Hospitalist movers and shakers – September 2021

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.