Service Line Organizational Restructuring Updates

By Darin Pangalangan, MD, system vice president of clinical service lines, Premier Health and Kelli Ashbeck, director of surgical services and orthopedics, Premier Health

Exciting changes are happening within the service lines, including an organizational restructuring that will help break down silos and improve decision-making across all sites in the system. All seven service lines will now report up through Darin Pangalangan, MD, system vice president of clinical service lines, to increase collaboration and strategic alignment and allow for more efficient prioritization. With those changes, there are new members of the surgical, orthopedics, and women service lines. To offer operational and strategic oversight across the system, Amy Stockman transitioned to the Vice President over the Surgical Services and Orthopedics service lines, and Melissa Merritt will transition to Vice President over Women’s Services service lines. Kelli Ashbeck will serve as Service Line Director for Surgical Services and Orthopedics.  

These roles will allow us to dig deeper into surgical services opportunities from a systems lens. Targeted areas of opportunity include the assessment of appropriate surgical sites of service, optimization of OR block time, and evaluation of system robotic strategy. If you have an interest in sharing ideas or opportunities for improved efficiency across the system, please don't hesitate to reach out to either Amy or me.

For a full list of leaders driving each of our service lines, please see below.

Service Line	Role	Name
Cardiovascular	Physician Executive Lead Operations Vice President Service Line Director	Robert Bulow, DO TBD Lyndsey Pittman
Emergency and Trauma	Physician Executive Lead Operations Vice President	Jeremy Moore, MD Christian Lawson
Neurosciences	Physician Executive Lead Operations Vice President Service Line Director	Bryan Ludwig, MD Jason Merritt Zakiya Robinson
Oncology	Physician Executive Lead Operations Vice President Service Line Director	Jim Ouelette, DO TBD Lori Scalise
Orthopedics	Physician Executive Lead Operations Vice President Service Line Director	Mike Herbenick, MD Amy Stockman Kelli Ashbeck
Surgical Services	Physician Executive Lead Operations Vice President Service Line Director	TBD Amy Stockman Kelli Ashbeck
Women's Services	Physician Executive Lead Operations Vice President Service Line Director	Will Andrew, DO Melissa Merritt Lyndsey Pittman

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