Making Sense of Relevant Brody Committees and their Work
Dean
Compensation
Advisory
Committee
ECU Physicians
Board
Management
Operations
Team
Clinical
Operations
Team
ECUP Strategic
Futures
(Ad Hoc “Think Tank”)
Responsibility
Membership
Dean:
Accountable for the operational and strategic
direction of the entire Brody enterprise
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Dr. Paul Cunningham
ECU Physicians Board (ECUP)
Provides strategic and policy guidance and
recommendations, to the Dean, for the physician
practice plan
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Voting Members: Dr. Chelley Alexander; Dr. Paul Bolin; Dr. Paul Cunningham;
Dr. Ted Delbridge; Dr. Jason Foltz; Dr. Herb Garrison; Dr. Libby Harris; Dr. Cal
Hayslip; Dr. Phyllis Horns; Dr. Greg Knapp; Dr. Suzy Kraemer; Dr. Peter Kragel;
Dr. Dan Moore; Dr. Rick Niswander; Dr. Ron Perkin; Dr. Sy Saeed; Dr. David
Taylor; Dr. Betsy Tuttle-Newhall and Dr. Mark Williams
Resource Members (attendance only as required by agenda items):
Andy Anderson; Dr. Lorrie Basnight; Dr. Libby Baxley; Dr. Nick Benson; Jody
Cook; Al Delia; Dr. Ken DeVille; Dagmar Herman Estes; Brian Jowers; Bob
LaGesse; Cheryl Marsh; Donna Payne; Lisa Sutton; Dan Sweat and Gary
Vanderpool
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Dr. Chelley Alexander; Dr. Libby Baxley; Dr. Nick Benson; Dr. Paul Cunningham;
Dr. Ted Delbridge; Dr. Stan Eakins; Dr. Jason Foltz; Dr. Phyllis Horns; Brian
Jowers; and Dr. Rick Niswander
Clinical Operations Team (COT)
Newly established to review and provide clinical
operations direction and suggestions to the MOT, the
clinical operations executive (COE) or directly to
clinical departments. The COT membership and work
is very fluid, designed to act nimbly and depends on
the needs of ECUP.
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Kristie Anderson; Dr. Nick Benson; Martha Dartt; Michelle Edmundson; Dr.
Jason Foltz; Caryl Holoman; Bob LaGesse; Denethia Platt; Ellyn Roberts; Symbra
Ross; and Dr. Roytessa (Roy) Savage;
ECUP Strategic Futures (Ad Hoc “Think Tank”)
Newly created to nimbly provide suggestions and/or
“outside the box” ideas directly to groups, committees
or individuals empowered to adopt and operationalize
them. The work of this team will be short-term and
likely last a month or two.
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Dr. Chelley Alexander; Dr. Libby Baxley; Dr. Nick Benson; Dr. Paul Bolin; Dr. Paul
Cunningham; Dr. Ted Delbridge; Dr. Libby Harris; Dr. Suzy Kraemer; Dr. Betsy
Tuttle-Newhall and Dr. Richard Zeri
Compensation Advisory Committee (CAC)
Established to review and recommend policies and
operational changes, to the Dean, in order to improve
the faculty compensation plan
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Voting Members: Dr. Rick Niswander; Dr. Chelley Alexander; Dr. Dan Moore;
Dr. Eric Toschlog; Dr. Mark Bowling; Dr. Roytessa (Roy) Savage; Kristie Anderson;
Kim Scarborough; Cheryl Marsh and Dr. Rob Carroll
Resource Members: Dr. Nick Benson; Dr. Paul Cunningham; Al Delia; Brian
Jowers; Dr. Bob Lust; Lisa Sutton; Dan Sweat and Gary Vanderpool
Management Operations Team (MOT)
Newly established to review and provide management
operations priorities and recommendation to ECUP
Board
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Huron Healthcare Engagement
Committees below have been established by Huron Healthcare to gather, analyze and evaluate
information in an effort to inform ECU and Vidant Health about becoming more closely aligned
Assigned Responsibility
Project Steering Committee
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Will provide guidance, context and background
information to apprise Huron on possible ramifications
of alignment options developed by Huron
Finance Sub-Committee
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Will review and provide information to Huron regarding
structural, organizational, legal and financial ability and
limitations in achieving closer alignment between ECUVidant
Regulatory/Legal Sub-Committee
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Will review and provide information to Huron regarding
structural, organizational, legal and governance
preferences and obstacles in achieving closer alignment
between ECU-Vidant
Physician Matters Sub-Committee
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Will review and provide guidance and preferences with
regard to the role of Chair and Chief responsibilities, as
well as service line organization and delivery
ECU Membership
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Dr. Libby Baxley; Dr. Nick Benson; Brian Jowers; Cheryl
Marsh; Dan Sweat; Dr. Betsy Tuttle-Newhall and Gary
Vanderpool;
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Dr. Nick Benson; Brian Jowers; Cheryl Marsh; Dr. Rick
Niswander and Gary Vanderpool
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Brian Jowers; Cheryl Marsh; Dr. Rick Niswander; Donna
Payne and Dan Sweat
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Dr. Nick Benson; Dr. Ted Delbridge; Cheryl Marsh; Dr;
Sarah Smith; and Dr. Betsy Tuttle-Newhall
New Roles & Positions
Chief Operations Executive (COE)
Robert LaGesse will be starting on July 13, 2015 in a new, full-time position
serving as the senior administrative leader for the operations of the
ambulatory practice, championing the emphasis on providing an outstanding
patient experience and the highest quality of patient care across the ECUP
ambulatory practice.
Associate Medical Director (AMD)
Jason Foltz, MD started on July 1, 2015 in a new 50% time position to
coordinate efforts to increase patient access to care, to work with clinical
practice leaders to establish common improvement goals across ECUP, and to
prepare appropriate practice sites for Patient Centered Medical Home
recognition.