Peter Hill Appointed Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs for the Johns Hopkins Health System and Vice President of Medical Affairs for The Johns Hopkins Hospitals

To the Johns Hopkins Medicine community

Dear Colleagues,

It is with much enthusiasm that we announce the appointment of Dr. Peter Hill to the positions of senior vice president of medical affairs for the Johns Hopkins Health System and vice president of medical affairs for The Johns Hopkins Hospital, effective March 2.

Peter is an outstanding leader, currently serving the Department of Emergency Medicine in multiple capacities, including vice chair of clinical affairs, clinical director and director of observation services in the department's acute care unit. Throughout his accomplished career at Johns Hopkins, Peter has demonstrated his ability to lead in complex environments and leverage his institutional and clinical knowledge. These new appointments represent formal recognition of his leadership in helping us enhance coordination and integration across the system.

As senior vice president for medical affairs, Peter will work closely with the vice presidents of medical affairs, clinical directors and medical staff members throughout the health system to strengthen our efforts to provide safe, efficient and cost-effective health care. Together with his colleagues, Peter will support improvements for medical staff members in areas such as peer review, professionalism, and the advancement of high-value care practice. In his role as vice president of medical affairs for The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Peter will lead the functions of the medical staff and serve as the Hospital's chief medical officer, while providing leadership for programs, including medical staff administration, pharmacy, health information management, hospital epidemiology and infection control, spiritual care and chaplaincy, and patient safety.

Peter earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California, his master's degree from Brown University and his medical degree from the University of Maryland. He completed his residency and served as chief resident in emergency medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, joining the faculty of the school of medicine as assistant chief of service. He became the medical director of the Emergency Acute Care Unit in 2001, was named clinical director for the Department of Emergency Medicine in 2005, became an associate professor in 2010 and was promoted to the role of vice chair of clinical affairs for the department in 2012.

A passionate advocate for emergency medicine, Peter is actively involved in the areas of Emergency Department operations, delivery of service, patient satisfaction, risk management and quality improvement. His leadership as the founding director of the emergency acute care unit and director of observation services for the Department of Emergency Medicine resulted in improved diagnostic accuracy for emergency patients and the successful reduction of unnecessary hospital admissions. He co-led restructuring of the department's triage and patient assignment systems, resulting in lower walkout and ambulance diversion rates, and dramatic improvements in the department's patient satisfaction scores—accomplishments for which the department received an institution wide Service Excellence Award. He also served as the system wide Emergency Medicine physician leader for Epic implementation across the health system.

Peter is a truly devoted visionary, a collaborative leader, and distinctly qualified to help advance patient care, safety and quality improvement at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and throughout the health system. Please join us in congratulating Peter on these well-deserved appointments.

Sincerely,

Ronald R. Peterson
President, Johns Hopkins Health System
EVP, Johns Hopkins Medicine

Redonda G. Miller, M.D., M.B.A.
President, The Johns Hopkins Hospital