Newswise — Thomas E. Sibert, M.D., M.B.A., has been selected as the new president for Wake Forest University Physicians (WFUP) and Chief Medical Officer for Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, a new position created as part of the reorganization that began two years ago.
Sibert will begin work Sept. 1. He will report directly to John D. McConnell, M.D., CEO of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Sibert replaces Raymond C. Roy, M.D., Ph.D., who stepped down earlier this month as interim WFUP president.
"We are very pleased that our national search was successful in identifying and recruiting an individual of the caliber of Tom Sibert and that he has chosen to return to North Carolina to bring his expertise to Wake Forest University Physicians and the Medical Center overall," said McConnell.
With more than 30 years of experience, Sibert is recognized as a national thought leader in the areas of quality and patient experience.
As WFUP president, Sibert is charged with moving the faculty practice plan to a more integrated model while focusing on the quality of care, operational excellence, patient satisfaction and financial health. WFUP, the organization of physicians who serve as faculty of Wake Forest University School of Medicine and attending staff of North Carolina Baptist Hospital, has been re-structured with a newly elected Board of Directors empowered to establish overall policy for the faculty practice, outpatient clinics that reside within WFUP, and a substantial number of joint ventures between WFUP and the hospital.
As Chief Medical Officer of the Medical Center, Sibert will have oversight for all
quality and patient safety issues across the inpatient and outpatient arenas. He will
be responsible for all physician aspects of patient care delivery, integration of care across disciplines, clinical quality and the monitoring of key performance metrics of quality and patient safety.
Sibert is returning to North Carolina from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where he has served as associate vice chancellor and president of the Faculty Practice Group since 2004. He was also an adjunct professor of psychiatry for the David Geffen School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry at UCLA.
"I am honored to have been selected for this new position at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. We are at a pivotal time in health care nationally and in the history of the Medical Center," Sibert said. "The opportunities that exist here for meeting new challenges with a melding of the best of clinical care, outstanding research and remarkable teaching, I think, are extensive and exciting. I am particularly impressed with my colleagues, physicians, administrators and staff throughout the Medical Center and their increasing focus on a common set of purposes to further the unique contributions made by Wake Forest clinicians, researchers and educators."
Prior to his UCLA appointment, Sibert served six years as the executive vice president for clinical services for the UNC Health Care System and medical director and CEO for UNC Physicians and Associates at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Robin K. Meter, executive director of WFUP, said that Sibert's experience at UCLA, one of the nation's top medical centers, will be "invaluable to WFUP and the Medical Center as a whole."
Sibert has a medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and earned his master's in business administration from Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, Durham. He is a member of a number of professional societies such as the American College of Physician Executives and currently serves on the national steering committee for the University Health Consortium's Faculty Practice Group. He has authored numerous papers and book chapters.
Raised in Cuba and the Northeast United States, Sibert is returning to the state where he has lived and worked the longest. He has three grown children, a daughter who works in perioperative administration for New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, a daughter who is a sophomore at Princeton University in New Jersey, and a son who is a junior at Tufts University in Boston. He is newly married to wife, Diana, who manages the UCLA Tiverton House, a hotel that serves patients and their families.
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