Leadership Expands at Carilion with New Appointments
Rosemarie Fernandez, MD, joins our team as Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine for Carilion Clinic and the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.
Dr. Fernandez joins us from the University of Florida, where she served as the Executive Vice Chair for the Department of Emergency Medicine and the Research Director for the Center for Experiential Learning and Simulation. Dr. Fernandez attended Rutgers University, earned her medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School, completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati, and was a Howard Hughes research fellow at the University of Michigan Medical School. She is an alumnus of the prestigious Hedwig VA Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) fellowship and is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha national medical honor society. Dr. Fernandez’ research is in leadership, team science, and patient safety. She has been a Principal Investigator on investigator-initiated grants funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Department of Defense, and multiple different foundations.
Connette Gill, MBA, MSN, RN, NE-BC, CPPS, has been hired as the Assistant Chief Nursing Officer at Carilion Medical Center.
Connette comes from Central Carolina Hospital, where she served as the Chief Nursing Officer. There, she led strategic initiatives to improve patient outcomes and nurse engagement. Previously, she also served as the Assistant Chief Nursing Officer and Director of the Cardiovascular ICU at Frye Regional Health Center, where she improved care coordination and transfer processes.
Grant Greenberg, MD, has been hired as Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Carilion Clinic and the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.
Dr. Greenberg joins us from Lehigh Valley Health Network, where he served since 2016 as the Leonard Parker Pool Endowed Chair of Family Medicine. Over the past three years, he also held the role of Chief Medical Executive for the Primary Care Service Line. Earlier in his career, Dr. Greenberg spent 16 years at the University of Michigan, where he served as Medical Director of the Chelsea Health Center and earned a master’s degree in health systems administration. Before enrolling in medical school, Dr. Greenberg received a master's degree in Ecology and Environmental Biology at Indiana University. With multiple peer reviewed publications and a track record as a national thought leader in Family Medicine, he has a deep commitment to education and a proven ability to lead.
Habib Samady, MD, joins our team as Senior Vice President and Carilion’s inaugural Director of the Cardiovascular Institute.
Dr. Samady most recently served as the President of the Cardiovascular Service Line and co-founder and President of the Georgia Heart Institute at Northeast Georgia Health System. Previously, he also served as a Professor of Medicine, Director of Interventional Cardiology, and Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Samady has over two decades of experience and is an internationally recognized cardiologist with over 290 published research manuscripts. He is also the co-founder of Covanos, an Emory University-based computational coronary physiology start-up.