Department of Medicine faculty honored by the Rollins Leadership Fund

Recently, the Paul W. Seavey Clinic was named the beneficiary of a generous gift from the Rollins Foundation to establish a Rollins Leadership Fund. The gift created the Rollins Directorship of the Paul W. Seavey Comprehensive Internal Medicine Clinic, as well as up to five Rollins Professorships. Together with the previous 2013 O. Wayne Rollins Clinical Excellence Fund that established the Rollins Distinguished Clinicianships, this gift has provided an exciting opportunity for several of Department of Medicine faculty members.

The Rollins Professorships, Senior Distinguished Clinicianships, and the Distinguished Clinicianships were created to reward physicians who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to personal and professional development, personal integrity, and exceptional patient care and satisfaction. The recipients have also shown dedication to teamwork and significant participation and/or leadership in Seavey Clinic programs.

We are pleased to announce that Jonathan Masor, MD and Clyde Partin, MD have been named Rollins Professors in the Seavey Clinic for their more than five years of exceptional service to the clinic and Emory University. Masor, R. Randall Rollins Professor, is one of the most highly regarded clinicians in Atlanta and the Southeast. He has always provided exceptional medical care through the Seavey General Internal Medicine Teaching Clinic, Executive Health, and the Special Diagnostic Clinic. Partin, Gary W. Rollins Professor, has an international reputation as an expert in diagnostic center management and has presented at all of the NIH-sponsored international conferences on rare and undiagnosed diseases.

Sharon Bergquist, MD, Thomas Jarrett, MD, and Jennifer Zreloff, MD have been named Rollins Senior Distinguished Clinicians. All have served the Seavey Clinic and Emory University for at least five years. Bergquist has been recognized repeatedly for her exceptional clinical service and has been named one of America’s Top Physicians by the Consumer Research Council seven times. Jarret’s accomplishments include outstanding engagement in the highest quality of clinical practice. He has dedicated his career to educating residents and medical students and has always achieved very high patient satisfaction scores. Since joining the Seavey Clinic in 2017, Zreloff has helped to organize population based outcomes improvements through innovative operational and programmatic enhancements.

Two Rollins Distinguished Clinicianships were given to Jason Higdon, MD and James O’Keefe, MD. Hidgon came to the Seavey Clinic as the education lead. He designed and planned the Seavey Clinic’s third year Adult Primary Care Clerkship in the general internal medicine teaching practice. O’Keefe serves as the implementation champion for the clinic and shows outstanding commitment to his patients. He received the Emory Gold Provider Award for patient satisfaction in 2016.

Thank you to Dave L. Roberts, MD, Rollins Director of the Seavey Clinic, and Ted M. Johnson, MD, MPH, Paul W. Seavey Chair in Medicine and chief of the Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics, for their leadership and dedication to this fund.

Please join us in congratulating our faculty on their incredible accomplishments!