Hospitalist movers and shakers – November 2020

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.