PROVIDENCE – A longtime physician at The Miriam Hospital has been presented with the 2019 Charles “Bud” Kahn, M.D., Lifetime Leadership Award.
Dr. Gary Bubly received the award on June 25.
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Bubly, who spent six years as director of the hospital’s emergency department, was recognized for his leadership, professionalism, integrity and collaboration.
He joined the The Miriam’s medical staff in 1990, immediately after finishing his residency there. After becoming certified in emergency medicine, he served as associate director of the emergency department from 1995 until 2011. Bubly was medical director of the department from 2011 to 2017, when he became vice chair for clinical integration and innovation for Brown Emergency Medicine.
Bubly works clinically at The Miriam and is a clinical professor of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
During his time as head of the emergency department, Bubly managed to lead successfully despite dramatic growth and change, including a surge that more than doubled the number of emergency department visits and a switch to a new electronic records system, said Dr. Jeremiah Schuur, Lifespan Corp.’s physician-in-chief and chair of the department of emergency medicine at Brown.
“Life Chart/Epic has been seamlessly integrated; advanced services such as stroke care and emergent cardiac care have continuously modernized; and the quality of patient care and experience have remained extremely high,” Schuur said. “Dr. Bubly was able to manage within a confined footprint by perceptive management and space flexibility. During that time The Miriam went through two major re-renovations while continuing to operate.”
Bubly has won numerous awards and served in various leadership positions, including president of the Rhode Island chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians and president of the Rhode Island Medical Society.
He has also been named a top doctor in emergency medicine 15 times by Rhode Island Monthly.
“While his perennial nomination as a Rhode Island Monthly ‘Top Doc’ is impressive, his commitment to patient care and teaching is better demonstrated by his effect on serial classes of medical students who have rotated through The Miriam’s emergency department,” Dr. Neil Greenspan wrote in his nomination paper. “I know personally of several medical students who decided on a career in emergency medicine after having been fortunate enough to be mentored by Gary.”
