Lisa-Mae Williams, PhD, RN, CCRN-K

Operations Director, Telehealth Center, Tele-Critical Care & Virtual Sepsis Unit, Baptist Health South Florida

Lisa-Mae Williams, PhD, RN, CCRN-K, is the Operations Director for Tele-Critical Care (Tele-ICU) & Virtual Sepsis Unit at Baptist Health's Telehealth Center. She holds a Master of Science in Nursing Administration from Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida, and a PhD from the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Williams has been with Baptist Health South Florida for 20 years, serving at various times as a staff nurse in the ICU, a Clinical Educator for critical care and progressive care, and a Nurse Manager.

Dr. Williams has conducted several presentations at national and international conferences and has authored multiple journal research articles related to her work in Telehealth. Her doctoral research has focused primarily on Tele-ICU nursing interventions’ impact on patient outcomes.

Recently, Dr. Williams was appointed as a Clinical Associate Professor at the Hebert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University. She is also Co-Director of the new Telehealth Elective for 4th Year Medical Students at Florida International University. She serves on the Center for Telehealth & eLaw (CTeL) Advisory Board and the CTeL White House stakeholder group. Dr. Williams has attended multiple meetings at the White House and Congress to advocate for removing restrictions on Telehealth Services.

Benjamin H. Slovis, MD, MA

Associate Professor, Director of Clinical Informatics, Department of Emergency Medicine, Director of Informatics, Virtual Health and Urgent Care Service Line, Medical Information Officer, Jefferson Health, Thomas Jefferson University

Benjamin H. Slovis, MD, MA, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Director of Clinical Informatics for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University, and a Medical Information Officer for Jefferson Health. He completed his emergency medicine residency at Mount Sinai in New York City and an NLM-funded post-doctoral fellowship in biomedical informatics at Columbia University.

Dr. Slovis’s current responsibilities include leading Epic implementation and optimization plans for emergency medicine across the enterprise, as well as various analytics and reporting efforts. His research interests focus on health information technology and informatics interventions with a specific focus on the opioid epidemic, and he has published several peer-reviewed articles in emergency medicine and informatics journals on these topics. He is also the Jefferson Health site director for the Clinical Informatics Fellowship program at Christiana Care and a participating faculty member for the Informatics, Patient Safety, and Clinical Quality Fellowship in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Slovis has served as the secretary, chair-elect, and chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians’ Informatics Section and was elected to the Emergency Medicine Steering Board for Epic Systems in Verona, Wisconsin.

Dr. Slovis has been awarded several informatics research awards, received the Jefferson Analytics Award in Data Visualization, and represented emergency medicine in Jefferson Health’s successful HIMSS Stage 7 validation process. 

David F. Gaieski, MD

Professor, Vice Chair, Resuscitative Services, Director, Emergency Critical Care, Jefferson Health, Thomas Jefferson University

David F. Gaieski, MD, is a professor at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. He is Vice Chair for Resuscitation Services and Director of Emergency Critical Care in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Pennsylvania, a non-operative sports medicine fellowship in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at  the University of Pennsylvania, and an emergency medicine residency at Christiana Care Health Services. His clinical and research expertise focuses on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), post-cardiac arrest syndrome (PCAS), extracorporeal CPR (ECPR), the epidemiology of sepsis, and optimizing care for sepsis and septic shock. At Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals, Dr. Gaieski is the Enterprise Physician lead for Sepsis Quality Improvement.

Dr. Gaieski has lectured extensively internationally and published more than 160 peer-reviewed publications on the optimal clinical management of patients with PCAS and sepsis in major journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Circulation, Critical Care Medicine, Resuscitation, and Annals of Emergency Medicine. He was one of the first few emergency physicians not formally trained in a critical care fellowship to be inducted as a Fellow of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM).

Josh Clark, MHA, RN

SVP Quality and Safety Operations, Jefferson Health

Josh Clark, MHA, RN, is the Senior Vice President of Quality and Safety Operations for Jefferson Health, an 18-hospital system covering the greater Philadelphia region and southern New Jersey. Josh led the implementation of the OnPoint Program for Advancing Care Excellence, which included design and deployment of an industry-leading serious safety event review program, enterprise escalating huddles, an organizational learning and triage platform, and a state-of-the-art enterprise analytics platform. 

Josh has participated in National Quality Forum Action Teams for both Opioid Safety and Medication Safety and is a Faculty Improvement Advisor for the Institute of Healthcare Improvement.  Josh obtained his RN and Master of Healthcare Administration degrees from Jefferson College of Health Sciences. After ten years of critical care nursing at academic medical centers in Virginia and New York City, Josh transitioned his focus to the science of healthcare delivery. He helped lead a quality and safety transformation at Virginia’s second largest health system, which included one of the only Applied Human Factors departments in the country. His work to integrate translational Human Factors within clinical operations was recognized by the National Quality Forum Next Generation Innovator Award. His work to design and deploy the OnPoint Program was recognized by ECRI with the 2021 Safety Excellence Award.

Andres Alvarado

OnPoint Program Manager, Quality and Safety Operations, Jefferson Health

Andres Alvarado is the Enterprise Program Manager for quality and safety operations at Jefferson Health, a healthcare system comprised of 18 hospitals spanning the greater Philadelphia region and southern New Jersey. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University and gained experience managing organization-wide projects within the healthcare and electric utility industries through beginning his career in management consulting. Andres’s primary responsibility at Jefferson Health is to manage the OnPoint Program, which takes an innovative and programmatic approach to quality, safety, experience, and equity. He partners with senior leaders and executives to prioritize work within each of these areas so that Jefferson’s clinical staff members are empowered to advance care excellence for their patients and their communities. With his extensive background in project management, Andres has also led critical safety efforts including an employee COVID-19 vaccine deployment and implementation of a standardized sepsis identification and treatment protocol.