2021 Honoree
Farrukh Jafri, MS-HPEd, MD’09
MD Medicine
Medical Director of WPH Cares, White Plains Hospital/Montefiore Health
- Designed and operationalized a data driven virtual health platform incorporating community paramedicine, a virtual acute care clinic, transitional care management, tele-clinical pharmacy and remote patient monitoring for complex care patients discharged from the Emergency Department and Inpatient Units.
- Led numerous multihospital quality improvement initiatives, including COVID airway management leveraging in-situ simulation and an eight-hospital disaster management preparedness program
- Coached interprofessional resuscitations teams in Pediatric and Adult inpatient units along with the Departments of Cardiac Catheterization, Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology on crisis resource management
- Designed medical virtual reality programs, including an Infectious Diseases Society of America-recognized personal protective equipment training program to save PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Awarded “Healthcare Hero” by "Westchester Magazine," “Excellence in Healthcare” by the United Hospital Fund and the Medical Service Award by the Children’s Dream Foundation
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