Mark Christensen, MD, Director of Emergency Medicine at Highlands Medical Center in Scottsboro and Cullman Regional Medical Center in Cullman was recently selected as one of five 2020 Facility Medical Directors of the Year by Alteon Health, the industry-leading national medical group that manages these emergency medicine programs.
The award honors Medical Directors from across Alteonâs more than 125 clinical sites who exhibited exemplary leadership and professionalism in 2020, mentoring their physicians and advanced practice providers while improving department performance amid the challenges of COVID-19. In her nomination of Dr. Christensen, Destiny Harvey, Regional Vice President of Operations for Alteon, celebrated the strong collaboration Christensen has fostered between the emergency medicine providers, the nursing staffs, and other hospital departments at both facilities since becoming medical director in 2019.