Introducing our new IM APC Directors
As the clinical side of the Department of Internal Medicine has grown dramatically over the last few years, we have had a large increase in the number of advanced practice clinicians (APC) who have joined our team. To better strategically manage this group of providers, we have created two new positions within our clinical administration:
- Director of Advanced Practice Clinicians, Inpatient
- Director of Advanced Practice Clinicians, Outpatient
These directors will be responsible for supporting the overall direction, leadership and comprehensive oversight of APCs on the inpatient and outpatient services respectively. The directors will work collaboratively with a large network of physician leaders, directors and administrators to ensure high quality patient care, and to promote personalized health care in an accessible, patient-friendly, research-focused environment. They will work directly with frontline lead APCs and division leaders to facilitate recruitment and retention of high caliber APCs.
Please welcome our new APC Directors:
| David Kendrick, PA Director of Advanced Practice Clinicians, Inpatient |
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Mr. Kendrick received his Master of Physician Assistant Studies degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 2008. His first appointment was with Scott and White Hospital where he served as Lead Nocturnist PA from 2010 through 2015. He has been at the University of Utah serving as the Hospitalist Lead APC since July 2015. He is a member of the American College of Physicians and certified by the NCCPA. |
| Andrea M. Schindler, APRN Director of Advanced Practice Clinicians, Outpatient |
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Schindler received her MSN from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She received training in medicine and nursing from Massachusetts General Hospital then worked for 11 years in the Utah Blood and Marrow Transplant Program beginning in 1995. Later she relocated temporarily to the state of Rhode Island where she worked in a hospital-based Hematology/Oncology practice affiliated with the Brown Medical School for 4 years. She returned to the University of Utah/Huntsman Cancer Hospital Blood and Marrow Program in 2010 and initially took on a dual role both in the Hematologic Malignancies Clinic and BMT Clinic before making the full transition to the Hematologic Malignancies Clinic in 2012. |
David Kendrick, PA-C, MPAS, is a Physician Assistant at the University of Utah Hospital. As a Hospitalist Physician Assistant, his clinical interests include caring for a variety of hospitalized adult patients with complex illnesses.
Andrea Andrea Schindler, MS, APRN, GNP-BC, is a Nurse Practitioner in the Division of Hematology and Hematologic Malignancies, Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah. Her clinical practice resides at the Hematologic Malignancies Clinic 2B at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. As a Hematologic Malignancies Nurse Practitioner, her clinical interests include long term complications of blood and marrow transplantation, chronic graft versus host disease, leukemia, lymphoma, effects of cancer diagnoses on sexual functioning, and quality of life issues.