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MSMS and ICMS Member and MSU Health Care Neurologist Honored for Providing Access to Care During Pandemic
Doctor Amit Sachdev receives Notable Rising Star in Health Care Leadership award for his efforts during the public health crisis
Amit Sachdev, MD, associate chief medical officer for MSU Health Care, and Michigan State Medical Society and Ingham County Medical Society member, received a Notable Rising Star in Health Care Leadership award from Crain’s Detroit Business today.
Dr. Sachdev implemented safety protocols including mask-wearing and social distancing in early March 2020 and introduced telemedicine to the MSU Department of Neurology and Ophthalmology. His quick thinking allowed MSU Health Care to create the infrastructure needed for telehealth and to continue providing quality health care to all patients.
“What strikes me the most is he has an engineering background that, once the pandemic hit, was really a key asset in dealing with a very complicated situation,” said Dr. Anthony Avellino, who nominated him for the award. As MSU’s assistant vice president for health sciences and MSU Health Care chief clinical and medical officer, Dr. Avellino oversees and promotes quality and safety initiatives designed to improve clinical effectiveness. “His ability to integrate multiple pieces of the puzzle was instrumental in developing and creating clinical processes and flow and safety protocols that resulted in a highly successful telemedicine platform. He’s passionate about what he does and in health care we need more passionate people like him.”
Dr. Sachdev said he is humbled by the award and that “launching telemedicine for neurology was a team effort.” Yet, he agreed, his engineering background helped him to study and overcome the intricacies of delivering patient care during the public health crisis.
“Being an engineer and a neurologist has helped me visualize health care systems,” he explained. “Health care systems are very complicated, but they’re also predictable. It begins with ‘A’ goes with ‘B’ and just multiplies exponentially from there, like dominos. Being able to understand that complexity has served me well.”
Dr. Sachdev will continue to treat the lingering effects of COVID-19, including health care inequality, post-COVID neurologic disease, and opioid deaths and dependencies.
Dr. Sachdev earned his medical degree in 2010 from the MSU College of Human Medicine and was a neuromuscular medicine fellow with the Neuromuscular Diseases program within the Department of Neurology at the University of Michigan. He currently serves as an assistant professor in the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine and the MSU College of Human Medicine.
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