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Bill Pojedinec, BS
Program Administrative Manager

Bill Pojedinec joined as a member of the ICU Delirium and Cognitive Impairment Study Group – Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2010. Bill has over 22 years of experience as an administrator in clinical/academic institutions. 19 years out of the 22 years were spent at two major New Jersey state universities and a major private medical college in New York.

Before to coming to Vanderbilt, Bill worked at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey as the financial administrator for the Department of OB/GYN and WH. He prepared, implemented, and managed all of the Department's financial activities – Medical School, Hospital and Grant and Contracts budgets which totaled $18 million in Department Funds. He was also responsible for administering the Department's Faculty Practice which generated $3.3 million in gross revenue annually.

Bill's role with the ICU Delirium and Cognitive Impairment Team is Program Administrative Manager. He is responsible for the day to day administrative operations of this interdisciplinary research team of research nurses, coordinators and analysts. Bill is accountable for the ongoing research operations including contracts, regulatory and IRB compliance, grant administration, and financial development and management. He is also an administrative liaison between other departments within Vanderbilt and the TN Valley Veterans Administration Hospital as well as other hospitals that partner with the research group as study sites for various projects.

He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration – Accounting at Montclair State University. Bill has worked primarily in the healthcare industry.

Contact information

Bill Pojedinec
Program Manager
Delirium and Cognitive Impairment Study Group of HSR
Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and CCM/VA-GRECC
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
MCE, North Tower, Suite 6100
Nashville, TN 37232-8300

Phone: (615) 936-3702
Fax: (615) 936-1269

 

Site Principal Investigators

Timothy D. Girard, MD, MSCI
Assistant Professor of Medicine

James C. Jackson, PsyD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Pratik Pandharipande, MD, MSCI
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care

E. Wesley Ely,MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Critical Care
Associate Director of Aging Research, VA GRECC

Senior Advisors

Gordon R. Bernard, MD
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research

Robert S. Dittus, MD, MPH
Div Chief Gen Medicine, Director GRECC

Research Coordinators

Leanne Boehm, MSN, RN, ACNS-BC
Critical Care Research Nurse

Joyce Okahashi, RN
Critical Care Research Nurse

Cayce Strength, RN, BSN
Critical Care Research Nurse

Brenda Truman Pun, RN, MSN, ACNP
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Program Clinical Manager

Aimee Hoskins, RN, BSN
Research Nurse

Anesthesiology

Christopher G. Hughes, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Elizabeth Card, RN, CPAN, CCRP
Research Nurse IV

Neuropsychology

Sharon M. Gordon, PsyD
Geriatric Neuropsychology, GRECC

Amy Lipsey Kiehl, MA, LPC-MHSP
Research Coordinator

Hillary Warrington, MS
Research Analyst II

Lindsay Anderson, MSW
Research Analyst III

Sleep

Paula Watson, MD
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

Beth Malow, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Neurology

Neuroimaging

John Gore, PhD
Neuroimaging, FMRI, Director of VUIIS

Baxter Rogers, PhD
Physicist

Psychiatry

Stephan Heckers, MD, MSc
Psychiatry Department Chair

D. Catherine Fuchs, MD
Pediatric Psychiatry

Emergency Department

Jin H. Han, MD, MSC
Assistant Professor

Pediatric Delirium

Ty Berutti, MD, MS, MS
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Critical Care

Heidi Smith, MD, MSCI, FAAP
Pediatric Intensive Care

Emily Brink, RN, BSN
Research Nurse III

Biostatisticians

Ayumi Shintani PhD, MPH
Chief ICU Delirium Biostatistician

Amy J. Graves, SM, MPH
Analyst, Biostatistics

Jennifer Thompson, MPH
Analyst, Biostatistics

Theodore Speroff, PhD
Psychometrics, Statistician, GRECC

Research Fellows

Alessandro Morandi, MD
Geriatrician & Research Fellow

Nathan E. Brummel, MD
Clinical Fellow in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Medicine

ICU Outcomes and Patient Safety

Eduard E. Vasilevskis, M.D.
Hospital Medicine and Center for Health Services Research

Laboratory

Gillian Sills, BS
Research Assistant

Pharmacy

Joanna L. Stollings, PharmD, BCPS
Medical Intensive Care Unit Clinical Pharmacy Specialist

Administrative

Stephanie Hamilton, BA
Administrative Assistant

Bill Pojedinec, BS
Program Administrative Manager

 

 

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