AIM Clinical Champions
Multidisciplinary clinical engagement and support is integral to the success of AIM. AIM’s Clinical Champions are a team of engaged, AIM trained, multidisciplinary, expert care providers equipped with the knowledge and training required to amplify AIM’s work and support clinician interest and learning in AIM.
Tamika Auguste
MD, FACOG
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Dr. Auguste has been involved with AIM through webinars and assisting with developing content for the program. Now as a clinical lead, she is excited to be able to support AIM across a larger platform. Her own department has been an early adopter of AIM bundles. Dr. Auguste’s passion is in legislation and policy in women’s health care both locally and nationally and on equity in healthcare delivery.
Julie Blumenfeld
DNP, CNM, IBCLC, FACNM
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Dr. Blumenfeld is committed to quality improvement in the clinical setting as demonstrated by her new position as an AIM Clinical Champion. She was inspired to take on this new role by both her work collaborating with AIM and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to develop change packages for their hemorrhage and hypertension bundles, and actively implementing AIM bundles in the hospital to address severe hypertension in pregnancy, obstetric hemorrhage, and the safe reduction of primary cesarean birth. She is looking forward to the opportunity to use her own experiences with AIM to inspire midwives to participate in their state AIM related projects and encourage them to incorporate the evidence-based patient safety bundles into their workplace.
Julie Blumenfeld
DNP, CNM, IBCLC, FACNM
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Dr. Blumenfeld is committed to quality improvement in the clinical setting as demonstrated by her new position as an AIM Clinical Champion. She was inspired to take on this new role by both her work collaborating with AIM and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to develop change packages for their hemorrhage and hypertension bundles, and actively implementing AIM bundles in the hospital to address severe hypertension in pregnancy, obstetric hemorrhage, and the safe reduction of primary cesarean birth. She is looking forward to the opportunity to use her own experiences with AIM to inspire midwives to participate in their state AIM related projects and encourage them to incorporate the evidence-based patient safety bundles into their workplace.
Veronica Gillispie-Bell
MD, MAS, FACOG
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Clinically, in addition to providing obstetric care, Dr. Gillispie-Bell performs advanced laparoscopic and robotic assisted laparoscopic procedures and is known nationally for her expertise in management of heavy menstrual bleeding associated with fibroids.
Dr. Gillispie-Bell is also the Medical Director of the Louisiana Perinatal Quality Collaborative and Pregnancy Associated Mortality Review for the Louisiana Department of Health. In this role, she leads initiatives in the state of Louisiana to improve birth outcomes for all birthing persons in Louisiana and eliminate the Black-white disparity gap.
In addition, Dr. Gillispie-Bell serves in several leadership roles promoting efforts to achieve health equity while also serving in several local and national leadership roles. She has received many accolades for her clinical, academic, and community services contributions.
In her quality roles both in her own health systems and throughout birthing facilities in Louisiana, she has led the implementation of AIM Patient Safety Bundles. She believes using improvement science founded in a good implementation team and measurement is the key to success.
Elena Jenkins
RN, BSN
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Elena has been integrally involved in the implementation of several the AIM Patient Safety Bundles with multidisciplinary team members at the hospital level. She specifically focuses on the implementation of the Severe Hypertension in Pregnancy and Obstetric Hemorrhage Bundles.
Elena Jenkins
RN, BSN
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Elena has been integrally involved in the implementation of several the AIM Patient Safety Bundles with multidisciplinary team members at the hospital level. She specifically focuses on the implementation of the Severe Hypertension in Pregnancy and Obstetric Hemorrhage Bundles.
Tersh McCracken
MD, FACOG
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At the Billings Clinic, Dr. McCracken served on the Board of Directors for ten years and has served on the Leadership Council. He has been the Billings Clinic Chair of the Department Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Family Birth Center director. Dr. McCracken is currently the Medical Director of the Montana Obstetrics and Maternity Support grant and chairs the Montana Maternal Health Leadership Council.
Dr. McCracken has served ACOG in several roles including the Chair of ACOG District VIII. He has served as a Board Examiner for ABOG and has an appointment as Clinical Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Dr. McCracken actively implements the AIM patient safety bundles specifically the severe hypertension in pregnancy and obstetric hemorrhage bundles. Dr. McCracken believes in the importance of collaborating with AIM because it enables the delivery of safe high-quality care to our mothers and their new families.
Tiffany Messerall
DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC, RNC-OB
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Tiffany Messerall
DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC, RNC-OB
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Jamie Morgan
MD
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She currently serves as the Director of OBGYN Simulation and is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. She has been named as a Texas Monthly Super Doctor Rising Star every year since 2019.
Dr. Morgan has become increasingly involved in quality improvement work and related research efforts on the local, state and national level. Locally, Dr. Morgan directs maternal safety efforts related to postpartum hemorrhage and preeclampsia and is an active member of her obstetric service line’s Quality Assurance Practice Improvement committee. At the state level, she currently serves as the Deputy Medical Director for the Severe Hypertension safety bundle at the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS). In this role, she helps lead statewide implementation of safety standards related to hypertensive disorders of pregnancy at all Texas maternity hospitals.
Dr. Morgan is also a committed member of the national Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Patient Safety and Quality Committee, which aims to address, track and improve maternal health and safety efforts through the development of quality metrics and clinical checklists.