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.