Newsmakers - February 2015
Hospital CEO Warner Named Chairman of North Texas Council
Dr. John Warner, Vice President and CEO of University Hospitals at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been selected as the 2015 Chairman
of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council.
Dr. Warner, who holds the Jim and Norma Smith Distinguished Chair for Interventional Cardiology, and the Audre and Bernard Rapoport Chair in Cardiovascular Research at the medical center, follows 2014 Chair Daniela “Dany” Decell, CEO of Hospital Corporation of America’s Las Colinas Medical Center.
“Our 14-member board represents a dedicated group of North Texas health care executives," said W. Stephen Love, President and CEO of the council. "They have an array of impressive talent and experience.”
The DFW Hospital Council is an 88 hospital and 95 associate member trade organization focused on improving patient care.
A faculty member at UT Southwestern since 2003, Dr. Warner graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine before completing his internal medicine internship and residency at UT Southwestern. He then served a cardiology fellowship at Duke University Medical Center before returning to UT Southwestern.
Named hospitals CEO in 2012, Dr. Warner also serves as Medical Director of the UT Southwestern University Hospital Heart, Lung and Vascular Center and leads the Clinical Cardiac Catheterization Services at UT Southwestern’s Affiliated Hospitals.
Liver diseases association honors five UTSW Fellows
The American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) has selected five more UT Southwestern Medical Center faculty members to its inaugural group of Fellows. They include Dr. Jennifer Cuthbert, Professor of Internal Medicine; Dr. J. Gregory Fitz, Executive Vice President, Provost, and Dean of UT Southwestern Medical School; Dr. William M. Lee, Professor of Internal Medicine and Bioengineering; Dr. Marlyn Mayo, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine; and Dr. Dwain Thiele, Senior Associate Dean of Strategic Development at UT Southwestern Medical School. Earlier, the AASLD had honored Dr. Willis Maddrey as the association’s first Fellow. Dr. Maddrey, Assistant to the President and a Professor of Internal Medicine, was Executive Vice President for Clinical Affairs from 1990 to 2010 before his service in the office of President Dr. Daniel K. Podolsky.
UTSW honored for employee development programs
Dr. Suzanne Farmer, Assistant Vice President for Organizational Development and Training, recently was honored by Chief Learning Officer magazine with its Silver Collaboration Award, one of the publication’s annual Learning in Practice Awards. The prize, announced in October 2014, was given for “accomplishments in collaboratively delivering targeted employee development programs.”
“This award really goes to the Organizational Development & Training team and the UT Southwestern Learning Council, which chartered the Academy for Career Enrichment (ACE) in the summer of 2013,” she said. “The council accomplished far more for the institution and our employees working as a collaborative, cross-disciplinary team than we ever could have as individual departments or functions.”
As a result of revamping the university’s on-campus learning strategy and launching ACE in March 2014, UT Southwestern reported an increase of more than 300 percent in the number of learning and development activities that employees engaged in while reducing costs in several areas. UT Southwestern also garnered a bronze award in the Trailblazer category, which recognizes innovation.
In addition to Dr. Farmer, other members of the Learning Council include: Dr. Gray Reed, Chief Quality Officer of UT Southwestern University Hospitals & Clinics; Patrice Griffith, Director of Quality Improvement and Safety, UT Southwestern University Hospitals; Kirk Kirksey, Vice President for Information Resources; Dr. Bill Behrendt, Vice President for Human Resources; Paul Scott, Manager, Learning and Development; Stacey Clark, Assistant Vice President, Ambulatory Operations and Training; Sylvia Revell, Director, Business Affairs; Jacqueline Mutz, Director, Compliance; Diane Sheppard, Director, Research Protections; Anne Perch, Assistant Vice President for Continuing Medical Education; and Christine Tata, Director, Policy Administration.
Pathologist Sarode named holder of Childers Professorship
Dr. Ravindra Sarode, Professor of Pathology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been named holder of the John H. Childers, M.D. Professorship in Pathology.
His research and clinical activities are in transfusion medicine and hemostasis, which are interdependent subspecialties. Knowledge of hemostasis provides an advantage in the management of patients with complex coagulopathy requiring blood component therapy. His clinical research interests include hypercoagulability, platelet function disorders and reducing unnecessary transfusions.
Dr. Sarode, a faculty member at UT Southwestern since 2000, earned his medical degree at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College in 1981 before completing pathology and hematopathology residencies in India. In the mid-1990s, he also served a fellowship at the Blood Center of Southeastern Wisconsin, and a pathology residency at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York City.
Turner to hold Bass Professorship in Education
Dr. William Turner, Professor of Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Master of UT Southwestern Medical School’s Sprague College, has been named new holder of the Carla and Paul Bass Professorship in Medical Education Honoring Charles C. Sprague, M.D.
Dr. Turner specializes in numerous clinical procedures and treatments that include abdominal wall reconstructions, colon or small bowel resections, hernias, gallstones/gallbladder removal, biopsies, and small tissue tumor procedures. His research interests include gastrointestinal as well as pancreatic diseases.
Dr. Turner, who also holds the Ernest Poulos, M.D., Distinguished Chair in Surgery, attended Williams College, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and Tulane University School of Medicine. He finished his residency at UT Southwestern in general surgery in 1977, served on active duty in the Air Force, and returned to UT Southwestern as a faculty member from 1979 to 1992. He was recruited back again in 2007.
