Meet your Epic Heroes
Browse the slider below to learn how nominated team members and groups demonstrate the Epic Guiding Principles as described by their colleagues. Whether we are supporting coordinated care, reducing administrative burdens, streamlining processes, or demonstrating best practices, each individual effort advances our Epic Journey. Nominate the Epic Heroes you work with.
July 23, 2025
Beth Bell
Data Warehouse Developer
Guiding Principle:
Gold Standard
“Beth is the ED BID in the Cogito Project Team. She is always ready and willing to jump in and help out even when it is outside of her designated area. She strives to get her work done as quickly and as efficiently as possible and is helping the Cogito team as a whole keep project deadlines not only for herself but also for her team members.”
Subhash Reddy
Data Warehouse Developer
Guiding Principle:
Patient-Centered
“Subhash in his role as BID on the Cogito project team has gone above and beyond to understand the needs for the project teams he is assigned to and to understand the needs of the Cogito project team. He not only is instrumental in his Epic workgroups but on the Cogito team as well.”
Erica Arnold
Senior Director – Care Transitions
Guiding Principle:
Decisive Execution
“Erica is leading the inpatient case management build. She is ensuring that our EMR supports excellence in care transition and utilization review workflows. She works to promote comradery amongst our partner facilities so that best practices from everyone’s workflows are integrated into a best practice workflow”
Previous Epic Heroes
July 16, 2025
- Justine Brice, Epic Analyst
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Justine does a great job of keeping us on task with the OB team.”
- LJamilah Constantine, Health Care Business Analyst
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Jamilah is an excellent team player sharing her expansive knowledge with the group. Grateful for her expertise. “
- Elizabeth Willoughby, Epic Analyst
- Guiding Principle: Unified Excellence
- “Elizabeth does a great job on our Fertility SME group to keep the team organized!”
- Victoria Wood, Manager – Transplant Services
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Victoria has been a tremendous leader in our Epic workgroup. She is always the first person to complete any tasks requested from the Epic team, she does a great job at looping in frontline team members so they can contribute to important decisions that will impact their work, and she is always well prepared for meetings, so progress continues to move forward. Victoria remains thoughtful in her responses for how Epic will function for our teams and is always asking provocative questions to generate meaningful discussion. Epic Phoenix (transplant) will be better in significant part because of her contributions.”
July 9, 2025
- Paul Dorsey, Manager – Development Architect (UAB Medicine)
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Paul has consistently been volunteering for new Epic Cogito work and helping his team. Paul has a great attitude toward change and is constantly adopting to the changing data landscape.”
- Lexie Fleming, Manager – Quality
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Lexie has been instrumental in the build for our team. She keeps everyone on task with a patient centered approach and provider satisfaction in mind.”
- Frances Young, Manager – Pharmacy Services
- Guiding Principle: Decisive Execution
- “Frances has been dedicated to standardizing our IV formulations and reviewing literature to ensure that all sites have the best practice for simplification and orderable unity amongst all sites. Frances has led a significant amount of the IV room compounding discussions and focused on making sure we are moving forward and works ahead to keep the team on track. Fantastic team member and leader in the EPIC pharmacy build-out.”
June 27, 2025
- Jennifer Anderson, Workstream Lead – Ambulatory
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Jennifer has been instrumental behind the scenes in connecting us with stakeholders and key decisions that need to be made. She communicates well and thoroughly and most importantly she does it with care and thoughtfulness.”
- Nathan Berck, Manager – Pharmacy (UAB St. Vincent’s)
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Nathan has played a critical role in leading and supporting multidisciplinary workgroups focused on aligning medication practices and charge processes across all STV facilities. He has consistently demonstrated a unique ability to translate high-level strategy into actionable steps, ensuring that medication data, billing accuracy, and clinical workflows are standardized and scalable within our evolving systems.”
- Elizabeth Hudgins, Manager Pharmacy Services
- Guiding Principle: Patient-Centered
- “Liz has been key to reviewing and accumulating our 600+ protocols for chemotherapy. She has offered to help our other sites as well. She continually provides meaningful feedback and insight in our epic decisions keeping in mind patients and staff. She is a rockstar!”
- Leah Walsh, Informaticist – Pharmacy (UAB St. Vincent’s)
- Guiding Principle: Decisive Execution
- “Leah has served as a pivotal member of our team, taking ownership of pharmacy-related workflows and ensuring that all aspects of the project were aligned with goals and timelines.
Leah has consistently gone above and beyond her role by proactively organizing and leading multiple pharmacy workgroups. Her ability to bring together key stakeholders, facilitate productive collaboration, and drive decisions has been instrumental in keeping the project on track. She ensured that critical tasks were completed ahead of schedule and that all pharmacy operations across STV were well-prepared for meetings.
Her attention to detail, deep clinical knowledge, and strong project management skills have made her an invaluable asset to the team. She demonstrates a high level of professionalism, a strong sense of accountability, and an unwavering commitment to patient safety and system optimization.”
June 18, 2025
- Peggy Depiano, Project Manager
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Peggy took the initiative to assist with the Ambulatory Teams Channel issue and assisted with creating a workflow that benefit the workgroups.
You took ownership, showed accountability, and helped push the ongoing request forward. It’s always a pleasure working with someone who brings such professionalism and integrity. I just wanted to make sure your efforts were recognized and appreciated.”
- David Jasicki, Epic Analyst
- Guiding Principle: Unified Excellence
- “Dave is always asking how he can help his coworkers, offers advice when we need it, and helps others find answers they need in order for them to stay on track with their timelines. Ambulatory is happy to have him!”
- Salha Khan, Data Warehouse Developer
- Guiding Principle: Unified Excellence
- “Salha has been relentlessly pursuing excellence with his customers, analytics buddies, and workgroups. He works diligently with the customers in order to give them the best outcomes for their analytics journey. Many teammates have praised his work ethic and attention to detail.”
June 11, 2025
- Terri Franklin, Director Imaging
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Terri, along with her busy schedule, has made every effort, going beyond expectations, to ensure that all areas of Imaging are engaged in the implementation process. She has gathered information from all aspects of the Imaging areas within UAB Main. Her leadership skills are exceptional and has motivated others to contribute to the success of the implementation.”
- Dr. Leslie Hayes, Professor PED Critical Care
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Dr. Hayes as chair of the Analytics Advisory Council is participating in Road Shows for all of the workstream workgroups to discuss the role of the AAC but to also help calm any fears/concerns around data availability at Go Live. She truly exemplifies what a strong, caring leader is who is not only patient focused but also focused on our hard-working team throughout UAB Medicine.”
- Loni Mitchell, Lead – Respiratory Services
- Guiding Principle: Unified Excellence
- “She is going above and beyond to ensure respiratory is involved and included in this EPIC build. She is over EEGs, Respiratory and PFTs for St. Clair”
- Randy Tims, Epic Analyst – HSIS
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Randy went above and beyond in creating a document to aide our entire BID team for working through steps of a difficult process for reporting and importing Metadata in EPIC. This actually assisted our Epic counterparts as well as they did not have anything this detailed that worked through the entire process. Randy also conducted training sessions for everyone on our Cogito team and because of his dedication to the work being done our team successfully completed the process almost seamlessly and ahead of schedule.”
June 4, 2025
- Dr. Julian Booker, Associate Professor MED – Cardiology
- Guiding Principle: Unified Excellence
- “Dr. Booker has been an important part of the Cupid Workgroup in his role as Chair. He’s been great at keeping communication flowing across all facilities and helping to organize the sub-groups effectively. He also does a great job of keeping everyone focused and on task during meetings.”
- Justine Brice, Epic Analyst – HSIS
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Justine goes above and beyond her job duties. She volunteers to complete extra duties to assist the team in meeting goals and collecting information! She’s truly a team player and willingly shares her expertise to less experienced employees such as myself and our Epic Consultants! I have dubbed her the Sensei to my Grasshopper! I’m truly looking forward to working alongside Justine in our Epic Journey!!!!”
- Elise Dasinger, Manager Pharmacy Services
- Guiding Principle: Patient-Centered
- “Elise is taking it the time to ensure the medication build is as safe as possible for patient care. She is organizing and directing much of the validation to ensure we provide a patient-centered approach to medication management. We (pharmacy) are all contributing to the build, but she is going above and beyond on duties because she cares so deeply about patient care.”
- Shea Polk, Manager Pharmacy Services
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Shea is pretty much taking on the role of Project Manager for the Department of Pharmacy even though she wasn’t specifically carved out in the Epic go-live hierarchy. She’s provided a ton of organization to keep deadlines straight and has somehow organized a massive amount of information. Deserves a shout out.”
May 28, 2025
- Camille Asbury, Workstream Project Manager – Inpatient
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Camille is always a wealth of knowledge! Her UAB tenure is invaluable as she helps lead our efforts through the EPIC Journey. She uses best practices to help guide our team through decision making in this initial build phase, exhibits Core Values in all her communications and interactions, and is focused on how to operationalize this new system across all entities. I appreciate being able to work alongside her and learn from her expertise in the IT field.”
- Heather Edwards, Epic Analyst
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Heather is helpful, resourceful, uplifting, humorous, best practice based, and just an all-around wonderful teammate to have. Our team would be lost without her, and she is invaluable to HSIS as a whole!”
- Joanne Hatfield, Epic Analyst
- Guiding Principle: Unified Excellence
- “Joanne’s clinical expertise is a much-needed POV and ensures healthcare workers have a voice in how the EHR will be designed. Her humor is also uplifting to the team, couldn’t ask for a better team member!”
- Randy Tims, Data Warehouse Developer
- Guiding Principle: Unified Excellence
- “Randy did an excellent job coming up with a strategy to update the Epic Meta-Data set and shared his extensive documentation with our entire team.”
May 21, 2025
- Jennifer Anderson
- Guiding Principle: Patient-Centered
- “Jennifer consistently puts patients first—not only in her daily interactions, but in the way she thinks strategically about systems and workflows. She recognizes that behind every decision in the Epic Implementation there is a person relying on us for clarity, compassion, and timely, well-coordinated care.”
- Vince Bonetti
- Guiding Principle: Patient-Centered
- “Vince is the chair of the self-pay workgroup. Vince has selflessly demonstrated his dedication to a patient first approach regarding patient bills for UAB Medicine. Not only has he proven to be highly knowledgeable in his area of responsibility, but his overall knowledge of self-pay patient bills also stretches into our affiliates. Vince has been tapped to help gather information regarding payments, hospital billing, physician billing practices and charity at a system level. He also works toward a patient-first/patient-centered decision that is solely centered around the patient experience. It has truly been a privilege working with and learning from Vince, who takes time to listen to your ideas, individually and as a team, discusses the pros and cons, and drives toward resolution.”
- Amanda Chambers, Workstream Lead – Inpatient – HSIS
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Amanda has gathered information about our equipment and processes to help with integration into our Epic build. She has been so helpful with answering questions during the initial Epic implementation phases.”
- Amanda Chambers, Martin Donohue, David Hallberg, Chris Shepard; Mobile Device Team
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Just thought I’d give you a heads up and recognition to the Mobile Device team. Their Assessments of, and plan for mobile device needs for STV and remote clinics was amazing. Norrin Jegla and Scott Dinkle said they’ve never seen an organization complete these assessments as quickly and they were constantly in disbelief at the amount of consideration and information gathered. I was personally impressed if it had just reflected current in-house UAB, considering they got all this done with the barriers we have in interacting with STV, Tuscaloosa, Huntsville etc it was amazing.”
- Kiana Dowdy, Epic Radiant Analyst
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Kiana is a great teammate who is eager to contribute and help in any way she can. She is a value resource to the Epic team.”
- Heather Edwards, Epic Analyst III
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Heather always takes the initiative to help our progress. She uses her resources wisely and has been an invaluable teammate.”
- Terri Franklin
- Guiding Principle: Patient-Centered
- “She is an invaluable asset to our organization, always prioritizing the needs of the patients. She is a team builder and a consistently dependable leader in the department.”
- Joanne Hatfield, Epic Analyst
- Guiding Principle: Patient-Centered
- “Joanne has been a positive energy on the team since she joined. She is always seeking knowledge and contributes invaluable clinical insight to our team. We are so happy to have her.
- David Jasicki, Epic Analyst
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “David has a great deal of EPIC knowledge and has went above and beyond to share this knowledge with all in HSIS. His positive attitude towards the new EPIC Journey has also been very contagious!”
- Angela Jernigan, Clinical Information Support Specialist
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Angela is always one step ahead with our CMIO team. She is proactive, dedicated, professional at all times, and is a tireless worker. Her knowledge of current UAB processes is invaluable as we build our Epic environment. She is always positive and is a joy to work with!”
- Vinay Patel, Change Management Analyst
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Vinay consistently ensures our teams are focused on creating a strategy that meets the needs of ALL stakeholders, at the right time, right location and with the right modality — always thinking about being inclusive toward the clinical teams. He brings new and fresh ideas for engagement that resonate well across the board.”
- Shea Polk
- Guiding Principle: Unified Excellence
- “Shea has been the champion for our pharmacy team. Gathering and sharing information, making sure we are all on the same page, and really helping to navigate all things Epic so that our department stays on track. She has been excellent in her fact finding and organizing, and I’m so thankful for her leadership during this Journey.”
- Elizabeth Spoon
- Guiding Principle: Patient-Centered
- “Elizabeth has always been an advocate for patients. She has approached this implementation with enthusiasm and positivity.”
- Randy Tims, Data Warehouse Developer
- Guiding Principle: Gold Standard
- “Randy had developed multiple tutorials and videos to assist Cogito team members when doing their tasks. This is making the completion of tasks accelerate greatly as well as the teams learning process.”