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Three members of the hospital medicine community – Thiruvoipati Nanda Kumar, MD; Anthony Aghenta, MD, MS, FACP; and Angela Aboutalib, MD – recently were honored for their work by the International Association of HealthCare Professionals, earning spots in its publication, The Leading Physicians of the World.

Hospitalist and internist Dr. Nanda Kumar serves patients at Vibra Hospital in Redding, Calif., where he is also a clinical associate professor at the University of California at Davis. He is a member of both the Society of Hospital Medicine and the American Diabetes Association.

Dr. Aghenta is a 17-year veteran internist who currently serves as medical director for Coronado Healthcare Center in Phoenix. There, he also is affiliated with St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center. A member of SHM, Dr. Aghenta also has the title of Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Dr. Aboutalib, whose experience as an internist includes expertise in hospital medicine, serves as hospitalist and medical director of clinical operations at U.S. Acute Care Solutions, Canton, Ohio. Previously, this member of the American College of Physicians served South Physicians as a hospitalist at Mercy Hospital in Chicago.
 

Andrew Dunn, MD, MPH, FACP, SFHM, recently was named chair-elect of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the national organization of internists. He assumed the role at the start of the ACP’s annual scientific meeting held in San Diego, March 30–April 1.

Susan Herson, MD, has been named the new chief of staff at the Bath, N.Y., Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Herson comes to Bath from the Sioux Falls (S.D.) VA, where she was a hospitalist, a hospitalist-clinician educator, and medical director of clinical documentation improvement, while also serving as clinical assistant professor for New York Medical College and medical director at Norwalk (Conn.) Hospital.

Dr. Herson served in the U.S. Navy, doing her training at Walter Reed Medical Center, Bethesda, Md. She was a general medical officer while stationed at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, N.C.
 

Chad Whelan, MD, has been elevated to president of the Loyola (Ill.) University Medical Center, moving up from his chair as senior vice president and chief medical officer. This longtime hospitalist also serves as a professor of medicine in the Loyola Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

Kevin Tulipana, DO, recently was promoted to medical director of hospital medicine at Cancer Treatment Centers of America’s Southwest Regional Medical Center in Tulsa, Okla. Previously, Dr. Tulipana was a hospitalist in the special care unit at CTCA Tulsa.

Mustafa Sardini, MD, has been named Envision Physician Services’ 2017 Hospital Medicine Physician of the Year. Dr. Sardini is the site medical director as Baylor Scott & White Medical Center, Sunnyvale, Texas. EPS presents the award to a hospitalist who peers deem as a leader in the industry.
 

Business moves

Physicians’ Alliance, (PAL) recently announced plans to partner with Penn State Health. As the largest independent physician group in Lancaster County, Pa., they will bring its more than 120 physicians, hospitalists, and dieticians to central Pennsylvania giant Penn State.

The alliance will allow patients of PAL physicians access to advanced care at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State Children’s Hospital in Hershey.
 

Envision Healthcare, Greenwood Village, Colo. has created the Envision Physical Services (EPS) as a result of a merger with AmSurg ambulatory surgical center in December 2016. EPS combines EmCare and Sheridan Healthcare’s physician services divisions.

EPS specializes in hospital medicine, anesthesia, emergency medicine, radiology, and surgical services.

Three members of the hospital medicine community – Thiruvoipati Nanda Kumar, MD; Anthony Aghenta, MD, MS, FACP; and Angela Aboutalib, MD – recently were honored for their work by the International Association of HealthCare Professionals, earning spots in its publication, The Leading Physicians of the World.

Hospitalist and internist Dr. Nanda Kumar serves patients at Vibra Hospital in Redding, Calif., where he is also a clinical associate professor at the University of California at Davis. He is a member of both the Society of Hospital Medicine and the American Diabetes Association.

Dr. Aghenta is a 17-year veteran internist who currently serves as medical director for Coronado Healthcare Center in Phoenix. There, he also is affiliated with St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center. A member of SHM, Dr. Aghenta also has the title of Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Dr. Aboutalib, whose experience as an internist includes expertise in hospital medicine, serves as hospitalist and medical director of clinical operations at U.S. Acute Care Solutions, Canton, Ohio. Previously, this member of the American College of Physicians served South Physicians as a hospitalist at Mercy Hospital in Chicago.
 

Andrew Dunn, MD, MPH, FACP, SFHM, recently was named chair-elect of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the national organization of internists. He assumed the role at the start of the ACP’s annual scientific meeting held in San Diego, March 30–April 1.

Susan Herson, MD, has been named the new chief of staff at the Bath, N.Y., Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Herson comes to Bath from the Sioux Falls (S.D.) VA, where she was a hospitalist, a hospitalist-clinician educator, and medical director of clinical documentation improvement, while also serving as clinical assistant professor for New York Medical College and medical director at Norwalk (Conn.) Hospital.

Dr. Herson served in the U.S. Navy, doing her training at Walter Reed Medical Center, Bethesda, Md. She was a general medical officer while stationed at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, N.C.
 

Chad Whelan, MD, has been elevated to president of the Loyola (Ill.) University Medical Center, moving up from his chair as senior vice president and chief medical officer. This longtime hospitalist also serves as a professor of medicine in the Loyola Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

Kevin Tulipana, DO, recently was promoted to medical director of hospital medicine at Cancer Treatment Centers of America’s Southwest Regional Medical Center in Tulsa, Okla. Previously, Dr. Tulipana was a hospitalist in the special care unit at CTCA Tulsa.

Mustafa Sardini, MD, has been named Envision Physician Services’ 2017 Hospital Medicine Physician of the Year. Dr. Sardini is the site medical director as Baylor Scott & White Medical Center, Sunnyvale, Texas. EPS presents the award to a hospitalist who peers deem as a leader in the industry.
 

Business moves

Physicians’ Alliance, (PAL) recently announced plans to partner with Penn State Health. As the largest independent physician group in Lancaster County, Pa., they will bring its more than 120 physicians, hospitalists, and dieticians to central Pennsylvania giant Penn State.

The alliance will allow patients of PAL physicians access to advanced care at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State Children’s Hospital in Hershey.
 

Envision Healthcare, Greenwood Village, Colo. has created the Envision Physical Services (EPS) as a result of a merger with AmSurg ambulatory surgical center in December 2016. EPS combines EmCare and Sheridan Healthcare’s physician services divisions.

EPS specializes in hospital medicine, anesthesia, emergency medicine, radiology, and surgical services.

Three members of the hospital medicine community – Thiruvoipati Nanda Kumar, MD; Anthony Aghenta, MD, MS, FACP; and Angela Aboutalib, MD – recently were honored for their work by the International Association of HealthCare Professionals, earning spots in its publication, The Leading Physicians of the World.

Hospitalist and internist Dr. Nanda Kumar serves patients at Vibra Hospital in Redding, Calif., where he is also a clinical associate professor at the University of California at Davis. He is a member of both the Society of Hospital Medicine and the American Diabetes Association.

Dr. Aghenta is a 17-year veteran internist who currently serves as medical director for Coronado Healthcare Center in Phoenix. There, he also is affiliated with St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center. A member of SHM, Dr. Aghenta also has the title of Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Dr. Aboutalib, whose experience as an internist includes expertise in hospital medicine, serves as hospitalist and medical director of clinical operations at U.S. Acute Care Solutions, Canton, Ohio. Previously, this member of the American College of Physicians served South Physicians as a hospitalist at Mercy Hospital in Chicago.
 

Andrew Dunn, MD, MPH, FACP, SFHM, recently was named chair-elect of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the national organization of internists. He assumed the role at the start of the ACP’s annual scientific meeting held in San Diego, March 30–April 1.

Susan Herson, MD, has been named the new chief of staff at the Bath, N.Y., Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Herson comes to Bath from the Sioux Falls (S.D.) VA, where she was a hospitalist, a hospitalist-clinician educator, and medical director of clinical documentation improvement, while also serving as clinical assistant professor for New York Medical College and medical director at Norwalk (Conn.) Hospital.

Dr. Herson served in the U.S. Navy, doing her training at Walter Reed Medical Center, Bethesda, Md. She was a general medical officer while stationed at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, N.C.
 

Chad Whelan, MD, has been elevated to president of the Loyola (Ill.) University Medical Center, moving up from his chair as senior vice president and chief medical officer. This longtime hospitalist also serves as a professor of medicine in the Loyola Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

Kevin Tulipana, DO, recently was promoted to medical director of hospital medicine at Cancer Treatment Centers of America’s Southwest Regional Medical Center in Tulsa, Okla. Previously, Dr. Tulipana was a hospitalist in the special care unit at CTCA Tulsa.

Mustafa Sardini, MD, has been named Envision Physician Services’ 2017 Hospital Medicine Physician of the Year. Dr. Sardini is the site medical director as Baylor Scott & White Medical Center, Sunnyvale, Texas. EPS presents the award to a hospitalist who peers deem as a leader in the industry.
 

Business moves

Physicians’ Alliance, (PAL) recently announced plans to partner with Penn State Health. As the largest independent physician group in Lancaster County, Pa., they will bring its more than 120 physicians, hospitalists, and dieticians to central Pennsylvania giant Penn State.

The alliance will allow patients of PAL physicians access to advanced care at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State Children’s Hospital in Hershey.
 

Envision Healthcare, Greenwood Village, Colo. has created the Envision Physical Services (EPS) as a result of a merger with AmSurg ambulatory surgical center in December 2016. EPS combines EmCare and Sheridan Healthcare’s physician services divisions.

EPS specializes in hospital medicine, anesthesia, emergency medicine, radiology, and surgical services.

The rising cost of care has been a major concern in the U.S. health care system. In 1990, about $714 million was spent on health care. In 2010, the cost had risen exponentially to about $2.6 trillion.¹ An estimated $750 billion dollars is attributed to health care waste.²

Health care waste includes spending on laboratory testing, diagnostic imaging, procedures or other treatments. Below is a list of the various sources that contribute to health care spending waste:²

1. Unnecessary Services ($210 billion)

2. Excessive Administrative Costs (190 billion)

3. Inefficient Service Delivery ($130 billion)

4. Overpricing ($105 billion)

5. Fraud ($75 billion)

6. Treatment for services that could have been prevented ($55 billion)

Reducing the cost of care

The predominant fee-for-service method of reimbursement does not encourage hospitals or providers to try to control areas of waste. One strategy that puts pressure on the providers of health care to control these areas of waste is the bundled payment system. Bundled payment systems deter unnecessary testing and procedures and encourage care coordination between care providers to promote efficiency.

As hospitalists, we play a key role in the bundled payment arena. Hospitalists are strategically placed to ensure that each episode of care is provided in the most cost-efficient way possible without sacrificing quality.

Training about the evidence supporting bundled payments can be incorporated into medical school and the residency curriculum. Hospitalists can serve as educators for trainees regarding the benefits of bundled payments. This will help drive sustainability by making sure new doctors entering the health field are already equipped with knowledge about bundled payments and their advantages.

Hospitalists can also help spur innovation by engaging with hospital leadership to develop new bundled systems. Payment incentives to organizations that participate will help to drive hospitalist engagement. Hospitalists can also advocate for the development of a risk adjustment system to ensure that each patient’s severity is reflected in the payment. This will allow for more buy-in by hospitals and providers.
 

Improving the quality of care

The Institute of Medicine published a report that made recommendations for improving the quality of the U.S. health care system by identifying six dimensions that need to be addressed:

1. Safety

2. Effectiveness

3. Patient-centeredness

4. Timeliness

5. Efficiency

6. Equity

The Value Based Purchasing program aims to address these dimensions. The fee-for-service system does not provide an incentive to provide quality care, similar to the way it does not drive cost-conscious care. By linking reimbursement to quality care, hospitals and providers have a significant incentive to ensure that their patients receive high quality care. The passage of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) is another step in the direction of rewarding providers for quality of care rendered, not just quantity.
 

Role of hospitalists

Again, hospitalists should serve as educators about the importance of value based purchasing on quality outcomes,\ and its potential for cost savings through rendering appropriate and effective care.

Hospitalists should advocate for expanding value based purchasing across all payers. This will encourage providers to treat all their patients the same, with the expectation of improving quality of care for all patients and not just a limited insurance pool.

Hospitalists can also advocate for the utilization of the same measure for determining quality across all payers. This will allow for more efficient administrative efforts by eliminating the time used to report different measures to different insurance companies.

Unfortunately, the digital era has not made the same advances in the field of medicine as it has in other areas of life. As hospitalists, our clinical perspective puts us in a position of leadership in the area of informatics. We are uniquely qualified to exploit the power of the hospital’s information technology service and push it to its full potential.

Dr. Arole is chief hospitalist, Griffin Faculty Physicians, at Griffin Hospital in Derby, Conn.

References

1. The Healthcare Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes – Workshop Series Summary. 2011 Feb 24. The Institute of Medicine.

2. Health Affairs Policy Brief; Reducing Waste in Health Care. http://www.healthaffairs.org/healthpolicybriefs/brief.

The rising cost of care has been a major concern in the U.S. health care system. In 1990, about $714 million was spent on health care. In 2010, the cost had risen exponentially to about $2.6 trillion.¹ An estimated $750 billion dollars is attributed to health care waste.²

Health care waste includes spending on laboratory testing, diagnostic imaging, procedures or other treatments. Below is a list of the various sources that contribute to health care spending waste:²

1. Unnecessary Services ($210 billion)

2. Excessive Administrative Costs (190 billion)

3. Inefficient Service Delivery ($130 billion)

4. Overpricing ($105 billion)

5. Fraud ($75 billion)

6. Treatment for services that could have been prevented ($55 billion)

Reducing the cost of care

The predominant fee-for-service method of reimbursement does not encourage hospitals or providers to try to control areas of waste. One strategy that puts pressure on the providers of health care to control these areas of waste is the bundled payment system. Bundled payment systems deter unnecessary testing and procedures and encourage care coordination between care providers to promote efficiency.

As hospitalists, we play a key role in the bundled payment arena. Hospitalists are strategically placed to ensure that each episode of care is provided in the most cost-efficient way possible without sacrificing quality.

Training about the evidence supporting bundled payments can be incorporated into medical school and the residency curriculum. Hospitalists can serve as educators for trainees regarding the benefits of bundled payments. This will help drive sustainability by making sure new doctors entering the health field are already equipped with knowledge about bundled payments and their advantages.

Hospitalists can also help spur innovation by engaging with hospital leadership to develop new bundled systems. Payment incentives to organizations that participate will help to drive hospitalist engagement. Hospitalists can also advocate for the development of a risk adjustment system to ensure that each patient’s severity is reflected in the payment. This will allow for more buy-in by hospitals and providers.
 

Improving the quality of care

The Institute of Medicine published a report that made recommendations for improving the quality of the U.S. health care system by identifying six dimensions that need to be addressed:

1. Safety

2. Effectiveness

3. Patient-centeredness

4. Timeliness

5. Efficiency

6. Equity

The Value Based Purchasing program aims to address these dimensions. The fee-for-service system does not provide an incentive to provide quality care, similar to the way it does not drive cost-conscious care. By linking reimbursement to quality care, hospitals and providers have a significant incentive to ensure that their patients receive high quality care. The passage of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) is another step in the direction of rewarding providers for quality of care rendered, not just quantity.
 

Role of hospitalists

Again, hospitalists should serve as educators about the importance of value based purchasing on quality outcomes,\ and its potential for cost savings through rendering appropriate and effective care.

Hospitalists should advocate for expanding value based purchasing across all payers. This will encourage providers to treat all their patients the same, with the expectation of improving quality of care for all patients and not just a limited insurance pool.

Hospitalists can also advocate for the utilization of the same measure for determining quality across all payers. This will allow for more efficient administrative efforts by eliminating the time used to report different measures to different insurance companies.

Unfortunately, the digital era has not made the same advances in the field of medicine as it has in other areas of life. As hospitalists, our clinical perspective puts us in a position of leadership in the area of informatics. We are uniquely qualified to exploit the power of the hospital’s information technology service and push it to its full potential.

Dr. Arole is chief hospitalist, Griffin Faculty Physicians, at Griffin Hospital in Derby, Conn.

References

1. The Healthcare Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes – Workshop Series Summary. 2011 Feb 24. The Institute of Medicine.

2. Health Affairs Policy Brief; Reducing Waste in Health Care. http://www.healthaffairs.org/healthpolicybriefs/brief.

The rising cost of care has been a major concern in the U.S. health care system. In 1990, about $714 million was spent on health care. In 2010, the cost had risen exponentially to about $2.6 trillion.¹ An estimated $750 billion dollars is attributed to health care waste.²

Health care waste includes spending on laboratory testing, diagnostic imaging, procedures or other treatments. Below is a list of the various sources that contribute to health care spending waste:²

1. Unnecessary Services ($210 billion)

2. Excessive Administrative Costs (190 billion)

3. Inefficient Service Delivery ($130 billion)

4. Overpricing ($105 billion)

5. Fraud ($75 billion)

6. Treatment for services that could have been prevented ($55 billion)

Reducing the cost of care

The predominant fee-for-service method of reimbursement does not encourage hospitals or providers to try to control areas of waste. One strategy that puts pressure on the providers of health care to control these areas of waste is the bundled payment system. Bundled payment systems deter unnecessary testing and procedures and encourage care coordination between care providers to promote efficiency.

As hospitalists, we play a key role in the bundled payment arena. Hospitalists are strategically placed to ensure that each episode of care is provided in the most cost-efficient way possible without sacrificing quality.

Training about the evidence supporting bundled payments can be incorporated into medical school and the residency curriculum. Hospitalists can serve as educators for trainees regarding the benefits of bundled payments. This will help drive sustainability by making sure new doctors entering the health field are already equipped with knowledge about bundled payments and their advantages.

Hospitalists can also help spur innovation by engaging with hospital leadership to develop new bundled systems. Payment incentives to organizations that participate will help to drive hospitalist engagement. Hospitalists can also advocate for the development of a risk adjustment system to ensure that each patient’s severity is reflected in the payment. This will allow for more buy-in by hospitals and providers.
 

Improving the quality of care

The Institute of Medicine published a report that made recommendations for improving the quality of the U.S. health care system by identifying six dimensions that need to be addressed:

1. Safety

2. Effectiveness

3. Patient-centeredness

4. Timeliness

5. Efficiency

6. Equity

The Value Based Purchasing program aims to address these dimensions. The fee-for-service system does not provide an incentive to provide quality care, similar to the way it does not drive cost-conscious care. By linking reimbursement to quality care, hospitals and providers have a significant incentive to ensure that their patients receive high quality care. The passage of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) is another step in the direction of rewarding providers for quality of care rendered, not just quantity.
 

Role of hospitalists

Again, hospitalists should serve as educators about the importance of value based purchasing on quality outcomes,\ and its potential for cost savings through rendering appropriate and effective care.

Hospitalists should advocate for expanding value based purchasing across all payers. This will encourage providers to treat all their patients the same, with the expectation of improving quality of care for all patients and not just a limited insurance pool.

Hospitalists can also advocate for the utilization of the same measure for determining quality across all payers. This will allow for more efficient administrative efforts by eliminating the time used to report different measures to different insurance companies.

Unfortunately, the digital era has not made the same advances in the field of medicine as it has in other areas of life. As hospitalists, our clinical perspective puts us in a position of leadership in the area of informatics. We are uniquely qualified to exploit the power of the hospital’s information technology service and push it to its full potential.

Dr. Arole is chief hospitalist, Griffin Faculty Physicians, at Griffin Hospital in Derby, Conn.

References

1. The Healthcare Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes – Workshop Series Summary. 2011 Feb 24. The Institute of Medicine.

2. Health Affairs Policy Brief; Reducing Waste in Health Care. http://www.healthaffairs.org/healthpolicybriefs/brief.

The Society of Hospital Medicine welcomes its newest members:

Kwie-Hoa Siem, MD, Alaska

Frank Abene, Alabama

Kayla Maldonado, Alabama

Kenny Murray, MD, Alabama

Shanthan Ramidi, MD, Alabama

Lauren Hancock, APRN, Arkansas

William Hawkins, MD, Arkansas

Matthew Law, Arkansas

Emily Smith, MD, Arkansas

Firas Abbas, MBchB, Arizona

Shahid Ahmad, MD, MBBS, Arizona

Praveen Bheemanathini, Arizona

Atoosa Hosseini, Arizona

William McGrade, DO, Arizona

Konstantin Mazursky, DO, Arizona

Ibrahim Taweel, MD, Arizona

Kevin Virk, MD, FACP, Arizona

Kevin Virk, MD, FACP, Arizona

Mohemmedd Khalid Abbas, Arizona

Hasan Chaudhry, MD, Arizona

Kelly Kelleher, FAAP, Arizona

Priyanka Sultania Dudani, MBBS, Arizona

Krishna Kasireddy, MD, Arizona

Melanie Meguro, Arizona

Puneet Tuli, MD, Arizona

Jonathan Byrdy, DO, Arizona

Sarah Corral, DO, Arizona

Edward Maharam, MD, Arizona

Arvind Satyanarayan, DO, Arizona

Mayank Aggarwal, MD, Arizona

Syed Jafri, Arizona

Bujji Ainapurapu, MD, Arizona

Aaron Fernandes, MD, Arizona

Sonal Gandhi, Arizona

Sudhir Tutiki, Arizona

Navaneeth Kumar, MD, Arizona

Brian T. Courtney, MD, California

Won Jin Jeon, California

Veena Panduranga, MD, California

Jennifer Tinloy, DO, California

Debra Buckland Coffey, MCUSN, MD, California

Kathleen Teves, MD, California

Paul Goebel, MD, ACMPE, California

Shainy Hegde, California

Summaiya Muhammad, California

Desmond Wah, California

Chonn Khristin Ng, California

Almira Yang, DO, California

Salimah Boghani, MD, California

Stella Abhyankar, California

Cherie Ginwalla, MD, California

Armond Esmaili, California

Sarah Schaeffer, MD, MPH, California

Sophia Virani, MD, California

Dipti Munshi, MD, California

Judy Nguyen, DO, California

Daniel Owyang, DO, California

Christian Chiavetta, DO, California

David Reinert, DO, California

Joseph Pawlowski, MD, California

Eleanor Yang, California

Adrian Campo, MD, California

Emerson De Jesus, MD, California

Zachary Edmonds, MD, California

Trit Garg, California

Alexandra G. Ianculescu, MD, PhD, California

Felix Karp, MD, California

Cara Lai, California

Kristen Lew, MD, California

John Mogannam, California

Ameer Moussa, California

Neil Parikh, MD, MBA, California

Priya Reddy, California

Adam Simons, California

Sanjay Vadgama, MD, California

Kristofer Wills, DO, California

Michael Yang, MD, MS, California

Victor Ekuta, California,

Donna Colobong, PA-C, Colorado

Janna B. Dreason, FNP-C, Colorado

Cheryl English, NP-C, Colorado

Melanie Gerrior, MD, Colorado

Marciann Harris, NP, Colorado

Marsha Henke, MD, Colorado

Brett Hesse, Colorado

Naomi J Hipp, MD, Colorado

Aurell Horing, Colorado

Rachel Koch, DO, Colorado

Ed Marino, PA-C, Colorado

Marcus Reinhardt, MD, Colorado

Carol Runge, Colorado

Harshal Shah, Colorado

Leo Soehnlen, DO, Colorado

Anna Villalobos, MD, Colorado

Kathryn Whitfield, PA-C, Colorado

Jonathan Bei-Shing Young, MD, Colorado

Leah Damiani, MD, Colorado

Kathy Lynch, MD, Colorado

Micah Friedman, Colorado

Rachael Hilton, MD, Colorado

Madeline Koerner, Colorado

Chi Zheng, MD, Colorado

Chin-Kun Baw, MD, Connecticut

Alexandra Hawkins, NP, Connecticut

Vasundhara Singh, MD, MBBS, Connecticut

Ryan Quarles, MD, Connecticut

Debra Hernandez, APRN, BC, Connecticut

Karine Karapetyan, MD, Delaware

Choosak Burr, ARNP, Florida

Nelsi Mora, Florida

Mary Quillinan, Florida

Thuntanat Rachanakul, Florida

Samual W. Sauer, MD, MPH, Florida

Jennifer Tibangin, Florida

Keith Williams, MD, Florida

Eric Penedo, MD, Florida

Margaret Webb, Florida

Mark Bender, Florida

Brett Waress, MD, MHA, Florida

Giselle Racho, Florida

Bryan Thiel, Florida

Juan Loor Tuarez, MD, Florida

Christine Stopyra, Florida

Betsy Screws, ARNP, Florida

Jaimie Weber, MD, Florida

Priti Amin, MHA, Georgia

Naga Doddapaneni, Georgia

Stephanie Fletcher, Georgia

Disha Spath, MD, Georgia

Rafaela Wesley, DO, Georgia

Nikky Keer, DO, Georgia

James Kim, Georgia

Todd Martin, Georgia

Eli Mlaver, Georgia

Andrew Ritter, Georgia

Ali Al-Zubaidi, MBchB, Georgia

Deann Bing, MD, Georgia

Tushar Shah, Georgia

Cameron Straughn, DO, Georgia

Nobuhiro Ariyoshi, MEd, Hawaii

Prerna Kumar, Iowa

Jonathan Sebolt, MD, Iowa

Amy Tesar, DO, Iowa

Houng Chea, NP, Idaho

Finnegan Greer, PA-C, Idaho

Thao Nelson, PA, Idaho

Malatesha Gangappa, Idaho

Gloria Alumona, ACNP, Illinois

Ram Sanjeev Alur, Illinois

James Antoon, MD, FAAP, PhD, Illinois

Stefania Bailuc, MD, Illinois

Richard Huh, Illinois

Bhakti Patel, MD, Illinois

Frances Uy, ACNP, Illinois

Fernando Velazquez Vazquez, MD, Illinois

Tiffany White, MD, Illinois

Bryan P. Tully, MD, Illinois

Swati Gobhil, MBBS, Illinois

Lianghe Gao, Illinois

Gopi Astik, MD, Illinois

Marina Kovacevic, MD, Illinois

Abbie Raymond, DO, Illinois

Timothy Yung, Illinois

Ahmed Zahid, MD, Illinois

Cristina Corsini, MEd, Illinois

Faisal Rashid, MD, FACP, Illinois

Mansoor Ahmad, MD, Illinois

Matthew A. Strauch, DO, Illinois

Purshotham Reddy Grinne, Illinois

Nadia Nasreen, MD, Illinois

Maham Ashraf, MD, Indiana

Jennifer Gross, Indiana

Debasmita Mohapatra, MBBS, Indiana

Eric Scheper, Indiana

Katherine Gray, APRNBC, FNP, Indiana

Venkata Kureti, Indiana

Omer Al-Buoshkor, MD, Indiana

David Johnson, FNP, MSN, Indiana

Jonathan Salisbury, MD, Indiana

Debra Shapert, MSN, RN, Iowa

Lisa Carter, ARNP, Iowa

Matthew Woodham, Iowa

Tomoharu Suzuki, MD, Pharm, Japan

Khaldoun Haj, Kansas

Will Rogers, ACMPE, MA, MBA, Kansas

Karen Shumate, Kansas

Lisa Unruh, MD, Kansas

Matthew George, Kansas

Katie Washburn, DO, Kansas

Edwin Avallone, DO, Kentucky

Matthew Morris, Kentucky

Samantha Cappetto, MD, Kentucky

Jaison John, Kentucky

Ammar Al Jajeh, Kentucky

Joseph Bolger, MD, PhD, Louisiana

Clairissa Mulloy, Louisiana

Harish Talla, MD, Louisiana

John Amadon, Louisiana

Karthik Krishnareddy, Louisiana

Cheryl DeGrandpre, PA-C, Maine

Katherine Liu, MD, Maine

Sarah Sedney, MD, Maine

Aksana Afanasenka, MD, Maryland

Syed Nazeer Mahmood, MBBS, Maryland

Joseph Apata, MD, Maryland

Russom Ghebrai, MD, Maryland

Musa Momoh, MD, Maryland

Antanina Voit, Maryland

Dejene Kassaye, MD, MSC, Maryland

Shams Quazi, MD, FACP, MS, Maryland

Dawn Roelofs, FNP, MSN, Maryland

Kirsten Austad, MD, Massachusetts

Yoel Carrasquillo Vega, MD, Massachusetts

Michele Gaudet, NP, Massachusetts

Karina Mejias, Massachusetts

Peter Rohloff, MD, PhD, Massachusetts

Jennifer Schaeffer, Massachusetts

James Shaw, MD, Massachusetts

Renee Wheeler, Massachusetts

Angela Freeman, PA, PA-C, Massachusetts

Supriya Parvatini, MD, Massachusetts

Karen Jiang, MD, Massachusetts

Roula E. Abou-Nader, MD, Massachusetts

Shreekant Vasudhev, MD, Massachusetts

Nivedita Adabala, MD, MBBS, Michigan

Robert Behrendt, RN, BSN, Michigan

Molly Belisle, Michigan

Christine Dugan, MD, Michigan

Baljinder Gill, Michigan

Kellie Herringa, PA-C, Michigan

Christine Klingert, Michigan

Kathy Mitchell, Michigan

Aimee Vos, Michigan

Alyssa Churchill, DO, Michigan

Mailvaganam Sridharan, MD, Michigan

Atul Kapoor, MD, MBBS, Michigan

Anitha Kompally, MD, MBBS, Michigan

Nicole Webb, PA-C, Michigan

Abdulqadir Ahmad, MD, Minnesota

John Patrick Eikens, Minnesota

Bobbi Jo Jensen, PA-C, Minnesota

Rachel Keuseman, Minnesota

Stephen Palmquist, Minnesota

Manit Singla, MD, Minnesota

Douglas Berg, Minnesota

Nathan Palmolea, Minnesota

Molly Tureson, PAC, Minnesota

Mehdi Dastrange, MD, MHA, Minnesota

Kent Svee, Minnesota

Ashley Viere, PA-C, Minnesota

Molly Yang, MD, Minnesota

Paige Sams, DO, Minnesota

Amit Reddy, MBBS, Mississippi

Jacqueline Brooke Banks, FNP-C, Mississippi

Lori Foxworth, CFNP, Mississippi

Nicki Lawson, FNP-C, Mississippi

Bikash Acharya, Missouri

Zafar Ahmad, PA-C, Missouri

Harleen Chela, MD, Missouri

Jeffrey Chung, MD, Missouri

Daniel Kornfeld, Missouri

Erika Leung, MD, MSc, Missouri

Lisa Moser, PA, Missouri

Mark Stiffler, Missouri

Tushar Tarun, MBBS, Missouri

Nicole McLaughlin, Missouri

Katy Lohmann, PA-C, Missouri

Jayasree Bodagala, MD, Missouri

Ravi Kiran Morumuru, ACMPE, Missouri

Matthew Brown, MD, FAAFP, Missouri

Ravikanth Tadi, Missouri

Bazgha Ahmad, DO, Missouri

Monica Hawkins, RN, Missouri

Karri Vesey, BSN, Montana

Madison Vertin, PA-C, Montana

Urmila Mukherjee, MD, Nebraska

Noah Wiedel, MD, Nebraska

Sidrah Sheikh, MD, MBBS, Nebraska

Mohammad Esmadi, MBBS, Nebraska

Jill Zabih, MD, Nebraska

Jody Frey-Burns, RN, Nevada

Adnan Akbar, MD, Nevada

Peter Gayed, MRCP, New Hampshire

Jonathan T. Huntington, MD, New Hampshire

Meghan Meehan, ACNP, New Hampshire

Saurabh Mehta, MD, New Jersey

Hanaa Benchekroun Belabbes, MD, MHA, New Jersey

Hwan Kim, MD, New Jersey

Mary Tobiasson, USA, New Jersey

Muhammad Khakwani, MD, New Jersey

Amita Maibam, MD, MPH, New Jersey

Kumar Rohit, MBBS, New Jersey

Crystal Benjamin, MD, New Jersey

Rafael Garabis, New Mexico

Sam MacBride, MD, New Mexico

Indra Peram, MD, New Mexico

Sarah Vertrees, DO, New Mexico

Aswani Kumar Alavala, MD, New Mexico

Christopher Anstine, New Mexico

Prathima Guruguri, MD, New Mexico

Diedre Hofinger, MD, FACP, New Mexico

Katharine Juarez, New Mexico

Amtul Mahavesh, MD, New Mexico

Francisco Marquez, New Mexico

Payal Sen, MD, New Mexico

Morgan Wong, DO, New Mexico

Kelly Berchou, New York

Ronald Cho, New York

Nishil Dalsania, New York

Carolyn Drake, MD, MPH, New York

Leanne Forman, New York

Valerie Gausman, New York

Laurie Jacobs, New York

Janice Jang, MD, New York

Sonia Kohli, MD, New York

Nancy Lee, PA, New York

Allen Lee, MD, New York

Matthew McCarthy, FACP, New York

Akram Mohammed, MD, New York

Jennifer Nead, New York

Kristal Persaud, PA, New York

Mariya Rozenblit, MD, New York

Christian Torres, MD, New York

Sasha De Jesus, MD, New York

Gabriella Polyak, New York

Nataliya Yuklyaeva, MD, New York

Riyaz Kamadoli, MD, New York

Ramanuj Chakravarty, New York

Adil Zaidi, MD, New York

Allison Walker, MD, New York

Himali Gandhi, New York

Alexey Yanilshtein, MD, New York

Ramsey Al-Khalil, New York

Latoya Codougan, MD, New York

Khan Najmi, MD, New York

Sara Stream, MD, New York

Bhuwan Poudyal, MD, New York

Khalil Anchouche, New York

Sarah Azarchi, New York

Susana Bejar, New York

Brian Chang, New York

Jonathan Chen, New York

Hailey Gupta, MD, New York

Medhavi Gupta, New York

Ali Khan, New York

Benjamin Kwok, MD, New York

Billy Lin, New York

Katherine Ni, New York

Jina Park, New York

Gabriel Perreault, New York

Luis Alberto Romero, New York

Payal Shah, New York

Punita Shroff, New York

Scott Statman, New York

Maria Sunseri, New York

Benjamin Verplanke, New York

Audrey Zhang, New York

Gaby Razzouk, MD, New York

Pranitha Mantrala, MD, New York

Marsha Antoine, New York

Kanica Yashi, New York

Navid Ahmed, New York

Tasha Richards, PA, New York

Connor Tryon, MD, New York

Naveen Yarlagadda, MD, New York

Alex Hogan, New York

Andrew Donohoe, CCM, MD, North Carolina

Brittany Forshay, MD, North Carolina

Kelly Hammerbeck, FNP, North Carolina

Jennifer Hausman, North Carolina

Babajide Obisesan, North Carolina

Kwadwo Ofori, MD, North Carolina

Eric Ofosu, MD, North Carolina

Kale Roth, North Carolina

Robert Soma, PA-C, North Carolina

Sommany Weber, North Carolina

Ronnie Jacobs, North Carolina

Muhammad Ghani, MD, MACP, MBBS, North Carolina

Madeline Treasure, North Carolina

Andrew McWilliams, MD, North Carolina

Karen Payne, ACNP, MPH, North Carolina

Rafal Poplawski, MD, North Carolina

James Seal, PA-C, North Carolina

Farheen Qureshi, DO, North Carolina

Basavatti Sowmya, MD, MBBS, North Carolina

Eshwar Lal, MD, North Carolina

Catherine Hathaway, MD, North Carolina

Sherif Naguib, FAAFP, North Carolina

Sara Skavroneck, North Carolina

Charles Ofosu, North Carolina

Alex Alburquerque, MD, Ohio

Isha Butler, DO, Ohio

Anne Carrol, MD, Ohio

Scott Childers, MD, Ohio

Philip Jonas, MD, Ohio

Ahmadreza Karimianpour, Ohio

Rahul Kumar, MD, Ohio

George Maidaa, MD, Ohio

Kevin McAninch, Ohio

Jill Mccourt, FNP, Ohio

Roxanne Oliver, Ohio

Farah Hussain, Ohio

Natasha Axton, PA-C, Ohio

Brooke Harris, ACNP, Ohio

Vidhya Murukesan, MD, Ohio

Sara Dong, Ohio

Christie Astor, FNP, Ohio

Sunita Mall, MD, Ohio

Sunita Mall, MD, Ohio

Fouzia Tariq, MD, Ohio

Kaveri Sivaruban, MD, Ohio

Eunice Quicho, Ohio

Smitha Achuthankutty, MD, Ohio

Harmanpreet Shinh, MD, Ohio

Maereg Tesfaye, Ohio

Kalyn Jolivette, MD, Ohio

Richelle Voth, PA-C, Oklahoma

Samuel J. Ratermann, MD, FAAFP, Oklahoma

Richelle Voth, PA-C, Oklahoma

Alden Forrester, MD, Oregon

Nicholas Brown, DO, Oregon

Ian Pennell-Walklin, MD, Oregon

Bruce Ramsey, Oregon

Kyle Brekke, DO, Oregon

Sarah Webber, MD, Oregon

Brian Beaudoin, MD, Pennsylvania

Glenn Bedell, MHSA, Pennsylvania

Cristina Green, AGACNP-DNP, Pennsylvania

Andrew Groff, Pennsylvania

Sulman Masood Hashmi, MBBS, Pennsylvania

Eric Kasprowicz, MD, MPH, Pennsylvania

Laura Leuenberger, Pennsylvania

James Liszewski, MD, Pennsylvania

Caitlyn Moss, Pennsylvania

Paul Seunghyun Nho, Pennsylvania

Rishan Patel, MD, Pennsylvania

Dilli R. Poudel, MBBS, Pennsylvania

Naveen Yellappa, MBBS, Pennsylvania

Usman Zulfiqar, Pennsylvania

Nina Jain, Pennsylvania

Bhumika Patel, DO, Pennsylvania

Jenna M. Diasio, PA-C, Pennsylvania

Malachi Courtney, MD, Pennsylvania

Sonia Arneja, MD, Pennsylvania

Ross Ellis, MD, Pennsylvania

Samreen Siddiqui, Pennsylvania

Jillian Zavodnick, Pennsylvania

Kinan Kassar, MD, Pennsylvania

Maritsa M. Scoulos-Hanson, Pennsylvania

Jennifer Taylor, PA-C, Pennsylvania

Steven Delaveris, DO, Pennsylvania

Danica Buzniak, DO, Rhode Island

Paul Browning, MD, South Carolina

Matt Coones, MD, South Carolina

Cedric Fisher, MD, South Carolina

Aloysius Jackson, MD, South Carolina

Katharine DuPont, MD, South Carolina

Michael Jenkins, MD, South Carolina

Jessica Hamilton, APRN, BC, FNP, South Carolina

Pamela Pyle, DO, South Carolina

Shakeel Ahmed, MBBS, MD, South Dakota

D. Bruce Eaton, MD, South Dakota

Drew Jorgensen, MD, South Dakota

Shelly Turbak, MSN, RN, South Dakota

Tamera Sturm, DO, South Dakota

Peggy Brooks, Tennessee

Joseph Garrido, MD, Tennessee

Lisa Grimes, FNP, Tennessee

Chennakesava Kummathi, MBBS, Tennessee

Victoria Okafor, Tennessee

Ashley Smith, Tennessee

Monisha Bhatia, Tennessee

Belinda Jenkins, APRN-BC, Tennessee

Kim Zahnke, MD, Tennessee

Robert Arias, Texas

Nicolas Batterton, MD, Texas

Scott DePaul, MD, Texas

Nancy Foster, Texas

Larry Hughes, Texas

Erin Koval, Texas

Femi Layiwola, MD, Texas

Krysta Lin, Texas

James J. Onorato, MD, PhD, Texas

Allison Stephenson, PA-C, Texas

Brandon Stormes, Texas

Rubin Simon, MD, Texas

Brian Anderson, DO, Texas

Hatim Chhatriwala, MD, Texas

Aziz Hammoud, Texas

Haru Yamamoto, MD, Texas

Lauren Schiegg, Texas

Victoria Grasso, DO, Texas

Victor Salcedo, MD, Texas

Rajiv Bhattarai, Texas

Iram Qureshi, DO, Texas

Lisa Hafemeister, FACHE, MHA, Texas

Helena Kurian, MD, Texas

Jessica Lin, Texas

Nathan Nowalk, MD, Texas

Keely Smith, MD, Texas

Jonathan Weiser, MD, Texas

Roland Prezas, DO, FAAFP, Texas

Allan Recto, AHIP, Texas

Regina Dimbo, Texas

Venkata Ghanta, Texas

Richmond Hunt, Texas

Vishal Patel, MD, Texas

Zain Sharif, MD, Texas

Rommel Del Rosario, MD, Texas

Khawer Khadimally, DO, Texas

Diogenes Valderrama, MD, Texas

Charles Ewoh, MD, Texas

Deepika Kilaru, Texas

Tilahun Belay, MD, Texas

Chandra S Reddy Navuluri, MD, Texas

Bradley Goad, DO, FACP, Virginia

Patrick Higdon, MD, Virginia

Gabriella Miller, MD, HMDC, Virginia

Miklos Szentirmai, MD, Virginia

Hyder Tamton, Virginia

Andra Mirescu, MD, Virginia

Olukayode Ojo, Virginia

Robert Szeles, MD, Virginia

Anya Cope, DO, Virginia

OsCiriah Press, MD, Virginia

Rikin Kadakia, MD, Virginia

Bryant Self, DO, Virginia

Sarah Sabo, ACNP, Virginia

Pedro A. Gonzales Alvarez, MD, Virginia

William Best, Virginia

Pushpanjali Basnyat, MD, Washington

Nikki Hartley-Jonason, Washington

Helen Johnsonwall, MD, Washington

Eric LaMotte, MD, Washington

Maher Muraywid, Washington

Evan Neal Paul, MD, Washington

Sarah Rogers, MD, Washington

Lindee Strizich, Washington

Maryam Tariq, MBBS, Washington

Meghaan Walsh, MD, Washington

Oleg Zbirun, MD, Washington

Meeta Sabnis, MD, Washington

James Kuo, MD, Washington

Liang Du, Washington

Syed Farhan Tabraiz Hashmi, MD, Washington

Jessica Jung, MD, Washington

Joshua Pelley, MD, Washington

Alex Yu, MD, Washington

Alfred Curnow, MD, Washington

Duhwan Kang, Washington

Gilbert Daniel, MD, Washington, D.C.

Eleanor Fitall, Washington, D.C.

Vinay Srinivasan, Washington, D.C.

Scott Wine, West Virginia

Trevor Miller, MBA, PA-C, West Virginia

Audrey Hiltunen, Wisconsin

Elina Litinskaya, Wisconsin

John M. Murphy, MD, Wisconsin

Tanya Pedretti, PA, Wisconsin

Adine Rodemeyer, MD, Wisconsin

Oghomwen Sule, MBBS, Wisconsin

Terrence Witt, MD, Wisconsin

Mayank Arora, Wisconsin

John D. MacDonald, MD, Wisconsin

Abigail Cook, Wisconsin

Mohamed Ibrahim, MD, Wisconsin

Aymen Khogali, MD, Wisconsin

Nicholas Haun, Wisconsin

Sandra Brown, Victoria, Australia

Alessandra Gessner, Alberta, Canada

Courtney Carlucci, British Columbia, Canada

Muhanad Y. Al Habash, Canada

Karen Tong, MD, Canada

Taku Yabuki, Japan

Liza van Loon, the Netherlands

Edward Gebuis, MD, the Netherlands

Abdisalan Afrah, MD, Qatar

Akhnuwkh Jones, Qatar

Mashuk Uddin, MBBS, MRCP, FRCP, Qatar

Ibrahim Yusuf Abubeker, MRCP, Qatar

Chih-Wei Tseng, Taiwan

Sawsan Abdel-Razig, MD, FACP, United Arab Emirates

The Society of Hospital Medicine welcomes its newest members:

Kwie-Hoa Siem, MD, Alaska

Frank Abene, Alabama

Kayla Maldonado, Alabama

Kenny Murray, MD, Alabama

Shanthan Ramidi, MD, Alabama

Lauren Hancock, APRN, Arkansas

William Hawkins, MD, Arkansas

Matthew Law, Arkansas

Emily Smith, MD, Arkansas

Firas Abbas, MBchB, Arizona

Shahid Ahmad, MD, MBBS, Arizona

Praveen Bheemanathini, Arizona

Atoosa Hosseini, Arizona

William McGrade, DO, Arizona

Konstantin Mazursky, DO, Arizona

Ibrahim Taweel, MD, Arizona

Kevin Virk, MD, FACP, Arizona

Kevin Virk, MD, FACP, Arizona

Mohemmedd Khalid Abbas, Arizona

Hasan Chaudhry, MD, Arizona

Kelly Kelleher, FAAP, Arizona

Priyanka Sultania Dudani, MBBS, Arizona

Krishna Kasireddy, MD, Arizona

Melanie Meguro, Arizona

Puneet Tuli, MD, Arizona

Jonathan Byrdy, DO, Arizona

Sarah Corral, DO, Arizona

Edward Maharam, MD, Arizona

Arvind Satyanarayan, DO, Arizona

Mayank Aggarwal, MD, Arizona

Syed Jafri, Arizona

Bujji Ainapurapu, MD, Arizona

Aaron Fernandes, MD, Arizona

Sonal Gandhi, Arizona

Sudhir Tutiki, Arizona

Navaneeth Kumar, MD, Arizona

Brian T. Courtney, MD, California

Won Jin Jeon, California

Veena Panduranga, MD, California

Jennifer Tinloy, DO, California

Debra Buckland Coffey, MCUSN, MD, California

Kathleen Teves, MD, California

Paul Goebel, MD, ACMPE, California

Shainy Hegde, California

Summaiya Muhammad, California

Desmond Wah, California

Chonn Khristin Ng, California

Almira Yang, DO, California

Salimah Boghani, MD, California

Stella Abhyankar, California

Cherie Ginwalla, MD, California

Armond Esmaili, California

Sarah Schaeffer, MD, MPH, California

Sophia Virani, MD, California

Dipti Munshi, MD, California

Judy Nguyen, DO, California

Daniel Owyang, DO, California

Christian Chiavetta, DO, California

David Reinert, DO, California

Joseph Pawlowski, MD, California

Eleanor Yang, California

Adrian Campo, MD, California

Emerson De Jesus, MD, California

Zachary Edmonds, MD, California

Trit Garg, California

Alexandra G. Ianculescu, MD, PhD, California

Felix Karp, MD, California

Cara Lai, California

Kristen Lew, MD, California

John Mogannam, California

Ameer Moussa, California

Neil Parikh, MD, MBA, California

Priya Reddy, California

Adam Simons, California

Sanjay Vadgama, MD, California

Kristofer Wills, DO, California

Michael Yang, MD, MS, California

Victor Ekuta, California,

Donna Colobong, PA-C, Colorado

Janna B. Dreason, FNP-C, Colorado

Cheryl English, NP-C, Colorado

Melanie Gerrior, MD, Colorado

Marciann Harris, NP, Colorado

Marsha Henke, MD, Colorado

Brett Hesse, Colorado

Naomi J Hipp, MD, Colorado

Aurell Horing, Colorado

Rachel Koch, DO, Colorado

Ed Marino, PA-C, Colorado

Marcus Reinhardt, MD, Colorado

Carol Runge, Colorado

Harshal Shah, Colorado

Leo Soehnlen, DO, Colorado

Anna Villalobos, MD, Colorado

Kathryn Whitfield, PA-C, Colorado

Jonathan Bei-Shing Young, MD, Colorado

Leah Damiani, MD, Colorado

Kathy Lynch, MD, Colorado

Micah Friedman, Colorado

Rachael Hilton, MD, Colorado

Madeline Koerner, Colorado

Chi Zheng, MD, Colorado

Chin-Kun Baw, MD, Connecticut

Alexandra Hawkins, NP, Connecticut

Vasundhara Singh, MD, MBBS, Connecticut

Ryan Quarles, MD, Connecticut

Debra Hernandez, APRN, BC, Connecticut

Karine Karapetyan, MD, Delaware

Choosak Burr, ARNP, Florida

Nelsi Mora, Florida

Mary Quillinan, Florida

Thuntanat Rachanakul, Florida

Samual W. Sauer, MD, MPH, Florida

Jennifer Tibangin, Florida

Keith Williams, MD, Florida

Eric Penedo, MD, Florida

Margaret Webb, Florida

Mark Bender, Florida

Brett Waress, MD, MHA, Florida

Giselle Racho, Florida

Bryan Thiel, Florida

Juan Loor Tuarez, MD, Florida

Christine Stopyra, Florida

Betsy Screws, ARNP, Florida

Jaimie Weber, MD, Florida

Priti Amin, MHA, Georgia

Naga Doddapaneni, Georgia

Stephanie Fletcher, Georgia

Disha Spath, MD, Georgia

Rafaela Wesley, DO, Georgia

Nikky Keer, DO, Georgia

James Kim, Georgia

Todd Martin, Georgia

Eli Mlaver, Georgia

Andrew Ritter, Georgia

Ali Al-Zubaidi, MBchB, Georgia

Deann Bing, MD, Georgia

Tushar Shah, Georgia

Cameron Straughn, DO, Georgia

Nobuhiro Ariyoshi, MEd, Hawaii

Prerna Kumar, Iowa

Jonathan Sebolt, MD, Iowa

Amy Tesar, DO, Iowa

Houng Chea, NP, Idaho

Finnegan Greer, PA-C, Idaho

Thao Nelson, PA, Idaho

Malatesha Gangappa, Idaho

Gloria Alumona, ACNP, Illinois

Ram Sanjeev Alur, Illinois

James Antoon, MD, FAAP, PhD, Illinois

Stefania Bailuc, MD, Illinois

Richard Huh, Illinois

Bhakti Patel, MD, Illinois

Frances Uy, ACNP, Illinois

Fernando Velazquez Vazquez, MD, Illinois

Tiffany White, MD, Illinois

Bryan P. Tully, MD, Illinois

Swati Gobhil, MBBS, Illinois

Lianghe Gao, Illinois

Gopi Astik, MD, Illinois

Marina Kovacevic, MD, Illinois

Abbie Raymond, DO, Illinois

Timothy Yung, Illinois

Ahmed Zahid, MD, Illinois

Cristina Corsini, MEd, Illinois

Faisal Rashid, MD, FACP, Illinois

Mansoor Ahmad, MD, Illinois

Matthew A. Strauch, DO, Illinois

Purshotham Reddy Grinne, Illinois

Nadia Nasreen, MD, Illinois

Maham Ashraf, MD, Indiana

Jennifer Gross, Indiana

Debasmita Mohapatra, MBBS, Indiana

Eric Scheper, Indiana

Katherine Gray, APRNBC, FNP, Indiana

Venkata Kureti, Indiana

Omer Al-Buoshkor, MD, Indiana

David Johnson, FNP, MSN, Indiana

Jonathan Salisbury, MD, Indiana

Debra Shapert, MSN, RN, Iowa

Lisa Carter, ARNP, Iowa

Matthew Woodham, Iowa

Tomoharu Suzuki, MD, Pharm, Japan

Khaldoun Haj, Kansas

Will Rogers, ACMPE, MA, MBA, Kansas

Karen Shumate, Kansas

Lisa Unruh, MD, Kansas

Matthew George, Kansas

Katie Washburn, DO, Kansas

Edwin Avallone, DO, Kentucky

Matthew Morris, Kentucky

Samantha Cappetto, MD, Kentucky

Jaison John, Kentucky

Ammar Al Jajeh, Kentucky

Joseph Bolger, MD, PhD, Louisiana

Clairissa Mulloy, Louisiana

Harish Talla, MD, Louisiana

John Amadon, Louisiana

Karthik Krishnareddy, Louisiana

Cheryl DeGrandpre, PA-C, Maine

Katherine Liu, MD, Maine

Sarah Sedney, MD, Maine

Aksana Afanasenka, MD, Maryland

Syed Nazeer Mahmood, MBBS, Maryland

Joseph Apata, MD, Maryland

Russom Ghebrai, MD, Maryland

Musa Momoh, MD, Maryland

Antanina Voit, Maryland

Dejene Kassaye, MD, MSC, Maryland

Shams Quazi, MD, FACP, MS, Maryland

Dawn Roelofs, FNP, MSN, Maryland

Kirsten Austad, MD, Massachusetts

Yoel Carrasquillo Vega, MD, Massachusetts

Michele Gaudet, NP, Massachusetts

Karina Mejias, Massachusetts

Peter Rohloff, MD, PhD, Massachusetts

Jennifer Schaeffer, Massachusetts

James Shaw, MD, Massachusetts

Renee Wheeler, Massachusetts

Angela Freeman, PA, PA-C, Massachusetts

Supriya Parvatini, MD, Massachusetts

Karen Jiang, MD, Massachusetts

Roula E. Abou-Nader, MD, Massachusetts

Shreekant Vasudhev, MD, Massachusetts

Nivedita Adabala, MD, MBBS, Michigan

Robert Behrendt, RN, BSN, Michigan

Molly Belisle, Michigan

Christine Dugan, MD, Michigan

Baljinder Gill, Michigan

Kellie Herringa, PA-C, Michigan

Christine Klingert, Michigan

Kathy Mitchell, Michigan

Aimee Vos, Michigan

Alyssa Churchill, DO, Michigan

Mailvaganam Sridharan, MD, Michigan

Atul Kapoor, MD, MBBS, Michigan

Anitha Kompally, MD, MBBS, Michigan

Nicole Webb, PA-C, Michigan

Abdulqadir Ahmad, MD, Minnesota

John Patrick Eikens, Minnesota

Bobbi Jo Jensen, PA-C, Minnesota

Rachel Keuseman, Minnesota

Stephen Palmquist, Minnesota

Manit Singla, MD, Minnesota

Douglas Berg, Minnesota

Nathan Palmolea, Minnesota

Molly Tureson, PAC, Minnesota

Mehdi Dastrange, MD, MHA, Minnesota

Kent Svee, Minnesota

Ashley Viere, PA-C, Minnesota

Molly Yang, MD, Minnesota

Paige Sams, DO, Minnesota

Amit Reddy, MBBS, Mississippi

Jacqueline Brooke Banks, FNP-C, Mississippi

Lori Foxworth, CFNP, Mississippi

Nicki Lawson, FNP-C, Mississippi

Bikash Acharya, Missouri

Zafar Ahmad, PA-C, Missouri

Harleen Chela, MD, Missouri

Jeffrey Chung, MD, Missouri

Daniel Kornfeld, Missouri

Erika Leung, MD, MSc, Missouri

Lisa Moser, PA, Missouri

Mark Stiffler, Missouri

Tushar Tarun, MBBS, Missouri

Nicole McLaughlin, Missouri

Katy Lohmann, PA-C, Missouri

Jayasree Bodagala, MD, Missouri

Ravi Kiran Morumuru, ACMPE, Missouri

Matthew Brown, MD, FAAFP, Missouri

Ravikanth Tadi, Missouri

Bazgha Ahmad, DO, Missouri

Monica Hawkins, RN, Missouri

Karri Vesey, BSN, Montana

Madison Vertin, PA-C, Montana

Urmila Mukherjee, MD, Nebraska

Noah Wiedel, MD, Nebraska

Sidrah Sheikh, MD, MBBS, Nebraska

Mohammad Esmadi, MBBS, Nebraska

Jill Zabih, MD, Nebraska

Jody Frey-Burns, RN, Nevada

Adnan Akbar, MD, Nevada

Peter Gayed, MRCP, New Hampshire

Jonathan T. Huntington, MD, New Hampshire

Meghan Meehan, ACNP, New Hampshire

Saurabh Mehta, MD, New Jersey

Hanaa Benchekroun Belabbes, MD, MHA, New Jersey

Hwan Kim, MD, New Jersey

Mary Tobiasson, USA, New Jersey

Muhammad Khakwani, MD, New Jersey

Amita Maibam, MD, MPH, New Jersey

Kumar Rohit, MBBS, New Jersey

Crystal Benjamin, MD, New Jersey

Rafael Garabis, New Mexico

Sam MacBride, MD, New Mexico

Indra Peram, MD, New Mexico

Sarah Vertrees, DO, New Mexico

Aswani Kumar Alavala, MD, New Mexico

Christopher Anstine, New Mexico

Prathima Guruguri, MD, New Mexico

Diedre Hofinger, MD, FACP, New Mexico

Katharine Juarez, New Mexico

Amtul Mahavesh, MD, New Mexico

Francisco Marquez, New Mexico

Payal Sen, MD, New Mexico

Morgan Wong, DO, New Mexico

Kelly Berchou, New York

Ronald Cho, New York

Nishil Dalsania, New York

Carolyn Drake, MD, MPH, New York

Leanne Forman, New York

Valerie Gausman, New York

Laurie Jacobs, New York

Janice Jang, MD, New York

Sonia Kohli, MD, New York

Nancy Lee, PA, New York

Allen Lee, MD, New York

Matthew McCarthy, FACP, New York

Akram Mohammed, MD, New York

Jennifer Nead, New York

Kristal Persaud, PA, New York

Mariya Rozenblit, MD, New York

Christian Torres, MD, New York

Sasha De Jesus, MD, New York

Gabriella Polyak, New York

Nataliya Yuklyaeva, MD, New York

Riyaz Kamadoli, MD, New York

Ramanuj Chakravarty, New York

Adil Zaidi, MD, New York

Allison Walker, MD, New York

Himali Gandhi, New York

Alexey Yanilshtein, MD, New York

Ramsey Al-Khalil, New York

Latoya Codougan, MD, New York

Khan Najmi, MD, New York

Sara Stream, MD, New York

Bhuwan Poudyal, MD, New York

Khalil Anchouche, New York

Sarah Azarchi, New York

Susana Bejar, New York

Brian Chang, New York

Jonathan Chen, New York

Hailey Gupta, MD, New York

Medhavi Gupta, New York

Ali Khan, New York

Benjamin Kwok, MD, New York

Billy Lin, New York

Katherine Ni, New York

Jina Park, New York

Gabriel Perreault, New York

Luis Alberto Romero, New York

Payal Shah, New York

Punita Shroff, New York

Scott Statman, New York

Maria Sunseri, New York

Benjamin Verplanke, New York

Audrey Zhang, New York

Gaby Razzouk, MD, New York

Pranitha Mantrala, MD, New York

Marsha Antoine, New York

Kanica Yashi, New York

Navid Ahmed, New York

Tasha Richards, PA, New York

Connor Tryon, MD, New York

Naveen Yarlagadda, MD, New York

Alex Hogan, New York

Andrew Donohoe, CCM, MD, North Carolina

Brittany Forshay, MD, North Carolina

Kelly Hammerbeck, FNP, North Carolina

Jennifer Hausman, North Carolina

Babajide Obisesan, North Carolina

Kwadwo Ofori, MD, North Carolina

Eric Ofosu, MD, North Carolina

Kale Roth, North Carolina

Robert Soma, PA-C, North Carolina

Sommany Weber, North Carolina

Ronnie Jacobs, North Carolina

Muhammad Ghani, MD, MACP, MBBS, North Carolina

Madeline Treasure, North Carolina

Andrew McWilliams, MD, North Carolina

Karen Payne, ACNP, MPH, North Carolina

Rafal Poplawski, MD, North Carolina

James Seal, PA-C, North Carolina

Farheen Qureshi, DO, North Carolina

Basavatti Sowmya, MD, MBBS, North Carolina

Eshwar Lal, MD, North Carolina

Catherine Hathaway, MD, North Carolina

Sherif Naguib, FAAFP, North Carolina

Sara Skavroneck, North Carolina

Charles Ofosu, North Carolina

Alex Alburquerque, MD, Ohio

Isha Butler, DO, Ohio

Anne Carrol, MD, Ohio

Scott Childers, MD, Ohio

Philip Jonas, MD, Ohio

Ahmadreza Karimianpour, Ohio

Rahul Kumar, MD, Ohio

George Maidaa, MD, Ohio

Kevin McAninch, Ohio

Jill Mccourt, FNP, Ohio

Roxanne Oliver, Ohio

Farah Hussain, Ohio

Natasha Axton, PA-C, Ohio

Brooke Harris, ACNP, Ohio

Vidhya Murukesan, MD, Ohio

Sara Dong, Ohio

Christie Astor, FNP, Ohio

Sunita Mall, MD, Ohio

Sunita Mall, MD, Ohio

Fouzia Tariq, MD, Ohio

Kaveri Sivaruban, MD, Ohio

Eunice Quicho, Ohio

Smitha Achuthankutty, MD, Ohio

Harmanpreet Shinh, MD, Ohio

Maereg Tesfaye, Ohio

Kalyn Jolivette, MD, Ohio

Richelle Voth, PA-C, Oklahoma

Samuel J. Ratermann, MD, FAAFP, Oklahoma

Richelle Voth, PA-C, Oklahoma

Alden Forrester, MD, Oregon

Nicholas Brown, DO, Oregon

Ian Pennell-Walklin, MD, Oregon

Bruce Ramsey, Oregon

Kyle Brekke, DO, Oregon

Sarah Webber, MD, Oregon

Brian Beaudoin, MD, Pennsylvania

Glenn Bedell, MHSA, Pennsylvania

Cristina Green, AGACNP-DNP, Pennsylvania

Andrew Groff, Pennsylvania

Sulman Masood Hashmi, MBBS, Pennsylvania

Eric Kasprowicz, MD, MPH, Pennsylvania

Laura Leuenberger, Pennsylvania

James Liszewski, MD, Pennsylvania

Caitlyn Moss, Pennsylvania

Paul Seunghyun Nho, Pennsylvania

Rishan Patel, MD, Pennsylvania

Dilli R. Poudel, MBBS, Pennsylvania

Naveen Yellappa, MBBS, Pennsylvania

Usman Zulfiqar, Pennsylvania

Nina Jain, Pennsylvania

Bhumika Patel, DO, Pennsylvania

Jenna M. Diasio, PA-C, Pennsylvania

Malachi Courtney, MD, Pennsylvania

Sonia Arneja, MD, Pennsylvania

Ross Ellis, MD, Pennsylvania

Samreen Siddiqui, Pennsylvania

Jillian Zavodnick, Pennsylvania

Kinan Kassar, MD, Pennsylvania

Maritsa M. Scoulos-Hanson, Pennsylvania

Jennifer Taylor, PA-C, Pennsylvania

Steven Delaveris, DO, Pennsylvania

Danica Buzniak, DO, Rhode Island

Paul Browning, MD, South Carolina

Matt Coones, MD, South Carolina

Cedric Fisher, MD, South Carolina

Aloysius Jackson, MD, South Carolina

Katharine DuPont, MD, South Carolina

Michael Jenkins, MD, South Carolina

Jessica Hamilton, APRN, BC, FNP, South Carolina

Pamela Pyle, DO, South Carolina

Shakeel Ahmed, MBBS, MD, South Dakota

D. Bruce Eaton, MD, South Dakota

Drew Jorgensen, MD, South Dakota

Shelly Turbak, MSN, RN, South Dakota

Tamera Sturm, DO, South Dakota

Peggy Brooks, Tennessee

Joseph Garrido, MD, Tennessee

Lisa Grimes, FNP, Tennessee

Chennakesava Kummathi, MBBS, Tennessee

Victoria Okafor, Tennessee

Ashley Smith, Tennessee

Monisha Bhatia, Tennessee

Belinda Jenkins, APRN-BC, Tennessee

Kim Zahnke, MD, Tennessee

Robert Arias, Texas

Nicolas Batterton, MD, Texas

Scott DePaul, MD, Texas

Nancy Foster, Texas

Larry Hughes, Texas

Erin Koval, Texas

Femi Layiwola, MD, Texas

Krysta Lin, Texas

James J. Onorato, MD, PhD, Texas

Allison Stephenson, PA-C, Texas

Brandon Stormes, Texas

Rubin Simon, MD, Texas

Brian Anderson, DO, Texas

Hatim Chhatriwala, MD, Texas

Aziz Hammoud, Texas

Haru Yamamoto, MD, Texas

Lauren Schiegg, Texas

Victoria Grasso, DO, Texas

Victor Salcedo, MD, Texas

Rajiv Bhattarai, Texas

Iram Qureshi, DO, Texas

Lisa Hafemeister, FACHE, MHA, Texas

Helena Kurian, MD, Texas

Jessica Lin, Texas

Nathan Nowalk, MD, Texas

Keely Smith, MD, Texas

Jonathan Weiser, MD, Texas

Roland Prezas, DO, FAAFP, Texas

Allan Recto, AHIP, Texas

Regina Dimbo, Texas

Venkata Ghanta, Texas

Richmond Hunt, Texas

Vishal Patel, MD, Texas

Zain Sharif, MD, Texas

Rommel Del Rosario, MD, Texas

Khawer Khadimally, DO, Texas

Diogenes Valderrama, MD, Texas

Charles Ewoh, MD, Texas

Deepika Kilaru, Texas

Tilahun Belay, MD, Texas

Chandra S Reddy Navuluri, MD, Texas

Bradley Goad, DO, FACP, Virginia

Patrick Higdon, MD, Virginia

Gabriella Miller, MD, HMDC, Virginia

Miklos Szentirmai, MD, Virginia

Hyder Tamton, Virginia

Andra Mirescu, MD, Virginia

Olukayode Ojo, Virginia

Robert Szeles, MD, Virginia

Anya Cope, DO, Virginia

OsCiriah Press, MD, Virginia

Rikin Kadakia, MD, Virginia

Bryant Self, DO, Virginia

Sarah Sabo, ACNP, Virginia

Pedro A. Gonzales Alvarez, MD, Virginia

William Best, Virginia

Pushpanjali Basnyat, MD, Washington

Nikki Hartley-Jonason, Washington

Helen Johnsonwall, MD, Washington

Eric LaMotte, MD, Washington

Maher Muraywid, Washington

Evan Neal Paul, MD, Washington

Sarah Rogers, MD, Washington

Lindee Strizich, Washington

Maryam Tariq, MBBS, Washington

Meghaan Walsh, MD, Washington

Oleg Zbirun, MD, Washington

Meeta Sabnis, MD, Washington

James Kuo, MD, Washington

Liang Du, Washington

Syed Farhan Tabraiz Hashmi, MD, Washington

Jessica Jung, MD, Washington

Joshua Pelley, MD, Washington

Alex Yu, MD, Washington

Alfred Curnow, MD, Washington

Duhwan Kang, Washington

Gilbert Daniel, MD, Washington, D.C.

Eleanor Fitall, Washington, D.C.

Vinay Srinivasan, Washington, D.C.

Scott Wine, West Virginia

Trevor Miller, MBA, PA-C, West Virginia

Audrey Hiltunen, Wisconsin

Elina Litinskaya, Wisconsin

John M. Murphy, MD, Wisconsin

Tanya Pedretti, PA, Wisconsin

Adine Rodemeyer, MD, Wisconsin

Oghomwen Sule, MBBS, Wisconsin

Terrence Witt, MD, Wisconsin

Mayank Arora, Wisconsin

John D. MacDonald, MD, Wisconsin

Abigail Cook, Wisconsin

Mohamed Ibrahim, MD, Wisconsin

Aymen Khogali, MD, Wisconsin

Nicholas Haun, Wisconsin

Sandra Brown, Victoria, Australia

Alessandra Gessner, Alberta, Canada

Courtney Carlucci, British Columbia, Canada

Muhanad Y. Al Habash, Canada

Karen Tong, MD, Canada

Taku Yabuki, Japan

Liza van Loon, the Netherlands

Edward Gebuis, MD, the Netherlands

Abdisalan Afrah, MD, Qatar

Akhnuwkh Jones, Qatar

Mashuk Uddin, MBBS, MRCP, FRCP, Qatar

Ibrahim Yusuf Abubeker, MRCP, Qatar

Chih-Wei Tseng, Taiwan

Sawsan Abdel-Razig, MD, FACP, United Arab Emirates

The Society of Hospital Medicine welcomes its newest members:

Kwie-Hoa Siem, MD, Alaska

Frank Abene, Alabama

Kayla Maldonado, Alabama

Kenny Murray, MD, Alabama

Shanthan Ramidi, MD, Alabama

Lauren Hancock, APRN, Arkansas

William Hawkins, MD, Arkansas

Matthew Law, Arkansas

Emily Smith, MD, Arkansas

Firas Abbas, MBchB, Arizona

Shahid Ahmad, MD, MBBS, Arizona

Praveen Bheemanathini, Arizona

Atoosa Hosseini, Arizona

William McGrade, DO, Arizona

Konstantin Mazursky, DO, Arizona

Ibrahim Taweel, MD, Arizona

Kevin Virk, MD, FACP, Arizona

Kevin Virk, MD, FACP, Arizona

Mohemmedd Khalid Abbas, Arizona

Hasan Chaudhry, MD, Arizona

Kelly Kelleher, FAAP, Arizona

Priyanka Sultania Dudani, MBBS, Arizona

Krishna Kasireddy, MD, Arizona

Melanie Meguro, Arizona

Puneet Tuli, MD, Arizona

Jonathan Byrdy, DO, Arizona

Sarah Corral, DO, Arizona

Edward Maharam, MD, Arizona

Arvind Satyanarayan, DO, Arizona

Mayank Aggarwal, MD, Arizona

Syed Jafri, Arizona

Bujji Ainapurapu, MD, Arizona

Aaron Fernandes, MD, Arizona

Sonal Gandhi, Arizona

Sudhir Tutiki, Arizona

Navaneeth Kumar, MD, Arizona

Brian T. Courtney, MD, California

Won Jin Jeon, California

Veena Panduranga, MD, California

Jennifer Tinloy, DO, California

Debra Buckland Coffey, MCUSN, MD, California

Kathleen Teves, MD, California

Paul Goebel, MD, ACMPE, California

Shainy Hegde, California

Summaiya Muhammad, California

Desmond Wah, California

Chonn Khristin Ng, California

Almira Yang, DO, California

Salimah Boghani, MD, California

Stella Abhyankar, California

Cherie Ginwalla, MD, California

Armond Esmaili, California

Sarah Schaeffer, MD, MPH, California

Sophia Virani, MD, California

Dipti Munshi, MD, California

Judy Nguyen, DO, California

Daniel Owyang, DO, California

Christian Chiavetta, DO, California

David Reinert, DO, California

Joseph Pawlowski, MD, California

Eleanor Yang, California

Adrian Campo, MD, California

Emerson De Jesus, MD, California

Zachary Edmonds, MD, California

Trit Garg, California

Alexandra G. Ianculescu, MD, PhD, California

Felix Karp, MD, California

Cara Lai, California

Kristen Lew, MD, California

John Mogannam, California

Ameer Moussa, California

Neil Parikh, MD, MBA, California

Priya Reddy, California

Adam Simons, California

Sanjay Vadgama, MD, California

Kristofer Wills, DO, California

Michael Yang, MD, MS, California

Victor Ekuta, California,

Donna Colobong, PA-C, Colorado

Janna B. Dreason, FNP-C, Colorado

Cheryl English, NP-C, Colorado

Melanie Gerrior, MD, Colorado

Marciann Harris, NP, Colorado

Marsha Henke, MD, Colorado

Brett Hesse, Colorado

Naomi J Hipp, MD, Colorado

Aurell Horing, Colorado

Rachel Koch, DO, Colorado

Ed Marino, PA-C, Colorado

Marcus Reinhardt, MD, Colorado

Carol Runge, Colorado

Harshal Shah, Colorado

Leo Soehnlen, DO, Colorado

Anna Villalobos, MD, Colorado

Kathryn Whitfield, PA-C, Colorado

Jonathan Bei-Shing Young, MD, Colorado

Leah Damiani, MD, Colorado

Kathy Lynch, MD, Colorado

Micah Friedman, Colorado

Rachael Hilton, MD, Colorado

Madeline Koerner, Colorado

Chi Zheng, MD, Colorado

Chin-Kun Baw, MD, Connecticut

Alexandra Hawkins, NP, Connecticut

Vasundhara Singh, MD, MBBS, Connecticut

Ryan Quarles, MD, Connecticut

Debra Hernandez, APRN, BC, Connecticut

Karine Karapetyan, MD, Delaware

Choosak Burr, ARNP, Florida

Nelsi Mora, Florida

Mary Quillinan, Florida

Thuntanat Rachanakul, Florida

Samual W. Sauer, MD, MPH, Florida

Jennifer Tibangin, Florida

Keith Williams, MD, Florida

Eric Penedo, MD, Florida

Margaret Webb, Florida

Mark Bender, Florida

Brett Waress, MD, MHA, Florida

Giselle Racho, Florida

Bryan Thiel, Florida

Juan Loor Tuarez, MD, Florida

Christine Stopyra, Florida

Betsy Screws, ARNP, Florida

Jaimie Weber, MD, Florida

Priti Amin, MHA, Georgia

Naga Doddapaneni, Georgia

Stephanie Fletcher, Georgia

Disha Spath, MD, Georgia

Rafaela Wesley, DO, Georgia

Nikky Keer, DO, Georgia

James Kim, Georgia

Todd Martin, Georgia

Eli Mlaver, Georgia

Andrew Ritter, Georgia

Ali Al-Zubaidi, MBchB, Georgia

Deann Bing, MD, Georgia

Tushar Shah, Georgia

Cameron Straughn, DO, Georgia

Nobuhiro Ariyoshi, MEd, Hawaii

Prerna Kumar, Iowa

Jonathan Sebolt, MD, Iowa

Amy Tesar, DO, Iowa

Houng Chea, NP, Idaho

Finnegan Greer, PA-C, Idaho

Thao Nelson, PA, Idaho

Malatesha Gangappa, Idaho

Gloria Alumona, ACNP, Illinois

Ram Sanjeev Alur, Illinois

James Antoon, MD, FAAP, PhD, Illinois

Stefania Bailuc, MD, Illinois

Richard Huh, Illinois

Bhakti Patel, MD, Illinois

Frances Uy, ACNP, Illinois

Fernando Velazquez Vazquez, MD, Illinois

Tiffany White, MD, Illinois

Bryan P. Tully, MD, Illinois

Swati Gobhil, MBBS, Illinois

Lianghe Gao, Illinois

Gopi Astik, MD, Illinois

Marina Kovacevic, MD, Illinois

Abbie Raymond, DO, Illinois

Timothy Yung, Illinois

Ahmed Zahid, MD, Illinois

Cristina Corsini, MEd, Illinois

Faisal Rashid, MD, FACP, Illinois

Mansoor Ahmad, MD, Illinois

Matthew A. Strauch, DO, Illinois

Purshotham Reddy Grinne, Illinois

Nadia Nasreen, MD, Illinois

Maham Ashraf, MD, Indiana

Jennifer Gross, Indiana

Debasmita Mohapatra, MBBS, Indiana

Eric Scheper, Indiana

Katherine Gray, APRNBC, FNP, Indiana

Venkata Kureti, Indiana

Omer Al-Buoshkor, MD, Indiana

David Johnson, FNP, MSN, Indiana

Jonathan Salisbury, MD, Indiana

Debra Shapert, MSN, RN, Iowa

Lisa Carter, ARNP, Iowa

Matthew Woodham, Iowa

Tomoharu Suzuki, MD, Pharm, Japan

Khaldoun Haj, Kansas

Will Rogers, ACMPE, MA, MBA, Kansas

Karen Shumate, Kansas

Lisa Unruh, MD, Kansas

Matthew George, Kansas

Katie Washburn, DO, Kansas

Edwin Avallone, DO, Kentucky

Matthew Morris, Kentucky

Samantha Cappetto, MD, Kentucky

Jaison John, Kentucky

Ammar Al Jajeh, Kentucky

Joseph Bolger, MD, PhD, Louisiana

Clairissa Mulloy, Louisiana

Harish Talla, MD, Louisiana

John Amadon, Louisiana

Karthik Krishnareddy, Louisiana

Cheryl DeGrandpre, PA-C, Maine

Katherine Liu, MD, Maine

Sarah Sedney, MD, Maine

Aksana Afanasenka, MD, Maryland

Syed Nazeer Mahmood, MBBS, Maryland

Joseph Apata, MD, Maryland

Russom Ghebrai, MD, Maryland

Musa Momoh, MD, Maryland

Antanina Voit, Maryland

Dejene Kassaye, MD, MSC, Maryland

Shams Quazi, MD, FACP, MS, Maryland

Dawn Roelofs, FNP, MSN, Maryland

Kirsten Austad, MD, Massachusetts

Yoel Carrasquillo Vega, MD, Massachusetts

Michele Gaudet, NP, Massachusetts

Karina Mejias, Massachusetts

Peter Rohloff, MD, PhD, Massachusetts

Jennifer Schaeffer, Massachusetts

James Shaw, MD, Massachusetts

Renee Wheeler, Massachusetts

Angela Freeman, PA, PA-C, Massachusetts

Supriya Parvatini, MD, Massachusetts

Karen Jiang, MD, Massachusetts

Roula E. Abou-Nader, MD, Massachusetts

Shreekant Vasudhev, MD, Massachusetts

Nivedita Adabala, MD, MBBS, Michigan

Robert Behrendt, RN, BSN, Michigan

Molly Belisle, Michigan

Christine Dugan, MD, Michigan

Baljinder Gill, Michigan

Kellie Herringa, PA-C, Michigan

Christine Klingert, Michigan

Kathy Mitchell, Michigan

Aimee Vos, Michigan

Alyssa Churchill, DO, Michigan

Mailvaganam Sridharan, MD, Michigan

Atul Kapoor, MD, MBBS, Michigan

Anitha Kompally, MD, MBBS, Michigan

Nicole Webb, PA-C, Michigan

Abdulqadir Ahmad, MD, Minnesota

John Patrick Eikens, Minnesota

Bobbi Jo Jensen, PA-C, Minnesota

Rachel Keuseman, Minnesota

Stephen Palmquist, Minnesota

Manit Singla, MD, Minnesota

Douglas Berg, Minnesota

Nathan Palmolea, Minnesota

Molly Tureson, PAC, Minnesota

Mehdi Dastrange, MD, MHA, Minnesota

Kent Svee, Minnesota

Ashley Viere, PA-C, Minnesota

Molly Yang, MD, Minnesota

Paige Sams, DO, Minnesota

Amit Reddy, MBBS, Mississippi

Jacqueline Brooke Banks, FNP-C, Mississippi

Lori Foxworth, CFNP, Mississippi

Nicki Lawson, FNP-C, Mississippi

Bikash Acharya, Missouri

Zafar Ahmad, PA-C, Missouri

Harleen Chela, MD, Missouri

Jeffrey Chung, MD, Missouri

Daniel Kornfeld, Missouri

Erika Leung, MD, MSc, Missouri

Lisa Moser, PA, Missouri

Mark Stiffler, Missouri

Tushar Tarun, MBBS, Missouri

Nicole McLaughlin, Missouri

Katy Lohmann, PA-C, Missouri

Jayasree Bodagala, MD, Missouri

Ravi Kiran Morumuru, ACMPE, Missouri

Matthew Brown, MD, FAAFP, Missouri

Ravikanth Tadi, Missouri

Bazgha Ahmad, DO, Missouri

Monica Hawkins, RN, Missouri

Karri Vesey, BSN, Montana

Madison Vertin, PA-C, Montana

Urmila Mukherjee, MD, Nebraska

Noah Wiedel, MD, Nebraska

Sidrah Sheikh, MD, MBBS, Nebraska

Mohammad Esmadi, MBBS, Nebraska

Jill Zabih, MD, Nebraska

Jody Frey-Burns, RN, Nevada

Adnan Akbar, MD, Nevada

Peter Gayed, MRCP, New Hampshire

Jonathan T. Huntington, MD, New Hampshire

Meghan Meehan, ACNP, New Hampshire

Saurabh Mehta, MD, New Jersey

Hanaa Benchekroun Belabbes, MD, MHA, New Jersey

Hwan Kim, MD, New Jersey

Mary Tobiasson, USA, New Jersey

Muhammad Khakwani, MD, New Jersey

Amita Maibam, MD, MPH, New Jersey

Kumar Rohit, MBBS, New Jersey

Crystal Benjamin, MD, New Jersey

Rafael Garabis, New Mexico

Sam MacBride, MD, New Mexico

Indra Peram, MD, New Mexico

Sarah Vertrees, DO, New Mexico

Aswani Kumar Alavala, MD, New Mexico

Christopher Anstine, New Mexico

Prathima Guruguri, MD, New Mexico

Diedre Hofinger, MD, FACP, New Mexico

Katharine Juarez, New Mexico

Amtul Mahavesh, MD, New Mexico

Francisco Marquez, New Mexico

Payal Sen, MD, New Mexico

Morgan Wong, DO, New Mexico

Kelly Berchou, New York

Ronald Cho, New York

Nishil Dalsania, New York

Carolyn Drake, MD, MPH, New York

Leanne Forman, New York

Valerie Gausman, New York

Laurie Jacobs, New York

Janice Jang, MD, New York

Sonia Kohli, MD, New York

Nancy Lee, PA, New York

Allen Lee, MD, New York

Matthew McCarthy, FACP, New York

Akram Mohammed, MD, New York

Jennifer Nead, New York

Kristal Persaud, PA, New York

Mariya Rozenblit, MD, New York

Christian Torres, MD, New York

Sasha De Jesus, MD, New York

Gabriella Polyak, New York

Nataliya Yuklyaeva, MD, New York

Riyaz Kamadoli, MD, New York

Ramanuj Chakravarty, New York

Adil Zaidi, MD, New York

Allison Walker, MD, New York

Himali Gandhi, New York

Alexey Yanilshtein, MD, New York

Ramsey Al-Khalil, New York

Latoya Codougan, MD, New York

Khan Najmi, MD, New York

Sara Stream, MD, New York

Bhuwan Poudyal, MD, New York

Khalil Anchouche, New York

Sarah Azarchi, New York

Susana Bejar, New York

Brian Chang, New York

Jonathan Chen, New York

Hailey Gupta, MD, New York

Medhavi Gupta, New York

Ali Khan, New York

Benjamin Kwok, MD, New York

Billy Lin, New York

Katherine Ni, New York

Jina Park, New York

Gabriel Perreault, New York

Luis Alberto Romero, New York

Payal Shah, New York

Punita Shroff, New York

Scott Statman, New York

Maria Sunseri, New York

Benjamin Verplanke, New York

Audrey Zhang, New York

Gaby Razzouk, MD, New York

Pranitha Mantrala, MD, New York

Marsha Antoine, New York

Kanica Yashi, New York

Navid Ahmed, New York

Tasha Richards, PA, New York

Connor Tryon, MD, New York

Naveen Yarlagadda, MD, New York

Alex Hogan, New York

Andrew Donohoe, CCM, MD, North Carolina

Brittany Forshay, MD, North Carolina

Kelly Hammerbeck, FNP, North Carolina

Jennifer Hausman, North Carolina

Babajide Obisesan, North Carolina

Kwadwo Ofori, MD, North Carolina

Eric Ofosu, MD, North Carolina

Kale Roth, North Carolina

Robert Soma, PA-C, North Carolina

Sommany Weber, North Carolina

Ronnie Jacobs, North Carolina

Muhammad Ghani, MD, MACP, MBBS, North Carolina

Madeline Treasure, North Carolina

Andrew McWilliams, MD, North Carolina

Karen Payne, ACNP, MPH, North Carolina

Rafal Poplawski, MD, North Carolina

James Seal, PA-C, North Carolina

Farheen Qureshi, DO, North Carolina

Basavatti Sowmya, MD, MBBS, North Carolina

Eshwar Lal, MD, North Carolina

Catherine Hathaway, MD, North Carolina

Sherif Naguib, FAAFP, North Carolina

Sara Skavroneck, North Carolina

Charles Ofosu, North Carolina

Alex Alburquerque, MD, Ohio

Isha Butler, DO, Ohio

Anne Carrol, MD, Ohio

Scott Childers, MD, Ohio

Philip Jonas, MD, Ohio

Ahmadreza Karimianpour, Ohio

Rahul Kumar, MD, Ohio

George Maidaa, MD, Ohio

Kevin McAninch, Ohio

Jill Mccourt, FNP, Ohio

Roxanne Oliver, Ohio

Farah Hussain, Ohio

Natasha Axton, PA-C, Ohio

Brooke Harris, ACNP, Ohio

Vidhya Murukesan, MD, Ohio

Sara Dong, Ohio

Christie Astor, FNP, Ohio

Sunita Mall, MD, Ohio

Sunita Mall, MD, Ohio

Fouzia Tariq, MD, Ohio

Kaveri Sivaruban, MD, Ohio

Eunice Quicho, Ohio

Smitha Achuthankutty, MD, Ohio

Harmanpreet Shinh, MD, Ohio

Maereg Tesfaye, Ohio

Kalyn Jolivette, MD, Ohio

Richelle Voth, PA-C, Oklahoma

Samuel J. Ratermann, MD, FAAFP, Oklahoma

Richelle Voth, PA-C, Oklahoma

Alden Forrester, MD, Oregon

Nicholas Brown, DO, Oregon

Ian Pennell-Walklin, MD, Oregon

Bruce Ramsey, Oregon

Kyle Brekke, DO, Oregon

Sarah Webber, MD, Oregon

Brian Beaudoin, MD, Pennsylvania

Glenn Bedell, MHSA, Pennsylvania

Cristina Green, AGACNP-DNP, Pennsylvania

Andrew Groff, Pennsylvania

Sulman Masood Hashmi, MBBS, Pennsylvania

Eric Kasprowicz, MD, MPH, Pennsylvania

Laura Leuenberger, Pennsylvania

James Liszewski, MD, Pennsylvania

Caitlyn Moss, Pennsylvania

Paul Seunghyun Nho, Pennsylvania

Rishan Patel, MD, Pennsylvania

Dilli R. Poudel, MBBS, Pennsylvania

Naveen Yellappa, MBBS, Pennsylvania

Usman Zulfiqar, Pennsylvania

Nina Jain, Pennsylvania

Bhumika Patel, DO, Pennsylvania

Jenna M. Diasio, PA-C, Pennsylvania

Malachi Courtney, MD, Pennsylvania

Sonia Arneja, MD, Pennsylvania

Ross Ellis, MD, Pennsylvania

Samreen Siddiqui, Pennsylvania

Jillian Zavodnick, Pennsylvania

Kinan Kassar, MD, Pennsylvania

Maritsa M. Scoulos-Hanson, Pennsylvania

Jennifer Taylor, PA-C, Pennsylvania

Steven Delaveris, DO, Pennsylvania

Danica Buzniak, DO, Rhode Island

Paul Browning, MD, South Carolina

Matt Coones, MD, South Carolina

Cedric Fisher, MD, South Carolina

Aloysius Jackson, MD, South Carolina

Katharine DuPont, MD, South Carolina

Michael Jenkins, MD, South Carolina

Jessica Hamilton, APRN, BC, FNP, South Carolina

Pamela Pyle, DO, South Carolina

Shakeel Ahmed, MBBS, MD, South Dakota

D. Bruce Eaton, MD, South Dakota

Drew Jorgensen, MD, South Dakota

Shelly Turbak, MSN, RN, South Dakota

Tamera Sturm, DO, South Dakota

Peggy Brooks, Tennessee

Joseph Garrido, MD, Tennessee

Lisa Grimes, FNP, Tennessee

Chennakesava Kummathi, MBBS, Tennessee

Victoria Okafor, Tennessee

Ashley Smith, Tennessee

Monisha Bhatia, Tennessee

Belinda Jenkins, APRN-BC, Tennessee

Kim Zahnke, MD, Tennessee

Robert Arias, Texas

Nicolas Batterton, MD, Texas

Scott DePaul, MD, Texas

Nancy Foster, Texas

Larry Hughes, Texas

Erin Koval, Texas

Femi Layiwola, MD, Texas

Krysta Lin, Texas

James J. Onorato, MD, PhD, Texas

Allison Stephenson, PA-C, Texas

Brandon Stormes, Texas

Rubin Simon, MD, Texas

Brian Anderson, DO, Texas

Hatim Chhatriwala, MD, Texas

Aziz Hammoud, Texas

Haru Yamamoto, MD, Texas

Lauren Schiegg, Texas

Victoria Grasso, DO, Texas

Victor Salcedo, MD, Texas

Rajiv Bhattarai, Texas

Iram Qureshi, DO, Texas

Lisa Hafemeister, FACHE, MHA, Texas

Helena Kurian, MD, Texas

Jessica Lin, Texas

Nathan Nowalk, MD, Texas

Keely Smith, MD, Texas

Jonathan Weiser, MD, Texas

Roland Prezas, DO, FAAFP, Texas

Allan Recto, AHIP, Texas

Regina Dimbo, Texas

Venkata Ghanta, Texas

Richmond Hunt, Texas

Vishal Patel, MD, Texas

Zain Sharif, MD, Texas

Rommel Del Rosario, MD, Texas

Khawer Khadimally, DO, Texas

Diogenes Valderrama, MD, Texas

Charles Ewoh, MD, Texas

Deepika Kilaru, Texas

Tilahun Belay, MD, Texas

Chandra S Reddy Navuluri, MD, Texas

Bradley Goad, DO, FACP, Virginia

Patrick Higdon, MD, Virginia

Gabriella Miller, MD, HMDC, Virginia

Miklos Szentirmai, MD, Virginia

Hyder Tamton, Virginia

Andra Mirescu, MD, Virginia

Olukayode Ojo, Virginia

Robert Szeles, MD, Virginia

Anya Cope, DO, Virginia

OsCiriah Press, MD, Virginia

Rikin Kadakia, MD, Virginia

Bryant Self, DO, Virginia

Sarah Sabo, ACNP, Virginia

Pedro A. Gonzales Alvarez, MD, Virginia

William Best, Virginia

Pushpanjali Basnyat, MD, Washington

Nikki Hartley-Jonason, Washington

Helen Johnsonwall, MD, Washington

Eric LaMotte, MD, Washington

Maher Muraywid, Washington

Evan Neal Paul, MD, Washington

Sarah Rogers, MD, Washington

Lindee Strizich, Washington

Maryam Tariq, MBBS, Washington

Meghaan Walsh, MD, Washington

Oleg Zbirun, MD, Washington

Meeta Sabnis, MD, Washington

James Kuo, MD, Washington

Liang Du, Washington

Syed Farhan Tabraiz Hashmi, MD, Washington

Jessica Jung, MD, Washington

Joshua Pelley, MD, Washington

Alex Yu, MD, Washington

Alfred Curnow, MD, Washington

Duhwan Kang, Washington

Gilbert Daniel, MD, Washington, D.C.

Eleanor Fitall, Washington, D.C.

Vinay Srinivasan, Washington, D.C.

Scott Wine, West Virginia

Trevor Miller, MBA, PA-C, West Virginia

Audrey Hiltunen, Wisconsin

Elina Litinskaya, Wisconsin

John M. Murphy, MD, Wisconsin

Tanya Pedretti, PA, Wisconsin

Adine Rodemeyer, MD, Wisconsin

Oghomwen Sule, MBBS, Wisconsin

Terrence Witt, MD, Wisconsin

Mayank Arora, Wisconsin

John D. MacDonald, MD, Wisconsin

Abigail Cook, Wisconsin

Mohamed Ibrahim, MD, Wisconsin

Aymen Khogali, MD, Wisconsin

Nicholas Haun, Wisconsin

Sandra Brown, Victoria, Australia

Alessandra Gessner, Alberta, Canada

Courtney Carlucci, British Columbia, Canada

Muhanad Y. Al Habash, Canada

Karen Tong, MD, Canada

Taku Yabuki, Japan

Liza van Loon, the Netherlands

Edward Gebuis, MD, the Netherlands

Abdisalan Afrah, MD, Qatar

Akhnuwkh Jones, Qatar

Mashuk Uddin, MBBS, MRCP, FRCP, Qatar

Ibrahim Yusuf Abubeker, MRCP, Qatar

Chih-Wei Tseng, Taiwan

Sawsan Abdel-Razig, MD, FACP, United Arab Emirates

Editor’s note: Each month, SHM puts the spotlight on some of our most active members who are making substantial contributions to hospital medicine. Log on to www.hospitalmedicine.org/getinvolved for more information on how you can lend your expertise to help SHM improve the care of hospitalized patients.

This month, The Hospitalist spotlights Paul Grant, MD, SFHM, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor. Dr. Grant is the chair of SHM’s Membership Committee and an active member of SHM’s Michigan Chapter.

Why did you choose a career in hospital medicine, and how did you become an SHM member?

After residency, I completed a hospital medicine fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. During my fellowship, I joined SHM. At that time, I knew nothing about the society, but that soon changed. My fellowship required me to attend the annual meeting and submit an abstract in the RIV competition, which was an extremely valuable experience for me. Not only was I blown away by the meeting, but my poster won the clinical vignette competition, as well! Needless to say, I’ve been an SHM member ever since.

What prompted you to join the Membership Committee? Can you discuss some of the projects the committee is currently working on?

Because SHM has done so much for my career as a hospitalist, I’ve tried to give back by volunteering on committees. After spending several years on the Early Career Hospitalist Committee, I felt the transition to the Membership Committee was a natural fit. Because SHM membership had been growing every year, our committee felt some pressure to keep this trend going. Thankfully, we have continued to see growth each year in every membership category.

Our committee has been working on several projects. One of the key demographics we have been targeting is the resident member. Residents play a significant role in the future of hospital medicine, as well as SHM membership. We are developing ways to reach out to residency program directors – particularly those running a hospital medicine track – to find ways they can benefit from SHM’s educational offerings. Additionally, our committee has been discussing ways to attract international members to SHM. Because hospital medicine is quite developed in the United States, we believe we have much to offer to hospitalists around the world.

Tell TH about your involvement with SHM’s Michigan Chapter. What does a typical chapter meeting entail?

A few years ago, at the end of SHM’s annual meeting, several of my hospital medicine colleagues in southeast Michigan happened to be on the same flight home. At the departure gate in the airport, we all agreed we should start an SHM chapter. After drawing straws, it was decided that I would be chapter president for our inaugural year. In a few short years, our chapter has grown into one of the largest in the country.

As for a typical meeting, each starts with a cocktail hour to encourage our members to network. We have a guest speaker, who presents on a hospital medicine topic, and then, we end the evening with a business meeting. We encourage students and residents to attend. More recently, we’ve been using interactive technology to broadcast our meetings to large hospital medicine groups in the western and northern parts of the state. Our chapter was thrilled to learn that we’d won the Outstanding Chapter award this year!

What value do you find in connecting with hospital medicine professionals at the local level?

Whether it’s a hospitalist working at a large, tertiary care center or one working in a small rural setting, it seems we all face similar challenges.

As a chapter, we can pull together our resources to address these issues. Furthermore, we have the ability to reach out to more trainees and show them what hospital medicine is all about. Our chapter has been able to partially fund both medical students and residents so they could attend SHM’s annual meeting. I’m always amazed at what I can learn from other hospitalists – in the state of Michigan and beyond.
 

Find a chapter near you and get involved at the local level at hospitalmedicine.org/chapters .

Felicia Steele is SHM’s communications coordinator.

Editor’s note: Each month, SHM puts the spotlight on some of our most active members who are making substantial contributions to hospital medicine. Log on to www.hospitalmedicine.org/getinvolved for more information on how you can lend your expertise to help SHM improve the care of hospitalized patients.

This month, The Hospitalist spotlights Paul Grant, MD, SFHM, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor. Dr. Grant is the chair of SHM’s Membership Committee and an active member of SHM’s Michigan Chapter.

Why did you choose a career in hospital medicine, and how did you become an SHM member?

After residency, I completed a hospital medicine fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. During my fellowship, I joined SHM. At that time, I knew nothing about the society, but that soon changed. My fellowship required me to attend the annual meeting and submit an abstract in the RIV competition, which was an extremely valuable experience for me. Not only was I blown away by the meeting, but my poster won the clinical vignette competition, as well! Needless to say, I’ve been an SHM member ever since.

What prompted you to join the Membership Committee? Can you discuss some of the projects the committee is currently working on?

Because SHM has done so much for my career as a hospitalist, I’ve tried to give back by volunteering on committees. After spending several years on the Early Career Hospitalist Committee, I felt the transition to the Membership Committee was a natural fit. Because SHM membership had been growing every year, our committee felt some pressure to keep this trend going. Thankfully, we have continued to see growth each year in every membership category.

Our committee has been working on several projects. One of the key demographics we have been targeting is the resident member. Residents play a significant role in the future of hospital medicine, as well as SHM membership. We are developing ways to reach out to residency program directors – particularly those running a hospital medicine track – to find ways they can benefit from SHM’s educational offerings. Additionally, our committee has been discussing ways to attract international members to SHM. Because hospital medicine is quite developed in the United States, we believe we have much to offer to hospitalists around the world.

Tell TH about your involvement with SHM’s Michigan Chapter. What does a typical chapter meeting entail?

A few years ago, at the end of SHM’s annual meeting, several of my hospital medicine colleagues in southeast Michigan happened to be on the same flight home. At the departure gate in the airport, we all agreed we should start an SHM chapter. After drawing straws, it was decided that I would be chapter president for our inaugural year. In a few short years, our chapter has grown into one of the largest in the country.

As for a typical meeting, each starts with a cocktail hour to encourage our members to network. We have a guest speaker, who presents on a hospital medicine topic, and then, we end the evening with a business meeting. We encourage students and residents to attend. More recently, we’ve been using interactive technology to broadcast our meetings to large hospital medicine groups in the western and northern parts of the state. Our chapter was thrilled to learn that we’d won the Outstanding Chapter award this year!

What value do you find in connecting with hospital medicine professionals at the local level?

Whether it’s a hospitalist working at a large, tertiary care center or one working in a small rural setting, it seems we all face similar challenges.

As a chapter, we can pull together our resources to address these issues. Furthermore, we have the ability to reach out to more trainees and show them what hospital medicine is all about. Our chapter has been able to partially fund both medical students and residents so they could attend SHM’s annual meeting. I’m always amazed at what I can learn from other hospitalists – in the state of Michigan and beyond.
 

Find a chapter near you and get involved at the local level at hospitalmedicine.org/chapters .

Felicia Steele is SHM’s communications coordinator.

Editor’s note: Each month, SHM puts the spotlight on some of our most active members who are making substantial contributions to hospital medicine. Log on to www.hospitalmedicine.org/getinvolved for more information on how you can lend your expertise to help SHM improve the care of hospitalized patients.

This month, The Hospitalist spotlights Paul Grant, MD, SFHM, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor. Dr. Grant is the chair of SHM’s Membership Committee and an active member of SHM’s Michigan Chapter.

Why did you choose a career in hospital medicine, and how did you become an SHM member?

After residency, I completed a hospital medicine fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. During my fellowship, I joined SHM. At that time, I knew nothing about the society, but that soon changed. My fellowship required me to attend the annual meeting and submit an abstract in the RIV competition, which was an extremely valuable experience for me. Not only was I blown away by the meeting, but my poster won the clinical vignette competition, as well! Needless to say, I’ve been an SHM member ever since.

What prompted you to join the Membership Committee? Can you discuss some of the projects the committee is currently working on?

Because SHM has done so much for my career as a hospitalist, I’ve tried to give back by volunteering on committees. After spending several years on the Early Career Hospitalist Committee, I felt the transition to the Membership Committee was a natural fit. Because SHM membership had been growing every year, our committee felt some pressure to keep this trend going. Thankfully, we have continued to see growth each year in every membership category.

Our committee has been working on several projects. One of the key demographics we have been targeting is the resident member. Residents play a significant role in the future of hospital medicine, as well as SHM membership. We are developing ways to reach out to residency program directors – particularly those running a hospital medicine track – to find ways they can benefit from SHM’s educational offerings. Additionally, our committee has been discussing ways to attract international members to SHM. Because hospital medicine is quite developed in the United States, we believe we have much to offer to hospitalists around the world.

Tell TH about your involvement with SHM’s Michigan Chapter. What does a typical chapter meeting entail?

A few years ago, at the end of SHM’s annual meeting, several of my hospital medicine colleagues in southeast Michigan happened to be on the same flight home. At the departure gate in the airport, we all agreed we should start an SHM chapter. After drawing straws, it was decided that I would be chapter president for our inaugural year. In a few short years, our chapter has grown into one of the largest in the country.

As for a typical meeting, each starts with a cocktail hour to encourage our members to network. We have a guest speaker, who presents on a hospital medicine topic, and then, we end the evening with a business meeting. We encourage students and residents to attend. More recently, we’ve been using interactive technology to broadcast our meetings to large hospital medicine groups in the western and northern parts of the state. Our chapter was thrilled to learn that we’d won the Outstanding Chapter award this year!

What value do you find in connecting with hospital medicine professionals at the local level?

Whether it’s a hospitalist working at a large, tertiary care center or one working in a small rural setting, it seems we all face similar challenges.

As a chapter, we can pull together our resources to address these issues. Furthermore, we have the ability to reach out to more trainees and show them what hospital medicine is all about. Our chapter has been able to partially fund both medical students and residents so they could attend SHM’s annual meeting. I’m always amazed at what I can learn from other hospitalists – in the state of Michigan and beyond.
 

Find a chapter near you and get involved at the local level at hospitalmedicine.org/chapters .

Felicia Steele is SHM’s communications coordinator.

Bob Wachter, MD, created buzz in March 2016 when, at the SHM annual meeting in San Diego, he displayed a slide titled “What did we get wrong?” The slide contained the copy, “Hospitalist shifts run 7 a.m.-7 p.m.; 10 a.m.-10 p.m. 7on/7off” circled in bold red.

Over the last several years, thought leaders in the hospital medicine field have expressed concern that this one-size-fits-all schedule model is a threat to the well-being of many physicians and, by extension, the sustainability of their hospital medicine groups. Despite this, the 2016 State of Hospital Medicine Report reveals relatively little change in the way hospital medicine groups schedule their physicians.

Dr. Eisenstock, MD, FHM, is clinical chief, division of hospital medicine, at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Care, Worcester.

Bob Wachter, MD, created buzz in March 2016 when, at the SHM annual meeting in San Diego, he displayed a slide titled “What did we get wrong?” The slide contained the copy, “Hospitalist shifts run 7 a.m.-7 p.m.; 10 a.m.-10 p.m. 7on/7off” circled in bold red.

Over the last several years, thought leaders in the hospital medicine field have expressed concern that this one-size-fits-all schedule model is a threat to the well-being of many physicians and, by extension, the sustainability of their hospital medicine groups. Despite this, the 2016 State of Hospital Medicine Report reveals relatively little change in the way hospital medicine groups schedule their physicians.

Dr. Eisenstock, MD, FHM, is clinical chief, division of hospital medicine, at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Care, Worcester.

Bob Wachter, MD, created buzz in March 2016 when, at the SHM annual meeting in San Diego, he displayed a slide titled “What did we get wrong?” The slide contained the copy, “Hospitalist shifts run 7 a.m.-7 p.m.; 10 a.m.-10 p.m. 7on/7off” circled in bold red.

Over the last several years, thought leaders in the hospital medicine field have expressed concern that this one-size-fits-all schedule model is a threat to the well-being of many physicians and, by extension, the sustainability of their hospital medicine groups. Despite this, the 2016 State of Hospital Medicine Report reveals relatively little change in the way hospital medicine groups schedule their physicians.

Dr. Eisenstock, MD, FHM, is clinical chief, division of hospital medicine, at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Care, Worcester.

Given the amount of time physicians spend entering data, clicking through screens, navigating pages, and logging in to computers, one would have hoped that substantial near-term payback for such efforts would have materialized.

Many of us believed this would take the form of health information exchange – the ability to easily access clinical information from hospitals or clinics other than our own, creating a more complete picture of the patient before us. To our disappointment, true information exchange has yet to materialize. (We won’t debate here whether politics or technology is culpable.) We are left to look elsewhere for the benefits of the digitization of the medical records and other sources of health care knowledge.

Lately, there has been a lot of talk about the promise of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) in health care. Much of the resurgence of interest in AI can be traced to IBM Watson’s appearance as a contestant on Jeopardy in 2011. Watson, a natural language supercomputer with enough power to process the equivalent of a million books per second, had access to 200 million pages of content, including the full text of Wikipedia, for Jeopardy.¹ Watson handily outperformed its human opponents – two Jeopardy savants who were also the most successful contestants in game show history – taking the $1 million first prize but struggling in categories with clues containing only a few words.
 

MD Anderson and Watson: Dashed hopes follow initial promise

As a result of growing recognition of AI’s potential in health care, IBM began collaborations with a number of health care organizations to deploy Watson.

In 2013, MD Anderson Cancer Center and IBM began a pilot to develop an oncology clinical decision support technology tool powered by Watson to aid MD Anderson “in its mission to eradicate cancer.” Recently, it was announced that the project – which cost the cancer center $62 million – has been put on hold, and MD Anderson is looking for other contractors to replace IBM.

While administrative problems are at least partly responsible for the project’s challenges, the undertaking has raised issues with the quality and quantity of data in health care that call into question the ability of AI to work as well in health care as it did on Jeopardy, at least in the short term.
 

Health care: Not as data rich as you might think

“We are not ‘Big Data’ in health care, yet.” – Dale Sanders, Health Catalyst.²

In its quest for Jeopardy victory, Watson accessed a massive data storehouse subsuming a vast array of knowledge assembled over the course of human history. Conversely, for health care, Watson is limited to a few decades of scientific journals (that may not contribute to diagnosis and treatment as much as one might think), claims data geared to billing without much clinical information like outcomes, and clinical data from progress notes (plagued by inaccuracies, serial “copy and paste,” and nonstandardized language and numeric representations), and variable-format reports from lab, radiology, pathology, and other disciplines.

To articulate how data-poor health care is, Dale Sanders, executive vice president for software at Health Catalyst, notes that a Boeing 787 generates 500GB of data in a six hour flight while one patient may generate just 100MB of data in an entire year.² He pointed out that, in the near term, AI platforms like Watson simply do not have enough data substrate to impact health care as many hoped it would. Over the longer term, he says, if health care can develop a coherent, standard approach to data content, AI may fulfill its promise.

SKapi/Thinkstock

What can AI and related technologies achieve in the near-term?

“AI seems to have replaced Uber as the most overused word or phrase in digital health.” – Reporter Stephanie Baum, paraphrasing from an interview with Bob Kocher, Venrock Partners.³

My observations tell me that we have already made some progress and are likely to make more strides in the coming years, thanks to AI, machine learning, and natural language processing. A few areas of potential gain are:

Clinical documentation

Technology that can derive meaning from words or groups of words can help with more accurate clinical documentation. For example, if a patient has a documented UTI but also has in the record an 11 on the Glasgow Coma Scale, a systolic BP of 90, and a respiratory rate of 24, technology can alert the physician to document sepsis.

Quality measurement and reporting

Similarly, if technology can recognize words and numbers, it may be able to extract and report quality measures (for example, an ejection fraction of 35% in a heart failure patient) from progress notes without having a nurse-abstractor manually enter such data into structured fields for reporting, as is currently the case.

Predicting readmissions, mortality, other events

While machine learning has had mixed results in predicting future clinical events, this is likely to change as data integrity and algorithms improve. Best-of-breed technology will probably use both clinical and machine learning tools for predictive purposes in the future.

In 2015, I had the privilege of meeting Vinod Khosla, cofounder of SUN Microsystems and venture capitalist, who predicts that computers will largely supplant physicians in the future, at least in domains relying on access to data. As he puts it, “the core functions necessary for complex diagnoses, treatments, and monitoring will be driven by machine judgment instead of human judgment.”⁴

While the benefits of technology, especially in health care, are often oversold, I believe AI and related technologies will some day play a large role alongside physicians in the care of patients. However, for AI to deliver, we must first figure out how to collect and organize health care data so that computers are able to ingest, digest and use it in a purposeful way.

Note: Dr. Whitcomb is founder and advisor to Zato Health, which uses natural language processing and discovery technology in health care.

He is chief medical officer at Remedy Partners in Darien, Conn., and a cofounder and past president of SHM.

References

1. Zimmer, Ben. Is It Time to Welcome Our New Computer Overlords?. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/02/is-it-time-to-welcome-our-new-computer-overlords/71388/. Accessed 23 Apr 2017.

2. Sanders, Dale. The MD Anderson / IBM Watson Announcement: What does it mean for machine learning in healthcare? Webinar. https://www.slideshare.net/healthcatalyst1/the-md-anderson-ibm-watson-announcement-what-does-it-mean-for-machine-learning-in-healthcare. Accessed 23 Apr 2017.

3. Baum, Stephanie. Venrock survey predicts a flight to quality for digital health investments. MedCity News. 12 Apr 2017. http://medcitynews.com/2017/04/venrock-survey-predicts-flight-quality-digital-health-investment/. Accessed 22 Apr 2017.

4. Khosla, Vinod. The Reinvention Of Medicine: Dr. Algorithm V0-7 And Beyond. TechCrunch. 22 Sept 2014. https://techcrunch.com/2014/09/22/the-reinvention-of-medicine-dr-algorithm-version-0-7-and-beyond/. Accessed 22 Apr 2017.

Given the amount of time physicians spend entering data, clicking through screens, navigating pages, and logging in to computers, one would have hoped that substantial near-term payback for such efforts would have materialized.

Many of us believed this would take the form of health information exchange – the ability to easily access clinical information from hospitals or clinics other than our own, creating a more complete picture of the patient before us. To our disappointment, true information exchange has yet to materialize. (We won’t debate here whether politics or technology is culpable.) We are left to look elsewhere for the benefits of the digitization of the medical records and other sources of health care knowledge.

Lately, there has been a lot of talk about the promise of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) in health care. Much of the resurgence of interest in AI can be traced to IBM Watson’s appearance as a contestant on Jeopardy in 2011. Watson, a natural language supercomputer with enough power to process the equivalent of a million books per second, had access to 200 million pages of content, including the full text of Wikipedia, for Jeopardy.¹ Watson handily outperformed its human opponents – two Jeopardy savants who were also the most successful contestants in game show history – taking the $1 million first prize but struggling in categories with clues containing only a few words.
 

MD Anderson and Watson: Dashed hopes follow initial promise

As a result of growing recognition of AI’s potential in health care, IBM began collaborations with a number of health care organizations to deploy Watson.

In 2013, MD Anderson Cancer Center and IBM began a pilot to develop an oncology clinical decision support technology tool powered by Watson to aid MD Anderson “in its mission to eradicate cancer.” Recently, it was announced that the project – which cost the cancer center $62 million – has been put on hold, and MD Anderson is looking for other contractors to replace IBM.

While administrative problems are at least partly responsible for the project’s challenges, the undertaking has raised issues with the quality and quantity of data in health care that call into question the ability of AI to work as well in health care as it did on Jeopardy, at least in the short term.
 

Health care: Not as data rich as you might think

“We are not ‘Big Data’ in health care, yet.” – Dale Sanders, Health Catalyst.²

In its quest for Jeopardy victory, Watson accessed a massive data storehouse subsuming a vast array of knowledge assembled over the course of human history. Conversely, for health care, Watson is limited to a few decades of scientific journals (that may not contribute to diagnosis and treatment as much as one might think), claims data geared to billing without much clinical information like outcomes, and clinical data from progress notes (plagued by inaccuracies, serial “copy and paste,” and nonstandardized language and numeric representations), and variable-format reports from lab, radiology, pathology, and other disciplines.

To articulate how data-poor health care is, Dale Sanders, executive vice president for software at Health Catalyst, notes that a Boeing 787 generates 500GB of data in a six hour flight while one patient may generate just 100MB of data in an entire year.² He pointed out that, in the near term, AI platforms like Watson simply do not have enough data substrate to impact health care as many hoped it would. Over the longer term, he says, if health care can develop a coherent, standard approach to data content, AI may fulfill its promise.

SKapi/Thinkstock

What can AI and related technologies achieve in the near-term?

“AI seems to have replaced Uber as the most overused word or phrase in digital health.” – Reporter Stephanie Baum, paraphrasing from an interview with Bob Kocher, Venrock Partners.³

My observations tell me that we have already made some progress and are likely to make more strides in the coming years, thanks to AI, machine learning, and natural language processing. A few areas of potential gain are:

Clinical documentation

Technology that can derive meaning from words or groups of words can help with more accurate clinical documentation. For example, if a patient has a documented UTI but also has in the record an 11 on the Glasgow Coma Scale, a systolic BP of 90, and a respiratory rate of 24, technology can alert the physician to document sepsis.

Quality measurement and reporting

Similarly, if technology can recognize words and numbers, it may be able to extract and report quality measures (for example, an ejection fraction of 35% in a heart failure patient) from progress notes without having a nurse-abstractor manually enter such data into structured fields for reporting, as is currently the case.

Predicting readmissions, mortality, other events

While machine learning has had mixed results in predicting future clinical events, this is likely to change as data integrity and algorithms improve. Best-of-breed technology will probably use both clinical and machine learning tools for predictive purposes in the future.

In 2015, I had the privilege of meeting Vinod Khosla, cofounder of SUN Microsystems and venture capitalist, who predicts that computers will largely supplant physicians in the future, at least in domains relying on access to data. As he puts it, “the core functions necessary for complex diagnoses, treatments, and monitoring will be driven by machine judgment instead of human judgment.”⁴

While the benefits of technology, especially in health care, are often oversold, I believe AI and related technologies will some day play a large role alongside physicians in the care of patients. However, for AI to deliver, we must first figure out how to collect and organize health care data so that computers are able to ingest, digest and use it in a purposeful way.

Note: Dr. Whitcomb is founder and advisor to Zato Health, which uses natural language processing and discovery technology in health care.

He is chief medical officer at Remedy Partners in Darien, Conn., and a cofounder and past president of SHM.

References

1. Zimmer, Ben. Is It Time to Welcome Our New Computer Overlords?. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/02/is-it-time-to-welcome-our-new-computer-overlords/71388/. Accessed 23 Apr 2017.

2. Sanders, Dale. The MD Anderson / IBM Watson Announcement: What does it mean for machine learning in healthcare? Webinar. https://www.slideshare.net/healthcatalyst1/the-md-anderson-ibm-watson-announcement-what-does-it-mean-for-machine-learning-in-healthcare. Accessed 23 Apr 2017.

3. Baum, Stephanie. Venrock survey predicts a flight to quality for digital health investments. MedCity News. 12 Apr 2017. http://medcitynews.com/2017/04/venrock-survey-predicts-flight-quality-digital-health-investment/. Accessed 22 Apr 2017.

4. Khosla, Vinod. The Reinvention Of Medicine: Dr. Algorithm V0-7 And Beyond. TechCrunch. 22 Sept 2014. https://techcrunch.com/2014/09/22/the-reinvention-of-medicine-dr-algorithm-version-0-7-and-beyond/. Accessed 22 Apr 2017.

Given the amount of time physicians spend entering data, clicking through screens, navigating pages, and logging in to computers, one would have hoped that substantial near-term payback for such efforts would have materialized.

Many of us believed this would take the form of health information exchange – the ability to easily access clinical information from hospitals or clinics other than our own, creating a more complete picture of the patient before us. To our disappointment, true information exchange has yet to materialize. (We won’t debate here whether politics or technology is culpable.) We are left to look elsewhere for the benefits of the digitization of the medical records and other sources of health care knowledge.

Lately, there has been a lot of talk about the promise of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) in health care. Much of the resurgence of interest in AI can be traced to IBM Watson’s appearance as a contestant on Jeopardy in 2011. Watson, a natural language supercomputer with enough power to process the equivalent of a million books per second, had access to 200 million pages of content, including the full text of Wikipedia, for Jeopardy.¹ Watson handily outperformed its human opponents – two Jeopardy savants who were also the most successful contestants in game show history – taking the $1 million first prize but struggling in categories with clues containing only a few words.
 

MD Anderson and Watson: Dashed hopes follow initial promise

As a result of growing recognition of AI’s potential in health care, IBM began collaborations with a number of health care organizations to deploy Watson.

In 2013, MD Anderson Cancer Center and IBM began a pilot to develop an oncology clinical decision support technology tool powered by Watson to aid MD Anderson “in its mission to eradicate cancer.” Recently, it was announced that the project – which cost the cancer center $62 million – has been put on hold, and MD Anderson is looking for other contractors to replace IBM.

While administrative problems are at least partly responsible for the project’s challenges, the undertaking has raised issues with the quality and quantity of data in health care that call into question the ability of AI to work as well in health care as it did on Jeopardy, at least in the short term.
 

Health care: Not as data rich as you might think

“We are not ‘Big Data’ in health care, yet.” – Dale Sanders, Health Catalyst.²

In its quest for Jeopardy victory, Watson accessed a massive data storehouse subsuming a vast array of knowledge assembled over the course of human history. Conversely, for health care, Watson is limited to a few decades of scientific journals (that may not contribute to diagnosis and treatment as much as one might think), claims data geared to billing without much clinical information like outcomes, and clinical data from progress notes (plagued by inaccuracies, serial “copy and paste,” and nonstandardized language and numeric representations), and variable-format reports from lab, radiology, pathology, and other disciplines.

To articulate how data-poor health care is, Dale Sanders, executive vice president for software at Health Catalyst, notes that a Boeing 787 generates 500GB of data in a six hour flight while one patient may generate just 100MB of data in an entire year.² He pointed out that, in the near term, AI platforms like Watson simply do not have enough data substrate to impact health care as many hoped it would. Over the longer term, he says, if health care can develop a coherent, standard approach to data content, AI may fulfill its promise.

SKapi/Thinkstock

What can AI and related technologies achieve in the near-term?

“AI seems to have replaced Uber as the most overused word or phrase in digital health.” – Reporter Stephanie Baum, paraphrasing from an interview with Bob Kocher, Venrock Partners.³

My observations tell me that we have already made some progress and are likely to make more strides in the coming years, thanks to AI, machine learning, and natural language processing. A few areas of potential gain are:

Clinical documentation

Technology that can derive meaning from words or groups of words can help with more accurate clinical documentation. For example, if a patient has a documented UTI but also has in the record an 11 on the Glasgow Coma Scale, a systolic BP of 90, and a respiratory rate of 24, technology can alert the physician to document sepsis.

Quality measurement and reporting

Similarly, if technology can recognize words and numbers, it may be able to extract and report quality measures (for example, an ejection fraction of 35% in a heart failure patient) from progress notes without having a nurse-abstractor manually enter such data into structured fields for reporting, as is currently the case.

Predicting readmissions, mortality, other events

While machine learning has had mixed results in predicting future clinical events, this is likely to change as data integrity and algorithms improve. Best-of-breed technology will probably use both clinical and machine learning tools for predictive purposes in the future.

In 2015, I had the privilege of meeting Vinod Khosla, cofounder of SUN Microsystems and venture capitalist, who predicts that computers will largely supplant physicians in the future, at least in domains relying on access to data. As he puts it, “the core functions necessary for complex diagnoses, treatments, and monitoring will be driven by machine judgment instead of human judgment.”⁴

While the benefits of technology, especially in health care, are often oversold, I believe AI and related technologies will some day play a large role alongside physicians in the care of patients. However, for AI to deliver, we must first figure out how to collect and organize health care data so that computers are able to ingest, digest and use it in a purposeful way.

Note: Dr. Whitcomb is founder and advisor to Zato Health, which uses natural language processing and discovery technology in health care.

He is chief medical officer at Remedy Partners in Darien, Conn., and a cofounder and past president of SHM.

References

1. Zimmer, Ben. Is It Time to Welcome Our New Computer Overlords?. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/02/is-it-time-to-welcome-our-new-computer-overlords/71388/. Accessed 23 Apr 2017.

2. Sanders, Dale. The MD Anderson / IBM Watson Announcement: What does it mean for machine learning in healthcare? Webinar. https://www.slideshare.net/healthcatalyst1/the-md-anderson-ibm-watson-announcement-what-does-it-mean-for-machine-learning-in-healthcare. Accessed 23 Apr 2017.

3. Baum, Stephanie. Venrock survey predicts a flight to quality for digital health investments. MedCity News. 12 Apr 2017. http://medcitynews.com/2017/04/venrock-survey-predicts-flight-quality-digital-health-investment/. Accessed 22 Apr 2017.

4. Khosla, Vinod. The Reinvention Of Medicine: Dr. Algorithm V0-7 And Beyond. TechCrunch. 22 Sept 2014. https://techcrunch.com/2014/09/22/the-reinvention-of-medicine-dr-algorithm-version-0-7-and-beyond/. Accessed 22 Apr 2017.

Let me ask you a question: When was the last time you used the Krebs cycle in the hospital?

Now another question: When did you last have to persuade your boss to give you additional resources?

My guess is that your need for additional resources comes up more frequently than the Krebs cycle. It’s interesting that we spent so much time in our training focused on biochemical pathways and next to nothing on leadership skills, such as ways to motivate our health care teams or the most effective way to provide feedback – skills that we use on a regular basis. Yet, these skills are just as critical as understanding the science behind our daily work.

1. Highlight the importance of the ask.

2. Leverage data to prove the point.

3. Illustrate large-scale implications of the ask.

4. Make the ask.

I’ll use a project to increase DVT prophylaxis rates to illustrate this point:

1. Highlight the importance of DVT prophylaxis: I would focus on statistics that would surprise the audience, such as “Hospital acquired venous thromboembolism leads to significant morbidity and mortality, including more than 100,000 deaths.”¹

2. Leverage data to prove the point: “Worldwide, only 40%-60% of patients who require DVT prophylaxis actually receive it in the hospital.² Our performance leaves tremendous room for improvement – we’re currently at 68%.”

3. Illustrate large-scale implications of the ask: “If we do this, it enhances our reputation as a group, and it will improve hospital revenues.”

4. Make the ask: “I have an evidence-based protocol that we need to implement to achieve results.”

Through leadership courses over the past couple of years, I’ve changed my approach significantly. By leveraging concepts from behavioral economics, we can significantly improve the effect of our work. Here’s how I would conduct that same meeting:

1. Connect with the audience in a genuine way: Start off with “You are quality-minded providers who have taken on major challenges in the past and successfully delivered results, like the time you reduced the rates of catheter associated urinary tract infections.”

2. Make the ask: “I’m here to talk to you about improving our DVT prophylaxis rates. Here’s the protocol we need to implement.”

3. Leverage data to prove the point: “DVT prophylaxis rates at the hospital across town (or at another unit in the hospital) are at 82%. What do you think our numbers are? We’re actually at 68%!”

4. Illustrate large-scale implications of the ask: “We all know this. Patients under our care will die or be seriously harmed if we don’t improve our practice. The hospital will also lose money, which will ultimately impact us. So, we have two options: a) We can continue what we’ve been doing – work as hard as we can and our practice will not improve. b) Or we can decide today to pilot this new protocol and change our practice and performance.”

Let’s look at the changes above in greater detail:

Connect with the audience in a genuine way: Instead of highlighting the importance of the ask with statistics, use an attention getter to connect with the group. Highlighting the fact that the group is “quality-minded” and has surmounted challenging obstacles in the past reinforces the providers’ sense of identity.³ This helps the group think more openly about the proposal.

Make the ask: Now that you’ve captured their attention, make your ask, clearly and concisely, upfront. Remember, in today’s health care settings, we have short attention spans. You’re minutes away from someone getting paged away from the meeting or people checking their emails or the latest Facebook post. Don’t schedule the protocol review as the last item on the agenda.

Leverage data to prove your point: Data are powerful, but only if presented in the right way. Use questions to keep your audience engaged (“What do you think our numbers are?”), particularly around data, where most people decide to switch their attention to their smartphones. Based on your access to data sources, find another unit or institution with a higher performance than yours. State that upfront. It anchors,the group to a higher number, so, when you reveal your current performance, the gap is highlighted. ^3,4 In the first case, when the lower national average of 40-60% is presented initially, the group will be happy that their performance is in fact better at 68%.

Illustrate large-scale implications of the ask: There are two concepts at work here: First, loss aversion.^3,4 We tend to experience greater psychological burden with losses versus gains. Changing the framing from the fact that the hospital will lose money, versus making money in the first case, changes how we perceive the information. Second, active choice.³ Emphasizing that a decision has to be made today and giving the group a choice around it increases the likelihood of walking out of the meeting with a decision.

With some simple, yet thoughtful, modifications, the message takes on a more effective tone, and, based on my experience, it is significantly more impactful.

So, while I’m a fan of biochemical pathways that enable us to generate energy, I also hope we can integrate leadership lessons into our day-to-day learning and life.

Dr. Afsar is an assistant clinical professor in the departments of medicine and neurosurgery and the associate chief medical officer at UCLA Hospitals.

References

1. The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism. Office of the Surgeon General (US); National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (US). Office of the Surgeon General (US). 2008.

2. Cohen AT, Tapson VF, Bergmann JF, et al. Venous thromboembolism risk and prophylaxis in the acute hospital care setting (ENDORSE study): A multinational cross-sectional study. Lancet. 2008;371(9610):387-94.

3. Soman D. The Last Mile. 2015.

4. Thaler RH, Sunstein CR. Nudge. 2009.

Let me ask you a question: When was the last time you used the Krebs cycle in the hospital?

Now another question: When did you last have to persuade your boss to give you additional resources?

My guess is that your need for additional resources comes up more frequently than the Krebs cycle. It’s interesting that we spent so much time in our training focused on biochemical pathways and next to nothing on leadership skills, such as ways to motivate our health care teams or the most effective way to provide feedback – skills that we use on a regular basis. Yet, these skills are just as critical as understanding the science behind our daily work.

1. Highlight the importance of the ask.

2. Leverage data to prove the point.

3. Illustrate large-scale implications of the ask.

4. Make the ask.

I’ll use a project to increase DVT prophylaxis rates to illustrate this point:

1. Highlight the importance of DVT prophylaxis: I would focus on statistics that would surprise the audience, such as “Hospital acquired venous thromboembolism leads to significant morbidity and mortality, including more than 100,000 deaths.”¹

2. Leverage data to prove the point: “Worldwide, only 40%-60% of patients who require DVT prophylaxis actually receive it in the hospital.² Our performance leaves tremendous room for improvement – we’re currently at 68%.”

3. Illustrate large-scale implications of the ask: “If we do this, it enhances our reputation as a group, and it will improve hospital revenues.”

4. Make the ask: “I have an evidence-based protocol that we need to implement to achieve results.”

Through leadership courses over the past couple of years, I’ve changed my approach significantly. By leveraging concepts from behavioral economics, we can significantly improve the effect of our work. Here’s how I would conduct that same meeting:

1. Connect with the audience in a genuine way: Start off with “You are quality-minded providers who have taken on major challenges in the past and successfully delivered results, like the time you reduced the rates of catheter associated urinary tract infections.”

2. Make the ask: “I’m here to talk to you about improving our DVT prophylaxis rates. Here’s the protocol we need to implement.”

3. Leverage data to prove the point: “DVT prophylaxis rates at the hospital across town (or at another unit in the hospital) are at 82%. What do you think our numbers are? We’re actually at 68%!”

4. Illustrate large-scale implications of the ask: “We all know this. Patients under our care will die or be seriously harmed if we don’t improve our practice. The hospital will also lose money, which will ultimately impact us. So, we have two options: a) We can continue what we’ve been doing – work as hard as we can and our practice will not improve. b) Or we can decide today to pilot this new protocol and change our practice and performance.”

Let’s look at the changes above in greater detail:

Connect with the audience in a genuine way: Instead of highlighting the importance of the ask with statistics, use an attention getter to connect with the group. Highlighting the fact that the group is “quality-minded” and has surmounted challenging obstacles in the past reinforces the providers’ sense of identity.³ This helps the group think more openly about the proposal.

Make the ask: Now that you’ve captured their attention, make your ask, clearly and concisely, upfront. Remember, in today’s health care settings, we have short attention spans. You’re minutes away from someone getting paged away from the meeting or people checking their emails or the latest Facebook post. Don’t schedule the protocol review as the last item on the agenda.

Leverage data to prove your point: Data are powerful, but only if presented in the right way. Use questions to keep your audience engaged (“What do you think our numbers are?”), particularly around data, where most people decide to switch their attention to their smartphones. Based on your access to data sources, find another unit or institution with a higher performance than yours. State that upfront. It anchors,the group to a higher number, so, when you reveal your current performance, the gap is highlighted. ^3,4 In the first case, when the lower national average of 40-60% is presented initially, the group will be happy that their performance is in fact better at 68%.

Illustrate large-scale implications of the ask: There are two concepts at work here: First, loss aversion.^3,4 We tend to experience greater psychological burden with losses versus gains. Changing the framing from the fact that the hospital will lose money, versus making money in the first case, changes how we perceive the information. Second, active choice.³ Emphasizing that a decision has to be made today and giving the group a choice around it increases the likelihood of walking out of the meeting with a decision.

With some simple, yet thoughtful, modifications, the message takes on a more effective tone, and, based on my experience, it is significantly more impactful.

So, while I’m a fan of biochemical pathways that enable us to generate energy, I also hope we can integrate leadership lessons into our day-to-day learning and life.

Dr. Afsar is an assistant clinical professor in the departments of medicine and neurosurgery and the associate chief medical officer at UCLA Hospitals.

References

1. The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism. Office of the Surgeon General (US); National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (US). Office of the Surgeon General (US). 2008.

2. Cohen AT, Tapson VF, Bergmann JF, et al. Venous thromboembolism risk and prophylaxis in the acute hospital care setting (ENDORSE study): A multinational cross-sectional study. Lancet. 2008;371(9610):387-94.

3. Soman D. The Last Mile. 2015.

4. Thaler RH, Sunstein CR. Nudge. 2009.

Let me ask you a question: When was the last time you used the Krebs cycle in the hospital?

Now another question: When did you last have to persuade your boss to give you additional resources?

My guess is that your need for additional resources comes up more frequently than the Krebs cycle. It’s interesting that we spent so much time in our training focused on biochemical pathways and next to nothing on leadership skills, such as ways to motivate our health care teams or the most effective way to provide feedback – skills that we use on a regular basis. Yet, these skills are just as critical as understanding the science behind our daily work.

1. Highlight the importance of the ask.

2. Leverage data to prove the point.

3. Illustrate large-scale implications of the ask.

4. Make the ask.

I’ll use a project to increase DVT prophylaxis rates to illustrate this point:

1. Highlight the importance of DVT prophylaxis: I would focus on statistics that would surprise the audience, such as “Hospital acquired venous thromboembolism leads to significant morbidity and mortality, including more than 100,000 deaths.”¹

2. Leverage data to prove the point: “Worldwide, only 40%-60% of patients who require DVT prophylaxis actually receive it in the hospital.² Our performance leaves tremendous room for improvement – we’re currently at 68%.”

3. Illustrate large-scale implications of the ask: “If we do this, it enhances our reputation as a group, and it will improve hospital revenues.”

4. Make the ask: “I have an evidence-based protocol that we need to implement to achieve results.”

Through leadership courses over the past couple of years, I’ve changed my approach significantly. By leveraging concepts from behavioral economics, we can significantly improve the effect of our work. Here’s how I would conduct that same meeting:

1. Connect with the audience in a genuine way: Start off with “You are quality-minded providers who have taken on major challenges in the past and successfully delivered results, like the time you reduced the rates of catheter associated urinary tract infections.”

2. Make the ask: “I’m here to talk to you about improving our DVT prophylaxis rates. Here’s the protocol we need to implement.”

3. Leverage data to prove the point: “DVT prophylaxis rates at the hospital across town (or at another unit in the hospital) are at 82%. What do you think our numbers are? We’re actually at 68%!”

4. Illustrate large-scale implications of the ask: “We all know this. Patients under our care will die or be seriously harmed if we don’t improve our practice. The hospital will also lose money, which will ultimately impact us. So, we have two options: a) We can continue what we’ve been doing – work as hard as we can and our practice will not improve. b) Or we can decide today to pilot this new protocol and change our practice and performance.”

Let’s look at the changes above in greater detail:

Connect with the audience in a genuine way: Instead of highlighting the importance of the ask with statistics, use an attention getter to connect with the group. Highlighting the fact that the group is “quality-minded” and has surmounted challenging obstacles in the past reinforces the providers’ sense of identity.³ This helps the group think more openly about the proposal.

Make the ask: Now that you’ve captured their attention, make your ask, clearly and concisely, upfront. Remember, in today’s health care settings, we have short attention spans. You’re minutes away from someone getting paged away from the meeting or people checking their emails or the latest Facebook post. Don’t schedule the protocol review as the last item on the agenda.

Leverage data to prove your point: Data are powerful, but only if presented in the right way. Use questions to keep your audience engaged (“What do you think our numbers are?”), particularly around data, where most people decide to switch their attention to their smartphones. Based on your access to data sources, find another unit or institution with a higher performance than yours. State that upfront. It anchors,the group to a higher number, so, when you reveal your current performance, the gap is highlighted. ^3,4 In the first case, when the lower national average of 40-60% is presented initially, the group will be happy that their performance is in fact better at 68%.

Illustrate large-scale implications of the ask: There are two concepts at work here: First, loss aversion.^3,4 We tend to experience greater psychological burden with losses versus gains. Changing the framing from the fact that the hospital will lose money, versus making money in the first case, changes how we perceive the information. Second, active choice.³ Emphasizing that a decision has to be made today and giving the group a choice around it increases the likelihood of walking out of the meeting with a decision.

With some simple, yet thoughtful, modifications, the message takes on a more effective tone, and, based on my experience, it is significantly more impactful.

So, while I’m a fan of biochemical pathways that enable us to generate energy, I also hope we can integrate leadership lessons into our day-to-day learning and life.

Dr. Afsar is an assistant clinical professor in the departments of medicine and neurosurgery and the associate chief medical officer at UCLA Hospitals.

References

1. The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism. Office of the Surgeon General (US); National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (US). Office of the Surgeon General (US). 2008.

2. Cohen AT, Tapson VF, Bergmann JF, et al. Venous thromboembolism risk and prophylaxis in the acute hospital care setting (ENDORSE study): A multinational cross-sectional study. Lancet. 2008;371(9610):387-94.

3. Soman D. The Last Mile. 2015.

4. Thaler RH, Sunstein CR. Nudge. 2009.

HM17 On Demand now available

Couldn’t make it to Las Vegas for SHM’s annual meeting, Hospital Medicine 2017? HM17 On Demand gives you access to over 80 online audio and slide recordings from the hottest tracks, including clinical updates, rapid fire, pediatrics, comanagement, quality, and high-value care.

Additionally, you can earn up to 70 American Medical Association Physician Recognition Award Category 1 Credit(s) and up to 30 American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification credits. HM17 attendees can also benefit by earning additional credits on the sessions you missed out on.

To easily access content through SHM’s Learning Portal, visit shmlearningportal.org/hm17-demand to learn more.
 

Chapter Excellence Awards

SHM is proud to recognize outstanding chapters for the fourth annual Chapter Excellence Awards. Each year, chapters strive to demonstrate growth, sustenance, and innovation within their chapter activities.

View more at www.hospitalmedicine.org/chapterexcellence. Please join SHM in congratulating the following chapters on their success!

Silver Chapters

Boston Association of Academic Hospital Medicine (BAAHM)

Charlotte Metro Area

Houston

Kentucky

Los Angeles

Minnesota

North Jersey

Pacific Northwest

Philadelphia Tri-State

Rocky Mountain

San Francisco Bay

South Central PA

Gold Chapters

New Mexico

Wiregrass

Platinum Chapters

IowaMaryland

Michigan

NYC/Westchester

St. Louis

Outstanding Chapter of the Year

Michigan

Rising Star Chapter

Wiregrass
 

Student Hospitalist Scholar grant winners

SHM’s Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant provides funds with which medical students can conduct mentored scholarly projects related to quality improvement and patient safety in the field of hospital medicine. The program offers a summer and a longitudinal option.

Congratulations to the 2017-2018 Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant recipients:Summer Program

Anton Garazha

Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

“Effectiveness of Communication During ICU to Ward Transfer and Association with Medical ICU Readmission”

Cole Hirschfeld

Weill Cornell Medical College

“The Role of Diagnostic Bone Biopsies in the Management of Osteomyelitis”

Farah Hussain

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

“Better Understanding Clinical Deterioration in a Children’s Hospital”

Longitudinal Program

Monisha Bhatia

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

“Using Electronic Medical Record Phenotypic Data to Predict Discharge Destination”

Victor Ekuta

University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

“Reducing CAUTI with Noninvasive UC Alternatives and Measure-vention”

Yun Li

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

“Developing and implementing clinical pathway(s) for hospitalized injection drug users due to injection-related infection sequelae”

Learn more about the Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant at hospitalmedicine.org/scholargrant.

SPARK ONE: A tool to teach residents

SPARK ONE is a comprehensive, online self-assessment tool created specifically for hospital medicine professionals. The activity contains 450+ vignette-style multiple-choice questions covering 100% of the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine (FPHM) exam blueprint. This online tool can be utilized as a training mechanism for resident education on hospital medicine.

As a benefit of SHM membership, residents will receive a free subscription. SPARK ONE provides in-depth review of the following content areas:

• Cardiology
• Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine
• Gastroenterology and Hepatology
• Nephrology and Urology
• Endocrinology
• Hematology and Oncology
• Neurology
• Allergy, Immunology, Dermatology, Rheumatology and Transitions in Care
• Palliative Care, Medical Ethics and Decision-making
• Perioperative Medicine and Consultative Co-management
• Patient Safety
• Quality, Cost and Clinical Reasoning

“SPARK ONE provides a unique platform for academic institutions, engaging learners in directed learning sessions, reinforcing teaching points as we encounter specific conditions.” – Rachel E. Thompson, MD, MPH, SFHM

Visit hospitalmedicine.org/sparkone to learn more.
 

Sharpen your coding with the updated CODE-H

SHM’s Coding Optimally by Documenting Effectively for Hospitalists (CODE-H) has launched an updated program with all new content. It will now include eight recorded webinar sessions presented by expert faculty, downloadable resources, and an interactive discussion forum through the Hospital Medicine Exchange (HMX), enabling participants to ask questions and learn the most relevant best practices.

Following each webinar, learners will have the opportunity to complete an evaluation to redeem continuing medical education credits.

Webinars in the series include:
 

• E/M Basics Part I
• E/M Basics Part II
• Utilizing Other Providers in Your Practice
• EMR and Mitigating Risk
• Putting Time into Critical Care Documentation
• Time Based Services
• Navigating the Rules for Hospitalist Visits
• Challenges of Concurrent Care

To purchase CODE-H, visit hospitalmedicine.org/CODEH. If you have questions about the new program, please contact [email protected].
 

Set yourself apart as a Fellow in Hospital Medicine

The Fellow in Hospital Medicine (FHM) designation signals your commitment to the hospital medicine specialty and dedication to quality improvement and patient safety. This designation is available for hospital medicine practitioners, including practice administrators, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. If you meet the prerequisites and complete the requirements, which are rooted in the Core Competencies in Hospital Medicine, you can apply for this prestigious designation and join more than 1,100 FHMs who are dedicated to the field of hospital medicine. Learn more and apply at hospitalmedicine.org/fellow.

New guide & modules on multimodal pain strategies for postoperative pain management

Pain management can pose multiple challenges in the acute care setting for hospitalists and front-line prescribers. While their first priority is to optimally manage pain in their patients, they also face the challenges of treating diverse patient populations, managing patient expectations, and considering how pain control and perceptions affect Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems scores. Furthermore, because of the ongoing opioid epidemic, prescribers must ensure that pain is managed responsibly and ethically.

To address these issues, SHM developed a guide to address how to work in an interdisciplinary team, identify impediments to implementation, and provide examples of appropriate pain management. In accompaniment with this Multimodal Pain Strategies Guide for Postoperative Pain Management, there are three modules presented by the authors which supplement the electronic guide.

To download the guide or view the modules, visit hospitalmedicine.org/pain.
 

Proven excellence through a unique education style: Academic Hospitalist Academy

Don’t miss the eighth annual Academic Hospitalist Academy (AHA), Sept. 25-28, 2017, at the Lakeway Resort and Spa in Austin, Texas. AHA attendees experience an energizing, interactive learning environment featuring didactics, small-group exercise and skill-building breakout sessions. Each full day of learning is facilitated by leading clinician-educators, hospitalist researchers, and clinical administrators in a 1 to 10 faculty to student ratio.

The Principal Goals of the Academy are to:

• Develop junior academic hospitalists as the premier teachers and educational leaders at their institutions
• Help academic hospitalists develop scholarly work and increase scholarly output
• Enhance awareness of the value of quality improvement and patient safety work
• Support academic promotion of all attendees

Don’t miss out on this unique, hands-on experience. Register before July 18, 2017, to receive the early-bird rates. Visit academichospitalist.org to learn more.
 

Choosing Wisely Case Study compendium now available

The Choosing Wisely Case Study Competition, hosted by SHM, sought submissions from hospitalists on innovative improvement initiatives implemented in their respective institutions. These initiatives reflect and promote movement toward reducing unnecessary medical tests and procedures and changing a culture that dictates, “More care is better care.”

Submissions were judged by the Choosing Wisely Subcommittee, a panel of SHM members, under adult and pediatric categories. One grand prize winner and three honorable mentions were selected from these categories. The compendium includes these case studies along with additional exemplary submissions.

View the Choosing Wisely Case Study Compendium at hospitalmedicine.org/choosingwisely.
 

Strengthen your interactions with the 5 Rs of Cultural Humility

Look inside this issue for your 5 Rs of Cultural Humility pocket card. It can be easily referenced on rounds and shared with colleagues. We hope to achieve heightened awareness of effective interactions. In addition to the definitions of each of the Rs, the card features questions to ask yourself before, during, and after every interaction to aid in attaining cultural humility.

For more information, visit hospitalmedicine.org/5Rs.

Brett Radler is communications specialist at the Society of Hospital Medicine.

HM17 On Demand now available

Couldn’t make it to Las Vegas for SHM’s annual meeting, Hospital Medicine 2017? HM17 On Demand gives you access to over 80 online audio and slide recordings from the hottest tracks, including clinical updates, rapid fire, pediatrics, comanagement, quality, and high-value care.

Additionally, you can earn up to 70 American Medical Association Physician Recognition Award Category 1 Credit(s) and up to 30 American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification credits. HM17 attendees can also benefit by earning additional credits on the sessions you missed out on.

To easily access content through SHM’s Learning Portal, visit shmlearningportal.org/hm17-demand to learn more.
 

Chapter Excellence Awards

SHM is proud to recognize outstanding chapters for the fourth annual Chapter Excellence Awards. Each year, chapters strive to demonstrate growth, sustenance, and innovation within their chapter activities.

View more at www.hospitalmedicine.org/chapterexcellence. Please join SHM in congratulating the following chapters on their success!

Silver Chapters

Boston Association of Academic Hospital Medicine (BAAHM)

Charlotte Metro Area

Houston

Kentucky

Los Angeles

Minnesota

North Jersey

Pacific Northwest

Philadelphia Tri-State

Rocky Mountain

San Francisco Bay

South Central PA

Gold Chapters

New Mexico

Wiregrass

Platinum Chapters

IowaMaryland

Michigan

NYC/Westchester

St. Louis

Outstanding Chapter of the Year

Michigan

Rising Star Chapter

Wiregrass
 

Student Hospitalist Scholar grant winners

SHM’s Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant provides funds with which medical students can conduct mentored scholarly projects related to quality improvement and patient safety in the field of hospital medicine. The program offers a summer and a longitudinal option.

Congratulations to the 2017-2018 Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant recipients:Summer Program

Anton Garazha

Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

“Effectiveness of Communication During ICU to Ward Transfer and Association with Medical ICU Readmission”

Cole Hirschfeld

Weill Cornell Medical College

“The Role of Diagnostic Bone Biopsies in the Management of Osteomyelitis”

Farah Hussain

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

“Better Understanding Clinical Deterioration in a Children’s Hospital”

Longitudinal Program

Monisha Bhatia

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

“Using Electronic Medical Record Phenotypic Data to Predict Discharge Destination”

Victor Ekuta

University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

“Reducing CAUTI with Noninvasive UC Alternatives and Measure-vention”

Yun Li

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

“Developing and implementing clinical pathway(s) for hospitalized injection drug users due to injection-related infection sequelae”

Learn more about the Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant at hospitalmedicine.org/scholargrant.

SPARK ONE: A tool to teach residents

SPARK ONE is a comprehensive, online self-assessment tool created specifically for hospital medicine professionals. The activity contains 450+ vignette-style multiple-choice questions covering 100% of the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine (FPHM) exam blueprint. This online tool can be utilized as a training mechanism for resident education on hospital medicine.

As a benefit of SHM membership, residents will receive a free subscription. SPARK ONE provides in-depth review of the following content areas:

• Cardiology
• Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine
• Gastroenterology and Hepatology
• Nephrology and Urology
• Endocrinology
• Hematology and Oncology
• Neurology
• Allergy, Immunology, Dermatology, Rheumatology and Transitions in Care
• Palliative Care, Medical Ethics and Decision-making
• Perioperative Medicine and Consultative Co-management
• Patient Safety
• Quality, Cost and Clinical Reasoning

“SPARK ONE provides a unique platform for academic institutions, engaging learners in directed learning sessions, reinforcing teaching points as we encounter specific conditions.” – Rachel E. Thompson, MD, MPH, SFHM

Visit hospitalmedicine.org/sparkone to learn more.
 

Sharpen your coding with the updated CODE-H

SHM’s Coding Optimally by Documenting Effectively for Hospitalists (CODE-H) has launched an updated program with all new content. It will now include eight recorded webinar sessions presented by expert faculty, downloadable resources, and an interactive discussion forum through the Hospital Medicine Exchange (HMX), enabling participants to ask questions and learn the most relevant best practices.

Following each webinar, learners will have the opportunity to complete an evaluation to redeem continuing medical education credits.

Webinars in the series include:
 

• E/M Basics Part I
• E/M Basics Part II
• Utilizing Other Providers in Your Practice
• EMR and Mitigating Risk
• Putting Time into Critical Care Documentation
• Time Based Services
• Navigating the Rules for Hospitalist Visits
• Challenges of Concurrent Care

To purchase CODE-H, visit hospitalmedicine.org/CODEH. If you have questions about the new program, please contact [email protected].
 

Set yourself apart as a Fellow in Hospital Medicine

The Fellow in Hospital Medicine (FHM) designation signals your commitment to the hospital medicine specialty and dedication to quality improvement and patient safety. This designation is available for hospital medicine practitioners, including practice administrators, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. If you meet the prerequisites and complete the requirements, which are rooted in the Core Competencies in Hospital Medicine, you can apply for this prestigious designation and join more than 1,100 FHMs who are dedicated to the field of hospital medicine. Learn more and apply at hospitalmedicine.org/fellow.

New guide & modules on multimodal pain strategies for postoperative pain management

Pain management can pose multiple challenges in the acute care setting for hospitalists and front-line prescribers. While their first priority is to optimally manage pain in their patients, they also face the challenges of treating diverse patient populations, managing patient expectations, and considering how pain control and perceptions affect Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems scores. Furthermore, because of the ongoing opioid epidemic, prescribers must ensure that pain is managed responsibly and ethically.

To address these issues, SHM developed a guide to address how to work in an interdisciplinary team, identify impediments to implementation, and provide examples of appropriate pain management. In accompaniment with this Multimodal Pain Strategies Guide for Postoperative Pain Management, there are three modules presented by the authors which supplement the electronic guide.

To download the guide or view the modules, visit hospitalmedicine.org/pain.
 

Proven excellence through a unique education style: Academic Hospitalist Academy

Don’t miss the eighth annual Academic Hospitalist Academy (AHA), Sept. 25-28, 2017, at the Lakeway Resort and Spa in Austin, Texas. AHA attendees experience an energizing, interactive learning environment featuring didactics, small-group exercise and skill-building breakout sessions. Each full day of learning is facilitated by leading clinician-educators, hospitalist researchers, and clinical administrators in a 1 to 10 faculty to student ratio.

The Principal Goals of the Academy are to:

• Develop junior academic hospitalists as the premier teachers and educational leaders at their institutions
• Help academic hospitalists develop scholarly work and increase scholarly output
• Enhance awareness of the value of quality improvement and patient safety work
• Support academic promotion of all attendees

Don’t miss out on this unique, hands-on experience. Register before July 18, 2017, to receive the early-bird rates. Visit academichospitalist.org to learn more.
 

Choosing Wisely Case Study compendium now available

The Choosing Wisely Case Study Competition, hosted by SHM, sought submissions from hospitalists on innovative improvement initiatives implemented in their respective institutions. These initiatives reflect and promote movement toward reducing unnecessary medical tests and procedures and changing a culture that dictates, “More care is better care.”

Submissions were judged by the Choosing Wisely Subcommittee, a panel of SHM members, under adult and pediatric categories. One grand prize winner and three honorable mentions were selected from these categories. The compendium includes these case studies along with additional exemplary submissions.

View the Choosing Wisely Case Study Compendium at hospitalmedicine.org/choosingwisely.
 

Strengthen your interactions with the 5 Rs of Cultural Humility

Look inside this issue for your 5 Rs of Cultural Humility pocket card. It can be easily referenced on rounds and shared with colleagues. We hope to achieve heightened awareness of effective interactions. In addition to the definitions of each of the Rs, the card features questions to ask yourself before, during, and after every interaction to aid in attaining cultural humility.

For more information, visit hospitalmedicine.org/5Rs.

Brett Radler is communications specialist at the Society of Hospital Medicine.

HM17 On Demand now available

Couldn’t make it to Las Vegas for SHM’s annual meeting, Hospital Medicine 2017? HM17 On Demand gives you access to over 80 online audio and slide recordings from the hottest tracks, including clinical updates, rapid fire, pediatrics, comanagement, quality, and high-value care.

Additionally, you can earn up to 70 American Medical Association Physician Recognition Award Category 1 Credit(s) and up to 30 American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification credits. HM17 attendees can also benefit by earning additional credits on the sessions you missed out on.

To easily access content through SHM’s Learning Portal, visit shmlearningportal.org/hm17-demand to learn more.
 

Chapter Excellence Awards

SHM is proud to recognize outstanding chapters for the fourth annual Chapter Excellence Awards. Each year, chapters strive to demonstrate growth, sustenance, and innovation within their chapter activities.

View more at www.hospitalmedicine.org/chapterexcellence. Please join SHM in congratulating the following chapters on their success!

Silver Chapters

Boston Association of Academic Hospital Medicine (BAAHM)

Charlotte Metro Area

Houston

Kentucky

Los Angeles

Minnesota

North Jersey

Pacific Northwest

Philadelphia Tri-State

Rocky Mountain

San Francisco Bay

South Central PA

Gold Chapters

New Mexico

Wiregrass

Platinum Chapters

IowaMaryland

Michigan

NYC/Westchester

St. Louis

Outstanding Chapter of the Year

Michigan

Rising Star Chapter

Wiregrass
 

Student Hospitalist Scholar grant winners

SHM’s Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant provides funds with which medical students can conduct mentored scholarly projects related to quality improvement and patient safety in the field of hospital medicine. The program offers a summer and a longitudinal option.

Congratulations to the 2017-2018 Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant recipients:Summer Program

Anton Garazha

Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

“Effectiveness of Communication During ICU to Ward Transfer and Association with Medical ICU Readmission”

Cole Hirschfeld

Weill Cornell Medical College

“The Role of Diagnostic Bone Biopsies in the Management of Osteomyelitis”

Farah Hussain

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

“Better Understanding Clinical Deterioration in a Children’s Hospital”

Longitudinal Program

Monisha Bhatia

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

“Using Electronic Medical Record Phenotypic Data to Predict Discharge Destination”

Victor Ekuta

University of California, San Diego School of Medicine

“Reducing CAUTI with Noninvasive UC Alternatives and Measure-vention”

Yun Li

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

“Developing and implementing clinical pathway(s) for hospitalized injection drug users due to injection-related infection sequelae”

Learn more about the Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant at hospitalmedicine.org/scholargrant.

SPARK ONE: A tool to teach residents

SPARK ONE is a comprehensive, online self-assessment tool created specifically for hospital medicine professionals. The activity contains 450+ vignette-style multiple-choice questions covering 100% of the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine (FPHM) exam blueprint. This online tool can be utilized as a training mechanism for resident education on hospital medicine.

As a benefit of SHM membership, residents will receive a free subscription. SPARK ONE provides in-depth review of the following content areas:

• Cardiology
• Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine
• Gastroenterology and Hepatology
• Nephrology and Urology
• Endocrinology
• Hematology and Oncology
• Neurology
• Allergy, Immunology, Dermatology, Rheumatology and Transitions in Care
• Palliative Care, Medical Ethics and Decision-making
• Perioperative Medicine and Consultative Co-management
• Patient Safety
• Quality, Cost and Clinical Reasoning

“SPARK ONE provides a unique platform for academic institutions, engaging learners in directed learning sessions, reinforcing teaching points as we encounter specific conditions.” – Rachel E. Thompson, MD, MPH, SFHM

Visit hospitalmedicine.org/sparkone to learn more.
 

Sharpen your coding with the updated CODE-H

SHM’s Coding Optimally by Documenting Effectively for Hospitalists (CODE-H) has launched an updated program with all new content. It will now include eight recorded webinar sessions presented by expert faculty, downloadable resources, and an interactive discussion forum through the Hospital Medicine Exchange (HMX), enabling participants to ask questions and learn the most relevant best practices.

Following each webinar, learners will have the opportunity to complete an evaluation to redeem continuing medical education credits.

Webinars in the series include:
 

• E/M Basics Part I
• E/M Basics Part II
• Utilizing Other Providers in Your Practice
• EMR and Mitigating Risk
• Putting Time into Critical Care Documentation
• Time Based Services
• Navigating the Rules for Hospitalist Visits
• Challenges of Concurrent Care

To purchase CODE-H, visit hospitalmedicine.org/CODEH. If you have questions about the new program, please contact [email protected].
 

Set yourself apart as a Fellow in Hospital Medicine

The Fellow in Hospital Medicine (FHM) designation signals your commitment to the hospital medicine specialty and dedication to quality improvement and patient safety. This designation is available for hospital medicine practitioners, including practice administrators, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. If you meet the prerequisites and complete the requirements, which are rooted in the Core Competencies in Hospital Medicine, you can apply for this prestigious designation and join more than 1,100 FHMs who are dedicated to the field of hospital medicine. Learn more and apply at hospitalmedicine.org/fellow.

New guide & modules on multimodal pain strategies for postoperative pain management

Pain management can pose multiple challenges in the acute care setting for hospitalists and front-line prescribers. While their first priority is to optimally manage pain in their patients, they also face the challenges of treating diverse patient populations, managing patient expectations, and considering how pain control and perceptions affect Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems scores. Furthermore, because of the ongoing opioid epidemic, prescribers must ensure that pain is managed responsibly and ethically.

To address these issues, SHM developed a guide to address how to work in an interdisciplinary team, identify impediments to implementation, and provide examples of appropriate pain management. In accompaniment with this Multimodal Pain Strategies Guide for Postoperative Pain Management, there are three modules presented by the authors which supplement the electronic guide.

To download the guide or view the modules, visit hospitalmedicine.org/pain.
 

Proven excellence through a unique education style: Academic Hospitalist Academy

Don’t miss the eighth annual Academic Hospitalist Academy (AHA), Sept. 25-28, 2017, at the Lakeway Resort and Spa in Austin, Texas. AHA attendees experience an energizing, interactive learning environment featuring didactics, small-group exercise and skill-building breakout sessions. Each full day of learning is facilitated by leading clinician-educators, hospitalist researchers, and clinical administrators in a 1 to 10 faculty to student ratio.

The Principal Goals of the Academy are to:

• Develop junior academic hospitalists as the premier teachers and educational leaders at their institutions
• Help academic hospitalists develop scholarly work and increase scholarly output
• Enhance awareness of the value of quality improvement and patient safety work
• Support academic promotion of all attendees

Don’t miss out on this unique, hands-on experience. Register before July 18, 2017, to receive the early-bird rates. Visit academichospitalist.org to learn more.
 

Choosing Wisely Case Study compendium now available

The Choosing Wisely Case Study Competition, hosted by SHM, sought submissions from hospitalists on innovative improvement initiatives implemented in their respective institutions. These initiatives reflect and promote movement toward reducing unnecessary medical tests and procedures and changing a culture that dictates, “More care is better care.”

Submissions were judged by the Choosing Wisely Subcommittee, a panel of SHM members, under adult and pediatric categories. One grand prize winner and three honorable mentions were selected from these categories. The compendium includes these case studies along with additional exemplary submissions.

View the Choosing Wisely Case Study Compendium at hospitalmedicine.org/choosingwisely.
 

Strengthen your interactions with the 5 Rs of Cultural Humility

Look inside this issue for your 5 Rs of Cultural Humility pocket card. It can be easily referenced on rounds and shared with colleagues. We hope to achieve heightened awareness of effective interactions. In addition to the definitions of each of the Rs, the card features questions to ask yourself before, during, and after every interaction to aid in attaining cultural humility.

For more information, visit hospitalmedicine.org/5Rs.

Brett Radler is communications specialist at the Society of Hospital Medicine.

Presenters

Tracy Cardin, ACNP, SFHM ; Emilie Thornhill, PA-C
 

Session summary

The Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant (NP/PA) special interest forum at HM17 drew more than 60 providers, including NPs, PAs, and physicians.

Emilie Thornhill, a certified PA and chair of the NP/PA Committee, and Tracy Cardin, SHM board member, updated the attendees regarding the work of the NP/PA committee over the last year. The committee has created a comprehensive “NP/PA Toolkit,” which was developed over the last 2 years in response to common inquiries about deployment and integration of NPs and PAs into Hospital Medicine practice groups.

• Benchmarking Surveys related to NP/PA burnout, including aspects of protected time, engagement, and workload; scheduling and deployment models; and NP/PA designation as faculty or staff.
• Increased utilization and engagement with HMX as a platform for sharing ideas and success stories to increase HM NP/PA visibility.
• Creation of a “Bizarre Bylaws Blog” to disseminate best practices and improve hospital bylaws through innovative storytelling of antiquated bylaws.
• Improved NP and PA participation and engagement with local chapters.

Key takeaways for HM

• An NP/PA Toolkit resource to be posted on the SHM website.
• The NP/PA committee will transition to a Special Interest Group over the next year.
• Hospital Medicine Exchange (HMX) engagement and participation are encouraged.
• An “Implementation and Optimization Project” to help improve workforce development is pending for the coming year.

Nicolas Houghton is an NP hospitalist in Cleveland and an editorial board member of The Hospitalist.

Presenters

Tracy Cardin, ACNP, SFHM ; Emilie Thornhill, PA-C
 

Session summary

The Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant (NP/PA) special interest forum at HM17 drew more than 60 providers, including NPs, PAs, and physicians.

Emilie Thornhill, a certified PA and chair of the NP/PA Committee, and Tracy Cardin, SHM board member, updated the attendees regarding the work of the NP/PA committee over the last year. The committee has created a comprehensive “NP/PA Toolkit,” which was developed over the last 2 years in response to common inquiries about deployment and integration of NPs and PAs into Hospital Medicine practice groups.

• Benchmarking Surveys related to NP/PA burnout, including aspects of protected time, engagement, and workload; scheduling and deployment models; and NP/PA designation as faculty or staff.
• Increased utilization and engagement with HMX as a platform for sharing ideas and success stories to increase HM NP/PA visibility.
• Creation of a “Bizarre Bylaws Blog” to disseminate best practices and improve hospital bylaws through innovative storytelling of antiquated bylaws.
• Improved NP and PA participation and engagement with local chapters.

Key takeaways for HM

• An NP/PA Toolkit resource to be posted on the SHM website.
• The NP/PA committee will transition to a Special Interest Group over the next year.
• Hospital Medicine Exchange (HMX) engagement and participation are encouraged.
• An “Implementation and Optimization Project” to help improve workforce development is pending for the coming year.

Nicolas Houghton is an NP hospitalist in Cleveland and an editorial board member of The Hospitalist.

Presenters

Tracy Cardin, ACNP, SFHM ; Emilie Thornhill, PA-C
 

Session summary

The Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant (NP/PA) special interest forum at HM17 drew more than 60 providers, including NPs, PAs, and physicians.

Emilie Thornhill, a certified PA and chair of the NP/PA Committee, and Tracy Cardin, SHM board member, updated the attendees regarding the work of the NP/PA committee over the last year. The committee has created a comprehensive “NP/PA Toolkit,” which was developed over the last 2 years in response to common inquiries about deployment and integration of NPs and PAs into Hospital Medicine practice groups.

• Benchmarking Surveys related to NP/PA burnout, including aspects of protected time, engagement, and workload; scheduling and deployment models; and NP/PA designation as faculty or staff.
• Increased utilization and engagement with HMX as a platform for sharing ideas and success stories to increase HM NP/PA visibility.
• Creation of a “Bizarre Bylaws Blog” to disseminate best practices and improve hospital bylaws through innovative storytelling of antiquated bylaws.
• Improved NP and PA participation and engagement with local chapters.

Key takeaways for HM

• An NP/PA Toolkit resource to be posted on the SHM website.
• The NP/PA committee will transition to a Special Interest Group over the next year.
• Hospital Medicine Exchange (HMX) engagement and participation are encouraged.
• An “Implementation and Optimization Project” to help improve workforce development is pending for the coming year.

Nicolas Houghton is an NP hospitalist in Cleveland and an editorial board member of The Hospitalist.

When it comes to developing, maintaining, and growing an effective hospital medicine team, James W. Levy, PA-C, SFHM, certified physician assistant and managing partner of iNDIGO Health Partners, credits much of the company’s success to a decision to purchase a group SHM membership for its hospital medicine team. Recognizing the value that membership brings, it was an easy decision to extend a group membership to iNDIGO’s hospital medicine team.

“As a company, we are strong supporters of SHM and its mission,” Mr. Levy said. “This seemed like the best way we could support SHM and allow all our providers access to all the personal and professional benefits of SHM membership.”

Brett Radler is SHM’s communications specialist.

When it comes to developing, maintaining, and growing an effective hospital medicine team, James W. Levy, PA-C, SFHM, certified physician assistant and managing partner of iNDIGO Health Partners, credits much of the company’s success to a decision to purchase a group SHM membership for its hospital medicine team. Recognizing the value that membership brings, it was an easy decision to extend a group membership to iNDIGO’s hospital medicine team.

“As a company, we are strong supporters of SHM and its mission,” Mr. Levy said. “This seemed like the best way we could support SHM and allow all our providers access to all the personal and professional benefits of SHM membership.”

Brett Radler is SHM’s communications specialist.

When it comes to developing, maintaining, and growing an effective hospital medicine team, James W. Levy, PA-C, SFHM, certified physician assistant and managing partner of iNDIGO Health Partners, credits much of the company’s success to a decision to purchase a group SHM membership for its hospital medicine team. Recognizing the value that membership brings, it was an easy decision to extend a group membership to iNDIGO’s hospital medicine team.

“As a company, we are strong supporters of SHM and its mission,” Mr. Levy said. “This seemed like the best way we could support SHM and allow all our providers access to all the personal and professional benefits of SHM membership.”

Brett Radler is SHM’s communications specialist.