Kathryn Kasicky, MD

Assistant Professor

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Medicine

Department:

Orthopaedics

Classification:

Clinical Faculty

• MD, St. Mary's College of Maryland
• MD, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine

Breast and cervical cancer screening patterns among American Indian women at IHS clinics in Montana and Wyoming.  Public Health Rep. 2011 Nov-Dec; 126(6):806-15.

Bravo! Awards WVU Medicine Ruby Memorial Hospital For accomplishments of Complex Care Plan Committee June 2017

2015 Women in Medicine and Science Leadership Program Wake Forest Baptist Health January 2015 -June 2015

COMMITTEES:

Hosptial:

May 2017-current       Medical Staff Affairs Pain Committee - WVU Medicine, J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital

March 2017-current   Hospital Readmissions Committee - WVU Medicine, J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital

August 2016-current Hospital            Complex Care Plan Committee - WVU Medicine, J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital

Jan 2017-Sept 2017Critical Care & Trauma Institute Steering Committee - WVU Medicine, J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital

August 2016-October 2017    Symptom Driven Detox for the Floor - WVU Medicine, J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital

April 2010-June 2011Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee - Wake Forest Baptist Health, North Carolina Baptist Hospital

Department:

Sept 2017-current Department of Medicine Quality and Safety Committee - WVU Medicine, J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital

July 2016-current Department of Medicine Promotion and Tenure Committee - WVU Medicine, J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital

July 2015-July 2016     Department of Medicine Advisory Committee - WVU Medicine, J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital

Section:

October 2017-current Section Advisory Committee, focus on patient transitions - WVU Medicine, J.W. Ruby Memorial Hosptial

Aug 2011-June 2015   Hiring Committee, Section of Hospital Medicine - Wake Forest Baptist Health

Dr. Kathryn Kasicky grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  She graduated from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2004 with a B.A. in Biology.  She enjoyed several years on the college crew team and daily access to the St. Mary’s river.  She then matriculated directly to Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania, completing her M.D. in May of 2008.  During medical school, she was grateful for the opportunity to travel to Montana to work with the epidemiology section of the MT/WY Tribal Leaders Council researching breast cancer screening in the American Indian population within that state.

She completed residency in 2011 at Wake Forest Baptist Health and worked as a hospitalist with the inpatient oncology service at North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem for the following 4 years.  She and her family moved to Morgantown in the summer of 2015 to help grow the hospitalist program at J.W. Ruby Memorial hospital.

She continues as a practicing hospitalist at Ruby, enjoying variety and acuity on the inpatient medical services.  She is an active member of the hospital’s Complex Care Plan committee and MSA Pain committee and has a medical directorship with the Department of Medicine Inpatient Mission.

Barriers to post-discharge follow-up appointments

1. Study of patients discharged from the hospitalist services of J.W. Ruby Memorial Hosptial who have and have not attended their scheduled follow-up appointment,
2. Evaluation of reasons patients have not attended their follow-up appointment

Changing the culture of patient safety event reporting

1. Evaluation of the current culture of safety within the department of internal medicine
2. Implementation of education on patient safety reporting
3. Evaluation of physician patient safety reports before and after education
4. Evaluation of attitudes regarding patient safety reports following education

Board Certifications

• Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine

Special Training

• Residency, Internal Medicine
  North Carolina Baptist Hospital