Announcement from Dr. Kasirajan
All Hands on Deck: Tackling Covid-19
To each of our team members, I want to thank you for what you do each and every day.
The entire Department of Surgery has stepped up in ways unimaginable to tackle this monster together. We want to especially recognize the following team members for stepping up to lead us through this "all hands on deck" action.
- David Lanning, MD: Interim CMO leading our organization from preparation into surge planning
- Anthony Cassano, MD: Associate CMO leading surgical services preparations
- Tony Herndon, MD: Children's Surgery and resident education planning
- Aimee Grover, MD: Wellness activities with the Health System and the School of Medicine
- Kandace McGuire, MD and Vinay Kumaran, MD: Reviewing testing vs. CT scans for all operative patients
- James Whelan, MD, Kwame Akuomoah-Boateng, DNP, Jill Peysha, MD, & Brian Kaplan, MD: Inpatient staffing leaders
- Laura Boomer, MD, Christin Kim, MD & Paula Ferrada, MD: ICU resource champions
- Levi Procter, MD: OR PPE Taskforce
- Guilherme Campos, MD, Mena Dous, Jeremy Powers, MD, & Erin MacMillan, PA: Outpatient staffing planning leaders
- Sterling Hundley & Amanda Jabri: Incredible work to identify alternate sources of masks to include 3D printing
- Martin Mangino, PhD & Kirsty Dixon, PhD: Generously donated PPE from ORBIT
- Katie Golob & Nikki Meador: Incredible administrative and operational leadership
- Our Associate Administrators and staff: Without you, we would all be lost
Vigneshwar Kasirajan, MD
Chair, Department of Surgery
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