Table 2.

Members of the medicine covid-19 taskforce and their roles in coordinating DOM efforts and initiatives.

Role in the DOM	Charge during Covid-19	Comments
Chair	Leading all IM departmental efforts and activities	Chaired the MCT
Chief of Pulmonary & Critical Care Divisions	Leading ICU expansion, ICU operations, protocols, staffing, ventilator management and protocols, critical care resource allocation, emergency responses, supervising all clinical trials performed in the ICU's	Either the Chief or her designee participate in all MCT meetings
Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine	Leading Medicine Units expansion, Medicine Units operations, protocols, staffing, supervising allied (non-medicine) providers working on medicine or medicine-converted units, supervising all clinical trials performed in the medicine units
Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases (ID)* and Member of the Infection Control Team (ICT)	Leading all activities of the ID division operations and staffing, working with Hospital Epidemiologist and ICT on ID protocols for the hospital, leading major studies such as the Convalescent Plasma study
Residency Program Directors for Moses-Weiler and Wakefield campuses	Leading and supervising all the residents including managing their deployment, quarantine, Covid-19 infections, protocols, as well as training and education during the Covid-19 crisis	Montefiore has 2 residency programs with a combined 243 residents
Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs	Overseeing faculty credentialing, deployment of alumni volunteering to work at Montefiore, communicating departmental updates to all faculty	About 40 alumni volunteered to come and be deployed at Montefiore
Vice Chair for Research	Overseeing all clinical trials in the department, vetting all proposals for clinical trials presented to the department to ensure adequate infrastructure and rapid implementation, overseeing the shutting down and re-opening of all wet-bench labs and clinical research, overseeing all retrospective analyses of Covid-19 data, overseeing all IRB submissions	Montefiore had numerous requests for participation in clinical trials, mostly from pharmaceutical companies, and numerous human studies requiring IRB approval (both clinical trials and retrospective analyses) during the Covid-19 crisis
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Medical Education	Overseeing all medical students Internal Medicine teaching during the Covid-19 deployment, all done remotely using virtual learning platforms	All medical students teaching continued during the Covid-19 epidemic including virtual teaching of Internal Medicine to third and fourth year students that were not allowed to continue bedside learning
DOM Senior administrator, Associate Chair and Director of the Faculty Practice and the Faculty Practice team (administrator, and nursing supervisor)	Overseeing and leading the conversion of all our outpatient activities into tele-health, overseeing all DOM outpatient activities, deploying DOM staff to Covid-19 testing sites and to the frontlines, converting most inpatient consults into e-Consults, overseeing requests and receipts of donations to the DOM	The DOM converted all outpatient visits into tele-visits within 3 days of shutting down our practices, most inpatient consults were also converted into eConsults within a week of the surge. The DOM received numerous donations including monetary donations, PPE, essential supplies such as pulse oximeters and WiFi tablets (to connect patients on the floors with their families), and food.
Associate Chair and Director of Innovation	Overseeing and leading all activities implementing new technology such as tele-health, eConsults, WiFi tablets and EPIC builds for tele-medicine
Director of Media and Communications	Assisting the Chair with all communications to the DOM, including publishing a Daily Newsletter, and sending messages and information by e-mail and on Social Media	Our Social Media campaign was instrumental for engaging our community to support the DOM frontline health care workers, and in soliciting donations of PPE and other essential supplies.

^*MCT, medicine covid-19 taskforce; IM, internal medicine; ID, infectious diseases; ICT, infection control team.