How to nominate supply chain-focused physicians for the P.U.R.E. award
Nominate noteworthy physicians for recognition by emailing us reasons how and why a supply chain-focused physician in your organization deserves the spotlight – no more than a couple of paragraphs are needed. Please describe how and why he or she understands, respects, and engages the Supply Chain Management department and its leaders as a bridge between clinical, financial and operational success.For your nomination to qualify, please comply with the following rules:- All nominations must be original and exclusive to HPN and not have been submitted – either original or edited – to any other publication or online media outlet currently or within the previous year.
- All nominations must focus on team-driven contributions and results more heavily than outsourced services to consultants, distributors and GPOs. Basically, emphasize what your team has accomplished over what a third-party vendor did for you.
- Any nominated physician (or nominator) must be willing to share relevant basic financial details with our readers – specifically annual revenues, annual expenses and annual purchasing volume.
- Only physicians are eligible for consideration
Physicians Understanding, Respecting and Engaging Supply Chain
We want to recognize physicians who have made solid contributions to supply chain operations - activities, practices and thinking - and we want to further solidify and strengthen the clinical bonds between physicians and supply chain professionals. We’re witnessing more doctors and surgeons participating in supply chain operations with more depth than ever before, Physicians Understanding, Respecting and Engaging Supply Chain professionals or "P.U.R.E." This award goes to these docs who trust Supply Chain to enhance their clinical practices and the patient care they deliver. PURE Award for Supply Chain-Focused MDs
2019 - Meeting in the middle to strive for optimal clinical outcomes
RONALD M. BENOIT, MD, Associate Professor of Urology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Director of General Urology, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA; JOHN CHERF, MD, MPH, MBA, Chief Medical Officer, Lumere, Former Chief of Orthopedics, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL; PATRICK A. KENNEY, MD, MPH, MBA, Assistant Professor of Urology, Yale School of Medicine, Clinical Vice Chair, Yale Medicine Urology, Medical Director, Supply Chain, Yale New Haven Health, New Haven, CT; JOHN M. MOHART, MD, Vice President, Cardiovascular Care Performance Acceleration, Mercy, St. Louis, MO
2018 - Physicians charting new course into managing supply decisions
William G. Cloud, MD, MACM, FACS, general surgeon at Providence Hospitals, Columbia, SC; Paul J. Orland, MD, FACS, general and vascular surgeon at Surgical Specialists of Charlotte, Charlotte, NC; and David E. Skarda, MD, pediatric general surgeon, medical director, Surgical Services Clinical Program, Intermountain Healthcare, Murray, UT.
2017 - Supply Chain can fuel doctor-patient relationships, organizational health
Stephen Trigg, MD, Physician Liaison and Consultant, Mayo Clinic’s Department of Orthopedics, Jacksonville, FL, Michael Suk, MD, JD, MPH, FACS, Chief Physician Officer, Geisinger System Services and Chairman, Musculoskeletal Institute, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, M. Jonathan Worsey, MD, Board-certified colorectal surgeon on staff at Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, CA, and Medical Director of Value Analysis for the Scripps
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2016 - Physician preference: Supply Chain matters for patient, industry health
Li Ern Chen, MD, MSCS, Vice President, Surgery, Baylor Scott & White Health, Dallas; Jimmy Chung, MD, FACS, CHCQM, Director, Medical Products Analysis, Providence Health & Services, Seattle; Sean Lyden, MD, FACS, Professor and Chairman, Department of Vascular Surgery, and Medical Director of Supply Chain, Cleveland Clinic, and Chief Medical Officer, Excelerate Strategic Health Sourcing, Lyndhurst, OH;David Reiter, MD, MBA, FACS, Vice President and Executive Director, Center for Healthcare Entrepreneurship & Scientific Solutions, and Professor (Otolaryngology - Facial Plastic Surgery), Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia.
