Medicine 2011 Annual Report

Honors, Awards & Kudos

Congratulations to Medicine's "Top Docs" -- Delaware Today Magazine 2011.

Teaching Awards

Matthew Burday, D.O., FACP, is the recipient of the 2011 Herbert S. Waxman Award for Outstanding Medical Student Educator from the American College of Physicians (ACP).

Hung Q. Dam, M.D., received the "Teacher of the Year" award from the Radiology residents.

Matt Dunn, M.D., was selected by the residents as Teacher of the Year for Pediatrics 2011.

Lionel Malebranche, M.D., won the 2011 Most Outstanding Resident Teacher of the Year award voted by third and fourth year medical students.

Jim Perkins, M.D., won the Mark W. Maxwell Award voted by Medicine residents for the attending who best demonstrates the characteristics of devotion to patients, compassion, humility, and extraordinary enthusiasm.

Ehsanur Rahman, M.D., FACC, was voted Teacher of the Year by Medicine residents.

Clinical Pearls

Congratulations to the 8th annual Clinical Pearls speakers:

Michael Benninghoff, D.O., Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine; Vinay Maheshwari, M.D., FCCP, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine; Ehsanur Rahman, M.D., FACC, Cardiology; Tabassum Salam, M.D., Internal Medicine; Mitchell Saltzberg, M.D., Cardiology; and Pamela Simpson, M.D., Oncology.

Focus on Excellence Awards

2010 President's Award

No One Dies Alone. Colleagues from Pain and Palliative Care, Volunteer Administration, Pastoral Services, Nursing and Infection Prevention, developed a program to provide a companion at the end of life to patients who have no family or friends present.

2010 Nursing Excellence Silver Award

March Madness Meets the MICU. The MICU's Quality and Safety Committee used an interactive game to improve compliance with the Electronic Medication Administration Record scanning process.

2010 Safety First Silver Award

Improved Prescribing and Reduction in Adverse Events Due to Thoughtful CPOE Design: The Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee authorized the development of a multidisciplinary task force to focus on the overuse/misuse of hydromorphone.

2010 Clinical Excellence Gold Award

Implementation of Medication Management Standards in Nuclear Medicine: Working together, Nuclear Medicine, Pharmacy,and Nursing increased compliance from 21 to all 77 Joint Commission radiopharmaceutical standards within three months.

2010 Clinical Excellence Silver Award

The Heart Alert/Heart Code Coverage Program: The Center for Heart & Vascular Health, Emergency Department and Performance Improvement modified the Heart Alert/Heart Code program coverage by interventional cardiologists and increased the percentage (by 70%) of acute myocardial infarction patients going to the cardiac catheterization lab for reperfusion therapy (PCI) within 60 minutes of hospital arrival. Median time to PCI decreased from 68 to 54 minutes.

Other Awards

Patricia Curtin, M.D., section chief of Geriatric Medicine, has completed three trips to Leogane, Haiti.

Hector Colon, social worker, HIV Program, received The Community Leadership award in November 2010.

Patricia M. Curtin, M.D., FACP, CMD, received the 2011 Spirit of Women Health Care Hero Award (national coalition/CCHS program) for work with the elderly, the community, and the University of Notre Dame-Haiti program.

John Donnelly, M.D. and Allen Friedland, M.D., were voted Delaware Valley's Favorite Kids' Docs 2010 by MetroKids magazine.

Allen Friedland, M.D., received the 2010 National Med-Peds Resident's Association Inaugural Appreciation Award.

Geriatrics was one of 18 programs recognized as a Model Geriatrics Program at the American Geriatrics Society 2010 Annual Meeting.

Tom Hilton, M.D., was named a "Recognized Provider" in Diabetes Care by Bridges to Excellence.

HIV Program's Georgetown Satellite was awarded the 2010 Partner Award from the Delaware Division of Public Health.

HIV Program Medical Director Susan Szabo, M.D., and Program Director Arlene Bincsik, RN, MS, CCRC, CRN, were featured in a Delaware Today article highlighting Christiana Care's leadership and community outreach fighting HIV/AIDS with clinics throughout Delaware, April 2011.

Jennifer LeComte, D.O., won the 2010 Howard Schubiner Award from National Med-Peds Residents Association given to the resident who exemplifies excellence including exemplary clinical care of patients, compassion and humanism in relationships with patients and colleagues; involvement in community; and contributions to field of Medicine-Pediatrics.

M.J. Lenhard, M.D., received the 2011 Leonard Lang Award, from the American College of Physicians, Delaware Chapter.

Denise Lyons, MSN, GCNS-BC, Geriatrics, was selected to attend the 2011 John A. Hartford Foundation Interdisciplinary Scholars Communications Conference in July.

Vinay Maheshwari, M.D., FCCP, was recognized as a 2010 "Rising Star" from the Department of Medicine by the Christiana Care Medical-Dental Staff.

Jo Ann Malgieri, FNP-C, MSN, RN, Pain and Palliative Care specialist, won the End of Life Coalition's 2010 Excellence Award for Hospice and Palliative Care.

Mark Manchen, social worker, received the Impact Award at the 2011 Delaware HIV Consortium WOW wards, May 6, 2011.

Jo Melson, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, Ruth Mooney, Ph.D., MN, BSN, Michelle Kane, RN, BSM, James McWilliams, RN, BSN, and Terry Horton, M.D., FACP, are winners of The Permanente Journal (TPJ) 2010 Service Quality Award for improving patient care, presented in partnership with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).

Respiratory Care team was recognized in 2011 by the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC), a national quality organization, for strict safety and quality standards related to the delivery of respiratory care services by qualified respiratory therapists.

Donald Riesenberg, M.D., received the 2010 Delaware End of Life Coalition Physician's Excellence Award for Hospice and Palliative Care and was named Medical Director of the Year by the 2011 Delaware Health Care Facilities Association for his work at Stonegates Heath Care and Retirement Community.

Carolyn Savini, FNP, HIV Georgetown, received the 2010 Frank Lamendola Achievement Award for Excellence in Nursing from the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC).

Maureen Seckel, RN, ACNS-BC, CCRN, CCNS, was elected to the board of directors of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) for a three-year term, 2010-2013.

R. Bradley Slease , M.D., received the President's Award from the Delaware Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Linda Sydnor, MSN, GCNS-BC, Geriatrics, was named to the Nominating Committee for GAPNA (Geriatric Advance Practice Nurse Association.) She also completed her Post Master's Certification for Adult/Geriatric NP in May 2011.

Mary Kay Sullivan, FNP, HIV program, received the Ryan White Award at the 2011 Delaware HIV Consortium WOW Awards, May 6, 2011.

Helen Ting, M.D., was named a "Recognized Provider" in Diabetes Care by Bridges to Excellence.

William Weintraub, M.D., received the 2011 American College of Cardiology Distinguished Service Award.

Congratulations to Medicine's "Top Docs" listed in the Spring-Summer 2011 Health & Wellness issue of Delaware Today Magazine.

Allergy & Immunology

Gregory Marcotte, M.D.

Cardiovascular Disease (Section of Cardiology)

Anthony Furey, D.O.

Edward Goldenberg, M.D.

Gilbert Leidig, M.D.

George Moutsatsos, M.D.

Michael Stillabower, M.D.

Dermatology

Christopher Conti, M.D.

Heidi Kozic, M.D.

Peter Panzer, M.D.

Scott Panzer, M.D.

Marguerite Thew, M.D.

Electromyography

Enrica Arnaudo, M.D. (Section of Neurology)

Anthony L. Cucuzzella, M.D. (Section of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation)

Craig Sternberg, M.D. (Section of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation)

Endocrinology

Ripu Hundal, M.D.

James Lenhard, M.D.

Valerie West, M.D.

Gastroenterology

George Benes, M.D.

Warren Butt, M.D.

Michael Brooks, M.D.

Joe Chodos, M.D.

Marciana Filippone, M.D

Amy Patrick, M.D.

Geriatrics

Patricia Curtin, M.D.

Hematology

Frank Beardell, M.D.

Andrew Himelstein, M.D.

R. Bradley Slease, M.D.

Infectious Disease

Wesley Emmons, M.D.

Anand Panwalker, M.D.

John Reinhardt, M.D.

Marshall Williams, M.D.

Internal Medicine

Matthew Burday, D.O.

Donald Hayes, M.D.

Timothy Hennessy, M.D

James Loughran, M.D.

Helen Ting, M.D.

Nephrology

Robert Cox, M.D.

Gertrude Findley-Christian, M.D.

Joseph Kuhn, M.D.

Michael Polnerow, D.O.

Lindsey Slater, M.D.

Neurology

Charles Bean, M.D

Michael Carunchio, M.D

Lanny Edelsohn, M.D.

Alan Fink, M.D.

Oncology

David Biggs, M.D.

Stephen Grubbs, M.D.

Michael Guarino, M.D.

Gregory Masters, M.D

Charles Schneider, M.D

Timothy Wozniak, M.D.

Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

John Chabalko, M.D.

John Goodill, M.D.

Clifton Hunt, M.D.

Mark Jones, M.D.

Gerald O'Brien, M.D

Albert Rizzo, M.D.

Marc Zubrow, M.D

Rheumatology

Shakaib Qureshi, M.D.

Monica Snowden, M.D.

Top photo, Scott Panzer, M.D. and, above, Cynthia Webster, are
two of the dermatologists who volunteer at Christiana Care skin
cancer screenings.