EM OPERATIONS

OUR
MISSION

To lead and support our clinicians to ensure that every patient who enters our ED receives compassionate, outstanding, and efficient care.

OUR TEAM

Stephan Russ, MD

Associate Chief of Staff, Vanderbilt University Hospital

Executive Medical Director, Vanderbilt LifeFlight

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Joy Crook, MD

Executive Medical Director, Emergency Services

VUH OPERATIONS

Blayke Gibson, MD MBA

Medical Director, Clinical Operations

Henry G Colmer IV, MD

Associate Medical Director, Clinical Operations

Doug Wallace, MD, DTMH

Assistant Medical Director, Clinical Operations

Tara Overbeeke, MD

Medical Director, ED Advanced Practice Providers

REGIONAL OPERATIONS

Nathaniel Miller, MD

Executive Director for Regional Emergency Medicine

R. Scott Frankenfield, MD, MMHC

Regional Director of Emergency Medicine

Michael Jackson, DO

Assistant Director of Regional Operations

Steven Katz, MD

Medical Director, VWCH

Graham Van Schaik, MD, MBA

Medical Director, VTHH

Assistant Director of Regional Growth &

Strategy

John D. Pitt, III, MD

Medical Director, VBCH

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

J. Christoper Champion
MD, MBA

Vice Chair for Quality and Safety

Jonathan Andereck,
MD, MBA

Quality Medical Director

Brian Bales, MD, DTMH

Assistant Quality Medical Director