INTERMOUNTAIN'S PEOPLE are honored in the women and tech industry, receive a cancer community award, and fight Oregon wildfires with FEMA

Originally from Kenya, Seraphine came to the U.S. to attend college and received her PhD in nursing informatics in 2015. She’s spent 16-years with Intermountain as a trauma and transplant nurse, information analyst, clinical program manager, and nursing informatics director. Her current role supports improved quality of care, data integrity, and enhanced security and regulatory compliance.  

“This year’s finalists are visionaries, innovators, and inspiring,” says the Women Tech Council. Seraphine was recognized on October 28, along with 22 other finalists from different roles and companies in Utah. 

Congratulations to Lincoln Nadauld, MD, PhD, Intermountain’s chief of precision health and academics, who’s received the 2020 Cancer Community (C2) Catalyst for Precision Medicine Award from YOUR Cancer program, in conjunction with AstraZeneca. Dr. Nadauld received the award for significantly advancing precision medicine to bring new, more personalized treatments to cancer patients. Some of his recent work with the Precision Genomics team includes doubling the survival rates of late-stage cancer patients while decreasing associated costs by 23 percent. As a result, more than 4,000 advanced cancer patients each year are offered precision medicines as a standard of care at Intermountain.

“The pace at which oncology care is progressing is both rapid and extraordinary,” says Chatrick Paul, head of U.S. oncology at AstraZeneca. “We know that coming together as a community is essential to advancing cancer care and realizing meaningful change for patients. This is more relevant than ever before as COVID-19 has disrupted efforts of the healthcare community to screen, test, and diagnose cancer patients in a timely manner. We know that together, we can remove barriers to care, transform health systems, and support patients beyond our medicines.” Watch a video about Dr. Naduald and Precision Genomics that aired during the award ceremony.

Kudos to Thomas Hansen, RN, from Alta View Hospital and Dexter Schiers, a Life Flight paramedic from Dixie Regional Medical Center, who were recently deployed during the Oregon wildfires on a search and rescue mission with FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Utah Task Force One.

Thomas has been on the task force since 9/11/2001, serving to help with disaster response across the country. Thomas says one of his jobs during the wildfire deployment was to search for survivors and identify all the houses that were destroyed. “We mapped out close to 5,000 houses and dwellings that were destroyed and more than 1,000 vehicles during the deployment,” Thomas says. One touching story he recalls: “Our team helped a gentleman whose house was destroyed. His wife had passed away about a year ago and the one thing he wanted was to find the urn with her ashes. Our team, along with the search and rescue dogs, were able to help him find it.”

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