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SHM Elects Jack Percelay, MD, FAAP, to Newly Created Pediatrics Seat on Board of Directors
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SHM Elects Jack Percelay, MD, FAAP, to newly Created Pediatrics Seat on Board of Directors
SHM has created a new seat on the Board of Directors that must be filled by a pediatric hospitalist and has elected Jack Percelay, MD, FAAP as its new pediatric board member. Dr. Percelay began serving a 1-year term on the SHM board beginning April 29, 2005. In the Fall of 2005, during the next board elections, the new position will become a 3-year pediatric board seat.
“The addition of a pediatrics seat to the board is important because pediatric hospitalists have a unique and important perspective on our growing specialty of hospital medicine,” said new SHM President, Steven Pantilat, MD, FACP. “Jack Percelay has long been a leader in field of pediatric hospital medicine, has nurtured the development of pediatric hospitalists, and has been a key link in our work with the American Academy of Pediatrics for many years now. We welcome his insights and vision as we continue to expand the role of education and leadership for pediatric hospitalists.”
“For many years SHM has had a pediatrician represented on the board―first with Mike Ruhlen from Toledo and more recently with David Zipes from Indianapolis,“ added SHM immediate past President Jeanne Huddleston. “At this stage in the growth of hospital medicine, the SHM board felt it was important to ensure that we continue to have a pediatric voice represented on the board.”
Dr. Percelay currently is director, Virtua Inpatient Pediatrics and CARES at Children’s Health Associates in Vorhees, NJ. Virtua Inpatient Pediatrics is a 13-person pediatric hospitalist group providing coverage at West Jersey Vorhees and Burlington Memorial Hospitals in southern New Jersey. The group covers the pediatric ward, pediatric ICU and emergency room.
In 2003, Dr. Percelay coauthored a survey initiated by the American Association of Pediatrics entitled “Attitudes Toward and Experiences with Pediatric Hospitalists: A National Survey.” The goal of the survey was to explore the extent to which the pediatric hospitalist practice has developed and to examine pediatricians’ attitudes and experiences with pediatric hospitalists. It was the first survey the AAP has conducted on hospitalists.
Dr. Percelay also was a lead author for the recent AAP Policy statement “Guiding Principles for Pediatric Hospitalist Programs” (Pediatrics 2005;115: 11012).
A charter member of SHM, Dr. Percelay has served on numerous committees, including chair of the Pediatric Committee and a member of the Public Policy committee.
SHM has created a new seat on the Board of Directors that must be filled by a pediatric hospitalist and has elected Jack Percelay, MD, FAAP as its new pediatric board member. Dr. Percelay began serving a 1-year term on the SHM board beginning April 29, 2005. In the Fall of 2005, during the next board elections, the new position will become a 3-year pediatric board seat.
“The addition of a pediatrics seat to the board is important because pediatric hospitalists have a unique and important perspective on our growing specialty of hospital medicine,” said new SHM President, Steven Pantilat, MD, FACP. “Jack Percelay has long been a leader in field of pediatric hospital medicine, has nurtured the development of pediatric hospitalists, and has been a key link in our work with the American Academy of Pediatrics for many years now. We welcome his insights and vision as we continue to expand the role of education and leadership for pediatric hospitalists.”
“For many years SHM has had a pediatrician represented on the board―first with Mike Ruhlen from Toledo and more recently with David Zipes from Indianapolis,“ added SHM immediate past President Jeanne Huddleston. “At this stage in the growth of hospital medicine, the SHM board felt it was important to ensure that we continue to have a pediatric voice represented on the board.”
Dr. Percelay currently is director, Virtua Inpatient Pediatrics and CARES at Children’s Health Associates in Vorhees, NJ. Virtua Inpatient Pediatrics is a 13-person pediatric hospitalist group providing coverage at West Jersey Vorhees and Burlington Memorial Hospitals in southern New Jersey. The group covers the pediatric ward, pediatric ICU and emergency room.
In 2003, Dr. Percelay coauthored a survey initiated by the American Association of Pediatrics entitled “Attitudes Toward and Experiences with Pediatric Hospitalists: A National Survey.” The goal of the survey was to explore the extent to which the pediatric hospitalist practice has developed and to examine pediatricians’ attitudes and experiences with pediatric hospitalists. It was the first survey the AAP has conducted on hospitalists.
Dr. Percelay also was a lead author for the recent AAP Policy statement “Guiding Principles for Pediatric Hospitalist Programs” (Pediatrics 2005;115: 11012).
A charter member of SHM, Dr. Percelay has served on numerous committees, including chair of the Pediatric Committee and a member of the Public Policy committee.
SHM has created a new seat on the Board of Directors that must be filled by a pediatric hospitalist and has elected Jack Percelay, MD, FAAP as its new pediatric board member. Dr. Percelay began serving a 1-year term on the SHM board beginning April 29, 2005. In the Fall of 2005, during the next board elections, the new position will become a 3-year pediatric board seat.
“The addition of a pediatrics seat to the board is important because pediatric hospitalists have a unique and important perspective on our growing specialty of hospital medicine,” said new SHM President, Steven Pantilat, MD, FACP. “Jack Percelay has long been a leader in field of pediatric hospital medicine, has nurtured the development of pediatric hospitalists, and has been a key link in our work with the American Academy of Pediatrics for many years now. We welcome his insights and vision as we continue to expand the role of education and leadership for pediatric hospitalists.”
“For many years SHM has had a pediatrician represented on the board―first with Mike Ruhlen from Toledo and more recently with David Zipes from Indianapolis,“ added SHM immediate past President Jeanne Huddleston. “At this stage in the growth of hospital medicine, the SHM board felt it was important to ensure that we continue to have a pediatric voice represented on the board.”
Dr. Percelay currently is director, Virtua Inpatient Pediatrics and CARES at Children’s Health Associates in Vorhees, NJ. Virtua Inpatient Pediatrics is a 13-person pediatric hospitalist group providing coverage at West Jersey Vorhees and Burlington Memorial Hospitals in southern New Jersey. The group covers the pediatric ward, pediatric ICU and emergency room.
In 2003, Dr. Percelay coauthored a survey initiated by the American Association of Pediatrics entitled “Attitudes Toward and Experiences with Pediatric Hospitalists: A National Survey.” The goal of the survey was to explore the extent to which the pediatric hospitalist practice has developed and to examine pediatricians’ attitudes and experiences with pediatric hospitalists. It was the first survey the AAP has conducted on hospitalists.
Dr. Percelay also was a lead author for the recent AAP Policy statement “Guiding Principles for Pediatric Hospitalist Programs” (Pediatrics 2005;115: 11012).
A charter member of SHM, Dr. Percelay has served on numerous committees, including chair of the Pediatric Committee and a member of the Public Policy committee.
Four Physicians Presented SHM's 2005 National Awards of Excellence
SHM presented its 2005 national awards of excellence to four hospitalists whose work and research have contributed significantly to hospital medicine and to the betterment of hospital care across America. The award winners, who were recognized at the SHM annual meeting in Chicago, included:
- Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSc, assistant professor, Division of General Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, and attending physician and assistant director for research, Hospitalist Program, Grady Memorial Hospital, both in Atlanta, GA– recipient of Young Investigator Award.
- Shaun Frost, MD, FACP, assistant professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, and hospitalist, HealthPartners Medical Group and Clinics, Regions Hospital, St Paul, MN– recipient of Clinical Excellence Award.
- Joseph Ming Wah Li, MD, hospitalist and director of the Hospital Medicine section, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA– recipient of Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine Award.
- Jeff Wiese, MD, associate professor of medicine, associate chairman of medicine, director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, and chief of medicine, Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans and Charity Hospital, New Orleans, LA– recipient of Excellence in Teaching Award.
Dr. Kripalani has established himself as one of the leading investigators in the field of patient literacy and its impact on health outcomes. He has been the recipient of more than $1 million in grant funding, including a prestigious K23 Patient Oriented Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to examine the relationship between health literacy and medication adherence after hospital discharge. He is currently the principal investigator on a randomized trial of two low literacy interventions designed to improve medication adherence among patients with coronary heart disease, funded by the American Heart Association. In addition, through a Pfizer Health Literacy Scholar Award, he has established a training program to improve physician communication with low literacy patients.
Dr. Kripalani has authored over 20 scientific and educational publications, including articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and American Journal of Preventive Medicine. He serves as a reviewer for several prominent medical journals and has reviewed grants for the NIH. Dr. Kripalani has lectured at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Georgia Hospital Association, SHM, and Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), where he coordinates the health literacy interest group. He is also serving as an associate editor of the upcoming book, Hospital Medicine Secrets, and coeditor of an upcoming special issue on health literacy for the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
In addition to these activities, Dr. Kripalani has proven himself a dedicated champion of SHM, contributing substantial time to research efforts at SHM, including the SHM Research Committee, Continuity of Care Task Force, Abstract Committee, Advisory Board Young Hospitalists Section, and the research section of SHM’s The Hospitalist publication.
After graduating summa cum laude from Rice University in 1993 with a BA in Psychology, Dr. Kripalani received an MD with honors from Baylor College of Medicine in 1997. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta in 2000, where he also completed one of the nation’s first Hospital Medicine Fellowships, including a Master of Science in Clinical Research.
Dr. Frost has dedicated himself to the advancement of clinical knowledge through clinical teaching and scientific publication. He is a member of the Regions Hospital Palliative Care Service and Patient Safety Committee, was a lead participant in a “Lean” implementation team on inpatient testing results, and was selected as the leafter of Regions Hospital “Best Care, Best Experience” work team on provider support. He is also currently participating in the development and implementation of inpatient “Prepared Practice Teams,” a model of multidisciplinary rounding to enhance communication among physicians, nurses, case managers, social workers, and pharmacists.
A teaching faculty member of the University of Minnesota Medical School, he is highly regarded by residents and medical students, and has been instrumental in developing curricula in perioperative medicine for residents to improve the systems of surgical care through education.
Dr. Frost is a frequent lecturer on topics ranging from perioperative medicine to venous thromboembolism and has been published in: Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, Medical Clinics of North America, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, and The Hospitalist. He currently is lead investigator for a trial on preoperative medication administration.
Dr. Frost has demonstrated consistent leadership within SHM. He is regarded as the definitive resource in local chapter development due to his work in the SHM Lake Erie Chapter, where he was founder and president. He also is credited with establishing the very first formal chapter of SHM. His vision for the future of chapter activities – including community service and a national recognition program – resulted in a Membership Committee task force on chapter development. As a leader in the Midwest SHM region, Dr. Frost was named a Councilor to the SHM Midwest Council. His outstanding performance led to his assuming the chair of the Council in 2004. Dr. Frost is also recognized as a subject matter expert in biomedical ethics, serving consecutive terms on the Ethics Committee as well.
Dr. Frost earned his MD at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas as an AOA graduate, and completed his residency in Internal Medicine there. From 1998 through 2004, as a hospitalist at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, he was a contributor to the development, maturation, and operation of its hospital medicine model of care.
Dr. Li was the first hospitalist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Medicine Program in 1998. There he helped define the role of an academic hospitalist through clinical work, teaching, and service on countless committees and hospital initiatives. He quickly distinguished himself and was made associate chief of the HCA/ACOVE medical teaching
firm and, more recently, director of the BIDMC Hospital Medicine Program. A key focus for Dr. Li was broadening the Hospital Medicine Program at BIDMC. Under his guidance, the program grew to eleven hospitalists that account for over 50% of all general medicine admissions and over 50% of teaching attending months on the medical service. He also developed a system that allowed staff to provide 24/7 seamless coverage and created a website of referring physicians. He initiated new clinical programs and working arrangements for the hospitalist team, and helped institute a program to staff a local hospital with Beth Israel Deaconess hospitalists.
Dr. Li’s advocacy for Hospital Medicine did not stop at the doors of BIDMC, however. He was a co-developer of the first Harvard Medical School CME course on the emerging role of hospital medicine, and was the cofounder of the Boston Area Hospitalists and the SHM Northeast Regional Chapter of hospitalists. A charter member of SHM, he co-directed the first SHM annual northeastern regional meeting in 2001. He currently is a member of the SHM Education Committee, Annual Meeting Committee, and Membership Committee Task Force.
A nationally recognized expert in hospital medicine, Dr. Li lectures extensively and has testified on hearings dealing with mandatory hospitalist programs. He has published numerous articles in Critical Pathways in Cardiology, WebMD, Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, and Medscape.com, to name a few.
After earning his MD from the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City in 1994, Dr. Li did his residency at New England Deaconess Hospital before becoming chief medical resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Dr. Wiese has received 21 awards for teaching over the last five years, including six from the University of California at San Francisco, where he started his career in 1998 as a clinical instructor. Since joining Tulane University in 2000, he has earned 16 teaching awards, including the prestigious all Tulane Faculty of the Year Award (twice) and the Virginia Furrow Award for Innovation in Medical Education. On the clinical wards, he has twice won Attending of the Year honors, and his Professor Rounds are routinely rated among the best.
Dr. Wiese designed numerous innovative curriculums. As a result of his clinical diagnosis innovations, the Clinical Diagnosis scores at Tulane increased from the 46th percentile to the 80th and 82nd percentile, with 10% of the 2004 class scoring in the top percentile in the nation. As a result of his restructuring of core curriculum to emphasize rational, evidenced based medical decision making, Tulane’s internal medicine program recently went the highest on its match list in the past 20 years. And through Dr. Wiese’s pyramid mentor system, Tulane Internal Medicine presented more regional and national presentations than any residency program in the country.
Dr. Wiese has written over 50 articles, books, or book chapters, is assistant editor for two educational textbooks and a reviewer for six national journals, has authored two textbooks, and is on the editorial board for a monthly publication. As an active SHM member, he has served on the Education Committee, Southern SHM Committee, and was program director for SHM’s Intensive Care Pre-course.
Dr. Wiese received his MD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1995. He completed his residency and chief residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, where he also completed a fellowship in General Internal Medicine with a focus on Hospitalist Medicine. He joined Tulane in 2000, after being recruited to start a hospitalist system at the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (Charity Hospital). His hospitalist proposal was accepted by the state and hospital administration, helping to provide funding to hospitalists at Charity.
Please join us in congratulating all of this year’s outstanding award winners.
SHM presented its 2005 national awards of excellence to four hospitalists whose work and research have contributed significantly to hospital medicine and to the betterment of hospital care across America. The award winners, who were recognized at the SHM annual meeting in Chicago, included:
- Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSc, assistant professor, Division of General Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, and attending physician and assistant director for research, Hospitalist Program, Grady Memorial Hospital, both in Atlanta, GA– recipient of Young Investigator Award.
- Shaun Frost, MD, FACP, assistant professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, and hospitalist, HealthPartners Medical Group and Clinics, Regions Hospital, St Paul, MN– recipient of Clinical Excellence Award.
- Joseph Ming Wah Li, MD, hospitalist and director of the Hospital Medicine section, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA– recipient of Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine Award.
- Jeff Wiese, MD, associate professor of medicine, associate chairman of medicine, director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, and chief of medicine, Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans and Charity Hospital, New Orleans, LA– recipient of Excellence in Teaching Award.
Dr. Kripalani has established himself as one of the leading investigators in the field of patient literacy and its impact on health outcomes. He has been the recipient of more than $1 million in grant funding, including a prestigious K23 Patient Oriented Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to examine the relationship between health literacy and medication adherence after hospital discharge. He is currently the principal investigator on a randomized trial of two low literacy interventions designed to improve medication adherence among patients with coronary heart disease, funded by the American Heart Association. In addition, through a Pfizer Health Literacy Scholar Award, he has established a training program to improve physician communication with low literacy patients.
Dr. Kripalani has authored over 20 scientific and educational publications, including articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and American Journal of Preventive Medicine. He serves as a reviewer for several prominent medical journals and has reviewed grants for the NIH. Dr. Kripalani has lectured at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Georgia Hospital Association, SHM, and Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), where he coordinates the health literacy interest group. He is also serving as an associate editor of the upcoming book, Hospital Medicine Secrets, and coeditor of an upcoming special issue on health literacy for the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
In addition to these activities, Dr. Kripalani has proven himself a dedicated champion of SHM, contributing substantial time to research efforts at SHM, including the SHM Research Committee, Continuity of Care Task Force, Abstract Committee, Advisory Board Young Hospitalists Section, and the research section of SHM’s The Hospitalist publication.
After graduating summa cum laude from Rice University in 1993 with a BA in Psychology, Dr. Kripalani received an MD with honors from Baylor College of Medicine in 1997. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta in 2000, where he also completed one of the nation’s first Hospital Medicine Fellowships, including a Master of Science in Clinical Research.
Dr. Frost has dedicated himself to the advancement of clinical knowledge through clinical teaching and scientific publication. He is a member of the Regions Hospital Palliative Care Service and Patient Safety Committee, was a lead participant in a “Lean” implementation team on inpatient testing results, and was selected as the leafter of Regions Hospital “Best Care, Best Experience” work team on provider support. He is also currently participating in the development and implementation of inpatient “Prepared Practice Teams,” a model of multidisciplinary rounding to enhance communication among physicians, nurses, case managers, social workers, and pharmacists.
A teaching faculty member of the University of Minnesota Medical School, he is highly regarded by residents and medical students, and has been instrumental in developing curricula in perioperative medicine for residents to improve the systems of surgical care through education.
Dr. Frost is a frequent lecturer on topics ranging from perioperative medicine to venous thromboembolism and has been published in: Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, Medical Clinics of North America, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, and The Hospitalist. He currently is lead investigator for a trial on preoperative medication administration.
Dr. Frost has demonstrated consistent leadership within SHM. He is regarded as the definitive resource in local chapter development due to his work in the SHM Lake Erie Chapter, where he was founder and president. He also is credited with establishing the very first formal chapter of SHM. His vision for the future of chapter activities – including community service and a national recognition program – resulted in a Membership Committee task force on chapter development. As a leader in the Midwest SHM region, Dr. Frost was named a Councilor to the SHM Midwest Council. His outstanding performance led to his assuming the chair of the Council in 2004. Dr. Frost is also recognized as a subject matter expert in biomedical ethics, serving consecutive terms on the Ethics Committee as well.
Dr. Frost earned his MD at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas as an AOA graduate, and completed his residency in Internal Medicine there. From 1998 through 2004, as a hospitalist at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, he was a contributor to the development, maturation, and operation of its hospital medicine model of care.
Dr. Li was the first hospitalist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Medicine Program in 1998. There he helped define the role of an academic hospitalist through clinical work, teaching, and service on countless committees and hospital initiatives. He quickly distinguished himself and was made associate chief of the HCA/ACOVE medical teaching
firm and, more recently, director of the BIDMC Hospital Medicine Program. A key focus for Dr. Li was broadening the Hospital Medicine Program at BIDMC. Under his guidance, the program grew to eleven hospitalists that account for over 50% of all general medicine admissions and over 50% of teaching attending months on the medical service. He also developed a system that allowed staff to provide 24/7 seamless coverage and created a website of referring physicians. He initiated new clinical programs and working arrangements for the hospitalist team, and helped institute a program to staff a local hospital with Beth Israel Deaconess hospitalists.
Dr. Li’s advocacy for Hospital Medicine did not stop at the doors of BIDMC, however. He was a co-developer of the first Harvard Medical School CME course on the emerging role of hospital medicine, and was the cofounder of the Boston Area Hospitalists and the SHM Northeast Regional Chapter of hospitalists. A charter member of SHM, he co-directed the first SHM annual northeastern regional meeting in 2001. He currently is a member of the SHM Education Committee, Annual Meeting Committee, and Membership Committee Task Force.
A nationally recognized expert in hospital medicine, Dr. Li lectures extensively and has testified on hearings dealing with mandatory hospitalist programs. He has published numerous articles in Critical Pathways in Cardiology, WebMD, Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, and Medscape.com, to name a few.
After earning his MD from the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City in 1994, Dr. Li did his residency at New England Deaconess Hospital before becoming chief medical resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Dr. Wiese has received 21 awards for teaching over the last five years, including six from the University of California at San Francisco, where he started his career in 1998 as a clinical instructor. Since joining Tulane University in 2000, he has earned 16 teaching awards, including the prestigious all Tulane Faculty of the Year Award (twice) and the Virginia Furrow Award for Innovation in Medical Education. On the clinical wards, he has twice won Attending of the Year honors, and his Professor Rounds are routinely rated among the best.
Dr. Wiese designed numerous innovative curriculums. As a result of his clinical diagnosis innovations, the Clinical Diagnosis scores at Tulane increased from the 46th percentile to the 80th and 82nd percentile, with 10% of the 2004 class scoring in the top percentile in the nation. As a result of his restructuring of core curriculum to emphasize rational, evidenced based medical decision making, Tulane’s internal medicine program recently went the highest on its match list in the past 20 years. And through Dr. Wiese’s pyramid mentor system, Tulane Internal Medicine presented more regional and national presentations than any residency program in the country.
Dr. Wiese has written over 50 articles, books, or book chapters, is assistant editor for two educational textbooks and a reviewer for six national journals, has authored two textbooks, and is on the editorial board for a monthly publication. As an active SHM member, he has served on the Education Committee, Southern SHM Committee, and was program director for SHM’s Intensive Care Pre-course.
Dr. Wiese received his MD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1995. He completed his residency and chief residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, where he also completed a fellowship in General Internal Medicine with a focus on Hospitalist Medicine. He joined Tulane in 2000, after being recruited to start a hospitalist system at the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (Charity Hospital). His hospitalist proposal was accepted by the state and hospital administration, helping to provide funding to hospitalists at Charity.
Please join us in congratulating all of this year’s outstanding award winners.
SHM presented its 2005 national awards of excellence to four hospitalists whose work and research have contributed significantly to hospital medicine and to the betterment of hospital care across America. The award winners, who were recognized at the SHM annual meeting in Chicago, included:
- Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSc, assistant professor, Division of General Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, and attending physician and assistant director for research, Hospitalist Program, Grady Memorial Hospital, both in Atlanta, GA– recipient of Young Investigator Award.
- Shaun Frost, MD, FACP, assistant professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, and hospitalist, HealthPartners Medical Group and Clinics, Regions Hospital, St Paul, MN– recipient of Clinical Excellence Award.
- Joseph Ming Wah Li, MD, hospitalist and director of the Hospital Medicine section, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA– recipient of Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine Award.
- Jeff Wiese, MD, associate professor of medicine, associate chairman of medicine, director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, and chief of medicine, Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans and Charity Hospital, New Orleans, LA– recipient of Excellence in Teaching Award.
Dr. Kripalani has established himself as one of the leading investigators in the field of patient literacy and its impact on health outcomes. He has been the recipient of more than $1 million in grant funding, including a prestigious K23 Patient Oriented Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to examine the relationship between health literacy and medication adherence after hospital discharge. He is currently the principal investigator on a randomized trial of two low literacy interventions designed to improve medication adherence among patients with coronary heart disease, funded by the American Heart Association. In addition, through a Pfizer Health Literacy Scholar Award, he has established a training program to improve physician communication with low literacy patients.
Dr. Kripalani has authored over 20 scientific and educational publications, including articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of General Internal Medicine, and American Journal of Preventive Medicine. He serves as a reviewer for several prominent medical journals and has reviewed grants for the NIH. Dr. Kripalani has lectured at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Georgia Hospital Association, SHM, and Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), where he coordinates the health literacy interest group. He is also serving as an associate editor of the upcoming book, Hospital Medicine Secrets, and coeditor of an upcoming special issue on health literacy for the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
In addition to these activities, Dr. Kripalani has proven himself a dedicated champion of SHM, contributing substantial time to research efforts at SHM, including the SHM Research Committee, Continuity of Care Task Force, Abstract Committee, Advisory Board Young Hospitalists Section, and the research section of SHM’s The Hospitalist publication.
After graduating summa cum laude from Rice University in 1993 with a BA in Psychology, Dr. Kripalani received an MD with honors from Baylor College of Medicine in 1997. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta in 2000, where he also completed one of the nation’s first Hospital Medicine Fellowships, including a Master of Science in Clinical Research.
Dr. Frost has dedicated himself to the advancement of clinical knowledge through clinical teaching and scientific publication. He is a member of the Regions Hospital Palliative Care Service and Patient Safety Committee, was a lead participant in a “Lean” implementation team on inpatient testing results, and was selected as the leafter of Regions Hospital “Best Care, Best Experience” work team on provider support. He is also currently participating in the development and implementation of inpatient “Prepared Practice Teams,” a model of multidisciplinary rounding to enhance communication among physicians, nurses, case managers, social workers, and pharmacists.
A teaching faculty member of the University of Minnesota Medical School, he is highly regarded by residents and medical students, and has been instrumental in developing curricula in perioperative medicine for residents to improve the systems of surgical care through education.
Dr. Frost is a frequent lecturer on topics ranging from perioperative medicine to venous thromboembolism and has been published in: Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA, Medical Clinics of North America, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine, and The Hospitalist. He currently is lead investigator for a trial on preoperative medication administration.
Dr. Frost has demonstrated consistent leadership within SHM. He is regarded as the definitive resource in local chapter development due to his work in the SHM Lake Erie Chapter, where he was founder and president. He also is credited with establishing the very first formal chapter of SHM. His vision for the future of chapter activities – including community service and a national recognition program – resulted in a Membership Committee task force on chapter development. As a leader in the Midwest SHM region, Dr. Frost was named a Councilor to the SHM Midwest Council. His outstanding performance led to his assuming the chair of the Council in 2004. Dr. Frost is also recognized as a subject matter expert in biomedical ethics, serving consecutive terms on the Ethics Committee as well.
Dr. Frost earned his MD at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas as an AOA graduate, and completed his residency in Internal Medicine there. From 1998 through 2004, as a hospitalist at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, he was a contributor to the development, maturation, and operation of its hospital medicine model of care.
Dr. Li was the first hospitalist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Medicine Program in 1998. There he helped define the role of an academic hospitalist through clinical work, teaching, and service on countless committees and hospital initiatives. He quickly distinguished himself and was made associate chief of the HCA/ACOVE medical teaching
firm and, more recently, director of the BIDMC Hospital Medicine Program. A key focus for Dr. Li was broadening the Hospital Medicine Program at BIDMC. Under his guidance, the program grew to eleven hospitalists that account for over 50% of all general medicine admissions and over 50% of teaching attending months on the medical service. He also developed a system that allowed staff to provide 24/7 seamless coverage and created a website of referring physicians. He initiated new clinical programs and working arrangements for the hospitalist team, and helped institute a program to staff a local hospital with Beth Israel Deaconess hospitalists.
Dr. Li’s advocacy for Hospital Medicine did not stop at the doors of BIDMC, however. He was a co-developer of the first Harvard Medical School CME course on the emerging role of hospital medicine, and was the cofounder of the Boston Area Hospitalists and the SHM Northeast Regional Chapter of hospitalists. A charter member of SHM, he co-directed the first SHM annual northeastern regional meeting in 2001. He currently is a member of the SHM Education Committee, Annual Meeting Committee, and Membership Committee Task Force.
A nationally recognized expert in hospital medicine, Dr. Li lectures extensively and has testified on hearings dealing with mandatory hospitalist programs. He has published numerous articles in Critical Pathways in Cardiology, WebMD, Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, and Medscape.com, to name a few.
After earning his MD from the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City in 1994, Dr. Li did his residency at New England Deaconess Hospital before becoming chief medical resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Dr. Wiese has received 21 awards for teaching over the last five years, including six from the University of California at San Francisco, where he started his career in 1998 as a clinical instructor. Since joining Tulane University in 2000, he has earned 16 teaching awards, including the prestigious all Tulane Faculty of the Year Award (twice) and the Virginia Furrow Award for Innovation in Medical Education. On the clinical wards, he has twice won Attending of the Year honors, and his Professor Rounds are routinely rated among the best.
Dr. Wiese designed numerous innovative curriculums. As a result of his clinical diagnosis innovations, the Clinical Diagnosis scores at Tulane increased from the 46th percentile to the 80th and 82nd percentile, with 10% of the 2004 class scoring in the top percentile in the nation. As a result of his restructuring of core curriculum to emphasize rational, evidenced based medical decision making, Tulane’s internal medicine program recently went the highest on its match list in the past 20 years. And through Dr. Wiese’s pyramid mentor system, Tulane Internal Medicine presented more regional and national presentations than any residency program in the country.
Dr. Wiese has written over 50 articles, books, or book chapters, is assistant editor for two educational textbooks and a reviewer for six national journals, has authored two textbooks, and is on the editorial board for a monthly publication. As an active SHM member, he has served on the Education Committee, Southern SHM Committee, and was program director for SHM’s Intensive Care Pre-course.
Dr. Wiese received his MD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1995. He completed his residency and chief residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, where he also completed a fellowship in General Internal Medicine with a focus on Hospitalist Medicine. He joined Tulane in 2000, after being recruited to start a hospitalist system at the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (Charity Hospital). His hospitalist proposal was accepted by the state and hospital administration, helping to provide funding to hospitalists at Charity.
Please join us in congratulating all of this year’s outstanding award winners.
SHM Inducts New Officers at Annual Meeting
Steven Pantilat, MD, assumed the role of SHM’s new president at the 2005 Annual Meeting, along with a slate of other newly elected officers, including: Mary Jo Gorman, MD, MBA, president elect, William Atchley, MD, FACP, treasurer, and Lisa Kettering, MD, FACP, secretary. “These are exciting times of growth for SHM and hospital medicine,” said Jeanne Huddleston, MD, SHM’s immediate past president. “So we’re thrilled to bring on a team of extraordinary leaders who have long demonstrated their commitment to our organization’s goals and to the hospital medicine movement.”
“I’m extremely pleased to have this opportunity to lead SHM at this critical juncture,” said new President Dr. Pantilat. “Hospitalists are leading breakthrough initiatives around the country in areas such as patient safety, hospital leadership, and quality of care. But there are other important areas where we can make a difference. My goals for SHM this year are twofold. First, I plan to promote research in hospital medicine to discover how best to improve the quality of care for hospitalized patients. Second, I have appointed a Palliative Care Task force to examine how hospitalists can improve the care of patients with serious and life threatening illnesses.”
Dr. Pantilat is an associate professor of clinical medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He also is a hospitalist attending on the medical service and is the founding director of both the Palliative Care Consult Service and the Comfort Care Suites, a 2-bed inpatient palliative care unit at UCSF. Dr. Pantilat is a full-time faculty member in the Program in Medical Ethics at UCSF, a faculty scholar of the Soros Foundation Project on Death in America and a recipient of a research career development award from the National Institute on Aging. Dr. Pantilat is also the director of the UCSF Palliative Care leadership Center, which trains teams from hospitals across the country to develop and implement palliative care services in their own institutions.
In addition to his research on improving palliative care, Dr. Pantilat teaches palliative care at UCSF and is coeditor of an end of life care series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) titled “Perspectives on Care at the Close of Life.”
A charter member of SHM, Dr. Pantilat has served in numerous leadership positions through the years, including as first chair of the SHM Ethics Committee, member of the Board of Directors and treasurer.
SHM President-elect Mary Jo Gorman, MD, MBA, is chief medical officer for IPC The Hospitalist Company, a private practice hospital medicine company. There she works with more than 300 physicians in developing programs and strategies that enhance clinical performance and drive the delivery system towards more efficient care and greater patient satisfaction. She also oversees IPC’s physician training, mentoring and retention programs, as well as IPC’s call center nurses, healthcare services and
clinical studies.
Dr. Gorman has been a practicing hospitalist since 1997, when she founded the first hospital medicine practice in St. Louis, MO. Her original group merged into IPC in January 1999 and since that time has grown to become the dominant hospital medicine group in the city. Dr. Gorman is a charter member of SHM and has served on multiple committees, including chairman of the Public Policy Committee.
New Treasurer William Atchley, MD is the director of the hospital medicine service at Sentara Careplex Hospital in Hampton, VA. He has been a practicing hospitalist since 1995, when he founded the hospital medicine practice for Sentara Medical Group in Norfolk, VA. The program grew to provide coverage to three local hospitals. He also helped to create the Division of Hospital Medicine in Sentara Medical Group. In 2002 he led Sentara Medical Group to start the hospital medicine service at Sentara Careplex Hospital. At that time he founded Peninsula Inpatient Medicine Specialists, which now has eight hospitalists.
Dr. Atchley is a charter member of SHM and had previously served as secretary since 2003. He also serves the organization as chair of the Awards Committee and a member of the Finance Committee and the Southern Regional Council. He previously served on the Benchmarks and Compensation Task Force, Membership Committee and the Annual Session Planning Committee.
Secretary Lisa Kettering, MD, FACP, is associate director of Inpatient Services for the Department of Graduate Medical Education, Internal Medicine, at Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver. She also serves as director of the Evidence Based Medicine Curriculum for the Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital Internal Medicine residency program and is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Dr. Kettering is a charter member of SHM and was elected to the board in 2003. She has also served as chair of the Membership Committee from 20032005, and course director for the 6th Annual Meeting. She has served on the Awards Committee, Nominations Committee, Annual Meeting Planning Committee, and the Education Committee. She currently is a member of the Western Regional Council and is president of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of SHM.
Please join us in congratulating all the new officers.
Steven Pantilat, MD, assumed the role of SHM’s new president at the 2005 Annual Meeting, along with a slate of other newly elected officers, including: Mary Jo Gorman, MD, MBA, president elect, William Atchley, MD, FACP, treasurer, and Lisa Kettering, MD, FACP, secretary. “These are exciting times of growth for SHM and hospital medicine,” said Jeanne Huddleston, MD, SHM’s immediate past president. “So we’re thrilled to bring on a team of extraordinary leaders who have long demonstrated their commitment to our organization’s goals and to the hospital medicine movement.”
“I’m extremely pleased to have this opportunity to lead SHM at this critical juncture,” said new President Dr. Pantilat. “Hospitalists are leading breakthrough initiatives around the country in areas such as patient safety, hospital leadership, and quality of care. But there are other important areas where we can make a difference. My goals for SHM this year are twofold. First, I plan to promote research in hospital medicine to discover how best to improve the quality of care for hospitalized patients. Second, I have appointed a Palliative Care Task force to examine how hospitalists can improve the care of patients with serious and life threatening illnesses.”
Dr. Pantilat is an associate professor of clinical medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He also is a hospitalist attending on the medical service and is the founding director of both the Palliative Care Consult Service and the Comfort Care Suites, a 2-bed inpatient palliative care unit at UCSF. Dr. Pantilat is a full-time faculty member in the Program in Medical Ethics at UCSF, a faculty scholar of the Soros Foundation Project on Death in America and a recipient of a research career development award from the National Institute on Aging. Dr. Pantilat is also the director of the UCSF Palliative Care leadership Center, which trains teams from hospitals across the country to develop and implement palliative care services in their own institutions.
In addition to his research on improving palliative care, Dr. Pantilat teaches palliative care at UCSF and is coeditor of an end of life care series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) titled “Perspectives on Care at the Close of Life.”
A charter member of SHM, Dr. Pantilat has served in numerous leadership positions through the years, including as first chair of the SHM Ethics Committee, member of the Board of Directors and treasurer.
SHM President-elect Mary Jo Gorman, MD, MBA, is chief medical officer for IPC The Hospitalist Company, a private practice hospital medicine company. There she works with more than 300 physicians in developing programs and strategies that enhance clinical performance and drive the delivery system towards more efficient care and greater patient satisfaction. She also oversees IPC’s physician training, mentoring and retention programs, as well as IPC’s call center nurses, healthcare services and
clinical studies.
Dr. Gorman has been a practicing hospitalist since 1997, when she founded the first hospital medicine practice in St. Louis, MO. Her original group merged into IPC in January 1999 and since that time has grown to become the dominant hospital medicine group in the city. Dr. Gorman is a charter member of SHM and has served on multiple committees, including chairman of the Public Policy Committee.
New Treasurer William Atchley, MD is the director of the hospital medicine service at Sentara Careplex Hospital in Hampton, VA. He has been a practicing hospitalist since 1995, when he founded the hospital medicine practice for Sentara Medical Group in Norfolk, VA. The program grew to provide coverage to three local hospitals. He also helped to create the Division of Hospital Medicine in Sentara Medical Group. In 2002 he led Sentara Medical Group to start the hospital medicine service at Sentara Careplex Hospital. At that time he founded Peninsula Inpatient Medicine Specialists, which now has eight hospitalists.
Dr. Atchley is a charter member of SHM and had previously served as secretary since 2003. He also serves the organization as chair of the Awards Committee and a member of the Finance Committee and the Southern Regional Council. He previously served on the Benchmarks and Compensation Task Force, Membership Committee and the Annual Session Planning Committee.
Secretary Lisa Kettering, MD, FACP, is associate director of Inpatient Services for the Department of Graduate Medical Education, Internal Medicine, at Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver. She also serves as director of the Evidence Based Medicine Curriculum for the Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital Internal Medicine residency program and is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Dr. Kettering is a charter member of SHM and was elected to the board in 2003. She has also served as chair of the Membership Committee from 20032005, and course director for the 6th Annual Meeting. She has served on the Awards Committee, Nominations Committee, Annual Meeting Planning Committee, and the Education Committee. She currently is a member of the Western Regional Council and is president of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of SHM.
Please join us in congratulating all the new officers.
Steven Pantilat, MD, assumed the role of SHM’s new president at the 2005 Annual Meeting, along with a slate of other newly elected officers, including: Mary Jo Gorman, MD, MBA, president elect, William Atchley, MD, FACP, treasurer, and Lisa Kettering, MD, FACP, secretary. “These are exciting times of growth for SHM and hospital medicine,” said Jeanne Huddleston, MD, SHM’s immediate past president. “So we’re thrilled to bring on a team of extraordinary leaders who have long demonstrated their commitment to our organization’s goals and to the hospital medicine movement.”
“I’m extremely pleased to have this opportunity to lead SHM at this critical juncture,” said new President Dr. Pantilat. “Hospitalists are leading breakthrough initiatives around the country in areas such as patient safety, hospital leadership, and quality of care. But there are other important areas where we can make a difference. My goals for SHM this year are twofold. First, I plan to promote research in hospital medicine to discover how best to improve the quality of care for hospitalized patients. Second, I have appointed a Palliative Care Task force to examine how hospitalists can improve the care of patients with serious and life threatening illnesses.”
Dr. Pantilat is an associate professor of clinical medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He also is a hospitalist attending on the medical service and is the founding director of both the Palliative Care Consult Service and the Comfort Care Suites, a 2-bed inpatient palliative care unit at UCSF. Dr. Pantilat is a full-time faculty member in the Program in Medical Ethics at UCSF, a faculty scholar of the Soros Foundation Project on Death in America and a recipient of a research career development award from the National Institute on Aging. Dr. Pantilat is also the director of the UCSF Palliative Care leadership Center, which trains teams from hospitals across the country to develop and implement palliative care services in their own institutions.
In addition to his research on improving palliative care, Dr. Pantilat teaches palliative care at UCSF and is coeditor of an end of life care series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) titled “Perspectives on Care at the Close of Life.”
A charter member of SHM, Dr. Pantilat has served in numerous leadership positions through the years, including as first chair of the SHM Ethics Committee, member of the Board of Directors and treasurer.
SHM President-elect Mary Jo Gorman, MD, MBA, is chief medical officer for IPC The Hospitalist Company, a private practice hospital medicine company. There she works with more than 300 physicians in developing programs and strategies that enhance clinical performance and drive the delivery system towards more efficient care and greater patient satisfaction. She also oversees IPC’s physician training, mentoring and retention programs, as well as IPC’s call center nurses, healthcare services and
clinical studies.
Dr. Gorman has been a practicing hospitalist since 1997, when she founded the first hospital medicine practice in St. Louis, MO. Her original group merged into IPC in January 1999 and since that time has grown to become the dominant hospital medicine group in the city. Dr. Gorman is a charter member of SHM and has served on multiple committees, including chairman of the Public Policy Committee.
New Treasurer William Atchley, MD is the director of the hospital medicine service at Sentara Careplex Hospital in Hampton, VA. He has been a practicing hospitalist since 1995, when he founded the hospital medicine practice for Sentara Medical Group in Norfolk, VA. The program grew to provide coverage to three local hospitals. He also helped to create the Division of Hospital Medicine in Sentara Medical Group. In 2002 he led Sentara Medical Group to start the hospital medicine service at Sentara Careplex Hospital. At that time he founded Peninsula Inpatient Medicine Specialists, which now has eight hospitalists.
Dr. Atchley is a charter member of SHM and had previously served as secretary since 2003. He also serves the organization as chair of the Awards Committee and a member of the Finance Committee and the Southern Regional Council. He previously served on the Benchmarks and Compensation Task Force, Membership Committee and the Annual Session Planning Committee.
Secretary Lisa Kettering, MD, FACP, is associate director of Inpatient Services for the Department of Graduate Medical Education, Internal Medicine, at Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver. She also serves as director of the Evidence Based Medicine Curriculum for the Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital Internal Medicine residency program and is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Dr. Kettering is a charter member of SHM and was elected to the board in 2003. She has also served as chair of the Membership Committee from 20032005, and course director for the 6th Annual Meeting. She has served on the Awards Committee, Nominations Committee, Annual Meeting Planning Committee, and the Education Committee. She currently is a member of the Western Regional Council and is president of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of SHM.
Please join us in congratulating all the new officers.
Drs. Goldsholl, Amin, and Flanders Elected to SHM Board
SHM has elected Scott A. Flanders, MD, Alpesh Amin, MD, MBA, and Stacy Goldsholl, MD, to serve a 3-year term on the board of directors, beginning April 29, 2005. The new board members replace outgoing board members Jeff Dichter, MD, David Zipes, MD, and Peter Lindenauer, MD.
“Our new board members are all accomplished physicians who have consistently demonstrated their commitment to the field of hospital medicine,” said SHM president Jeanne Huddleston, MD. “Each of these new board members brings a vast range of experience, leadership, and passion to the Board that is sure to stimulate new thinking and new goals that will strengthen the role of hospitalists. We look forward to their insights and vision as we continue to expand the role of hospitalists as leaders and change agents in transforming patient care and quality.”
Scott A. Flanders, MD, FACP was a founding member of SHM’s Board of Directors in 1997 and served on the board for 6 years. He has since served on many of SHM’s committees and was editor of the organization’s newsletter, The Hospitalist, from 1997 through 2003.
Dr. Flanders currently is a clinical associate professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he also serves as associate division chief of General Medicine for Inpatient Programs and associate director of Inpatient Programs for the Department of Internal Medicine. He is the director of the University of Michigan’s Hospitalist Program. He was formerly an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and director of the Hospitalist Residency Track there . Dr. Flanders, in collaboration with other University of California faculty, developed the content for the nation’s first Hospitalist Residency Track. This track has become a model that has been widely disseminated to other academic centers starting similar programs and formed the basis of a recent chapter for the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM) Manual. Dr. Flanders regularly consults with both academic and community hospitals on issues related to curriculum development in the inpatient setting.
In addition to these activities, Dr. Flanders has been active in guideline development, quality improvement, and patient safety both at the University of Michigan and the University of California, San Francisco. His research interests are related to hospitalists, dissemination of patient safety practices, and the diagnosis and treatment of lower respiratory infections. He speaks regularly at national conferences on the topics of hospitalists and community-acquired and nosocomial pneumonia. He served as associate editor of AHRQ’s Web M&M online journal of patient safety from its inception until 2004.
Dr. Flanders earned his medical degree from the University of Chicago in 1993 and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Alpesh Amin, MD, MBA, FACP became a charter member of SHM in 1998 and also serves as chair of SHM’s Education Committee. Under his leadership, the committee developed three task forces: the Core Curricuum, Leadership, and Geriatrics. Dr. Amin serves as a member of each of these (as well as the SHM Journal Task Force), where he provides guidance in developing education curriculum to improve SHM member skills in these areas. Dr. Amin also is one of the co-authors of the first Core Curriculum for Hospital Medicine, soon to be published. He also served on the 2004 Annual Program Committee and will be the program director for the 2006 Annual Meeting.
Dr. Amin is the executive director for the Hospitalist Program at the University of California Irvine Medical Center in Irvine, a program he started in June 1998. Over the last 7 years, he has grown the program to 15 academic hospitalists. He is also vice-chair for Clinical Affairs, associate program director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program, and clerkship director for the Medicine Clerkship at the University of California, Irvine. Through these different roles, he has been involved in clinical care, administrative and hospital based committee work, and curriculum development. He has also been involved in developing the Hospitalist/Consultative Curriculum, Palliative & Hospice Care Curriculum, and Business of Medicine Curriculum at UCI.
Dr. Amin’s research interests are related to the field of hospital medicine, patient safety and quality, and medical education. He is an invited speaker at national conferences on community acquired and hospital acquired pneumonia, deep vein thrombosis and venous thromboembolism, and heart failure.
Dr. Amin earned his medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL in 1994. He did his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, and went on to earn an MBA in Health Care from that school in 2000.
Stacy Goldsholl, MD, BC, IM has been a practicing hospitalist for 10 years and is a charter member of SHM. Since joining SHM, she has participated as SHM’s Michigan State Regional Councilor, a member of the Practice Management Committee, and faculty for the Midwest Regional Meeting. Currently she is the 2004/5 Chair of the Benchmarks and Productivity Task Force, a faculty member for the 2004/5 Annual Meeting Committee, and facilitator for the 2005 SHM Leadership Academy.
Dr. Goldsholl is currently national medical director for Cogent Healthcare and is the owner of Catalyst Inpatient Solutions, LLC, a consulting firm she founded in 2002 for hospital medicine program development and education.
Dr. Goldsholl began her career in hospital medicine at a community hospital in Atlanta, where she served as a physician advisor for medical management and utilization review. In 2000, she initiated a hospitalist division for a large multi-specialty group in Wilmington, North Carolina. She has spent the last 4 years implementing hospital medicine programs for two large (700 bed) non-profit hospitals and establishing Catalyst Inpatient Solutions to serve the needs of various hospitals, including for-profit and critical access hospital designations, ranging in size from 75 to 700 beds.
Dr. Goldsholl’s clinical interests include partnering Palliative Medicine and Pastoral Services with care of the hospitalized patient, and she participated as a faculty scholar with the 2004 Harvard Medical School’s Program in Palliative Care Education and Practice.
In addition to Dr. Goldsholl’s clinical practice, she served as co-author for “The Hospitalist Program Management Guide” (HCPro), as well as consultant to the Clinical Advisory Board of the Advisory Board Company for the publication “Second Generation Hospitalist Programs.”
Dr. Goldsholl earned her MD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992 and went on to complete her residency training there. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from York College of Pennsylvania in 1985 and attended a Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois in Urbana from 1986-1990. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and a member of the American College of Physician Executives.
Please join us in congratulating all of the new board members, and also in thanking our outgoing board members for their dedication and service.
SHM has elected Scott A. Flanders, MD, Alpesh Amin, MD, MBA, and Stacy Goldsholl, MD, to serve a 3-year term on the board of directors, beginning April 29, 2005. The new board members replace outgoing board members Jeff Dichter, MD, David Zipes, MD, and Peter Lindenauer, MD.
“Our new board members are all accomplished physicians who have consistently demonstrated their commitment to the field of hospital medicine,” said SHM president Jeanne Huddleston, MD. “Each of these new board members brings a vast range of experience, leadership, and passion to the Board that is sure to stimulate new thinking and new goals that will strengthen the role of hospitalists. We look forward to their insights and vision as we continue to expand the role of hospitalists as leaders and change agents in transforming patient care and quality.”
Scott A. Flanders, MD, FACP was a founding member of SHM’s Board of Directors in 1997 and served on the board for 6 years. He has since served on many of SHM’s committees and was editor of the organization’s newsletter, The Hospitalist, from 1997 through 2003.
Dr. Flanders currently is a clinical associate professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he also serves as associate division chief of General Medicine for Inpatient Programs and associate director of Inpatient Programs for the Department of Internal Medicine. He is the director of the University of Michigan’s Hospitalist Program. He was formerly an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and director of the Hospitalist Residency Track there . Dr. Flanders, in collaboration with other University of California faculty, developed the content for the nation’s first Hospitalist Residency Track. This track has become a model that has been widely disseminated to other academic centers starting similar programs and formed the basis of a recent chapter for the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM) Manual. Dr. Flanders regularly consults with both academic and community hospitals on issues related to curriculum development in the inpatient setting.
In addition to these activities, Dr. Flanders has been active in guideline development, quality improvement, and patient safety both at the University of Michigan and the University of California, San Francisco. His research interests are related to hospitalists, dissemination of patient safety practices, and the diagnosis and treatment of lower respiratory infections. He speaks regularly at national conferences on the topics of hospitalists and community-acquired and nosocomial pneumonia. He served as associate editor of AHRQ’s Web M&M online journal of patient safety from its inception until 2004.
Dr. Flanders earned his medical degree from the University of Chicago in 1993 and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Alpesh Amin, MD, MBA, FACP became a charter member of SHM in 1998 and also serves as chair of SHM’s Education Committee. Under his leadership, the committee developed three task forces: the Core Curricuum, Leadership, and Geriatrics. Dr. Amin serves as a member of each of these (as well as the SHM Journal Task Force), where he provides guidance in developing education curriculum to improve SHM member skills in these areas. Dr. Amin also is one of the co-authors of the first Core Curriculum for Hospital Medicine, soon to be published. He also served on the 2004 Annual Program Committee and will be the program director for the 2006 Annual Meeting.
Dr. Amin is the executive director for the Hospitalist Program at the University of California Irvine Medical Center in Irvine, a program he started in June 1998. Over the last 7 years, he has grown the program to 15 academic hospitalists. He is also vice-chair for Clinical Affairs, associate program director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program, and clerkship director for the Medicine Clerkship at the University of California, Irvine. Through these different roles, he has been involved in clinical care, administrative and hospital based committee work, and curriculum development. He has also been involved in developing the Hospitalist/Consultative Curriculum, Palliative & Hospice Care Curriculum, and Business of Medicine Curriculum at UCI.
Dr. Amin’s research interests are related to the field of hospital medicine, patient safety and quality, and medical education. He is an invited speaker at national conferences on community acquired and hospital acquired pneumonia, deep vein thrombosis and venous thromboembolism, and heart failure.
Dr. Amin earned his medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL in 1994. He did his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, and went on to earn an MBA in Health Care from that school in 2000.
Stacy Goldsholl, MD, BC, IM has been a practicing hospitalist for 10 years and is a charter member of SHM. Since joining SHM, she has participated as SHM’s Michigan State Regional Councilor, a member of the Practice Management Committee, and faculty for the Midwest Regional Meeting. Currently she is the 2004/5 Chair of the Benchmarks and Productivity Task Force, a faculty member for the 2004/5 Annual Meeting Committee, and facilitator for the 2005 SHM Leadership Academy.
Dr. Goldsholl is currently national medical director for Cogent Healthcare and is the owner of Catalyst Inpatient Solutions, LLC, a consulting firm she founded in 2002 for hospital medicine program development and education.
Dr. Goldsholl began her career in hospital medicine at a community hospital in Atlanta, where she served as a physician advisor for medical management and utilization review. In 2000, she initiated a hospitalist division for a large multi-specialty group in Wilmington, North Carolina. She has spent the last 4 years implementing hospital medicine programs for two large (700 bed) non-profit hospitals and establishing Catalyst Inpatient Solutions to serve the needs of various hospitals, including for-profit and critical access hospital designations, ranging in size from 75 to 700 beds.
Dr. Goldsholl’s clinical interests include partnering Palliative Medicine and Pastoral Services with care of the hospitalized patient, and she participated as a faculty scholar with the 2004 Harvard Medical School’s Program in Palliative Care Education and Practice.
In addition to Dr. Goldsholl’s clinical practice, she served as co-author for “The Hospitalist Program Management Guide” (HCPro), as well as consultant to the Clinical Advisory Board of the Advisory Board Company for the publication “Second Generation Hospitalist Programs.”
Dr. Goldsholl earned her MD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992 and went on to complete her residency training there. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from York College of Pennsylvania in 1985 and attended a Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois in Urbana from 1986-1990. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and a member of the American College of Physician Executives.
Please join us in congratulating all of the new board members, and also in thanking our outgoing board members for their dedication and service.
SHM has elected Scott A. Flanders, MD, Alpesh Amin, MD, MBA, and Stacy Goldsholl, MD, to serve a 3-year term on the board of directors, beginning April 29, 2005. The new board members replace outgoing board members Jeff Dichter, MD, David Zipes, MD, and Peter Lindenauer, MD.
“Our new board members are all accomplished physicians who have consistently demonstrated their commitment to the field of hospital medicine,” said SHM president Jeanne Huddleston, MD. “Each of these new board members brings a vast range of experience, leadership, and passion to the Board that is sure to stimulate new thinking and new goals that will strengthen the role of hospitalists. We look forward to their insights and vision as we continue to expand the role of hospitalists as leaders and change agents in transforming patient care and quality.”
Scott A. Flanders, MD, FACP was a founding member of SHM’s Board of Directors in 1997 and served on the board for 6 years. He has since served on many of SHM’s committees and was editor of the organization’s newsletter, The Hospitalist, from 1997 through 2003.
Dr. Flanders currently is a clinical associate professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he also serves as associate division chief of General Medicine for Inpatient Programs and associate director of Inpatient Programs for the Department of Internal Medicine. He is the director of the University of Michigan’s Hospitalist Program. He was formerly an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and director of the Hospitalist Residency Track there . Dr. Flanders, in collaboration with other University of California faculty, developed the content for the nation’s first Hospitalist Residency Track. This track has become a model that has been widely disseminated to other academic centers starting similar programs and formed the basis of a recent chapter for the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM) Manual. Dr. Flanders regularly consults with both academic and community hospitals on issues related to curriculum development in the inpatient setting.
In addition to these activities, Dr. Flanders has been active in guideline development, quality improvement, and patient safety both at the University of Michigan and the University of California, San Francisco. His research interests are related to hospitalists, dissemination of patient safety practices, and the diagnosis and treatment of lower respiratory infections. He speaks regularly at national conferences on the topics of hospitalists and community-acquired and nosocomial pneumonia. He served as associate editor of AHRQ’s Web M&M online journal of patient safety from its inception until 2004.
Dr. Flanders earned his medical degree from the University of Chicago in 1993 and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Alpesh Amin, MD, MBA, FACP became a charter member of SHM in 1998 and also serves as chair of SHM’s Education Committee. Under his leadership, the committee developed three task forces: the Core Curricuum, Leadership, and Geriatrics. Dr. Amin serves as a member of each of these (as well as the SHM Journal Task Force), where he provides guidance in developing education curriculum to improve SHM member skills in these areas. Dr. Amin also is one of the co-authors of the first Core Curriculum for Hospital Medicine, soon to be published. He also served on the 2004 Annual Program Committee and will be the program director for the 2006 Annual Meeting.
Dr. Amin is the executive director for the Hospitalist Program at the University of California Irvine Medical Center in Irvine, a program he started in June 1998. Over the last 7 years, he has grown the program to 15 academic hospitalists. He is also vice-chair for Clinical Affairs, associate program director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program, and clerkship director for the Medicine Clerkship at the University of California, Irvine. Through these different roles, he has been involved in clinical care, administrative and hospital based committee work, and curriculum development. He has also been involved in developing the Hospitalist/Consultative Curriculum, Palliative & Hospice Care Curriculum, and Business of Medicine Curriculum at UCI.
Dr. Amin’s research interests are related to the field of hospital medicine, patient safety and quality, and medical education. He is an invited speaker at national conferences on community acquired and hospital acquired pneumonia, deep vein thrombosis and venous thromboembolism, and heart failure.
Dr. Amin earned his medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL in 1994. He did his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, and went on to earn an MBA in Health Care from that school in 2000.
Stacy Goldsholl, MD, BC, IM has been a practicing hospitalist for 10 years and is a charter member of SHM. Since joining SHM, she has participated as SHM’s Michigan State Regional Councilor, a member of the Practice Management Committee, and faculty for the Midwest Regional Meeting. Currently she is the 2004/5 Chair of the Benchmarks and Productivity Task Force, a faculty member for the 2004/5 Annual Meeting Committee, and facilitator for the 2005 SHM Leadership Academy.
Dr. Goldsholl is currently national medical director for Cogent Healthcare and is the owner of Catalyst Inpatient Solutions, LLC, a consulting firm she founded in 2002 for hospital medicine program development and education.
Dr. Goldsholl began her career in hospital medicine at a community hospital in Atlanta, where she served as a physician advisor for medical management and utilization review. In 2000, she initiated a hospitalist division for a large multi-specialty group in Wilmington, North Carolina. She has spent the last 4 years implementing hospital medicine programs for two large (700 bed) non-profit hospitals and establishing Catalyst Inpatient Solutions to serve the needs of various hospitals, including for-profit and critical access hospital designations, ranging in size from 75 to 700 beds.
Dr. Goldsholl’s clinical interests include partnering Palliative Medicine and Pastoral Services with care of the hospitalized patient, and she participated as a faculty scholar with the 2004 Harvard Medical School’s Program in Palliative Care Education and Practice.
In addition to Dr. Goldsholl’s clinical practice, she served as co-author for “The Hospitalist Program Management Guide” (HCPro), as well as consultant to the Clinical Advisory Board of the Advisory Board Company for the publication “Second Generation Hospitalist Programs.”
Dr. Goldsholl earned her MD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992 and went on to complete her residency training there. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from York College of Pennsylvania in 1985 and attended a Medical Scholars Program at the University of Illinois in Urbana from 1986-1990. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and a member of the American College of Physician Executives.
Please join us in congratulating all of the new board members, and also in thanking our outgoing board members for their dedication and service.