Piedmont Athens Regional Hospital names Geoffrey Marx as new Chief Medical Officer
Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center this week announced Dr. Geoffrey Marx as the hospital’s new Chief Medical Officer.
According to Marx, his role as CMO is “to bridge the goals of the healthcare system and the bedside patient care a physician does.”
This promotion marks a new chapter in Marx’s career at the hospital.
"I am excited to continue working with Geoffrey in his new role as CMO," said Piedmont Athens CEO Michael Burnett in a press release. "He brings a great deal of experience and clinical leadership to the hospital’s executive team and will continue to be a valuable member of the Piedmont Athens medical team."
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Marx first started working at Piedmont Athens in 2005 as a hospitalist (an in-patient doctor who works only in a hospital) after earning his medical degree at the University of Mississippi Medical School and completing his internal medicine residency at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Marx is also a Clinical Associate Professor for the Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership program, an active participant in the Piedmont Athens residency program and a founding faculty member of the Piedmont Athens Regional Graduate Medical Education Internal Medicine residency program.
Here, he educates, coaches and mentors residents through bedside teaching and lectures. He has trained many third- and fourth-year medical students in the Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership.
Prior to becoming CFO, Marx also served as director of the Athens hospitalist program and medical director of Informatics for Piedmont Healthcare. According to Piedmont Athens’ press release, in both roles he was also on a variety of committees “driving change in the delivery of healthcare in Georgia.”
“I’m really excited.” Marx said. “I’ve been at [Piedmont Athens] for 17 years now. It’s a great place to work and now I’m in a different role, a different chair, with a different type of input than just as a physician.”
Marx has been practicing hospital medicine for more than 20 years, primarily at Piedmont Athens Regional. During that time, he has focused on making changes that would both improve quality and make patient and provider experience better.
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