LEELIE SELASSIE, MD, MBA

EXPERIENCE

MARY WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER Fredricksbug, VA

Intensivist October 2022 – February 2023

• Locum Tenens physician. Nocturnist.

• Performing direct clinical care including exams, procedures for admissions and CTVS patients. ADVENTIST WHITE OAK MEDICAL CENTER Silver Spring, MD Intensivist June 2019 - Present

• Coordinating and leading a multi-disciplinary team of providers and staff in delivering medical care for critically ill patients in intensive care unit for fifteen to twenty patients per day

• Performing direct clinical care including exams, procedures and leading patient and family meetings for fifteen to twenty patients per day

• Led a team of critical care specialists in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic for the first six months of the crisis WASHINGTON ADVENTIST HOSPITAL Takoma Park, MD

Interim Director of Critical Care October 2018 - April 2019

• Served as a leading physician for multiple clinical process improvement committees including reducing alarm/alert fatigue, ventilator management and central line infection reduction for twenty-six bed ICU

• Served as the staffing company liaison with ten person provider group through contract renegotiation with hospital

• Chaired a monthly peer review committee; providing oversight of cases brought to committee’s attention regarding cases of quality patient care in 180 bed hospital

WASHINGTON ADVENTIST HOSPITAL Takoma Park, MD

Intensivist July 2007 - June 2019

• Guided direct clinical care including exams, procedures, patient and family meetings for ten and sixteen bed ICUs

• Serving as member of peer review committee contributing oversight to other doctors in challenging medical cases

• Served as director of Stroke Services and led a multi-disciplinary team in achieving hospital's first stroke center certification status

BLACK LION HOSPITAL Addis Abeba, Ethiopia

Clinical Faculty Critical Care Medicine November 2013 - October 2015

• Instructed critical care medicine principals to ICU fellows, medical residents, and medical students in a twenty-four bed ICU

• Trained three to four doctors annually creating a group of ICU trained physicians leading Ethiopia's critical care capacity

INOVA HOSPITAL E-ICU Falls Church, VA

Intensivist January 2008 - Present

• Performed critical care services remotely via telehealth platforms to four ICUs in the INOVA system

• Ensured delivery of quality care metrics for patients at hospital sites leading to decrease in hospital acquired complications across sixty ICU beds

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Washington, DC Chief Medical Resident July 2004 - June 2005

• Coordinated medical education of medical residents from three DC area hospitals by medical staff, leading to favored education rotation

• Supervised sixty medical house staff and educated via lectures, conducting rounds, direct clinical care and demonstration of procedures

• Completed several quality-improvement projects for safer medical procedures throughout medical wards leading to a decrease in risk for healthcare facility-associated complications for patients and residents at Veterans Affairs Hospital at savings of $25,000 per avoided complication

EDUCATION

THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, School of Business Washington, DC Master of Business Administration May 2021

• Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society

THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Washington, DC Fellowship Critical Care Medicine May 2007

• Chief ICU Fellow

THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Washington, DC Internal Medicine Residency May 2005

• Chief Medical Resident

MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Charleston, SC Doctor of Medicine May 2001

• Student liaison with university administration

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Champaign- Urbana, IL

BS Biochemistry, BS Cell & Structural Biology May 1996

• Presidential Scholar Award

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

PUBLICATIONS

• Selassie, L. Neurogenic pulmonary edema associated with intracerebral hemorrhage: diagnostic and therapeutic innovation. Chest 2007 132:732S.

• Selassie L, Shroff D, and Ortiz E. When doctors can't agree: did we do the right thing? Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting – Unknown Vignette Session.2005 May 13.

• Selassie L, Shroff D, and Ortiz E. Management techniques for patients who sabotage their own care. Society of General Internal Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting - Abstract/Poster presentation. 2005 March 11.

• Duncan ME, Hungnaw M, Haile-Mariam HS, Selassie L, Kazen R, Hansen S, Jamal GA, Julu P. “Early Leprosy neuropathy in teenagers born to mothers with leprosy and healthy controls studied prospectively from birth.” Poster presented at: Joint Meeting of The Royal Colleges of Physicians andSurgeons of Edinburgh and The Academies of Medicine of Malaysia and Singapore. 1997 September 17-19.

• Gaskins HR, Baldeon ME, Selassie L, Beverly J. “Glucose modulate gamma-aminobutyric acid release from the pancreatic beta TC6 cell line”. The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 270(51): 30286-9, 1995 December 22.

Volunteer Roles • Haile-Mariam and Roman Foundation Board Member NGO of former Prime Minster and First Lady of Ethiopia - member of finance and audit committee

• M.O.R.E. Executive Board member-USA based fundraising arm for vulnerable children in Ethiopia to remain with surviving family after death of one or both parents

• Assistant Scoutmaster for Boy Scouts of America troops in McLean VA and Sewanee TN, teaching first aid to scouts, assisting with troop meetings and campouts

• President Diplomatic Spouses Group Ethiopia- led monthly meetings and activities for over 120 diplomatic mission’s spouses, chaired annual bazaar for two years raising over $150,000/ year for Ethiopian NGOs that supported vulnerable children and women

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