Name: Kate Bakich
Position: Administrator, Service Management
Email: SRB2Y@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu
Phone: (434) 297-7224
Credentials: Master's in Management of Information Technology, UVA McIntire School of Commerce
Short Bio: Kate is an Administrator in HIT who has been responsible for oversight of the Epic training program since fall 2017. Setting her sights on tackling the challenges that providers face with our Epic EMR, Kate has identified other organizations that have exceptional clinician satisfaction with their EMRs, examined their successful models for provider training, and brought the concepts to UVa to benefit our clinicians. Kate's other responsibilities in HIT include oversight of testing, change management, process improvement, and helpdesk services. Kate has managed IT teams for the past twenty years, most recently on the academic side of UVA for 7 years. Kate has a Master's Degree in Management of Information Technology from UVa's McIntire School of Commerce, and a Bachelor's in History and Economics from James Madison University. When away from work, Kate enjoys spending time with her husband and two boys, running, cooking, baking, and reading.
Name: Justin Bryant
Position: Epic Provider Trainer
Email: JMB7FX@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu
Phone: (434) 882-5418
Credentials: Epic Ambulatory
Short Bio: Justin is a Physician Trainer who has worked with UVA LIP’s for 5 years. Knowing that Epic can be very frustrating at times, it is his passion to try and allow Epic to become something that is seen as a companion to patient care instead of a barrier. Justin’s other responsibilities involve creating and maintaining the Epic training environment, working on to teach about the Epic Upgrades, and training new physicians as they become part of our team. Justin has a bachelor’s degree in Health Services Administration and a minor in business from James Madison University.
Name: Elizabeth Strickland
Position: Epic Provider Trainer
Email: EC3CD@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu
Phone: (434) 882-5481
Credentials: EpicCare Inpatient Orders
Short Bio: Liz Strickland has been teaching new UVA providers how to use Epic since 2012. Now, with the SmartChart program, she hopes by helping providers become more efficient with Epic, they will have less stress and subsequently have more time and energy for their patients. She has great empathy for providers because of the documentation burden with which the EMR has presented them and wants to do everything she can to ease this problem. In her free time, Liz crochets, cooks, and spends time with her husband and family (7 children and 10 grandchildren).
Name: Mark O'bannon
Email: SCE6AM@uvahealth.org
Short Bio: Mark O’Bannon has been conducting EPIC Provider Training since 2005. Officially joined the UVA Provider Training Team in late 2022 with a passion to ease the stressors of our providers with Computerized Physician Ordering and Documentation within the EPIC Electronic Medical Record System. Mark has an extensive an extensive medical clinical background in both the Inpatient and ambulatory settings as he became an Army Nurse in 1987. Mark specializes in providing provider with Tips in efficiency and time saving methods in personalizing the EPIC System to fit provider needs and welcomes the opportunity to accommodate provider request at a concierge support/training level. Mark's personal interest is playing and composing music across all genres.
Name: Kimberly Judd
Email: YKX4ST@uvahealth.org
Short Bio: Kimberly has been providing Epic training to clinical staff and providers since 2016. As a nurse, she understands the importance of patient-centered care. Teaching providers how to tailor the system to meet their needs will not only help them to become more efficient but will allow more time to focus on the patient. She has a bachelor’s degree in Nursing and prior to her role as an Epic trainer she was a clinical supervisor in one of our OB/GYN clinics. In her free time, she enjoys line dancing with her husband, being the biggest fan of her son's band and spending mother-daughter time with her twin girls.
Name: Samuel Kwakyeh
Email: KFD8XF@uvahealth.org
Short Bio: As a first generation Ghanaian-American, Samuel enjoys learning about different cultures through traveling, trying new cuisines as well as through the arts. He brings with him 10 years of Epic Experience across 15 different healthcare systems around the country. As a specialist for providers, Sam is well versed in all inpatient & surgical specialties including the staff workflows that support them. If he's not with a provider you'll probably find him trying to hit his 10k step targets while rounding.