System Hospitalist Director for SJHS New Jersey
Resume:
VIJU VIJAYSADAN MD
** ****** ***** ****, ***** **1
Lincoln Park, New Jersey 07035
Office 973-***-****; Fax 973-***-****
Cell 862-***-****
****************@*****.***
ABIM Certified in IM 2007, 2017 and Hospital Medicine 2017 OBJECTIVE
CAREER DEFINING ROLE IN THE ART OF LEADERSHIP CENTERED AROUND SCIENCE OF MEDICINE
“A good Leader has to be a good listener”- Hon. David J.Shulkin MD secretary for health, Department of VA once told me while having a casual chat at Morristown Medical Center where I represented medical leadership for Inpatient services & post-acute care services and where Dr Shulkin was the CEO.
I have conceptualized and implemented solutions to problems that were inherent to MMC, RWJBH and most recently with SJ Health system revealing my potential for leadership, unmasking my entrepreneurial qualities paving way to my quest to trace the footprints of people like Dr. David Shulkin, Dr. Mark Zucker, Dr. Robert Lahita, Dr. Stanley Fiel amongst others.
At Saint Joseph’ Health System, I conceptualized, implemented the Hospitalist Program and evolved it to expand across the health system at two of its hospitals, with academic and post-acute expansion in a short period of eighteen months. At RWJBH, I created specialty hospitalists in Heart and Lung Transplant, Post-Transplant Oncological disease, Advanced HF and Chronic Lung disease, all of which were a necessity for the institution at that time, rising up to the situation. As an altruist I want the care delivery to be patient centered and to provide them with value-based quality care that is affordable and accessible in a timely manner. As an entrepreneur I like to create a cohesive, comprehensive and competent approach to deliver this care using a multidisciplinary approach with accountability, accessibility and affordability. This personal statement has changed since I came into this profession as a resident, as a lead Hospitalist, as an academician and as a leader in strategic roles of healthcare delivery. The change is an adaptation to the dynamics of the business. If my personal statement has not changed since residency, I risk not being relevant anymore. Throughout the years I have honed the perfect balance of an Altruist and entrepreneur. This is my experience - the unquantifiable Factor in Leadership to provide care with quality and compassion if I am given an opportunity.
EXPERIENCE
St. Joseph’s Health System
October 8, 2018 -Present
● Medical Director -Hospitalist Program /Care Transition/ Post-Acute Care Implemented the program to a health system which was naive and culturally challenging: - Recruited and retained hospitalist, set the trend for EBM practice.
-Academic involvement with SJUMC in IM/FP/Medicine-Pediatrics Residency programs.
-Instrumental in setting up the program, establishing metrics, revenue cycle management, achieving and maintaining operational and clinical metrics above benchmarks.
-Established Post-Acute presence and Care Transitions program for Bundled Payment Care Initiative and ACO patients
-Designed and Developed Patient Satisfaction Feedback that is specific for Hospitalist differing from overall perception survey by credible, trustworthy vendors.
-Currently involved with expansion of services across the health system for standardizing care, improving transfer process and working on Hospital Medicine track fellowship.
-Active participation in Hospital Leadership Committee in regard to strategic planning, conceptualizing and implementing programs and clinical oversight of the same.
-Established a cordial relationship with referring MD, Consultants, Community based MD and with administration for smooth conduct of operational aspects of the program.
-Oversee the committee for choice and integration of new EMR, Billing software, Report generation of metrics, Revenue Cycle Management.
-Implemented LOS rounds on every floor. -Steering committee for Readmission reduction
-Pharmacy and Therapeutics committee to have drugs of exceptional value for better patient care and financial sense
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
January 2016- October 5, 2018
● Chief Hospitalist -Focus on Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant
-Represents medical leadership to other hospitalist and physician extenders, transplant coordinators, house staff and other staff of inpatient service.
-Responsible for performance improvement, clinical quality, staffing, budgeting, meeting core measures and providing a vision for the development of a high quality, value based responsive and innovative care delivery
-Evaluated, organized and normalized hospitalist and teaching services into a cohesive, well- functioning unified section.
-Managed a complex organization with success measured in well-defined metrics.
● RWJ Faculty for Resident Education
-Academic Hospitalist -Participate in Resident Review Committee, resident selection and resident education to impart academic and educational goals, to foster creativity and innovation that prepare future physicians.
● Transitions of Care and Post-acute care continuum
-Created a usable, actionable set of operational outcomes/ metrics with a consistent reporting mechanism to senior operating group
● Outpatient Observation Services
-Developed and deployed a management team structured to drive performance across the section
● Critical Care Committee
-Active participant in peer review and conceptualize programs to meet performance metrics
● Quality and core measures committee
-Physician champion in Patient safety metrics and quality metrics- programs to improve for better care delivery and drive programs to reduce cost per case for both direct (MD) and floor expenses (utilization of services)
● Transplant committee
-Played a role in mitigating risk in the selection process to improve outcome of the Transplant program.
-Post acute care - developed program with strategic partner for achievement of metrics and providing value-based care.
● Physician Champion
-CHF / COPD Core measures. -Transitions of Care. -Patient safety
● Investigational medication /Device Clinical Trial
-Recruitment and follow up of Omecamtiv mecarbil (INN), previously referred to as CK- 1827452, is a cardiac-specific myosin activator. It is being studied for a potential role in the treatment of left ventricular systolic heart failure. GALACTIC
-Heartmate-3 Momentum clinical Trial
-Clinical Study Identifier: NCT02791230 Global Phase 3, open label long term extension safety study designed to obtain additional safety data for tafamidis meglumine 20 mg and 80 mg (or tafamidis 61 mg where available), and to continue to provide enrolled subjects with tafamidis for up to 60 months, or until subject has access to tafamidis for ATTR CM via prescription, whichever occurs first.
-ARRAY 797-301 A phase 3, multinational, randomized, placebo-controlled study of ARRY- 371797 in patients with symptomatic dilated cardiomyopathy due to a lamin A/C gene mutation.
Morristown Hospital (Atlantic Health System) June 2011- 2015
Faculty Internal Medicine Residency Program/ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Chief Hospitalist Morristown Medical Center. (AHS- Atlantic Health System) Academic Activity:
● Created syllabus for Medical Consult service in Residency Training as stipulated by ACGME
● Art of medical consult for surgical patients; preoperative clearance, risk stratification and management of medical problems per-operatively.
● Supervised residents on rotation with pre and post rotation tests
● Didactic sessions on the topic
Revisited treatment of ETOH withdrawal MSAS protocol and CIWA-A.
● Revised and tailored management to decrease LOS and Readmission rate
● Didactic lectures done on the topic for Residents and Students. Board Review lecture series for residents
● 100% pass rate since 2011-2014
Procedure Skills
● Competence training for Residents in Central Lines, Thoracentesis, Paracentesis, Spinal Tap
● Intra- Articular Joint aspirations and Injections for resident training Moderated Journal Club
● Sessions on EBM on current topics
● extrapolation of data to patient population
Resident Mentoring
● Inculcating values in System Based Practice, Practice based learning, improvement and Career guidance
● Moderating combined discipline case discussions as IM/EM ● Moderator for M&M cases Leadership, Administrative Experience and Strategic Planning
● Worked on Strategic Alliance between AHS- Atlantic Health System and Community based partners in various fields of mutual benefit centered on patient care.
● Chair the Committee and implemented AHS-Care One Cardiopulmonary Exercise Program
● Chair the committee on Readmission Reduction Program
● Chair Care -Transitions and Transitional Care programs
● Active role and Leadership for unifying the multiple Hospitalist group to provide standardized care with objectives for utilization of Resources
● LOS as a benchmark for performance assessment /Core measures
● Readmission Rate Reduction for penalty diagnosis and others.
● Care Transitions without interruption of care.
● Provide Value Based Care that is patient centered and on a timely manner. QI Projects
● Hospitalist Leadership for Anticoagulation Committee
● Improved VTE prophylaxis rate to 99 % in ICU and 96.7 % in GMF
● Meets National Benchmarks or better for Incidence of DVT
● Case review of all adverse effects /failure of NOAC and outcome with recommendations.
● Critical review of incidence of DVT and proposal for improvement
● Hospitalist Leadership for Pharmacy Committee
● Streamlined order sheets for DKA, COPD, Pneumonia, Cystic fibrosis ● Decision making for acceptance of Medications into Formulary
● Medication Error Reduction
● Medication Adverse Effect Reduction
● Implementing Clinical Pharmacist services for Daily Clinical rounds with the teaching team, Pharmacokinetics for all medication that requires it. Lead Inpatient Hospitalist for AHS Cystic Fibrosis Center of Excellence
● Coordinated multidisciplinary care while in-patients from AHS Cystic Fibrosis center of Excellence
● Care coordination for the unique and Dynamic Needs of Patients with CF while IP and Transition back to community.
● Developed tools for early recognition and treatment optimization of Endocrine abnormalities’ in patients with Cystic Fibrosis
● Developed protocols for optimizing bone density / prevention of bone loss in patients with CF Chilton Medical Center (Atlantic Health System)
June 2007-June 2011
Lead Hospitalists at Chilton Medical Center (AHS Atlantic Health System)
Associate of Chilton Emergency Physicians and J&J Pediatrics Emergency Physician group. Created Hospitalist Program with Operational Excellence
● First recruitment to materialize the concept of Hospitalist in a community-based hospital serving an affluent demographic area
● Overcame the challenges and created a cohesive and coordinated group of 7 Hospitalist before moving up to Morristown Medical Center (AHS Atlantic Health System)
● Design, Budgeting, Recruitment and Retention of Hospitalists
● Oversight in Quality Measures and Outcome of the program
● Oversight in Performance management of Hospitalist team
● Care Coordination for more than 75 community based primary doctors and specialists
Associate of Chilton Emergency Physicians and J&J Pediatrics Emergency Physician group.
● Emergency Room Physician in Medicine and Pediatrics
● Role recognition as Physician of the Year in National Doctors’ Day 2007 Kinnelon Medical and Pediatric Associates
January 2006- December 2011
Associate and Partner
● Primary care provider for Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
● Custom made interactive EMR with strict adherence to CCHIT
● Special interest in pediatric IDDM and Insulin Pump management
● Special interest in congenital heart disease and continued care for adults with CHD
● Optimized care for adults with diabetes with CGMS
● Travel Medicine practice
Viju Vijaysadan MD PC
January 2012- Present
Transfer Private practice to new location.
Provide exemplary care in primary care for Pediatrics, Adolescent and the elderly
Covers unique areas of chronic childhood diseases that pass on to adulthood as IDDM, Crohn’s, Static encephalopathy, ADD, PDD INNOVATIONAL EXPERIENCE
JDT Rehabilitation Center 2007-2010
Medical Director
Conceptual Thinking
● Evolved the Concept of "Extensivitist" in 2007
● Embarking on the concept of Extensivitist as care outside the acute care hospital is non cohesive and most of the time subject to errors.
● Worked with Martha Stewart Center of Living at Mt. Sinai Care One – Sub Acute Rehabilitation and LTC
2011- Present
Medical Director and coordinator of Strategic alliance AHS- Care One programs Conceived, Strategized and Executed
● AHS –Care One COPD -Pulmonary Exercise Program
● AHS –Care One CHF –Cardiopulmonary Exercise Program ● AHS-Care One Care- Transitions Program
EDUCATION
Medical Education and Residency Training
● Graduated in 1995 from Thiruvananthapuram Medical College with Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery – MBBS
● Gold Medalist in Internal Medicine and Surgery
● Passed with Distinction in all exams in first attempt
● Active student participation in research for reversal of Liver Cirrhosis Surgical house officer- PRS Hospital Trivandrum 695014 July 1995 – June 1998
● On call for Trauma and Postoperative Critical Care
● Assisted in research for innovative Hip prosthesis Externship at Emergency Room – Interfaith Hospital Brooklyn, NY July 1998-December 1999
● Exposure to the system of medical practice
● Worked with residents and fellows in the ER
● Helped to design protocols for Asthma severity assessment and streamline the care
Externship in Pediatric Cardiology under Monica Rutkowski MD January 2000 – June 2001
● Special Interest in Adult Congenital Heart disease
● Took part in ongoing research in QT prolongation in patients with ASD and repair
● Presentations on Single Ventricle Physiology
Residency and Chief Residency
July 2001- 2005
● Combined Medicine -Pediatrics Residency Program at AHS-Atlantic Health System. 2001-2004
● Chief Residency 2004- 2005
● ABIM Board Certified 2007 Recertified in 2017 in Internal Medicine and Hospitalist Medicine
● Active with resident education and familiar with ACGME new standards of milestone scoring (MMC was one of the pilot projects for the same since 2011) Publications, Presentations and Grand Rounds
● Revisiting swallowed troubles. Intestinal complications caused by two magnets- a case report, review and proposed revision to the algorithm for the management of Foreign Body Ingestion JABFM 2006 September 01
● Paget-Schroetter Syndrome in the young and active JABFM 2005 July 05 Presentations / Grand Rounds and International Conference
● No DVT prophylaxis on Admission, are we doing it right?
● Acute myocarditis with Coxsackievirus A6 Strain in a 65-year-old –A case report, poster and oral presentation at Mt Sinai School of Medicine Annual Research Day May 2014
● Cystic Fibrosis; Genotypes, Classification and Management-2014
● Abstract and poster and oral presentation at Mt Sinai School of Medicine Annual Research Day- May 2013
● Pre-Op Consult and Perioperative management -2013
● IFSO – (International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and metabolic disorder) World Congress 2012 at New Delhi India Deliberation on topics: -
Multidisciplinary approach to weight loss is always the better option September 2012
Factors influencing Weight Loss Failure: - An approach in identification, prediction and management of WLF- September 2012
● Alcohol abuse and Management – 2012
● Seminar on Bariatric Surgery- Apollo Institute of Bariatric Surgery Chennai, India November 2011. Deliberation of the following topics: -
A critical study of various devices in LAGB, Their advantages and disadvantages.
Physiology of weight loss and its impact on metabolic disorders.
● Art of Medical Consult – 2011
● Foreign Body Ingestion and proposal of new Algorithm to its management 2006
● Effort Thrombosis and Management – 2005
● Ximelagatran – a new but direct look in VTE management- 2005
● Neonatal Hypocalcemia – 2004
● Gastroschisis – Anticipatory guidance and management at birth- 2003
● AHS Research Day June 2005 – Paget Schroetter / Effort Thrombosis Research experience
● Designed Protocol for multicenter trial on Morbid Obesity and its management for Cousin Biotech, Lilly France. – 2011
● Participated in development of innovative hip prosthesis – 1995-1998
● Student research participant in liver cirrhosis study – 1992-1995
● Clinical Trial of Investigational Drugs and Devices 2015-2018 AWARDS AND HONORS
● Resident recognition for Faculty award -2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
● Best oral presenter award AHS research day 2005 -From Mehmet Oz
● Recognized as physician of the year during national doctors’ day- 2007
● ER Physician Recognition Award –National Doctors Day 2007
● Best speaker Award- AHS Research Day June 2005
● William Tansey Award for Humanitarianism -2005
Board Certification / Membership
● ABIM - Board Certified in Internal Medicine
● ABIM- Board Certified in Hospital Medicine
● AAP- American Academy of Pediatrics
● AOPA - Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
REFERENCES
Robert G. Lahita MD PhD
Chairman -Department of Medicine, Saint Joseph’ Healthcare System 201-***-**** *******@*****.***
Stanley B Fiel MD FACP FCCP
Regional Chairman - Department of Medicine Atlantic Health System Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
The de Neufville Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine, Morristown Medical Center *******.****@**************.***
Mrudula Munagala MD
Medical Director Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program *******.********@*************.***
Mark Jay Zucker MD
Director of Heart and Lung Transplant -Newark Beth Israel Hospital RWJBH 14
Contact this candidate