Vice-Chairman: Department of Emergency Medicine, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, NY. Jun 2007 – Mar 2010.
Responsibilities included:
- Supervision of clinical operations for a 70,000 patients per year, level I trauma designated emergency department.
- Maintenance and improvement of quality benchmark indicators and metrics for the emergency department.
- Implementation of clinical care quality protocols:
- acute coronary syndrome, stroke, psychiatric emergencies, respiratory failure.
- achieved stroke center designation
- Implementation of patient throughput enhancing work-flow measures: Bedside registration, rapid assessment pathways, parallel support process optimization, inpatient transition streamlining
- Augmentation of ED preparedness measures
- Optimization of revenue cycle in relation to work-flow and documentation
- Planning and development of 35 million dollar new facility design
- Media, community and EMS outreach and educational initiatives
- Faculty guidance and recruitment
- Development of policies / procedures and educational initiatives to nursing and nursing extenders
- Head of Academic Affairs / Site Director – North Shore / Long Island Jewish Medical Center Emergency Medicine Residency
- Executive Committee: Graduate Medical Education 11/2007 – 7/2010
- Institutional Review Board, Nassau University Medical Center 2007 – 2009