Host Dr Saria Soccocio, MD, FAAFP, MHA interviews Dr Jacob Prunuske, MD on this episode.
Host Bio:
As the Ambulatory Chief Medical Officer for Prisma Health, Dr. Saria Saccocio supports population health initiatives that span across all departments and specialties in the outpatient space, striving for optimization of quality, patient experience and efficiency of healthcare delivery.
Dr. Saccocio has demonstrated a consistent history of leading award-winning programs and improving patient care and safety as a Chief Medical Officer for health systems in the southeast. She received her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Florida, and her Executive Master of Health Administration from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She completed her Family Medicine residency at the University of Miami before opening her own solo family practice. She continues to serve patients at the Free Medical Clinic and precepts family medicine residents at the Center for Family Medicine in Greenville, South Carolina.
Becker’s Hospital Review has recognized Dr. Saccocio as one of the top 100 Hospital and Health System CMOs to Know and has been elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. Her extensive civic and community involvement has included serving in many ways including: the Modern Healthcare Women Advisory Board, board member for the South Carolina Hospital Association, United Way of Greenville County; Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Upstate, the South Carolina Academy of Family Physicians Board, and is an Alum of the Women’s Leadership Institute and the Diversity Leadership Institute at Furman University.
Guest Bio:
Dr. Jacob Prunuske is an Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine and the Assistant Dean for Clinical Learning at the Medical College of Wisconsin – Central Wisconsin campus. His research has focused on family medicine and public health education and his clinical practice is at the Aspirus Wausau Family Medicine clinic. Dr. Prunuske is a member of the STFM Medical Student Education Committee, represents STFM on the steering committee of the America Needs More Family Doctors: 25x2030 Initiative, and serves as a liaison to the AAFP Commission on Education.
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