Residency

• University of Washington Family Medicine Residency - Seattle, WA (2018-2021)

Medical School

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine - Chapel Hill, NC (2014-2018)

Undergraduate

• • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Chapel Hill, NC (2008-2012)

    • Degree: Bachelor of Science in Public Health (BSPH) in Health Policy and Management

Continuous systems improvement is foundational to my clinical practice.  I am comfortable with the logistics of basic QI work, including building and running reports within Epic, performing PDSA cycles, and creating process maps and run charts. 

My goal moving forward is to perform QI work at a larger scale, through stakeholder identification and engagement, and empowering all members of the healthcare team to see QI work as accessible, interesting, and rewarding.

Residency (2018-2021)

Transitional Care Management 

• Supported senior resident QI project through data collection using UW HBI dashboard tool, creation of run charts, and facilitation of PDSA cycles

Diabetic Retinopathy Screening

• Facilitated creation of training video for medical assistants to aid implementation of in-clinic diabetic retinopathy screening for patients seen in my residency primary care clinic in Seattle, WA

Maternal Depression Screening

• Supported ongoing efforts to disseminate knowledge about maternal depression screening and best-practices for billing to promote financial sustainability of efforts to provide mental health support to pregnant and post-partum women

Medical School (2014-2018)

Collaborative Palliative Care Model

• Supported efforts to conceptualize and implement collaborative model between palliative care, oncology and primary care providers for patients with advanced cancer; performed numerous chart reviews to better quantify and qualitatively characterize nature of goals-of-care documentation in medical record 

Hotspotting Pilot Program

• Worked with interdisciplinary group of students (undergraduate, social work, medicine, pharmacy, nursing) to partner volunteers with patients identified to be high-utilizers of health care resources, often with complex social needs

Undergraduate & Post Graduation (2011-2013)

UNC Emergency Medicine Scribe Pilot

• Acted as the pilot's first "chief scribe" while transitioning to a new EHR (Epic) and expanding the program to serve a critical access hospital in Siler City, NC

Undergraduate Internship in Performance Improvement and Patient Safety 

• Utilized skills in Microsoft Excel, Access, Visio and Word to support ongoing readmissions project at UNC Health for patients with heart failure and COPD; also completed organization's Lean Six Sigma "Yellow Belt" certificate 

I have sought multiple opportunities to hone my leadership skills, including:

Resident & Fellow Physicians Union Northwest (RFPU-NW) (2018-2021)

• Served all 3 years of residency as general board member for labor union representing approximately 1400+ residents and fellow physicians at the University of Washington

Area of Concentration: Scholarship & Leadership (2020-2021)

• Self-directed, longitudinal experience during residency to dive deeper into research logistics and leadership development

AAFP Emerging Leaders Institute Scholar (2019)

• Selected from a national applicant pool, on the basis of past leadership experience and future potential, to be one of 30 medical students and residents to complete a longitudinal, year-long program designed to foster leadership skills 

Clinician Leadership in Quality and Safety (2017-2018)

• Selected to participate in elective, year-long curriculum during 4th year of medical school, designed to educate students about quality improvement methodology and leadership

Cummings A, Chiu N, Evans DV, Andrilla CA, Cawse-Lucas J. Impact of Primary Care Exception Expansion on Family Medicine Resident Billing During the COVID-19 Pandemic. [published August 2, 2023]. Fam Med.

https://doi.org/10.22454/FamMed.2023.548357

Fraher E.P., Cummings A., Neutze D. The Evolving Role of Medical Assistants in Primary Care Practice: Divergent and Concordant Perspectives from MAs and Family Physicians. Medical Care Research and Review. October 2020. DOI:10.1177/1077558720966148

A.G. Cummings, G. Lavins, D.V. Evans. What is the Best Treatment for Dupuytren Disease? Evidence-Based Practice: April 14, 2020, Volume Publish Ahead of Print-Issue. DOI: 10.1097/EBP.0000000000000883

LK Kalliainen, I Wisecarver, AG Cummings, J Stone. Sex Bias in Hand Surgery Research. Journal of Hand Surgery, Vol.43, Issue 11, pp 1026-1029, published in issue: November 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2018.03.026

H.A. Heaton, S.M. Matthews, A.G. Cummings, C.R. Forbach, A. Mehrotra. Financial Impact of Scribes in an Academic Emergency Department. Annals of Emergency Medicine, Vol. 64, Issue 4, S3. October 2014.
http://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(14)00638-6/fulltext

H.A. Heaton, S.M. Matthews, A.G. Cummings, C.R. Forbach, A. Mehrotra. Impact of Scribes on Patient Throughput in an Academic Emergency Department. Annals of Emergency Medicine, Vol. 64, Issue 4, S75. October 2014. http://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(14)00841-5/fulltext

Clinical Settings

• Trained to care for patients across spectrum of settings including outpatient, inpatient, labor & delivery, urgent care and emergency department 

• Experienced with use of telemedicine 

Electronic Medical Records

• Experience with numerous electronic medical records including Epic (trained as SuperUser in multiple environments), Cerner, CPRS, NextGen, Athena, PointClickCare, T-Systems

Clinical Procedures

• Shave, punch, excisional biopsy

• Laceration repair

• Cyst removal

• Trigger point injection

• Paracentesis

• Arthrocentesis

• Knee injection

• I&D

• Nexplanon insertion/removal

• IUD replacement/removal

• Vaginal deliveries, 1st & 2nd degree laceration repairs

• Colposcopy and endocervical curettage

• Endometrial biopsy

• Neonatal circumcision

• ABFM Board Certified 

• ACLS

• Certified Buprenorphine Presciber 

• Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School Basic Certificate in Quality & Safety (2016)

Email: allison@agcmd.net