ACPA has Announced their Newest President of the Board of DirectorsFebruary 6, 2021
Dr. Ugarte Hopkins is board-certified in health care quality and management with a physician advisor sub-specialty by the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Physicians (ABQAURP). She is a Physician Advisor for Case Management, Utilization, and Clinical Documentation at ProHealth Care, Inc., a two-hospital, 575-bed health system in Wisconsin. “Dr. Ugarte Hopkins has been one of the greatest recent contributors to ACPA’s recent growth and success,” said Immediate Past President, Charles Locke, MD. “She served for the past two years as a vice president for the ACPA, as co-director of the NPAC 2019 conference, and she is the co-director of one of our online continuing medical education programs, TLC 2020. In addition, she has brought ACPA into the world of social media, single-handedly establishing our presence on Twitter and LinkedIn. I will be excited to see where her leadership will take ACPA next.” Dr. Ugarte Hopkins is an experienced physician leader. Previously, she practiced as a pediatric hospitalist for a decade and served as medical director of pediatric hospital medicine and vice-chair of pediatrics at Rockford Health System in Rockford, Illinois. She was the first physician board member for the Wisconsin chapter of the American Case Management Association (ACMA) and is a member of the RACMonitor editorial board. She was recognized as a “Hirsch’s Hero” by Dr. Ronald Hirsch in 2016. "2021 brings the seventh year the American College of Physician Advisors has been in existence and I’m feeling pretty lucky about leading as president,” said Dr. Ugarte Hopkins. “Our College has evolved into the most respected and trusted organization in our field, supporting close to 1,000 Physician Advisors and other hospital and health system leaders. I am tasking the ACPA Board of Directors with a focus on discovery, cultivation, and promotion of the leaders of tomorrow. It is my wish that 2021 will one day be known as the year we started discovering the field’s newest constellation of superstars.” About: The American College of Physician Advisors is the national organization dedicated to “promoting and expanding the prominent role of the Physician Advisor in today’s rapidly changing healthcare environment through education, certification, mentorship and collaboration.” |
The American College of Physician Advisors has announced their newest President of the Board of Directors: