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ANDREW ELLEFSON, M.D., Pediatrics/Neonatology
Andrew Ellefson, M.D., is an emerging leader with excellent clinical, research
and teaching skills.
With a history of military service, he sought out additional leadership training during his fellowship and as a young faculty member.
Today he has taken the lead on a pathway to reduce the proportion of term infants admitted to the NICU.
His leadership skills emerged during the planning of the clinical pathway that required the collaboration of multiple diverse stakeholders. To date, the pathway has been clinically successful in safely reducing admissions of healthy term infants to the NICU.
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
SAMSON WONG, M.D., Radiology
Andrew Ellefson, M.D., with David A. Paul, M.D.
A valued member of the Emergency Radiology team, Dr. Wong joined Christiana Care after completing a women’s imaging fellowship from New York University in January 2013. He also received his medical degree and residency training at NYU.
Dr. Wong demonstrates an ability to critically evaluate processes in place and a commitment toward process improvements.
He recently participated in a nine-month Advanced Quality and Safety Improvement Science Program at Christiana Care. This training provided him with advanced knowledge and skills in improvement and safety science to lead, mentor and teach quality improvement and patient safety.
He was a leader of the multidisciplinary team that created a new workflow designed to reduce the percentage of unnecessary delayed phase CT scans obtained in trauma patients. This practice has achieved significant decrease in radiation dose as well as turnaround time for the trauma patients.
Dr. Wong was a team member for a Lean Six Sigma project that helped create newer guidelines for the oral contrast usage in Emergency Department patients getting CT scans of the abdomen and pelvis. Implementation of this practice has substantially decreased the order-to-report turnaround time and patients’ length of stay in the Emergency Department.
Samson Wong, M.D., with Vinay Gehyi, M.D.
Parth M. Viroja, M.D., with Linda Lang, M.D.
PARTH MOHANBHAI VIROJA, M.D., Psychiatry
Parth Mohanbhai Viroja, M.D., joined Christiana Care in 2016 after completing his residency in
psychiatry at the Delaware Psychiatric Center.
During his residency training he did several rotations at Christiana Care, including a year-and-a- half of outpatient psychiatry under the supervision of Department Chair Linda Lang, M.D.
Dr. Viroja is a person of great integrity and has been an integral member of the Department of Psychiatry. He has volunteered to welcome and onboard new psychiatrists, and his commitment to the strategic aims is evidenced by his leadership in developing education for behavioral health patients about the risks of diabetes.
Dr. Viroja has received certification in transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroconvulsive therapy. He received his medical degree from BJ Medical College of Ahmedabad, India.
His humanitarian efforts include volunteer work as a member of the Haiti Family Initiative medical team that spent a couple weeks in Haiti in 2011 and 2012, serving as a physician aiding victims of the January 2010 earthquake. ●
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