March 18, 2012 [PDF] - Mount Sinai Hospital

EventsEducationWorld Kidney Day CelebrationThe Division of Nephrology is sponsoring a WorldKidney Day Celebration to raise awareness aboutChronic Kidney Disease (CKD), and kidney donationand transplantation. Stop by for free CKD screenings,raffles, giveaways, information, and more.Thursday, March 810 am – 3 pmGuggenheim Pavilion AtriumSeminar SeriesPharmacology andSystems TherapeuticsIndika Rajapakse, PhD,Postdoctoral Fellow, FredHutchinson Cancer ResearchCenter, presents “SpatialDynamics of GenomeOrganization in Developmentand Disease.”Thursday, March 82 – 3 pmAnnenberg 19-79Grand RoundsOncological SciencesChristopher Vakoc, MD, PhD,Assistant Professor, Cold SpringHarbor Laboratory, presents“BET Bromodomain-Inhibitionas Targeted Therapy in AcuteMyeloid Leukemia.”Tuesday, March 13NoonIcahn Medical InstituteFirst Floor Seminar RoomEpic Team Wins AwardGrand RoundsHealth Evidence & PolicyPaolo Boffetta, MD, MPH,Charles G. Bluhdorn Professor ofInternational Community Medicine,Director, Institute for TranslationalEpidemiology, presents “WhyMost Medical Results Are False.”Tuesday, March 61 pmIcahn Medical InstituteSecond FloorClassroom L2-82Grand RoundsEndocrinologyGiuseppe Barbesino, MD,Assistant Professor of Medicine,Harvard Medical School, presents“Drugs and Thyroid Function.”Thursday, March 154:30 – 5:30 pmAtran BuildingFourth FloorRoom AB4-11The Alexander RichmanCommemorative Award and LectureThe Alexander Richman Award forHumanism and Ethics in Medicine willbe presented to Nathan Kase, MD,Dean Emeritus, Mount Sinai School ofMedicine. Featured speakers PatriciaHeberer, PhD, Historian, United StatesHolocaust Memorial Museum, andMatthew Wynia, MD, MPH, Director,Institute for Ethics, American MedicalAssociation, present “Deadly Medicinein the Nazi Era: What Turned PhysicianHealers into Killers.”Thursday, March 2211 am – NoonHatch AuditoriumAnesthesiology VisitingProfessor ProgramLee Fleisher, MD, Robert Dunning DrippsProfessor of Anesthesiology and CriticalCare, Perelman School of Medicine, theUniversity of Pennsylvania, is the medalrecipient and lecturer for the 49th AnnualEliasberg Memorial Reception andLecture, “Value from Anesthesia Care:Where Do We Influence the Outcome/Cost Equation in Medicine?”Wednesday, March 146:45 – 8 amAnnenberg 13-01The team that oversees the implementation ofEpic, Mount Sinai’s state-of-the-art inpatientelectronic medical record (EMR) system, receivedthe 2011 New York City Project of the Year Awardfrom the Project Management Institute, theleading not-for-profit membership organization ofproject management professionals. The team wasrecognized for superior performance and executionof an exemplary project.The project was led by Kristin Myers, Vice Presidentof Information Technology (IT), Epic ClinicalTransformation Group, and managed by SusanBrassell-Knox, Director of Mount Sinai’s ProjectManagement Office, and included project managersDaniel Katselnik, Katya Osipova, Elena Sethi,and Kathleen Sullivan, and project coordinatorsKevin Delaney, Josephine Fang, Anne Heartness,George Horvath, and Sally Ritter. Epic’s successfulimplementation also was spearheaded by theapplications, interface, and technical teams withinthe Epic Clinical Transformation Group, and aclose partnership among the IT Department andproviders, nursing, and other clinicians.“This award recognizes the outstanding workof Mount Sinai’s Epic Clinical TransformationGroup,” says Wayne Keathley, President and ChiefOperating Officer of The Mount Sinai Hospital.“Epic is enhancing the quality of patient care bymaking it easier for the patient’s health care teamto access and manage health information, whereand when needed. I would like to thank the Epicteam for leading our successful transition to anelectronic medical record.”The Mount Sinai Hospital also was recognized in2011 for attaining a high-level “Stage 6” statuson the Healthcare Information and Managementand Systems Society EMR Adoption Model, whichis a methodology that evaluates the progressand impact of EMR systems. Mount Sinai, one ofonly 237 hospitals in the country to receive thedesignation, is pursuing the highest-level “Stage 7”status in 2012 as it continues the Epic rollout.Inside Mount Sinai2012 Marketing & CommunicationsCarrie Gottlieb, EditorMarilyn Balamaci, EditorSubmissionsBox 1475inside@mssm.eduVisit Inside on the Webwww.mountsinai.org/insideFRONT ROW, FROM LEFT: Membersof the Epic team include: DanielKatselnik, Kristin Myers, JosephineFang, Elena Sethi, Sally Ritter, andSusan Brassell-Knox; BACK ROW,FROM LEFT: Katya Osipova, AnneHeartness, and Kevin Delaney.To find out what’s happeningright now, follow Mount Sinaion Twitter @MountSinaiNYCVisit us on Facebookfacebook.com/mountsinainyc