Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital reviews latest medical staff applicants

ALBANY — Several medical staff applicants and affiliate staff applicants are on their way to gaining privileges at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital.

The hospital’s Professional Affairs Committee has reviewed a credentials report that went before the Medical Executive Committee on May 5 and the Credentials and Bylaws Committee on April 27.

There are five physicians looking to come on board. Drs. Tabassum Ahmad and Bonnie Anderson, both radiologists, are among them. Dr. Steven Eisenberg, a cardiovascular surgeon, Dr. Mfon Inyang, a psychiatrist, and Dr. Larry Allen Medley, an emergency medicine physician, also were seeking credentials.

Eisenberg is listed on the report as locum tenens, meaning he is temporarily filling in for someone else.

There are nine affiliate staff applicants, more commonly known as mid-level providers, looking to come on staff under the required physician sponsorship in their respective fields, the report showed.

The nine are:

— Kimberly Chlystek, to work in cardiovascular surgery under Dr. Francis Herrbold;

— Justin Elliott, to work in adult critical care under Dr. Zohair Karmally;

— Deborah George, to work in emergency medicine with Dr. James Edward Black;

— Corinna Gilkey, to work in obstetrics and gynecology with Dr. Donald Jones;

— Kristyn Gordon, working in adult critical care with Dr. Lloyd Meeks;

— Greta Owens, working in emergency medicine with Black;

— Natosha Rollins, in surgical oncology with Dr. Sanjay Munireddy;

— Scott Southerland, in cardiovascular surgery with Dr. Anthony Hoots;

— George Benjamin Thornton, in anesthesiology with Dr. Mark Shoemaker.

There were also three resignations listed on the report. Dr. Mark Crick is relocating to Statesboro and Dr. Wayne Holley is relocating to Savannah. The report also listed Dr. Lawrence Wilson Jr. as a resignation, but did not indicate anything about his future plans.

Without Phoebe Putney Health System CEO Joel Wernick or Joe Austin, the health system’s chief operating officer, there to provide management reports, the committee quickly went into closed session. The report was approved to go before the full board after open session resumed.

The Professional Affairs Committee serves as liaison between the medical staff and the hospital’s full board and handles matters relating to applications for medical staff membership. The committee is also meant to watch over and report to the board on matters of quality and safety within the hospital.

The medical staff at Phoebe primarily takes on the role of looking into a physician applicants’ qualifications, in turn making a recommendation to the committee before the hospital’s full board makes a final decision.