MARC's 19-member Medical Review Board is charged with overseeing the Network 5 quality program. Board activities include the following:
- Identifying Network-wide and dialysis facility-specific opportunities for improvement through routine monitoring of data profiles and pattern analysis
- Designing and implementing activities to address areas needing improvement and/or further examination
- Making recommendations to and assisting dialysis facilities in correcting identified problems and improving care
- Identifying "high-performing" dialysis facilities, recognizing their success through an annual awards program, and working with them to identify benchmark practices to share with other facilities
Members
Andrew Howard, MD Chair
Quality Care Dialysis - Southern Maryland
Shawna Bandoch, RN, BSN
DaVita - Pasadena
Kenneth L. Brayman, MD Transplant Subcommittee Chair
University of Virginia Health System, Surgery
Dan Carl, MD
Medical College of Virginia, Division of Nephrology
Virna Elly
Consumer
Barbara Fivush, MD
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Pediatric Nephrology
Sandy Gibson, MD
Community Health Associates Physician Org.
Meg Hughes, MSW
Fredericksburg Dialysis Center
William Johnson, MD
Kidney Center of Frederick
Matt Mathew, MD
Valley Nephrology Associates
Jack Moore, MD
Washington Hospital Center
Jeffrey Perlmutter, MD Vascular Access Committee Chair
Nephrology Associates of Montgomery County
W. G. Schenk, III, MD
UVA Health System
M.A.K. Sekkarie, MD
Bluefield Regional Medical Center
Stephen Seliger, MD
University of Maryland-Baltimore, Nephrology
Sharon Senft, NP
West Virginia University
Christie Shield, RD
BMA of Nassawaddox
Christopher Simon, MSW
IDF - Parkview Center
James Starling, MD
Danville Urologic Clinic
MRB Subcommittees
Vascular Access Committee
Transplant Subcommittee
Data Committee
