B.A Health and Society 1994 University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

M.D. 1994. New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY

Internship and Residency Internal Medicine 1998-2001 NYU Medical Center/Bellevue Hospital.

Dr. Ada Offurum is an Academic Hospitalist and Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Maryland School of Medicine. 

She completed her undergraduate studies with a Bachelor of Arts in Health and Society at University of Rochester and then graduated from New York University (NYU) School of Medicine and stayed at NYU Medical Center/Bellevue Hospital for residency training in Internal Medicine.

She was the Associate Division Chief of Inpatient Hospitalist services at UMMC for over 20 years before transitioning to the role of Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professional Development. In her role as Assistant Dean, she facilitates programs for promotion and faculty development and is also involved in identifying, investigating and creating solution plans for professionalism complaints alongside colleagues in the Dean's office, SOM HR and Office of Academic Administration.

She is also a Physician Advisor serving as the primary liaison between the hospital’s Care Management program and physicians, on resource utilization, denials management and educating providers on regulatory and compliance changes. She has presented at multiple national conferences on advancing as a physician advisor, reducing avoidable days and complex discharge planning.

As the Medical Director of the Physician Advisor Group at University of Maryland Medical center, she is responsible for showing ROI for the program through performance metrics, aligning goals with Revenue Cycle, hospital and Care Management leadership and ensuring an appropriate educational curriculum for outreach initiatives.

Dr. Offurum served as co-chair of the hospital’s VTE Prophylaxis Committee and has presented and published on the topic. She is also certified as a trainer in the Program for Excellence in Patient Centered Communication through the Dean’s Office and now co-facilitated all day workshops for School of Medicine faculty.

She is also the faculty advisor for the Humanism Symposium, an elective course that offers medical students, SOM faculty, and members of the Baltimore community the opportunity to examine the full range of what it means to be a humanistic physician

This intersection of academia and interprofessionalism is a topic she teaches often when rounding on the academic hospitalist teams.

She is also passionate about mentoring and teaching trainees about professionalism, leadership and the business side of Medicine.

VTE, complex discharge planning, clinician administration, Just Culture, avoidable days, denials management, professionalism, faculty development, microaggressions. UMMSafe escalations, Humanism in Medicine, Leadership.

Book/ Book Chapters

Offurum AI, Gulati M. Brucellosis. In: Ebell MH, Ferenchick G, Smith M, Barry H, Slawson D, Shaughnessy A, Forsch R, Li S, Wilkes M, Usatine R, eds. Essential Evidence. John Wiley & Sons: Hoboken, NJ, 2009

Offurum A. Demonstrating Value and Gaining Visibility: 13 Key Questions to Success. In: Habicht R and Gulati M Eds Hospital Medicine Perspectives Practices and Professional Development. Springer.com 2016

Offurum A. Managing from the Middle. In: Habicht R and Gulati M Eds Hospital Medicine Perspectives Practices and Professional Development. Springer.com 2016

Offurum A, Silva K, Gulati M. Women in Medicine: Habicht R and Gulati M Eds Hospital Medicine Perspectives Practices and Professional Development. Springer.com 2016

Nagarajan M, Offurum A, Gulati M, Onukwugha E. Discharges Against Medical Advice: Prevalence, Predicators and Populations. In: Alfandre, David (Ed.) Against‐Medical‐Advice Discharges from the Hospital: Optimizing Prevention and Management to Promote High Quality, Patient-Centered Care. Springer.com 2018

Honors and Awards

• 2015 Society of Hospital Medicine, Maryland Chapter ‘Hospitalist of the Year’. Awarded for distinguished academic, clinical and service performance as a hospitalist in Maryland.
• 2017 American College of Physicians: Maryland Chapter. Outstanding Hospitalist Award. Awarded for distinguished academic, clinical and service performance as a hospitalist in Maryland and surrounding areas: Washington DC, West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania.
• 2021 AOA Honor Society Maryland Chapter: Faculty Inductee
• 2021 Fellow: Physician Leadership Fellows Program 2021-2022 cohort: Nominated and selected by UMMC Executive Leadership
• 2023 Student National Medical Association (SNMA) Faculty Honoree