Georgia L. Thomas, RN, MBA, HACP, FACHE
Georgia L. Thomas, RN, MBA, HACP, FACHE is Associate Vice President of the Memorial Hermann Health System Central/West Region and Accreditation where she has oversight for clinical quality, patient safety, infection prevention, accreditation, registry reporting, clinical quality review, quality data management, patient safety methodology training along with Joint Commission Accreditation across all Memorial Hermann hospitals. In this role, she works to advance Memorial Hermann’s commitment to patient safety and exceptional end to end care for patients. Prior to Memorial Hermann, Georgia began her nursing career in the Cardiovascular ICU in the Rio Grande Valley and soon moved to The Methodist Hospital in the Texas Medical Center.
Her introduction to quality, performance improvement, patient safety science and accreditation came during an ICU Directorship in the Big Bend Region of West Texas. Since then she has had many years of experience with Joint Commission and Det Norske Veritas (DNV) accrediting bodies.
She returned to the Texas Medical Center pursuing Patient Safety Specialist, Quality Management and Risk Management positions at The Methodist Hospital System. In 2010, she was appointed Director of Quality, Risk Management and Compliance at St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System where she help open the ground breaking community hospital in Northwest Houston area. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
Randall (Randy) serves as the executive director of the Southern Medical Association (SMA). Founded by physicians in 1906, SMA is a 501(C)3 regional multispeciality, interdisciplinary medical education organization.
Dr. Strode is a family physician who has worked in private practice, academia, and government service. His undergraduate degree is from Southern Methodist University and his medical degree is from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. He has a Masters in Adult Education from the University of Arkansas Little Rock and a Masters in Public Health from Tulane.
Originally from Southwest Ohio, Dr. Hartman received his bachelors of science in Biology at Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia and returned to the Cincinnati area for medical school at the University Of Cincinnati College of Medicine. After medical school, he became a board certified Family Physician through training with St Elizabeth Healthcare of Northern Kentucky. He practices broad-based, integrative family medicine in an outpatient setting for infants through the elderly, performing numerous procedures, acupuncture for the treatment of pain and traditional Western medicine for other chronic disease states and ailments such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and drug addiction. He is passionate about providing for his patients' needs with high quality, evidence-based care.
Gerald E. Harmon, MD, a family medicine specialist having practiced for more than 30 years in coastal South Carolina, was elected to the American Medical Association Board of Trustees in June 2013. Prior to his election, Dr. Harmon served our organization as a member on the AMA Council for Medical Service as well as a delegate to the AMA House of Delegates for 18 years.
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