RESIDENT OF THE MONTH: Sep, 2016 - DR. Ali Hafiz
I just spent two weeks in the CCU where Ali did an excellent job in every way, professional, knowledgeable, calm, collected, excellent in every way. But I’m making this recommendation now based on his extraordinary performance during a cardiac arrest as SMR today. The arrest happened in the cath lab, and the cath lab staff was disorganized, running the code suboptimally. Surrounded by cardiologists and cardiac nurses he appropriately took control of the situation, gently but clearly reminding the assembled cardiology team to give the ACLS medication that were supposed to be given (and were being forgotten). He did an excellent, possibly even perfect, job of running ACLS protocol in an uncommonly difficult situation.