Medicine 2011 Annual Report

Medicine Administrative Staff Profiles

Mike Eppehimer, MHSA, Vice President

Mike Eppehimer has been with Christiana Care since March 2010. In his role as Medicine vice president, he has been working extensively on the new Inpatient Medicine Service Line while assisting the chair and vice chair of Medicine on Department of Medicine and interdepartmental programs and projects, such as the Unit-Based Clinical Leadership Program and Christiana Rapid Transfer Initiative.

Paula Barnes, Administrative Assistant, Medical Student Education Program

Coordinates Internal Medicine medical student rotations.
Maintains Department conference calendar.
Supports Infectious Disease section.
Conference in conjunction with Medicus.
Coordinates Resident Core Lecture series.

Deborah Brown, Administrative Assistant to Medicine's Vice President

Supports Medicine Leadership Team.
Coordinates Honorarium contracts and payments.
Provides administrative support to multi-departmental clinical improvement projects, such as the CRTI Procedure Team.
Supports Finance Program manager.

Marcia Bukay, Supervisor

Supports Medicine Leadership Team.
Supervises and provides performance management operations for two residency coordinators and five administrative assistants.
Acts as timekeeper.
Coordinates hiring practices for the administrative support personnel, physicians assistants, research nurses, nurse practitioners and consulting internets.
Supports the Pain & Palliative Care Consult Team.
Member, Department of Medicine SharePoint Governance Board.

Sherry Donald, Administrative Assistant

Supports Performance Improvement and Patient Safety, General Internal
Medicine Section, Adult Medicine Office and Ambulatory Medicine
Research & Outcomes.
Supports the Wilmington Hospital office.
Maintains the faculty physicians schedules in Amion.
Scans/Indexes Internal Medicine Faculty Practice patient information into patient electronic file.

Christy Edwards, Coordinator, Internal Medicine & Transitional Year Residency Programs

Supports the Medicine Education Committee.
Supports program recruiting and orientation.
Participates in program marketing, communications and event planning.
Supports program compliance.
Member, Department of Medicine SharePoint Governance Board.

Marykay Ennis, Executive Assistant to the Chair

Supports the Department of Medicine Executive Committee, Chair's Management Council, and Inpatient Medicine Service Line Steer.
Assists with the daily financial operations of the department and contract management in conjunction with Medicine's Vice President.
Coordinates the Jefferson Medical College faculty appointment and promotion process.
Coordinates the Consulting Internist application process.
Member, Department of Medicine SharePoint Governance Board.
Pursing MBA in Healthcare Administration.

Adrian Fedyk, Finance Program Manager,
Department and Medicine Service Line Finance Lead in training for Six Sigma Black Belt.

Leads development of Medicine's data warehouse.
Provides accounting support for Research finances.
Provides analytical support for clinical re-design efforts.
Coordinates the department's contract management in conjunction with Medicine's Vice President.
Member, Department of Medicine SharePoint Governance Board.

Arlene Friedman, Administrative Assistant

Supports Geriatric Medicine and Wilmington Hospital Consult Service.
Schedules resident ambulatory rotations.
Schedules, posts all updates and forwards Medicine Inpatient Consultations (Ward and Unassigned).

Orsolya Garrison, (DrPH in progress), Administrative Director, Department of Medicine Research.

Collaborates in creation and implementation of new systems, policies and procedures for the Office of Sponsored Programs.
Participates in Department's Research & Scholarly Activity (RSA) efforts.
Works with Department faculty, principle investigators and staff on developing and improving our RSA processes.

Debbie Harris, C-TAGME, Coordinator, Med-Peds Residency Program and Nephrology Fellowship Program
One of only three at Christiana Care certified as a Training Administrator of Graduate Medical Education (C-TAGME), Debbie Harris led a national task force to establish this professional certification.

Supports Med-Peds residency program leadership.
Supports Nephrology Fellowship Program.
Supports recruiting for the Med-Peds residency program.
Coordinates 4th year medical student elective.

Brooke Knight, Executive Assistant to Medicine's Vice Chair

Supports the Medicine's vice chair and leadership team.
Supports clinical redesign projects including Christiana Rapid Transfer Initiative led by the Department.
Supports Division of Hospital Medicine.
Member, Department of Medicine SharePoint Governance Board.

Elizabeth McKee, Administrative Assistant, Internal Medicine Residency Program

Supports associate and assistant program directors and program coordinator.
Prepares, updates and follows up on the Internal Medicine resident elective schedules, evaluations, procedures lists, mailings, and conference attendance.
Schedules resident elective rotations.
Coordinates Medical Grand Rounds in conjunction with Medicus and Tabassum Salam, M.D.
Coordinates the PGY-2 and PGY-3 annual retreats.