The utmbconnect Champions of Change Committee is composed of providers from UTMB Health and chaired by Chief Medical Information Officer, Dr. Carlos Clark. The committee will communicate to their peers about utmbconnect initiatives to ensure the program serves provider and patient needs at go-live. Provider advocates meet in a monthly council and serve as points of contact within their departments for issues related to utmbconnect. Members of the committee can be identified by a pin like the icon at the bottom of this post. The committee members are:

Physicians:

• Dr. Nikoletta Carayannopoulos – Orthopaedic Surgery
• Dr. Tricia Elliot – Family Medicine
• Dr. Saleh Elsaid – Family Medicine Hospitalist
• Dr. Techksell Mcknight – Hematology/Oncology
• Dr. Marilyn Marx – General Surgery, CMC
• Dr. Michael Underbrink – Otolaryngology
• Dr. Keith Bly – Pediatrics Urgent Care
• Dr. Matthew Hay – Pediatrics CBC
• Dr. Bill Mileski – Surgery
• Dr. Catalin Jurnalov – Uro-Gyn
• Dr. Tony Wen – Ob-Gyn
• Dr. Virginia A. Rauth – Ob-Gyn
• Dr. Michael Wilkerson – Dermatology
• Dr. Brock Harper – Rheumatology
• Dr. Leah Low – Internal Medicine Hospitalist
• Dr. Dwight Wolf – Psychiatry
• Dr. Anika T. Bell-Gray – Family Medicine CBC

Department Administrator

• David Hileman

 Nurse Practitioners/Clinicians/Advanced Practice Clinicians/Other

• Andrea Wirt – Nurse Practitioner, PCP – Geri/Stark Diabetes
• Samantha McBroom – Nurse Manager – Outpatient, CBC League City

 Nursing

• Ri Dorado – Perioperative Services
• Sharon Hensley – Perioperative (DSU & PACU)
• Dee Gallardo – Adult Patient Care Services
• Virginia Morales – Nursing, Care Management
• Tandra Medellin – Nursing, L&D
• Anna Gall – Nurse Supervisor, Pedi PCP
• Rhonda Melchor – Nurse Supervisor, Ob-Gyn

 Coding

• Brenna Thiem – Physicians’ Billing Services – Medical Coding
• Tricia Yeathermon – Physicians’ Billing Services – Surgical Coding