Student Representative Charleston

Sherry Ikalowych, MD MS MHA

*** ****** **** ********** ***** Carolina 29414

910-***-**** email: **********@*****.***

BOARD CERTIFICATION:

Internal Medicine-2005, through the ABIM-recertification exam passed 2013

EDUCATION:

August 2017 to December 2019- Master’s degree, University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill, NC; Gilling’s School of Global Public Health program in Health Care Policy and Management.

July 1998- May 2002- University of Medicine and Dentistry/New Jersey Medical School

Newark New Jersey. MD degree awarded May 2002

August 1981-June 1983 Columbia University School of Nursing, New York NY; Master’s degree October 1983

1973-1977Adelphi University Garden City, NY; BSN awarded magna cum laude, June 1977

RESIDENCY TRAINING:

June 2003-June 2005 Resident Physician in the NYP-Cornell Internal Residency program, New York, NY; also trained at Memorial Sloan Kettering in NYC and Hospital for Special Surgery. Participated in a research project with Dr.Jia Ruan on angiogenesis and mantle cell lymphoma during third year residency.

July 2002-June 2003 Internship in the UMDNJ Internal Medicine Residency program in Newark NJ; also trained at the VA hospital in East Orange NJ and Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack NJ.

EMPLOYMENT:

June 2019- present- Medical Director Postacute Care Medicine Program Roper St. Francis Hospital, Charleston South Carolina. Responsibilities include recruitment, management, education, scheduling and evaluation of staff, quality assurance and performance improvement, strategic planning, risk management, pharmacy quality improvement including implementation of a GDR program, and participation in compliance with CMS and DHEC regulations. Clinical duties including direct patient care and wound care. Additionally, I serve as the Medical Director for Bishop Gadsden, a transitional retirement community in Charleston South Carolina.

October 2014- June 2019- staff hospitalist Roper St Francis Hospital, Charleston SC

May 2014-December 2017- Independent contractor with Eagle Hospitalist Service

January 2013-June 2014- staff hospitalist at CMC Main Hospital in Charlotte NC

January 2010-January 2013-private practice/owner internal medicine physician, Comprehensive Medical Associates, 5130 Southport-Supply Rd, Suite 101a, Southport, NC. Inpatient and outpatient responsibilities

May 2008-2012- Per diem independent contractor Hospitalist in several hospitals in North and South Carolina

September 1, 2008-January 2010 : staff hospitalist position at Dosher Memorial Hospital

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September 2005-May 2008 Private practice internal medicine physician, Howe Street Internal Medicine Associates 905 North Howe St, Southport, NC; responsible for outpatient and inpatient care

Medical Staff member, Dosher Memorial Hospital in Southport, NC;

1992-2002Staff Nurse Anesthetist at UMDNJ Newark, NJ

1989-1998Faculty member, Columbia University School of Nursing

1989-1997Clinical Instructor

1997-1998Assistant Professor and program Director, Graduate Program in Nurse Anesthesia- responsible for admissions, coordinating/supervising clinical sites, budget, interfacing with regional and national governing bodies, scheduling, meeting with students and coordination of classes, policy implementation and changes

1983-1989Chief Nurse Anesthetist, Nyack Hospital Nyack, NY

1977-1982Registered Professional Nurse, ICU and ER

HONORS AND SCHOLARSHIPS:

Leadership College Scholar, North Carolina Medical Society, class of 2007

Dean’s Letter of Commendation Fall 1999 and Spring 2000

Student representative to the mid-atlantic meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore MD

Featured in an article in the 1999-2000 UMDNJ Annual Report, titled Images of Academic Excellence

Awarded the Class of 1972 Scholarship from the NJMS Alumni Association Spring 2000

Awarded the Semen and Irene Fecowycz Memorial Scholarship Fall 2001

Awarded the AAPI award for outstanding achievement in medical school, May 2000

Excellence in Action Award, Roper Hospital December 30 2020

Physician liaison to the diabetes education program at Dosher Memorial Hospital 2006-2010

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMITTEES:

Chairwoman, Quality Care Committee Dosher Hospital. 2006-2007

Successful completion of critical care course/certification through the American College of Critical Care, March 2012

CME Committee Roper Hospital 2016 to 2018

Ethics Committee October 2019 to present, co-chair since January 2021.

Active Member American Medical Director Association

Active Member, Medical Society of South Carolina

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

Review paper Nitric Oxide; More Than Meets The Eye presented at the Columbia University School of Nursing alumni meeting

Contributor to the textbook Essentials of Nurse Anesthesia, published by MaGraw-Hill, 1997; authored chapter on respiratory physiology

Presentation of project for the Leadership College at the NCMS annual meeting October 2007-

Initiation of a hospital based community diabetes education program at Dosher Memorial Hospital in Southport North Carolina in 2010.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:

BCLS recertified 2021

ACLS recertified 2021

ABIM certified 2005, passed recertification exam 2013.

Certified in hyperbaric oxygen therapy and wound care through National Baromedical Services Inc., November 2021

NC MD License # 2005-00060

SC MD License #md 30674

DEA # BI8480989

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