Victor J. Dzau, MD, chancellor for health affairs and CEO of Duke University Health System, and William J. Fulkerson, Jr., MD, executive vice president of DUHS, shared the following announcement with School of Medicine faculty today:
We're pleased to announce that Tom Owens, MD, currently the chief medical officer for Duke University Hospital and chief of our Hospital Medicine Program, has accepted the position of Chief Medical Officer for the Duke University Health System. Tom will assume his new responsibilities on February 1, 2012, and will work closely with Kevin Sowers in transitioning his Duke University Hospital CMO and Hospital Medicine leadership responsibilities.
In overseeing medical affairs throughout the health system, Tom will have responsibilities that include working with Karen Frush, MD, Chief Safety Officer, to set the health system quality agenda, and ensure alignment of physicians and physician services with health system strategic plans and clinical program priorities. He will also oversee an integrated Duke Primary Care that will bring together Duke Primary Care, Community & Family Medicine, Internal Medicine primary care clinics, while also working to develop approaches to a Patient Centered Medical Home. In these roles, Tom will report to Bill Fulkerson.
Tom will also be charged with playing an important role as the physician leader for health system healthcare reform planning and innovation. In this role, Tom will report to Chancellor Dzau and will work closely with Anne Lore, Assistant Vice President of Innovations Planning.
Tom completed his Internal Medicine and Pediatrics internship and residency at Duke, and followed by a General Internal Medicine fellowship and subsequent Chief Resident year at Duke as well. He has held a number of increasingly significant medical leadership positions within the health system over the past 10 years. This is a very important position for Duke Medicine moving forward and we feel fortunate to have someone of Tom's caliber to take on this responsibility.
We're pleased to announce that Tom Owens, MD, currently the chief medical officer for Duke University Hospital and chief of our Hospital Medicine Program, has accepted the position of Chief Medical Officer for the Duke University Health System. Tom will assume his new responsibilities on February 1, 2012, and will work closely with Kevin Sowers in transitioning his Duke University Hospital CMO and Hospital Medicine leadership responsibilities.
In overseeing medical affairs throughout the health system, Tom will have responsibilities that include working with Karen Frush, MD, Chief Safety Officer, to set the health system quality agenda, and ensure alignment of physicians and physician services with health system strategic plans and clinical program priorities. He will also oversee an integrated Duke Primary Care that will bring together Duke Primary Care, Community & Family Medicine, Internal Medicine primary care clinics, while also working to develop approaches to a Patient Centered Medical Home. In these roles, Tom will report to Bill Fulkerson.
Tom will also be charged with playing an important role as the physician leader for health system healthcare reform planning and innovation. In this role, Tom will report to Chancellor Dzau and will work closely with Anne Lore, Assistant Vice President of Innovations Planning.
Tom completed his Internal Medicine and Pediatrics internship and residency at Duke, and followed by a General Internal Medicine fellowship and subsequent Chief Resident year at Duke as well. He has held a number of increasingly significant medical leadership positions within the health system over the past 10 years. This is a very important position for Duke Medicine moving forward and we feel fortunate to have someone of Tom's caliber to take on this responsibility.