Members on the Move
ACPE members advancing
their careers
Femi Adewunmi, MD, MBA, CPE, SFHM, is chief medical officer
for Sound Physicians in Tacoma, WA.
As chief medical officer, Adewunmi
will provide regional organizational
leadership for Sound Physicians
hospitalist practices in its Northeast
region, leading clinical operations
and hospitalist program development
activities. His responsibilities include
regional organizational leadership and
operational performance. In his role,
Adewunmi will work directly with
hospital partners and hospitalists to
ensure the delivery of high-quality
patient care and the alignment of performance with partner hospital goals.
He is recognized as a Senior Fellow
in the Society of Hospital Medicine
(SHM) and serves on the SHM’s leadership committee and as a facilitator at the organization’s Leadership
Academy. Adewunmi holds a Master
of Business Administration degree
and a Certificate in Health Sector
Management from the Fuqua School
of Business at Duke University. He
completed his internal medicine residency at Abington Memorial Hospital
in Abington, Pa. and graduated from
the University of Ibadan’s College of
Medicine in Nigeria.
Jaskanwar S. Batra, MD, is medical
director of the Vermont Department
of Mental Health.
Claude D. Brunson, MD, MS, CPE, has been appointed by the
commissioner of the Mississippi
Department of Insurance , Mike
Chaney, as a member of the
Mississippi Insurance Exchange
Advisory Committee and chair of the
Large Employers Subcommittee.
Stephen Combs, MD, CPE, FACFE, FAAP, has been named the
chief medical executive officer for
Wellmont Medical Associates, the
physician arm of Wellmont Health
System based in N.E. Tennessee and
S. W. Virginia. The physician group
is a 140-physician multispecialty
group. Combs will manage all aspects
of quality, patient safety and physician performance. A board-certified
pediatrician and physician executive,
he also continues in his office as a true
practicing physician leader.
K. Andrew Crighton, MD, CPE, was recently appointed to the
Arthritis Foundation’s national board
of directors. The all-volunteer board,
comprising key stakeholders from
around the country, acts as the gov-
erning body of the organization in its
mission to prevent, control, and cure
arthritis, the nation’s leading cause
of disability. Crighton is chief medi-
cal officer of Prudential Financial in
Newark, NJ, and is responsible for
global health and safety, while also
providing leadership for Prudential’s
medical clinics, fitness facilities,
employee assistance program, work
life, and return to work programs.
He is the immediate past chair of
the Health Enhancement Research
Organization. He currently serves on
the board of the Arthritis Foundation
Northeast Region, where he is vice
chair and also chairs the Human
Resource Committee.
Kevin M Fickenscher, MD, CPE, FACPE, is the new president and
CEO of AMIA, the home for informatics professionals. "We are very
fortunate to have someone of Kevin
Fickenscher's caliber and experience
to join AMIA," said Gilad Kuperman,
MD, PhD, chairman of the AMIA Board
of Directors. "We are at a transformative stage in the development of the
association, where leadership that
combines the professional knowledge
of informatics with strong business
skills and an understanding of the
diverse health care and scientific environment is critical. Kevin is a national
and international health care thought
leader with a proven track record in
academic, health care delivery, and
corporate organizations." AMIA serves
as the voice of the nation's top biomedical and health informatics professionals and plays an important role
in medicine, health care, and science,
encouraging the use of data, information and knowledge to improve both
human health and delivery of healthcare services.
Barry K. Herman, MD, MMM, CPE, FACPE, has been elected president of the American Association of
Psychiatric Administrators (AAPA) for
a two-year term, 2011-2013. The AAPA,
established in 1961, is the premiere
educational, networking, and support
resource for psychiatrists interested
in administration and management.
It is an Allied Organization of the
American Psychiatric Association.
Herman also co-chaired a two-day
course on "Principles of Psychiatric
Administration" at the AAPA Annual
Meeting held in May in Philadelphia.
