issues while in the hospital.

At Cherese Mari Laulhere, OB hospitalists will be on hand 24 hours a day to assist patients’ OB/GYNs or to fill in if the personal physician cannot get to the hospital quickly.
 

Hospitalists at Nationwide Children’s (Columbus, Ohio) are now providing care for children who are hospitalized at Adena Regional Medical Center (Chillicothe, Ohio).

It is an expansion of an ongoing partnership between the two hospitals. Adena and Nationwide Children’s have been working together in helping to care for children in the south central and southern Ohio region since 2011. Nationwide Children’s hospitalists will round in special care and the well-baby nursery at Adena, as well as provide education programs for Adena providers and staff.
 

MultiCare Health System (Tacoma, Wash.) has announced that it will expand its hospitalist program partnership with Sound Physicians, also based in Tacoma, to create a region-wide, cohesive group of providers. The goal is to help ensure efficient management of inpatient populations as a region instead of at the individual hospital level, and will allow MultiCare to implement standard tools, processes and regionwide best practices.

The hospitalist programs at Tacoma General Hospital, Allenmore Hospital and Covington Medical Center will transition to Sound Physicians on April 5, 2021. Sound hospitalists are already working at three other MultiCare facilities – Tacoma General Hospital, Allenmore Hospital, and Covington Medical Center.

Daniel Steinberg, MD, SFHM, recently was among 10 medical educators across the county to receive the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education 2021 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award. Considered the most prestigious award given to graduate medical education program directors, it “recognizes program directors who have fostered innovation and improvement in their residency/fellowship program and served as exemplary role models for residents and fellows.”

Dr. Steinberg was program director for internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, for 11 years (2009-20) before becoming associate dean for quality and patient safety in graduate medical education in September. He is a professor of medicine and medical education at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.

Dr. Steinberg also is a leader within SHM, serving on the education, physicians-in-training, and annual conference committees. He is the course director for SHM Converge 2021.
 

Ann Sheehy, MD, SFHM, was honored in a virtual ceremony in December 2020 by the University of Wisconsin celebrating Physician Excellence Award winners. She was presented with the Physician Excellence Leadership Award.

Dr. Sheehy is division chief of the division of hospital medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and chair of the SHM Public Policy Committee.
 

Donald Schmidt, MD, has been named chief medical officer and vice president of medical affairs at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals in Omaha and Lincoln, Neb. He will replace Thomas Stalder, MD, who is retiring. Dr. Schmidt brings 20 years of experience to Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals, including his most recent post as a hospitalist and medical director of the hospitalist program at Catholic Health Initiatives Health St. Elizabeth (Lincoln, Neb.).

Dr. Schmidt currently serves on the board of directors for OneHealth Nebraska, an independent physicians association.
 

Ezinne Nwude, MD, recently was presented with the SCP Health Excellence in Leadership Award during the organization’s Medical Leadership Conference. Dr. Nwude is chief of staff and hospitalist at the Medical Center of South Arkansas, El Dorado.

SCP Health coordinates staffing for more than 7,500 providers covering 30 states and is one of the nation’s largest clinical practice management companies. More than 420 medical leaders nationwide were eligible for the award. Dr. Nwude has focused on positive culture and health education since her start at MSCA in 2014. She has been chief of staff since October 2018.
 

RWJ Barnabas Health (West Orange, N.J.) recently named two new health system leaders from among its hospital medicine ranks, as Christopher Freer, MD, was tabbed as senior vice president for emergency and hospital medicine, and Maninder “Dolly” Abraham, MD, was picked as chief of hospital medicine. The moves were made as RWJBH takes over as the direct employer for Envision Physician Services in Nashville, Tenn.

Dr. Freer was elevated to his new role after spending the past 5 years as RWJBH’s system director for emergency services. He has nearly 3 decades of experience in hospital medicine.

Dr. Abraham comes to his new position after directing the hospitalist program at Saint Barnabas and serving as regional medical director with Envision.
 

Newman Regional Health (Emporia, Kan.) recently established a partnership with FreeState Healthcare (Wichita, Kan.). FreeState will be responsible for providing hospitalist services to adult inpatients and observation patients at Newman Regional Health during overnights.

Daniel Steinberg, MD, SFHM, recently was among 10 medical educators across the county to receive the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education 2021 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award. Considered the most prestigious award given to graduate medical education program directors, it “recognizes program directors who have fostered innovation and improvement in their residency/fellowship program and served as exemplary role models for residents and fellows.”

Dr. Steinberg was program director for internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, for 11 years (2009-20) before becoming associate dean for quality and patient safety in graduate medical education in September. He is a professor of medicine and medical education at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.

Dr. Steinberg also is a leader within SHM, serving on the education, physicians-in-training, and annual conference committees. He is the course director for SHM Converge 2021.
 

Ann Sheehy, MD, SFHM, was honored in a virtual ceremony in December 2020 by the University of Wisconsin celebrating Physician Excellence Award winners. She was presented with the Physician Excellence Leadership Award.

Dr. Sheehy is division chief of the division of hospital medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and chair of the SHM Public Policy Committee.
 

Donald Schmidt, MD, has been named chief medical officer and vice president of medical affairs at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals in Omaha and Lincoln, Neb. He will replace Thomas Stalder, MD, who is retiring. Dr. Schmidt brings 20 years of experience to Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals, including his most recent post as a hospitalist and medical director of the hospitalist program at Catholic Health Initiatives Health St. Elizabeth (Lincoln, Neb.).

Dr. Schmidt currently serves on the board of directors for OneHealth Nebraska, an independent physicians association.
 

Ezinne Nwude, MD, recently was presented with the SCP Health Excellence in Leadership Award during the organization’s Medical Leadership Conference. Dr. Nwude is chief of staff and hospitalist at the Medical Center of South Arkansas, El Dorado.

SCP Health coordinates staffing for more than 7,500 providers covering 30 states and is one of the nation’s largest clinical practice management companies. More than 420 medical leaders nationwide were eligible for the award. Dr. Nwude has focused on positive culture and health education since her start at MSCA in 2014. She has been chief of staff since October 2018.
 

RWJ Barnabas Health (West Orange, N.J.) recently named two new health system leaders from among its hospital medicine ranks, as Christopher Freer, MD, was tabbed as senior vice president for emergency and hospital medicine, and Maninder “Dolly” Abraham, MD, was picked as chief of hospital medicine. The moves were made as RWJBH takes over as the direct employer for Envision Physician Services in Nashville, Tenn.

Dr. Freer was elevated to his new role after spending the past 5 years as RWJBH’s system director for emergency services. He has nearly 3 decades of experience in hospital medicine.

Dr. Abraham comes to his new position after directing the hospitalist program at Saint Barnabas and serving as regional medical director with Envision.
 

Newman Regional Health (Emporia, Kan.) recently established a partnership with FreeState Healthcare (Wichita, Kan.). FreeState will be responsible for providing hospitalist services to adult inpatients and observation patients at Newman Regional Health during overnights.

Daniel Steinberg, MD, SFHM, recently was among 10 medical educators across the county to receive the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education 2021 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award. Considered the most prestigious award given to graduate medical education program directors, it “recognizes program directors who have fostered innovation and improvement in their residency/fellowship program and served as exemplary role models for residents and fellows.”

Dr. Steinberg was program director for internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, for 11 years (2009-20) before becoming associate dean for quality and patient safety in graduate medical education in September. He is a professor of medicine and medical education at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.

Dr. Steinberg also is a leader within SHM, serving on the education, physicians-in-training, and annual conference committees. He is the course director for SHM Converge 2021.
 

Ann Sheehy, MD, SFHM, was honored in a virtual ceremony in December 2020 by the University of Wisconsin celebrating Physician Excellence Award winners. She was presented with the Physician Excellence Leadership Award.

Dr. Sheehy is division chief of the division of hospital medicine at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and chair of the SHM Public Policy Committee.
 

Donald Schmidt, MD, has been named chief medical officer and vice president of medical affairs at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals in Omaha and Lincoln, Neb. He will replace Thomas Stalder, MD, who is retiring. Dr. Schmidt brings 20 years of experience to Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals, including his most recent post as a hospitalist and medical director of the hospitalist program at Catholic Health Initiatives Health St. Elizabeth (Lincoln, Neb.).

Dr. Schmidt currently serves on the board of directors for OneHealth Nebraska, an independent physicians association.
 

Ezinne Nwude, MD, recently was presented with the SCP Health Excellence in Leadership Award during the organization’s Medical Leadership Conference. Dr. Nwude is chief of staff and hospitalist at the Medical Center of South Arkansas, El Dorado.

SCP Health coordinates staffing for more than 7,500 providers covering 30 states and is one of the nation’s largest clinical practice management companies. More than 420 medical leaders nationwide were eligible for the award. Dr. Nwude has focused on positive culture and health education since her start at MSCA in 2014. She has been chief of staff since October 2018.
 

RWJ Barnabas Health (West Orange, N.J.) recently named two new health system leaders from among its hospital medicine ranks, as Christopher Freer, MD, was tabbed as senior vice president for emergency and hospital medicine, and Maninder “Dolly” Abraham, MD, was picked as chief of hospital medicine. The moves were made as RWJBH takes over as the direct employer for Envision Physician Services in Nashville, Tenn.

Dr. Freer was elevated to his new role after spending the past 5 years as RWJBH’s system director for emergency services. He has nearly 3 decades of experience in hospital medicine.

Dr. Abraham comes to his new position after directing the hospitalist program at Saint Barnabas and serving as regional medical director with Envision.
 

Newman Regional Health (Emporia, Kan.) recently established a partnership with FreeState Healthcare (Wichita, Kan.). FreeState will be responsible for providing hospitalist services to adult inpatients and observation patients at Newman Regional Health during overnights.

Erin Shaughnessy, MD, assumed the role of director of pediatric hospital medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Children’s of Alabama, also in Birmingham, on Sept. 1. Dr. Shaughnessy has done research in improving outcomes in hospitalized children, as well as improving communication between physicians and pediatric patients’ families during care transitions.

Prior to joining UAB and Children’s of Alabama, Dr. Shaughnessy was division chief of hospital medicine at Phoenix (Ariz.) Children’s Hospital while also serving as an associate professor at the University of Arizona, Phoenix.
 

Chandra Lingisetty, MD, MBA, MHCM, was recently named chief administrative officer for Baptist Health Physician Partners, Arkansas. BHPP is Baptist Health’s clinically integrated network (CIN) with more than 1,600 providers across the state.

Baptist Health Arkansas is the state’s largest not for profit health system with 12 hospitals, hundreds of provider clinics, a nursing school, and a graduate medical education residency program. Prior to his promotion, he worked in Baptist Health System as a hospitalist for 10 years, served on the board of managers at BHPP, and strategized COVID-19 care management protocols and medical staff preparedness as part of surge planning and capacity expansion. In his new role, he is focused on leading the clinically integrated network toward value-based care. He is also the cofounder and inaugural president of the Arkansas state chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine.
 

Grace Farris, MD, recently accepted a position with the division of hospital medicine at the Dell Medical School in Austin where she will be an assistant professor of internal medicine, as well as a working hospitalist.

Dr. Farris worked as chief of hospital medicine at Mount Sinai West Hospital in Manhattan from January 2017 until accepting her new position with Dell. In addition, she publishes a monthly comics column in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Her visual storytelling through comics has appeared in several media outlets, and she has penned literal columns as well, including one recently in the New York Times about living apart from her children while treating COVID-19 patients in the emergency room.
 

Dell Medical School has also named a new division chief of hospital medicine. Read Pierce, MD, made the move to Texas from the University of Colorado at Denver, Aurora. Dr. Pierce will also serve as associate chair of faculty development of internal medicine at Dell. He is eager to build on his experience and passion for developing people, creating outstanding culture, and changing complex systems in innovative, sustainable ways.

Dr. Pierce worked at University of Colorado for the past 8 years, serving as the associate director of the school’s Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety and Efficiency (IHQSE), a program he co-founded. Prior to that, Dr. Pierce was chief resident at the University of San Francisco medical school and later founded the hospital medicine center at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
 

Gurinder Kaur, MD, was recently named medical director of the Health Hospitalist Program at St. Joseph’s Health Rome (N.Y.) Memorial Hospital. Dr. Kaur’s focus will be on improving infrastructure to allow for the highest quality of care possible. She will oversee the facility’s crew of eight hospitalists, who rotate to be available 24 hours per day.

Dr. Kaur comes to Rome from St. Joseph’s Health in Syracuse, N.Y., where she was chief resident and a member of the hospitalist team.
 

Colin McMahon, MD, was recently appointed chief of hospital medicine at Eastern Niagara Hospital in Lockport, N.Y., where he will oversee the hospitalist program. He comes to ENH after serving as medical director of hospital operations at Buffalo (N.Y.) General Medical Center.

Dr. McMahon has worked in medicine for a quarter of a century. He also is the president and founder of Dimensions of Internal Medicine and Pediatric Care, PC (DMP). Associates from DMP Medicine make up the hospitalist team at ENH.
 

Sam Antonios, MD, has been promoted to chief clinical officer of Ascension Kansas, the parent group of Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Wichita, where Dr. Antonios has served as chief medical officer for the past 4 years. Dr. Antonios has emerged as a leader within Ascension Kansas during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prior to his appointment at Via Christi, he worked at that facility as a hospitalist and as medical director of information systems. Dr. Antonios is a board-certified internist.
 

Bret J. Rudy, MD, was named a Top 25 Healthcare Innovator by Modern Healthcare magazine. Dr. Rudy is chief of hospital operations and senior vice president at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn in New York, and the magazine cited his efforts in elevating the quality, safety, and accountability of the facility, which merged with NYU Langone Health in 2016.

Dr. Rudy has established a 24-hour hospitalist service, added full-time emergency faculty, and reduced hospital wait times, among other patient-experience benchmarks, since his appointment at Langone-Brooklyn.

Dr. Rudy is a board-certified pediatrician who has served on the National Institutes of Health’s HIV research networks, including a spot on the White House Advisory Committee on Adolescents for the Office of National AIDS Policy.
 

Nasim Afsar, MD, MBA, SFHM, a past president of SHM, was recently named chief operating officer at UCI Health in Orange, Calif. Dr. Afsar served previously as chief ambulatory officer and chief medical officer for accountable care organizations at UCI Health.

Anthony J. Macchiavelli, MD, FHM, was recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a “Top Distinguished Hospitalist” with AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, in Atlantic City, N.J. He has been with AtlantiCare for the past ten years, and currently serves as medical director for the PACE program, as well as medical director for the Anticoagulation Clinic.

Dr. Macchiavelli has been involved in the development of 3 different hospital medicine programs throughout his career and was the founder of the Associates in Hospital Medicine program at Methodist Division of Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals. He serves as a mentor for SHM’s VTE-FAST Program, and has served on the Standards Review Panel for the Joint Commission developing the National Patient Safety Goal for anticoagulation therapy.

Erin Shaughnessy, MD, assumed the role of director of pediatric hospital medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Children’s of Alabama, also in Birmingham, on Sept. 1. Dr. Shaughnessy has done research in improving outcomes in hospitalized children, as well as improving communication between physicians and pediatric patients’ families during care transitions.

Prior to joining UAB and Children’s of Alabama, Dr. Shaughnessy was division chief of hospital medicine at Phoenix (Ariz.) Children’s Hospital while also serving as an associate professor at the University of Arizona, Phoenix.
 

Chandra Lingisetty, MD, MBA, MHCM, was recently named chief administrative officer for Baptist Health Physician Partners, Arkansas. BHPP is Baptist Health’s clinically integrated network (CIN) with more than 1,600 providers across the state.

Baptist Health Arkansas is the state’s largest not for profit health system with 12 hospitals, hundreds of provider clinics, a nursing school, and a graduate medical education residency program. Prior to his promotion, he worked in Baptist Health System as a hospitalist for 10 years, served on the board of managers at BHPP, and strategized COVID-19 care management protocols and medical staff preparedness as part of surge planning and capacity expansion. In his new role, he is focused on leading the clinically integrated network toward value-based care. He is also the cofounder and inaugural president of the Arkansas state chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine.
 

Grace Farris, MD, recently accepted a position with the division of hospital medicine at the Dell Medical School in Austin where she will be an assistant professor of internal medicine, as well as a working hospitalist.

Dr. Farris worked as chief of hospital medicine at Mount Sinai West Hospital in Manhattan from January 2017 until accepting her new position with Dell. In addition, she publishes a monthly comics column in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Her visual storytelling through comics has appeared in several media outlets, and she has penned literal columns as well, including one recently in the New York Times about living apart from her children while treating COVID-19 patients in the emergency room.
 

Dell Medical School has also named a new division chief of hospital medicine. Read Pierce, MD, made the move to Texas from the University of Colorado at Denver, Aurora. Dr. Pierce will also serve as associate chair of faculty development of internal medicine at Dell. He is eager to build on his experience and passion for developing people, creating outstanding culture, and changing complex systems in innovative, sustainable ways.

Dr. Pierce worked at University of Colorado for the past 8 years, serving as the associate director of the school’s Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety and Efficiency (IHQSE), a program he co-founded. Prior to that, Dr. Pierce was chief resident at the University of San Francisco medical school and later founded the hospital medicine center at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
 

Gurinder Kaur, MD, was recently named medical director of the Health Hospitalist Program at St. Joseph’s Health Rome (N.Y.) Memorial Hospital. Dr. Kaur’s focus will be on improving infrastructure to allow for the highest quality of care possible. She will oversee the facility’s crew of eight hospitalists, who rotate to be available 24 hours per day.

Dr. Kaur comes to Rome from St. Joseph’s Health in Syracuse, N.Y., where she was chief resident and a member of the hospitalist team.
 

Colin McMahon, MD, was recently appointed chief of hospital medicine at Eastern Niagara Hospital in Lockport, N.Y., where he will oversee the hospitalist program. He comes to ENH after serving as medical director of hospital operations at Buffalo (N.Y.) General Medical Center.

Dr. McMahon has worked in medicine for a quarter of a century. He also is the president and founder of Dimensions of Internal Medicine and Pediatric Care, PC (DMP). Associates from DMP Medicine make up the hospitalist team at ENH.
 

Sam Antonios, MD, has been promoted to chief clinical officer of Ascension Kansas, the parent group of Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Wichita, where Dr. Antonios has served as chief medical officer for the past 4 years. Dr. Antonios has emerged as a leader within Ascension Kansas during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prior to his appointment at Via Christi, he worked at that facility as a hospitalist and as medical director of information systems. Dr. Antonios is a board-certified internist.
 

Bret J. Rudy, MD, was named a Top 25 Healthcare Innovator by Modern Healthcare magazine. Dr. Rudy is chief of hospital operations and senior vice president at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn in New York, and the magazine cited his efforts in elevating the quality, safety, and accountability of the facility, which merged with NYU Langone Health in 2016.

Dr. Rudy has established a 24-hour hospitalist service, added full-time emergency faculty, and reduced hospital wait times, among other patient-experience benchmarks, since his appointment at Langone-Brooklyn.

Dr. Rudy is a board-certified pediatrician who has served on the National Institutes of Health’s HIV research networks, including a spot on the White House Advisory Committee on Adolescents for the Office of National AIDS Policy.
 

Nasim Afsar, MD, MBA, SFHM, a past president of SHM, was recently named chief operating officer at UCI Health in Orange, Calif. Dr. Afsar served previously as chief ambulatory officer and chief medical officer for accountable care organizations at UCI Health.

Anthony J. Macchiavelli, MD, FHM, was recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a “Top Distinguished Hospitalist” with AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, in Atlantic City, N.J. He has been with AtlantiCare for the past ten years, and currently serves as medical director for the PACE program, as well as medical director for the Anticoagulation Clinic.

Dr. Macchiavelli has been involved in the development of 3 different hospital medicine programs throughout his career and was the founder of the Associates in Hospital Medicine program at Methodist Division of Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals. He serves as a mentor for SHM’s VTE-FAST Program, and has served on the Standards Review Panel for the Joint Commission developing the National Patient Safety Goal for anticoagulation therapy.

Erin Shaughnessy, MD, assumed the role of director of pediatric hospital medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Children’s of Alabama, also in Birmingham, on Sept. 1. Dr. Shaughnessy has done research in improving outcomes in hospitalized children, as well as improving communication between physicians and pediatric patients’ families during care transitions.

Prior to joining UAB and Children’s of Alabama, Dr. Shaughnessy was division chief of hospital medicine at Phoenix (Ariz.) Children’s Hospital while also serving as an associate professor at the University of Arizona, Phoenix.
 

Chandra Lingisetty, MD, MBA, MHCM, was recently named chief administrative officer for Baptist Health Physician Partners, Arkansas. BHPP is Baptist Health’s clinically integrated network (CIN) with more than 1,600 providers across the state.

Baptist Health Arkansas is the state’s largest not for profit health system with 12 hospitals, hundreds of provider clinics, a nursing school, and a graduate medical education residency program. Prior to his promotion, he worked in Baptist Health System as a hospitalist for 10 years, served on the board of managers at BHPP, and strategized COVID-19 care management protocols and medical staff preparedness as part of surge planning and capacity expansion. In his new role, he is focused on leading the clinically integrated network toward value-based care. He is also the cofounder and inaugural president of the Arkansas state chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine.
 

Grace Farris, MD, recently accepted a position with the division of hospital medicine at the Dell Medical School in Austin where she will be an assistant professor of internal medicine, as well as a working hospitalist.

Dr. Farris worked as chief of hospital medicine at Mount Sinai West Hospital in Manhattan from January 2017 until accepting her new position with Dell. In addition, she publishes a monthly comics column in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Her visual storytelling through comics has appeared in several media outlets, and she has penned literal columns as well, including one recently in the New York Times about living apart from her children while treating COVID-19 patients in the emergency room.
 

Dell Medical School has also named a new division chief of hospital medicine. Read Pierce, MD, made the move to Texas from the University of Colorado at Denver, Aurora. Dr. Pierce will also serve as associate chair of faculty development of internal medicine at Dell. He is eager to build on his experience and passion for developing people, creating outstanding culture, and changing complex systems in innovative, sustainable ways.

Dr. Pierce worked at University of Colorado for the past 8 years, serving as the associate director of the school’s Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety and Efficiency (IHQSE), a program he co-founded. Prior to that, Dr. Pierce was chief resident at the University of San Francisco medical school and later founded the hospital medicine center at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
 

Gurinder Kaur, MD, was recently named medical director of the Health Hospitalist Program at St. Joseph’s Health Rome (N.Y.) Memorial Hospital. Dr. Kaur’s focus will be on improving infrastructure to allow for the highest quality of care possible. She will oversee the facility’s crew of eight hospitalists, who rotate to be available 24 hours per day.

Dr. Kaur comes to Rome from St. Joseph’s Health in Syracuse, N.Y., where she was chief resident and a member of the hospitalist team.
 

Colin McMahon, MD, was recently appointed chief of hospital medicine at Eastern Niagara Hospital in Lockport, N.Y., where he will oversee the hospitalist program. He comes to ENH after serving as medical director of hospital operations at Buffalo (N.Y.) General Medical Center.

Dr. McMahon has worked in medicine for a quarter of a century. He also is the president and founder of Dimensions of Internal Medicine and Pediatric Care, PC (DMP). Associates from DMP Medicine make up the hospitalist team at ENH.
 

Sam Antonios, MD, has been promoted to chief clinical officer of Ascension Kansas, the parent group of Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Wichita, where Dr. Antonios has served as chief medical officer for the past 4 years. Dr. Antonios has emerged as a leader within Ascension Kansas during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prior to his appointment at Via Christi, he worked at that facility as a hospitalist and as medical director of information systems. Dr. Antonios is a board-certified internist.
 

Bret J. Rudy, MD, was named a Top 25 Healthcare Innovator by Modern Healthcare magazine. Dr. Rudy is chief of hospital operations and senior vice president at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn in New York, and the magazine cited his efforts in elevating the quality, safety, and accountability of the facility, which merged with NYU Langone Health in 2016.

Dr. Rudy has established a 24-hour hospitalist service, added full-time emergency faculty, and reduced hospital wait times, among other patient-experience benchmarks, since his appointment at Langone-Brooklyn.

Dr. Rudy is a board-certified pediatrician who has served on the National Institutes of Health’s HIV research networks, including a spot on the White House Advisory Committee on Adolescents for the Office of National AIDS Policy.
 

Nasim Afsar, MD, MBA, SFHM, a past president of SHM, was recently named chief operating officer at UCI Health in Orange, Calif. Dr. Afsar served previously as chief ambulatory officer and chief medical officer for accountable care organizations at UCI Health.

Anthony J. Macchiavelli, MD, FHM, was recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a “Top Distinguished Hospitalist” with AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, in Atlantic City, N.J. He has been with AtlantiCare for the past ten years, and currently serves as medical director for the PACE program, as well as medical director for the Anticoagulation Clinic.

Dr. Macchiavelli has been involved in the development of 3 different hospital medicine programs throughout his career and was the founder of the Associates in Hospital Medicine program at Methodist Division of Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals. He serves as a mentor for SHM’s VTE-FAST Program, and has served on the Standards Review Panel for the Joint Commission developing the National Patient Safety Goal for anticoagulation therapy.

The American Board of Internal Medicine has named David Pizzimenti, DO, to its board of trustees. The appointment comes with a 3-year term.

Dr. Pizzimenti has been a practicing internist in Mississippi since 2005. He currently serves as associate medical officer of acute care at North Mississippi Medical Center, Tupelo, where he also directs the hospitalist program and the internal medicine residency program. Prior to joining NMMC, he managed the same role at Magnolia Regional Health Center (Corinth, Miss.).

Dr. Pizzimenti is an inducted member of the American College of Osteopathic Internist College of Fellows, as well as a certified wound care specialist.



Tommy Ibrahim, MD, FHM, recently was named the new president and CEO for Bassett Healthcare Network, replacing William Streck, who had served in the role from 1984 to 2014, and then on an interim basis since 2018.

Dr. Ibrahim comes to Bassett from Integris Health, the largest nonprofit health care system in Oklahoma, where he was executive vice president and chief physician executive. He started his career as a hospitalist before moving into administration, and is a fellow in hospital medicine as well as a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Bassett Healthcare Network is based at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, N.Y., and includes four hospitals and more than two dozen primary care centers in eight New York counties.
 

Russell Kerbel, MD, MBA, has been named medical director for sepsis prevention at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since his arrival at UCLA in 2014, Dr. Kerbel – a hospitalist by training – has worked to increase awareness and standardize sepsis treatment through his advocacy, interdepartmental collaboration, and informatics knowledge.

Joshua Lenchus, DO, RPh, SFHM, was installed as vice president of the Florida Medical Association during the all-virtual 2020 FMA annual meeting in August. Dr. Lenchus is a hospitalist and chief medical officer at the Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Christopher Carpenter, MD, has been elevated to chief of staff at Natividad, a 172-bed, county-owned hospital in Salinas, Calif. Dr. Carpenter has served Natividad for the past 4 years, holding the positions of chief hospitalist, chief of service for pediatrics, vice chief of staff, and most recently director of pediatric services.

Dr. Carpenter’s term as chief of staff is limited to 2 years, during which he said his goals include promoting diversity within the facility’s leadership.

Prior to arriving at Natividad, Dr. Carpenter was instructor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Boston, as well as associate director of the Boston Children’s Hospital Pediatric Global Health Fellowship.


David Fagan, MD, recently was promoted to medical director at Mid-State Health Center (Plymouth, N.H.), where he has served for the past 10 years. The 30-year medical veteran began working in his new role in May 2020.

Previously, Dr. Fagan has served the facility as an internist and hospitalist, and he has been among the leaders at Mid-State in ensuring safety for patients and staff during the COVID-19 response.


The Carroll County Memorial Hospital (Carrolton, Mo.) recently announced its new hospitalist program, which officially began on June 1, 2020. CCMH officials said the focus of the hospitalists will be to maintain communication with primary care physicians once patients leave the hospital facility.

CCMH added three physicians to its staff to work in the hospitalist program: Reuben I. Thaker, MD; Samuel C. Evans, MD; and Charles C. Glendenning, DO.


NorthShore University HealthSystem (Evanston, Ill.) has agreed to purchase Northwest Community Healthcare, a single-hospital health system located in Arlington Heights, Ill. NCH will become a hospital hub for NorthShore in the northwest Chicago suburbs.

When the agreement is finalized, NorthShore’s stable of hospitals will rise to six in and around Chicago. The system also provides outpatient care, labwork, and pharmacy services.

The American Board of Internal Medicine has named David Pizzimenti, DO, to its board of trustees. The appointment comes with a 3-year term.

Dr. Pizzimenti has been a practicing internist in Mississippi since 2005. He currently serves as associate medical officer of acute care at North Mississippi Medical Center, Tupelo, where he also directs the hospitalist program and the internal medicine residency program. Prior to joining NMMC, he managed the same role at Magnolia Regional Health Center (Corinth, Miss.).

Dr. Pizzimenti is an inducted member of the American College of Osteopathic Internist College of Fellows, as well as a certified wound care specialist.



Tommy Ibrahim, MD, FHM, recently was named the new president and CEO for Bassett Healthcare Network, replacing William Streck, who had served in the role from 1984 to 2014, and then on an interim basis since 2018.

Dr. Ibrahim comes to Bassett from Integris Health, the largest nonprofit health care system in Oklahoma, where he was executive vice president and chief physician executive. He started his career as a hospitalist before moving into administration, and is a fellow in hospital medicine as well as a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Bassett Healthcare Network is based at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, N.Y., and includes four hospitals and more than two dozen primary care centers in eight New York counties.
 

Russell Kerbel, MD, MBA, has been named medical director for sepsis prevention at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since his arrival at UCLA in 2014, Dr. Kerbel – a hospitalist by training – has worked to increase awareness and standardize sepsis treatment through his advocacy, interdepartmental collaboration, and informatics knowledge.

Joshua Lenchus, DO, RPh, SFHM, was installed as vice president of the Florida Medical Association during the all-virtual 2020 FMA annual meeting in August. Dr. Lenchus is a hospitalist and chief medical officer at the Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Christopher Carpenter, MD, has been elevated to chief of staff at Natividad, a 172-bed, county-owned hospital in Salinas, Calif. Dr. Carpenter has served Natividad for the past 4 years, holding the positions of chief hospitalist, chief of service for pediatrics, vice chief of staff, and most recently director of pediatric services.

Dr. Carpenter’s term as chief of staff is limited to 2 years, during which he said his goals include promoting diversity within the facility’s leadership.

Prior to arriving at Natividad, Dr. Carpenter was instructor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Boston, as well as associate director of the Boston Children’s Hospital Pediatric Global Health Fellowship.


David Fagan, MD, recently was promoted to medical director at Mid-State Health Center (Plymouth, N.H.), where he has served for the past 10 years. The 30-year medical veteran began working in his new role in May 2020.

Previously, Dr. Fagan has served the facility as an internist and hospitalist, and he has been among the leaders at Mid-State in ensuring safety for patients and staff during the COVID-19 response.


The Carroll County Memorial Hospital (Carrolton, Mo.) recently announced its new hospitalist program, which officially began on June 1, 2020. CCMH officials said the focus of the hospitalists will be to maintain communication with primary care physicians once patients leave the hospital facility.

CCMH added three physicians to its staff to work in the hospitalist program: Reuben I. Thaker, MD; Samuel C. Evans, MD; and Charles C. Glendenning, DO.


NorthShore University HealthSystem (Evanston, Ill.) has agreed to purchase Northwest Community Healthcare, a single-hospital health system located in Arlington Heights, Ill. NCH will become a hospital hub for NorthShore in the northwest Chicago suburbs.

When the agreement is finalized, NorthShore’s stable of hospitals will rise to six in and around Chicago. The system also provides outpatient care, labwork, and pharmacy services.

The American Board of Internal Medicine has named David Pizzimenti, DO, to its board of trustees. The appointment comes with a 3-year term.

Dr. Pizzimenti has been a practicing internist in Mississippi since 2005. He currently serves as associate medical officer of acute care at North Mississippi Medical Center, Tupelo, where he also directs the hospitalist program and the internal medicine residency program. Prior to joining NMMC, he managed the same role at Magnolia Regional Health Center (Corinth, Miss.).

Dr. Pizzimenti is an inducted member of the American College of Osteopathic Internist College of Fellows, as well as a certified wound care specialist.



Tommy Ibrahim, MD, FHM, recently was named the new president and CEO for Bassett Healthcare Network, replacing William Streck, who had served in the role from 1984 to 2014, and then on an interim basis since 2018.

Dr. Ibrahim comes to Bassett from Integris Health, the largest nonprofit health care system in Oklahoma, where he was executive vice president and chief physician executive. He started his career as a hospitalist before moving into administration, and is a fellow in hospital medicine as well as a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Bassett Healthcare Network is based at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, N.Y., and includes four hospitals and more than two dozen primary care centers in eight New York counties.
 

Russell Kerbel, MD, MBA, has been named medical director for sepsis prevention at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since his arrival at UCLA in 2014, Dr. Kerbel – a hospitalist by training – has worked to increase awareness and standardize sepsis treatment through his advocacy, interdepartmental collaboration, and informatics knowledge.

Joshua Lenchus, DO, RPh, SFHM, was installed as vice president of the Florida Medical Association during the all-virtual 2020 FMA annual meeting in August. Dr. Lenchus is a hospitalist and chief medical officer at the Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Christopher Carpenter, MD, has been elevated to chief of staff at Natividad, a 172-bed, county-owned hospital in Salinas, Calif. Dr. Carpenter has served Natividad for the past 4 years, holding the positions of chief hospitalist, chief of service for pediatrics, vice chief of staff, and most recently director of pediatric services.

Dr. Carpenter’s term as chief of staff is limited to 2 years, during which he said his goals include promoting diversity within the facility’s leadership.

Prior to arriving at Natividad, Dr. Carpenter was instructor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Boston, as well as associate director of the Boston Children’s Hospital Pediatric Global Health Fellowship.


David Fagan, MD, recently was promoted to medical director at Mid-State Health Center (Plymouth, N.H.), where he has served for the past 10 years. The 30-year medical veteran began working in his new role in May 2020.

Previously, Dr. Fagan has served the facility as an internist and hospitalist, and he has been among the leaders at Mid-State in ensuring safety for patients and staff during the COVID-19 response.


The Carroll County Memorial Hospital (Carrolton, Mo.) recently announced its new hospitalist program, which officially began on June 1, 2020. CCMH officials said the focus of the hospitalists will be to maintain communication with primary care physicians once patients leave the hospital facility.

CCMH added three physicians to its staff to work in the hospitalist program: Reuben I. Thaker, MD; Samuel C. Evans, MD; and Charles C. Glendenning, DO.


NorthShore University HealthSystem (Evanston, Ill.) has agreed to purchase Northwest Community Healthcare, a single-hospital health system located in Arlington Heights, Ill. NCH will become a hospital hub for NorthShore in the northwest Chicago suburbs.

When the agreement is finalized, NorthShore’s stable of hospitals will rise to six in and around Chicago. The system also provides outpatient care, labwork, and pharmacy services.

Rupesh Prasad, MD, SFHM, recently started a new role as medical director of care management for Advocate Aurora Health in Milwaukee. His focus areas include clinical documentation and care transition for inpatients. He was previously the quality and utilization officer for Aurora Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Prasad is a hospitalist with 15 years of experience and has served as the chief of staff at Aurora Sinai Medical Center. He is the cochair for the Advocate Aurora Health Inpatient Physician Informatics Committee, where his focus is on optimization of EHR for the end user.

Dr. Prasad cochairs the Society of Hospital Medicine’s IT Special Interest Group and sits on the Hospital Quality and Patient Safety Committee. He is the president of SHM’s Wisconsin Chapter.
 

David Rice, MD, recently earned promotion to chief medical officer for Baptist Health, a nonprofit health care system based in Jacksonville, Fla. In addition to his role as CMO, Dr. Rice will maintain the titles of senior vice president and chief quality officer.

Dr. Rice, who has spent the past 5 years as chief quality officer at Baptist Health, will oversee clinical quality, patient safety, and performance improvement. The Baptist Health system includes 200 different points of care.

Dr. Rice takes over for Keith Stein, MD, who had served as Baptist’s CMO since 1999.
 

Alabama hospitalist Jade Brice-Roshell, MD, has been named one of the “70 African American Leaders in Health Care to Know in 2020” list by Becker’s Hospital Review.

Dr. Brice-Roshell has served as Shelby Baptist Medical Center’s (Alabaster, Ala.) CMO for the past year and has been a Shelby staff member since 2015. It is the second year in a row that she has been honored by Becker’s on this list.
 

After a nationwide search, executive leaders at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, N.Y., have elected to elevate hospitalist Kai Mebust, MD, FHM, to the role of chief of the department of medicine, succeeding Charles Hyman, MD. Dr. Mebust had been working alongside Dr. Hyman as associate chief since March 2019 while the network was seeking a successor. It turns out they had their man in house all along.

Dr. Mebust has 16 years of experience with Bassett, including 10 years as chief of the hospitalist division and 4 years as medical director of the network’s hospitalist program. In his new position, he will be charged with directing care and providing leadership for the system’s physicians.
 

Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital (Sumter, S.C.) has raised its level of care for children, newborns, and infants by creating a new pediatric hospitalist program through a strengthened relationship with Children’s Hospital-Midlands in Columbia, S.C.

The rural community has been affiliated with Children’s for a long time, but the new setup places full-time physicians in the Sumter facility that are part of the Children’s team. Residents in and around Sumter will no longer need to travel to Columbia to take advantage of the high-level service.

The pediatric hospitalist team will work closely with local pediatricians and family physicians to ensure that follow-ups and other preventative treatments are handled once a child is discharged from Tuomey Hospital.

Rupesh Prasad, MD, SFHM, recently started a new role as medical director of care management for Advocate Aurora Health in Milwaukee. His focus areas include clinical documentation and care transition for inpatients. He was previously the quality and utilization officer for Aurora Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Prasad is a hospitalist with 15 years of experience and has served as the chief of staff at Aurora Sinai Medical Center. He is the cochair for the Advocate Aurora Health Inpatient Physician Informatics Committee, where his focus is on optimization of EHR for the end user.

Dr. Prasad cochairs the Society of Hospital Medicine’s IT Special Interest Group and sits on the Hospital Quality and Patient Safety Committee. He is the president of SHM’s Wisconsin Chapter.
 

David Rice, MD, recently earned promotion to chief medical officer for Baptist Health, a nonprofit health care system based in Jacksonville, Fla. In addition to his role as CMO, Dr. Rice will maintain the titles of senior vice president and chief quality officer.

Dr. Rice, who has spent the past 5 years as chief quality officer at Baptist Health, will oversee clinical quality, patient safety, and performance improvement. The Baptist Health system includes 200 different points of care.

Dr. Rice takes over for Keith Stein, MD, who had served as Baptist’s CMO since 1999.
 

Alabama hospitalist Jade Brice-Roshell, MD, has been named one of the “70 African American Leaders in Health Care to Know in 2020” list by Becker’s Hospital Review.

Dr. Brice-Roshell has served as Shelby Baptist Medical Center’s (Alabaster, Ala.) CMO for the past year and has been a Shelby staff member since 2015. It is the second year in a row that she has been honored by Becker’s on this list.
 

After a nationwide search, executive leaders at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, N.Y., have elected to elevate hospitalist Kai Mebust, MD, FHM, to the role of chief of the department of medicine, succeeding Charles Hyman, MD. Dr. Mebust had been working alongside Dr. Hyman as associate chief since March 2019 while the network was seeking a successor. It turns out they had their man in house all along.

Dr. Mebust has 16 years of experience with Bassett, including 10 years as chief of the hospitalist division and 4 years as medical director of the network’s hospitalist program. In his new position, he will be charged with directing care and providing leadership for the system’s physicians.
 

Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital (Sumter, S.C.) has raised its level of care for children, newborns, and infants by creating a new pediatric hospitalist program through a strengthened relationship with Children’s Hospital-Midlands in Columbia, S.C.

The rural community has been affiliated with Children’s for a long time, but the new setup places full-time physicians in the Sumter facility that are part of the Children’s team. Residents in and around Sumter will no longer need to travel to Columbia to take advantage of the high-level service.

The pediatric hospitalist team will work closely with local pediatricians and family physicians to ensure that follow-ups and other preventative treatments are handled once a child is discharged from Tuomey Hospital.

Rupesh Prasad, MD, SFHM, recently started a new role as medical director of care management for Advocate Aurora Health in Milwaukee. His focus areas include clinical documentation and care transition for inpatients. He was previously the quality and utilization officer for Aurora Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Prasad is a hospitalist with 15 years of experience and has served as the chief of staff at Aurora Sinai Medical Center. He is the cochair for the Advocate Aurora Health Inpatient Physician Informatics Committee, where his focus is on optimization of EHR for the end user.

Dr. Prasad cochairs the Society of Hospital Medicine’s IT Special Interest Group and sits on the Hospital Quality and Patient Safety Committee. He is the president of SHM’s Wisconsin Chapter.
 

David Rice, MD, recently earned promotion to chief medical officer for Baptist Health, a nonprofit health care system based in Jacksonville, Fla. In addition to his role as CMO, Dr. Rice will maintain the titles of senior vice president and chief quality officer.

Dr. Rice, who has spent the past 5 years as chief quality officer at Baptist Health, will oversee clinical quality, patient safety, and performance improvement. The Baptist Health system includes 200 different points of care.

Dr. Rice takes over for Keith Stein, MD, who had served as Baptist’s CMO since 1999.
 

Alabama hospitalist Jade Brice-Roshell, MD, has been named one of the “70 African American Leaders in Health Care to Know in 2020” list by Becker’s Hospital Review.

Dr. Brice-Roshell has served as Shelby Baptist Medical Center’s (Alabaster, Ala.) CMO for the past year and has been a Shelby staff member since 2015. It is the second year in a row that she has been honored by Becker’s on this list.
 

After a nationwide search, executive leaders at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, N.Y., have elected to elevate hospitalist Kai Mebust, MD, FHM, to the role of chief of the department of medicine, succeeding Charles Hyman, MD. Dr. Mebust had been working alongside Dr. Hyman as associate chief since March 2019 while the network was seeking a successor. It turns out they had their man in house all along.

Dr. Mebust has 16 years of experience with Bassett, including 10 years as chief of the hospitalist division and 4 years as medical director of the network’s hospitalist program. In his new position, he will be charged with directing care and providing leadership for the system’s physicians.
 

Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital (Sumter, S.C.) has raised its level of care for children, newborns, and infants by creating a new pediatric hospitalist program through a strengthened relationship with Children’s Hospital-Midlands in Columbia, S.C.

The rural community has been affiliated with Children’s for a long time, but the new setup places full-time physicians in the Sumter facility that are part of the Children’s team. Residents in and around Sumter will no longer need to travel to Columbia to take advantage of the high-level service.

The pediatric hospitalist team will work closely with local pediatricians and family physicians to ensure that follow-ups and other preventative treatments are handled once a child is discharged from Tuomey Hospital.