06/10/2015
Farewell and best wishes to Angela Siler-Fisher, MD, FACEP
Dr. Angela Siler Fisher will be taking on an exciting new leadership opportunity this July and leaving the Baylor College of Medicine at the end of June. Dr. Fisher is one of the three founding members of Emergency Medicine at BCM and Harris Health System, almost seven years ago.
Angela is a tireless advocate for our emergency patients and members of our emergency medicine team as well as a nationally recognized leader receiving awards including the 2013 EMRA Joseph F. Waeckerle Founder's Award, American Medical Association Women Physicians Congress (WPC) Physician Mentor Recognition, 2012 American College of Emergency Physicians Council Teamwork Award for leadership in developing the EM Futures Program, 2012 Emergency Medicine Foundation and Blue Jay Consulting Emergency Department Director of the Year Distinguished Recognition Award, 2011 Texas Medical Association Medical Student Section C. Frank Webber, MD, Award, 2010 Harris County Hospital District ServiceFIRST Hero and EMIG Faculty Mentor Award, in addition, to the 2008 American College of Emergency Physicians Horizon Award.
Dr. Fisher has been instrumental in the recruitment and retention of an extraordinary emergency medicine team of more than 100 physicians, Advanced Practice Providers, physician fellows and physician assistant fellows. She selflessly provides around the clock availability and support to ensure our faculty satisfaction. She also leads and mentors an outstanding operations team who together ensures state of the art emergency care is provided in both a safe and efficient manner in the Ben Taub Emergency Center as our EC volume increased from 91,338 patients in 2008 to 109,311 patients in 2014. She championed the implementation of large initiates, such as, point of care testing, EPIC ASAP, daily EC metric reporting, focused initiatives to improve patient satisfaction, robust quality assurance and performance improvement program and joint inter-specialty monthly meetings to ensure a collaborative approach to emergency care. Responsible for a directive to ensure patient care is initiated within 60 minutes of a patient's arrival, Dr. Fisher established the use of Expedited Care Guidelines. She ensured real time medical director availability through an admin on-call and made all guidelines available for faculty and staff on the BTEC SharePoint. She also served as co-director of our Harris Health Forensics Program; helping to implement the wonderful SANE program.
Dr. Fisher’s expertise in business and leadership education led to the creation of the only joint elective between BCM and UT-H, the Business of Medicine, which has provided an invaluable experience for more than 1200 medical students. She has been an incredible advocate for our BCM Emergency Medicine Interest Group (EMIG) serving as the faculty mentor of the largest student group at BCM, the largest EMIG in the nation responsible for an extraordinary list of programs. Her expertise in administration and leadership shared with our residents quickly led to the creation of our EM Administration Fellowship Program with all alumni successfully transitioning to director roles.
Dr. Fisher has also committed an incredible amount of passion and effort to the acknowledgement of our EM training program nationally as the leadership development program. Her strong support in our developing leaders led to the election of three EMRA Presidents, selection of a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellow and too numerous to count leadership roles for our EM faculty, residents, fellows and medical students within local, state and national organizations.
Please join me in graciously thanking Dr. Fisher for her amazing leadership and commitment to BCM/ HHS EM and wishing her the very best in her future endeavors. We will miss her boundless energy, good-will and enthusiasm, but know that she will always be eager to engage and mentor all interested in leadership development as she will always be a part of the great EM legacy she assisted in creating at the Baylor College of Medicine and Ben Taub General Hospital.
Warm Regards,
Shkelzen Hoxhaj, MD, MPH, MBA
Chief of Emergency Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
