Broom Named Vice President of Medical Affairs at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital
06/22/2018
Matt Broom, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics, has been named vice president of medical affairs (VPMA) at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital. This will take effect on July 1.
John Peter, M.D., the current VPMA and a professor of pediatrics at SLU, will return to his role as a SLUCare attending physician in the Emergency Department.
Broom, a SLUCare pediatrician, currently serves as the medical director of the Danis Pediatric Center and Danis Pediatrics Midtown. Broom will continue to work with Cardinal Glennon’s Complex Medical Care Program, but will step aside from his role at Danis and seeing patients in his SLUCare general pediatrics practice.
“Danis Pediatric Center will continue to hold a dear place in my heart, as I have always believed in our clinical and educational mission,” Broom wrote in a letter to patients. “Our practice has seen considerable growth and new program development over the last several years and I know that it will continue to prosper and become the signature Primary Care Medical Home for patients across our community.”
Broom is a medical graduate of Saint Louis University School of Medicine. He completed residency and chief residency training in pediatrics at Saint Louis University and SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital.
Broom also spent four years as a pediatrician in the U.S. Navy. He is board-certified in General Pediatrics and a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Academic Pediatrics Association (immediate-past Region 6 Co-Chair, 2014-17).
Margaret Rozier Chen, M.D. a new physician in Danis Pediatric Center, will begin to see Broom’s patients. She currently serves as a Saint Louis University pediatric chief resident at Cardinal Glennon. Chen is a graduate of SLU School of Medicine.
Sallee Named to Lead Danis Pediatric Center
Heidi Sallee, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics and a SLUCare pediatrician, will be the new medical director of Danis Pediatric Center.
She has served for the past 11 years as the pediatric residency program director and the associate chair for education for the Department of Pediatrics at Saint Louis University School of Medicine.
Sallee was selected by the Academic Pediatric Association to be a part of the inaugural class of the Quality Safety Improvement Scholars program.
Prior to coming to SLU in 2003, Sallee was the chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Southern Illinois Healthcare Foundation.
Sallee is looking forward to leading the primary care clinic named for her grandfather, Dr. Peter G. Danis, and continuing his legacy of providing excellent care for underserved children and exceptional pediatric education to students and residents.
SLUCare Physician Group is the academic medical practice of Saint Louis University, with more than 500 health care providers and 1,200 staff members in hospitals and medical offices throughout the St. Louis region. SLUCare physicians are among the most highly trained in their fields - more than 50 specialties in all - and are national and international experts, renowned for research and innovations in medicine.