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EM OPERATIONS

OUR
MISSION
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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
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Tyler Barrett, MD, MSCI, FACEP FHRS
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
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Doug Wallace, MD, DTMH
Assistant Medical Director, Clinical Operations
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Tara Overbeeke, MD
Medical Director, ED Advanced Practice Providers
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REGIONAL OPERATIONS

Nathaniel Miller, MD
Regional Medical Director, Emergency Services
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Michael Jackson, DO
Assistant Director of Regional Operations
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Steven Katz, MD
Medical Director, VWCH
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Graham Van Schaik, MD, MBA
Medical Director, VTHH
Assistant Director of Regional Growth &
Strategy

John D. Pitt, III, MD
Medical Director, VBCH
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QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

J. Christoper Champion
MD, MBA
Quality Medical Director

Jonathan Andereck,
MD, MBA
Assistant Quality Medical Director
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