South Jersey BIZ - Issue #6 (June 2020)

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SJBiz_Who'sWhoinHealthCare_0620_V2FINAL_Layout 1 6 / 22 / 20 3 : 17 PM Page 2 cindy jack martin joe Kevin sche hou gut no topiel hre Emmons MD , associate professor of DrNP , RN , clinical associate MD , head of infectious director of supply chain DO , infection control officer anesthesiology and critical care professor of nursing , Rutgers diseases , Virtua Health management , Inspira Health and infectious disease special - and co - director of the Penn Lung School of Nursing - Camden ist , Jefferson Medical Group Rescue Program , Penn Medicine mmons has been a key player ou started researching the s the head of infectious dis - reno is known for his positive utsche is a nationally recog - in the response to the COVID - coronavirus as soon as word eases at Virtua , Topiel is a outlook and unwavering ded - E H A H nized expert in extracorpo - G 19 pandemic , as he currently started trickling into the U.S . leader in containing the spread of ication when responding to global real membrane oxygenation serves as chief nursing officer for about what was happening in COVID - 19 in the community . For shortages of PPE . From the earli - ( ECMO ) and critical care organi - the New Jersey Department of China , and spent hours each day 36 years , he has been instrumen - est days of the pandemic , he led zation . He is the co - founder and Health’s field hospital in Atlantic researching its potential spread tal in treating patients suffering the effort to ensure Inspira’s care co - medical director of Penn City treating COVID - 19 patients . and impact on health care work - from debilitating and often un - teams had the supplies and Lung Rescue , a regional mobile Emmons , who was deployed to ers and the public . By the time known diseases , including an - equipment they needed to pro - ECMO service able to deploy Iraq while serving in the U.S . Jefferson Hospital Cherry Hill had thrax poisoning in 2001 . Topiel vide safe care . He directed his teams to remote hospitals to Army , has taught at the Rutgers its first COVID - positive patient in was instrumental in planning Vir - team to contact and visit busi - salvage patients with severe School of Nursing - Camden since early March , she had become tua’s response to the COVID - 19 nesses , including paint stores and acute lung disease . 2012 . He is director of the versed on diagnostic information pandemic , which included the building contractors , that might Gutsche has published nu - school’s Veterans Serving Veter - and potential signs of the disease . procurement of sufficient PPE , have needed items such as masks . merous research studies inves - ans Nursing Fellowship Program , She and David Condoluci , chief surge planning and open com - He reached out to new suppliers tigating the outcomes of ECMO which he was instrumental in es - patient safety and quality officer , munication with employees around the world , working all in acute respiratory distress syn - tablishing . It is designed for stu - quickly became Jefferson New about the impending crisis . Now , hours to secure critical supplies . drome . In addition , he serves as dent - veterans seeking nursing Jersey’s “ go - to ” resources for cli - he is treating patients who are As a member of the emer - the associate chief medical offi - degrees and is funded by a three - nicians facing this virus . critically affected by the novel gency operations center , Hreno cer for critical care for the Uni - year , nearly $ 1.5 million grant In addition , Hou has been coronavirus and continuing to en - has been responsible for keeping versity of Pennsylvania Health from the federal Health Re - directly involved in caring for sure the safety of front - line staff the organization updated on cur - System . In this role , Gutsche sources and Services Administra - COVID - positive patients at Jeffer - at Virtua . rent PPE inventory and expected leads a team of critical care tion . The program — the only son’s New Jersey hospitals , while Topiel received his medical deliveries . His accurate real - time leaders to improve organization one of its kind in the Delaware offering support to other front - degree from New York University updates enabled clinical leader - and outcomes in intensive care Valley and the state of New Jer - line School of Medicine and is board - ship to make informed decisions clinicians . She is also the New units across the health system . sey — began in fall 2019 with certified Jersey principal investigator for a in infectious diseases . egarding PPE use and conserva - r During the COVID - 19 pandemic , the dual Jefferson Health enterprise re - During his training at George tion . Through Hreno’s efforts , and goal of helping veterans Gutsche has helped organize search trial to provide COVID - 19 Washington University , he attend - those of his team , Inspira employ - launch careers as nurses and the management of COVID ICUs sufferers with convalescent ed lectures by Dr . Anthony Fauci , ees were able to protect them - training them to treat the unique and rescue patients with ECMO plasma donated by recovered the physician leading the national selves and their patients during veteran population . suffering from severe acute res - patients . response to the pandemic . these unprecedented times . piratory distress syndrome . SouthJerseyBiz.net | VOLUME 10 ISSUE 6 | SOUTH JERSEY BIZ | 21

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SJBiz_Who'sWhoinHealthCare_0620_V2FINAL_Layout 1 6 / 22 / 20 3 : 18 PM Page 3 belinda jennifer diane mark paul myers lil yd kelsen khe flo mik brecht lam BSN , RN , Jefferson Health — DO , MBA , senior vice BSN , MSN , TCRN , CCRN , NE - BC , MD , chief of medical critical vice president of quality and New Jersey president and chief medical assistant vice president of care , Penn Medicine patient safety , Inspira Health officer , Virtua Health patient care services , Cooper University Health Care yers has been with the ikkelsen is a nationally rec - s chief medical officer , ith nearly 40 years of ambrecht immediately health system since Febru - M ognized critical care physi - M Khelil is responsible for nursing and leadership A W stepped up when concerns L ary 2016 and has devoted herself cian and critical care epidemiolo - the oversight of the daily experience in critical care and first arose about the novel coron - to caring for a unique and com - gist and health services re - medical operations of five trauma , Floyd’s career work avirus . Well before it became a plex group of patients . She is searcher . He serves as the chief of hospitals and 280 affiliated has been focused in support of pandemic , he initiated regular compassionate and caring , and the medical critical care section at centers and ensuring the creating and building high calls with the infection prevention treats all of her behavioral health Penn Medicine and as the director safety of all patients and functioning teams , producing and emergency management patients with dignity and respect . of the medical intensive care unit staff . During this pandemic , positive patient outcomes . She teams to monitor the situation During the past few months of at Penn Presbyterian . He is pas - Khelil has provided invalu - has demonstrated success in and begin preparing the health COVID - 19 , Myers enthusiastically sionate in his pursuit to improve able leadership to Virtua’s the implementation of evi - system . His regular communica - volunteered to join the ICU team the outcomes of the critically ill medical teams on matters af - denced - based practices to im - tion with leadership and staff has as a support RN , assisting with through patient - oriented re - fecting the public health of prove the delivery of safe , provided invaluable situational caring for the most vulnerable search . His clinical areas of expert - its communities . She is a quality patient care and serv - awareness throughout the organ - and sick patients , and not once ise include sepsis and long - term member of Virtua’s pandem - ice . She has established col - ization . did she hesitate or retract from outcomes after critical illness . ic advisory team , which is re - laborative relationships Lambrecht has led Inspira’s her commitment . Her smiling These efforts align with his lead - sponsible for the health sys - through the engagement of Emergency Operations Center — face and positive energy bring ership roles in the Society of Criti - tem’s planning and response . direct care staff , physicians seven days a week — since it was support and comfort to those in cal Care Medicine , American Tho - Under her guidance , Virtua and leaders to attain these mobilized in March . In this role , he her presence , and her compas - racic Society , Hospital and Health - patients receive the highest achievements . Floyd has pub - has coordinated Inspira’s response sion is evident in the ICU setting care Association of Pennsylvania standard of medical care lished and presented this work and weighed in on virtually every as well . The ICU team feels that and Centers for Medicare and available . in national and international critical decision . He also serves as during the worst of the COVID Medicaid Services . During the Khelil is a graduate of the forums and continues to seek Inspira’s liaison with local , regional storm , it could not have endured pandemic , he has served on the Virtua Physician Leadership opportunities to promote ex - and national agencies . without her as part of the team . health system’s COVID - 19 task Program and the Health Man - cellence in nursing practice . Lambrecht continues to lead Myers went above and beyond force , helped create the Penn agement Academy Physician Throughout the COVID - 19 theorganization through its recovery what was expected in the scope Medicine Predictive Healthcare Leadership Program . pandemic , Floyd has provided phasein a systematic and thoughtful of her behavioral health role . CHIME model used across the leadership for several critical way with a keen focus on patient , United States , and helped to lead care units . staff and physician safety . the response at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center . 22 | SOUTH JERSEY BIZ | VOLUME 10 ISSUE 6 | SouthJerseyBiz.net

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