Biography
•Over 35 years of experience in health care •Chief Executive Officer of a 13-site state operation for a private ambulatory health care agency •Leader in a variety of not-for-profit and investor-owned health care delivery organizations •Over 15 years of experience at The Joint Commission and 18 years at Joint Commission International Thomas Kozlowski joined Joint Commission Resources in 2001 and subsequently consulted with both domestic and international health care organizations in the areas of accreditation readiness and standards compliance. Dr. Kozlowski's consulting expertise in hospital, ambulatory care, behavioral health care, and long term care settings includes operational assessment; patient safety assessment; environment of care; executive leadership and governing bodies; performance improvement; implementation strategies for rapid response teams; electronic health record assessment; and incorporating tracer methodology and the periodic performance review as management tools. Dr. Kozlowski has consulted internationally in Asia Pacific Region, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. EXPERIENCE WITH HEALTH CARE FACILITIES •Associate Director of Operations for the Accreditation Division, The Joint Commission •Associate Director for the Department of Standards, The Joint Commission •Administrator in freestanding hospitals, inpatient and outpatient mental health and chemical dependency programs, residential programs, and foster care organizations •Chief Executive Officer for ambulatory health care statewide system •Interim Director of Accreditation/Regulation and Quality for an academic teaching acute care hospital and multi-site ambulatory system •Corporate Director of Quality Improvement and Research for a multi-state health maintenance organization
Research Interest
Healthcare Administration
Biography
Dr. Sharma serves as Consultant OncoPathologist at SRL Diagnostics. He has in the past served as Consultant Onco-pathologist, molecular pathologist and Head of Quality assurance at CORE Diagnostics, Gurgaon. He has done MBBS from Manipal with distinction in 5 subjects, an aggregate percentage of 73% with highest marks in Pathology. He has trained in oncopathology at HCG Cancer Hospital, Bangalore from where he completed his primary DNB. He was previously working as Block Chief Medical Officer with Govt. of Rajasthan. He is an expert orator and has delivered talks as Guest speaker at numerous forums nationally like Indian Cancer Congress, YROC, Oncocon, BCFICON etc and internationally at numerous conferences like PathSoc (UK), Nigerian Medical Association, Bangladesh Association of haematologists etc. He has had the distinction of being the faculty, mentor for the First national Hands on IHC workshop of the country, held at JNMC, Belgavi at the 36th National Pathology CME. He recently presented his study on 156 cases of Diffuse large B cell lymphomas with double and triple hit at International Lymphoma and Myeloma congress, New York. He has numerous publications in national and international journals like South Africal Journal of Gynecological oncology, RCPATH and Archives of Pathology including the first reported case of cellular ovarian fibroma from India and presentations at conferences like College of American Pathologists (CAP, Chicago), International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) (Kyoto, Japan) and Myanmar Society of Hematology. He has had the distinction of reporting nearly 500 cases of lymphomas annually. He is a member of numerous organisations like Indian Association of Pathologists and The Cytometry Society of India. His main areas of work include Oncopathology, IHC, Lymphomas, Flowcytometry and Molecular assays in cancer.
Research Interest
Oncopathologist
Biography
Professor Vinay Sharma is Head, Department of Radiation Oncology at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, University of Witwatersrand. He has published over 150 papers in in national and international peer reviewed journals as well as book chapters. He has delivered over 100 lectures His main research interest is in breast cancers as well as gynecological malignancies.
Research Interest
Radiation oncology