Margaret Varnell Clark, MS, RN, RRT-NPS
Margaret Varnell Clark joined AKH, Inc. leadership team in August of 2009 as the Director of Educational Outcomes. In this position, she oversees educational program development, research, and publications. She also serves as a reviewer/abstractor for the National Guidelines Clearinghouse, and the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse on behalf of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Previously, she was a Scientific Director for The heart.org and the Editorial Director of 4 divisions at Medscape/WebMD: Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Allergy and Immunology, and Emergency Medicine. She also served as an Editorial Director of the peer review journal, MedGenMed.
From 2002-2004, Clark was the Special Studies Coordinator for the Georgia Medical Care Foundation where her responsibilities were the development and review of research protocols and technical reports, project design, consulting on data analysis and statistical methods, marketing, monitoring, quality assurance auditing, data management, and project management for the national pilot collaborative, Chronic Kidney Disease in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease. Prior to that, she was the Clinical Coordinator for Respiratory Care, and clinical faculty at Boston University/Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts. Concurrently, Clark was a columnist for Advance for Respiratory Care Practitioners News Magazine from 1990-2010. She is the author of several peer reviewed articles, monographs, and books including: Inspiration: Your Guide to Better Breathing, and Asthma: a Clinicians' Guide. Clark is the 1996 recipient of the Bird Lifetime Achievement Award given by the American Association of Respiratory Care, and the 2010 D. Robert McCaffree, MD, Master FCCP Humanitarian Award given by the Chest Foundation of the American College of Chest Physicians.
Jonathan S. Holman, BS, PharmD, CCMEP
Dr. Holman serves as Vice President and Continuing Education Administrator at AKH Inc. He has extensive experience as a clinical pharmacist in adult intensive care and has held clinical management roles at medical centers. He currently serves as adjunct faculty for the University of Florida and supervises a clinical rotation in Drug Information. In addition to his role at AKH Inc., Dr. Holman works as a clinical pharmacist at a local medical center.
Dr. Holman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy from the University of Colorado and a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the Medical University of South Carolina. He is a Certified CME Professional from the National Commission for Certification of CME Professionals, Inc.
Dr. Holman is a volunteer member of Volunteers in Medicine (VIM) that provides primary medical services to the working uninsured of Jacksonville, FL.
Elizabeth Adams, BA
Ms. Adams serves as the Director of Operations for AKH Inc. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of Charleston, Charleston SC with a focus on not for profit management. Ms. Adams has been associated with AKH since its inception and specializes in compliance issues related to accreditation policies and standards. She played a key role in the 2010 ACCME re-accreditation process in which AKH Inc. was awarded Accreditation with Commendation. In addition to her knowledge of continuing education standards, Ms. Adams is an experienced web designer and is the main developer of the new CE/CME Knowledge Center.
Jessica Goldman
Ms. Goldman serves as a CE Coordinator for AKH Inc. She specializes in project management for continuing education activities and is knowledgeable of state and national education requirements for healthcare professionals. Ms. Goldman oversees the coordination of logistics of continuing education activities, the facilitation and implementation of program attendance verification, and ensures compliance with state and national accreditation standards and policies in related to marketing materials.
Trisha Brignoni
As a CE Coordinator, Ms. Brignoni serves as a project manager and customer service specialist. Her focus is on national accreditation standards and compliance issues. Ms Brignoni's role is to ensure quality control and consistency of educational planning documents, serves as a liaison between departments regarding continuing education inquiries, and also works to ensure compliance with continuing education related text in all marketing materials.
