Mark Your Calendar
Reversing Heart Disease
Feb. 27
Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound for Comprehensive Stroke Care
March 14—March 16
Virtual Medicine Symposium
March 28—March 29
Surgery Grand Rounds
See information about upcoming Surgery Grand Rounds.
Grand Rounds
Education Schedule
Surgery Scheduling
In This Issue:
- Affiliation of Cedars-Sinai and Torrance Memorial Official
- Two Minutes With …
- $50 Million Gift Goes to Create Smidt Heart Institute
- Easier, More Meaningful Advance Healthcare Directive
- Study Looks at Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Young People
- Transplant Saves Bishop at the Heart of His Community
- Stop the Bleed Class Trains its 500th Student
- Cardiac Surgery Resident Awarded Traveling Fellowship
- Hosting Summer Research Interns
- Circle of Friends Honorees for January
- Stenting System Benefits Certain Stroke Patients
- FDA Updates Warning About Antidepressant Pristiq
- FDA Issues Warning About Incorrect Dosing of Obeticholic Acid
- CS-Link Tip: Refilling Prescriptions
Surgery Scheduling
Hours of operation:
- Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; closed on observed legal holidays
Please contact Jojo Bernido for a copy of the complete Scheduling Guidelines document.
Contact information:
- Central Scheduling staff: Irwin Alexander, Lilian De Los Angeles, Alexandra Halaby, Renee Gladstone, Stella Kvryan, Demetrius Dennis, Gabriel Arcega, Karen Ford, Esmenia Rivera-Jimenez, Lara Swartz, Christian Salva Cruz, Nancy Smith
Schedulers can be reached via the general office contact information below:
- Phone: 310-423-3786
- Email: centralschedulers@cshs.org
- For immediate attention — scheduling supervisor: Ferdinand "Jojo" Bernido
- You can reach Jojo for any issues related to scheduling that require immediate attention.
You can contact Jojo for questions regarding the scheduling processes. - Phone: 310-423-1629
- Cell: 310-272-6979
- Email: bernidof@cshs.org
- To learn how to search, request and book procedures — clinical liaison: Mary-Carmen Adams, RN
- Assists clinical and admin staff as well as MD office schedulers on how to correctly request and book procedures in ORSched and CS-Link™. Responsible for training new MD office staff with ORSCHED requests, troubleshooting issues with scheduling, running daily audits to ensure accuracy of cases scheduled.
- Phone: 310-423-3796
- Cell: 310-721-0194
- Email: adamsm@cshs.org
- For communication involving your Block Time and Utilization: Brian Gutierrez
- Phone: 310-423-1627
- Cell: 310-498-6962
- Email: brian.gutierrez@cshs.org
- Administrative director: Shab Nicks
- Phone: 310-423-6698
- Cell: 310-739-7175
- Email: nickss@cshs.org
- Service line vice president: Bryan Croft
- Phone: 310-248-7500
- Cell: 310-435-8042
- Email: croftb@cshs.org