Gene H. Burke, MD
is the
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Vice President for Medical
Affairs of Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, a tertiary facility of Sentara
Healthcare in Norfolk, Virginia. He is the institution’s leader of
the Clinical Quality and Safety agenda and has led teams at Sentara in care
improvement during participating in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
collaboratives over the years. While a practicing clinician of Pulmonary
and Critical Care Medicine, he led the initiative to make the critical care
units safer by the development and implementation of the nations first operational
e-ICU (electronic ICU). This use of telemedicine, which was proven to reduce
both mortality and cost of care during his tenure as Medical Director of
that operation, has now been adopted in multiple other institutions across
the nation and more recently by the military in the Pacific theater. Previously,
as the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Sentara Medical Group,
he led the consolidation of two large physician groups of very different
practice cultures into a single integrated operation of nearly 200 physicians
across the Sentara system.
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