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HSA Officers and Representatives

Executive Board Members for 2008-2009 Year

Co-President: Mariam Aziz (Infectious Disease fellow, PGY 5)
Co-President: April Camp (Otolaryngology, PGY 4)
Duties include:
  - Convene HSA meetings monthly
  - Liaison between HSA and GME
  - Represent HSA at GMEC meeting

Co-Vice-President:
Garbo Mak (Internal Medicine, PGY 3)
Co-Vice-President:
Melanie McKean (Internal Medicine/Psychiatry, PGY 3)
Duties include:
  - Develop agenda for HSA meeting
  - Represent HSA at GMEC meeting

Co-Secretary:
Todd Hagle (Anesthesiology, PGY 3)
Co-Secretary:
Heather Huang (Internal Medicine/Psychiatry, PGY 3)
Duties include:
  - Oversee HSA elections
  - Prepare and disseminate HSA meeting minutes
  - Maintain attendance records at HSA meetings

Treasurer: Zachary Kordik (Psychiatry, PGY 2)
Duties include:
  - Oversee expenditures

Co-IT Liaison:
Zaid Aziz (Internal Medicine, PGY 2)
Co-IT Liaison:
Kirk Harris (Internal Medicine/Psychiatry, PGY 2)
Co-IT Liaison:
Jerffrey Pua (Internal Medicine, PGY 3)
Duties include:
  - Representing housestaff interests at EPIC meetings and in the planning and implementation of EPIC
  - Informing HSA of pertinent EPIC matters
  - Establishing and maintaining HSA Website

Social Chair:
Brandon Francis (Internal Medicine/Psychiatry, PGY 3)
Duties include:
  - Notify Executive Council and Executive Board of HSA meetings

Co-Compliance Director:
Tope Oyedele (Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, PGY 3)
Co-Compliance Director:
Vanessa Tieu (Internal Medicine, PGY 3)
Duties include:
  - Help notify and encourage Housestaff to maintain compliance with GME and Medical records requirements
  - Attends Medical Records Committee meetings and reports back to HSA

Meeting Coordinator:
Steve Paschos (Internal Medicine/Psychiatry, PGY 3)
Duties include:
  - Organize all HSA meetings, rooms reservation and food arrangements

Representatives for hospital administration committees

Advisory Panel to the Office of Community and Global Health:
Mariam Aziz or Jen Cortes

Cancer Committee:
Antonio Jimenez or Jonathan Strauss

Emergency Resuscitation Committee:
Matthew Sperry

EPIC Housestaff Advisory Group:
IT Liaison, Dan Felten

Graduate Medical Education Committee:
President; entire executive board invited

Infection Control Committee:
Mariam Aziz or Jen Cortes

Medical Care and Evaluation Committee:
Allison Weathers or Magda Houlberg

Medical Records Committee:
Compliance Officer

Operative and Invasive Procedure Review Committee:
Maria McIntire or Ajay Patel

Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee:
April Camp

Radiation Safety Committee:
no representative at present time

Transfusion Committee:
Magda Houlberg

Utilization Management Committee:
Blaine Washington

Representatives for 2007-2008 Year

Residency programs:

Anesthesia William Harvey (PGY 2)
Ravi Shah (PGY 3)
Dalia Elmofty (PGY 4)
Alternate: Todd Hagle
Dentistry None designated at present time
Dermatology Sarah Kasprowicz (PGY 4)
Alternate: Melanie Palm (PGY 4)
Diagnostic Radiology Dorothy Lam (PGY 4)
Matt Gimpert (PGY 5)
General Surgery Dana Hayden (PGY 3)
Jason Petrungaro (PGY 5)
Dan Valentino (PGY 3)
Alternate: Jeff Yoder (PGY 1)
Internal Medicine Amie Tucker (PGY 4)
Praveen Dandamudi (PGY 3)
Ripple Doshi (PGY 3)
CJ Sandusky (PGY 3)
Alternate: Carol Burke (PGY 4)
Internal Med/ Primary Care Melanie Gordon (PGY 3)
Alternate: Irene Aluen-Metzner (PGY 3)
Internal Med/Pediatrics Nick Moy (PGY 2)
Julie Mathew (PGY 3)
Internal Med/Psychiatry Steve Paschos (PGY 2)
Alternate: Chris Dobbelstein (PGY 5)
Alternate: Susanna Kovari (PGY 4)
Neurology Andrew Stemer (PGY 3)
Michael Li (PGY 2)
Neurosurger Tibor Boco (PGY 4)
Alternate: Larry Shannon (PGY 4)
Obstetrics/Gynecology Laura Kohlhagen(PGY 4)
Pooja Doshi (PGY 3)
Orthopaedics Dan Park (PGY 3)
Neil Ghodadra (PGY 3)
Ophthalmology Michael Davis
Otolaryngology April Camp (PGY 3)
Pathology Maria McIntire (PGY 3)
Ajay Patel (PGY 2)
Pediatrics Hinna Khan(PGY 2)
Margaret Rubinshteyn (PGY 2)
Physical Med &Rehab Blaine Washington (PGY 3)
Alberto Lin (PGY 3)
Psychiatry Jennifer Clumpner (PGY 4)
Aaron Plattner(PGY 1)
Psychology Jamie Cvengros (PGY 1)
Radiation Oncology Jonathan Strauss (PGY 4)
Urology None designated at present time

Fellowship programs:

Allergy & Immunology Courtney Jackson Blair (PGY 6)
Sakina Bajowala (PGY 5)
Child & Adolescent Psych Robin Shapiro (PGY 6)
Alternate: Christine Choe (PGY 6)
CV Surgery None designated at present time
Gastroenterology Rahul Chhablani(PGY 5)
Hematology/Oncology None designated at present time
Neurophysiology Paul Motika (PGY 5)
Pulmonary/Critical Care Matthew Sperry (PGY 6)
Sports Medicine Michael DeFranco (PGY 6)


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