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SHM’s Award of Excellence in Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine
Dr. Flora Kisuule, MD, SFHM, is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the vice chair for clinical operations for the department of medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. While at Johns Hopkins University, both in Baltimore, she codeveloped a hospitalist fellowship program that she now directs, as well as a fellowship program specifically for nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Under her leadership as the associate director of the division of hospital medicine, she helped to bring Johns Hopkins Bayview hospitalists’ quality and mortality indicators into the top 5% nationwide and reduced hospital-acquired conditions at Hopkins Bayview to the best of the four regional Hopkins Health System hospitals.
Nationally, she has served on several SHM committees, facilitated at multiple SHM leadership courses, served as vice president of SHM’s Baltimore Chapter, and consulted on hospitalist programs around the country. Internationally, Dr. Kisuule has developed and mentored hospitalist programs in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Central America. She is currently developing a training program in hospital medicine in Panama and is a Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine.
SHM’s Award of Excellence in Teamwork in Quality Improvement
Since 2011, the Johns Hopkins Health System hospitals have conducted quality improvement projects to increase the value of care for their patients. Their amazing work catalyzed a grass-roots initiative involving faculty and residents at both Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
With a unification of the EHR across the health system, RedondaMiller, MD, MBA, president of Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Renee Demski, MSW, MBA, vice president of quality for Johns Hopkins Health System, created the Johns Hopkins Health System High-Value Care Committee to operationalize initiatives across all six hospitals and Johns Hopkins community physicians. The committee is under the leadership of Trushar Dungarani, DO, FHM, from Howard County General Hospital and Lenny Feldman, MD, SFHM, Amit Pahwa, MD, and Pamela Johnson, MD, from Johns Hopkins Hospital, and comprises provider representatives from each institution and other important contributors from various specialties, including Mike Borowitz, MD, PhD; Dr. Ken Lee, DrPH; Emily Pherson, PharmD; Amy Knight, MD; Tim Niessen, MD, MPH; Keisha Perrin, and Clare Rock.
Initiatives directed by the committee have included reducing inappropriate testing for Clostridium difficile, folate testing for anemia, and duplicative imaging exams, among others. In the 18 months since inception, the committee reduced charges to patients and payers by nearly $4 million and hospital costs by more than $200,000.
Members of this committee joined forces with like-minded institutions to create the High Value Practice Academic Alliance in 2016. Faculty leaders from more than 80 academic centers are now collaborating to increase health care value on a national scale through quality improvement projects, education, and dissemination.
SHM’s Award of Excellence in Teaching
Jennifer O’Toole, MD, MEd, is a med-peds hospitalist at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati Medical Center. She serves as the director of the combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency program and is the director of education for the Children’s Hospital division of hospital medicine. In these roles, Dr. O’Toole has established an acute care track for her med-peds residents interested in careers in hospital medicine and a career development boot camp for early-career faculty members and fellows in the division of hospital medicine.
Perhaps Dr. O’Toole’s most instrumental role as an educator has been her involvement in influential educational programs nationally, including the I-PASS Handoff program. Implementation of I-PASS decreased medical errors by 23% and preventable adverse events by 30% in more than 10,000 patient admissions across nine North American hospitals. She has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed publications related to medical education and has presented more than 50 workshops at national meetings. After serving as a member of the planning committee for the Pediatric Hospital Medicine meeting, she is cochair for the 2018 meeting.
SHM’s Award of Clinical Excellence for Physicians
Rick Hilger, MD, SFHM, has been a hospitalist with HealthPartners Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota for 16 years. He is a national expert in the areas of readmission prevention and care delivery for high-utilizer patients. His work in this area was named Best Clinical Innovation at Hospital Medicine 2012. His collaborative approach to solving complex problems is demonstrated by the amount of time he has volunteered to help other organizations improve their care of high utilizers. Over 90 organizations and hospitals have reached out for assistance in starting their own committees, and Dr. Hilger has shared his time and care plan templates with each one. He was one of the first hospitalists asked to participate on a National Quality Forum committee and has improved hospital reimbursement by over 4 million dollars by developing an internal physician advisor program.
Dr. Hilger also has served on the SHM Annual Conference Committee and the Public Policy Committee, where he has worked with other committee members to advocate for policy changes related to observation status and readmission penalties.
SHM’s Award for Excellence in Humanitarian Services
Michelle Morse, MD, MPH, is a hospitalist and the assistant program director for the internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She is also the founding codirector of EqualHealth, an organization that aims to inspire and support the development of Haiti’s next generation of health care leaders. In 2015, Dr. Morse helped to found the Social Medicine Consortium, a global coalition of more than 450 people representing over 50 universities and organizations in 12 countries, which seeks to address the miseducation of health professionals.
In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Dr. Morse was compelled to collaborate with colleagues and friends to help build capacity of health care providers committed to social medicine, medical and nursing education, and social justice. She helped to open and operate a new 300-bed teaching hospital in rural Haiti and founded the first three residency training programs at the hospital. Since that time, the hospital has expanded to serve an area of 3 million people with an annual budget of $12 million.
SHM’s Award of Excellence in Research
Teryl Nuckols, MD, FHM, is a hospitalist and the director of general internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She also serves as associate professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a health services researcher at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica.
Currently, she is principal investigator and coprincipal investigator on two projects funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality that are evaluating effects of the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. Dr. Nuckols was previously the principal investigator on two R01 research grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the recipient of a K08 Career Development Award. She has evaluated clinical practice guidelines on behalf of SHM as well as policy makers in California and Australia, and her work has led to more than 30 peer-reviewed publications in NEJM, Journal of Hospital Medicine, and JAMA Internal Medicine among others.
SHM’s Award of Clinical Excellence for NPs/PAs
Meredith K. Wold, PA-C, is the supervisor of advanced practice clinicians at HealthPartners Medical Group, which includes 20 nurse practitioners and physician assistants, at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minn. She is also the cofounder and co-curriculum director for the HealthPartners Hospital Medicine Physician Assistant Fellowship Program. Under her leadership, the fellowship program offers a clear curriculum that exposes key clinical scenarios and specialties crucial to hospital medicine, preparing new PAs to contribute immediately to team-based care upon completion of the fellowship.
To prevent burnout in a 7-on/7-off schedule, Ms. Wold thought creatively and developed a pooling and “draft” system to give some flexibility and breaks in the block schedule – almost like a fantasy football draft but with patient care shifts for noncontinuity services.
Excellence in Management in Hospital Medicine
Maria Lourdes Novelero, MA, MPA, is the associate chair for administration of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and has also served as the administrator of the UCSF division of hospital medicine and its associated medical service from 2005 to 2016. In this role, she managed the department’s expansion from a 20-physician division to an 80-physician division. She also led the department’s pioneering efforts in quality, safety, and value.
Ms. Novelero created a structure to build and manage 10 different hospitalist-run services, including cancer, cardiology, neurosurgery, and liver transplant comanagement services; a procedure service; a palliative care service; and a large non–housestaff medicine service. She co-led a multidisciplinary effort to transform the discharge process, and established and cochaired the department of hospital medicine’s high value care committee, which catalyzed value improvement activities throughout UCSF. This committee’s work led to tangible value improvements, such as a 14% reduction in direct costs and a first-ever positive net margin for the medical service.
Ms. Novelero has more than 25 years of experience in management positions in the United States and Japan.
Certificate of Leadership in Hospital Medicine
Benji K. Mathews, MD, SFHM, CLHM, graduated from the Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Medical School. He completed his internal medicine residency and chief residency through the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He joined HealthPartners as an academic hospitalist and holds the titles of section head of hospital medicine at Regions Hospital and director of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) for Hospital Medicine at HealthPartners. He is the president for the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM).
Dr. Mathews has a passion for medical education, care delivery, and quality. He is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota. As such, he is core faculty for the internal medicine residency program and chair of the Clinical Competency Committee. Dr. Mathews is an active member of SHM as a member of SHM's annual meeting planning committee, organizing and setting the agenda for SHM's record breaking meetings for the last 4 years. Dr. Mathews also serves on SHM's Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Committee and is the chair of the Diagnostic Error Subcommittee. He has completed the Certificate of Leadership in Hospital Medicine (CLHM) with his area of focus on ultrasound in hospital medicine. His work in diagnostic error and POCUS has been well recognized with multiple workshops and presentations given locally and nationally. He is a Fellow in Diagnostic Safety through the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine.
Dr. Mathews also has a passion for global health, rooted in his commitment to reducing health care disparities both locally and globally. He has worked with medical missions, NGOs, and orphanages in Nepal, India, Bolivia, Honduras, and Costa Rica. This led him to complete the global health course at the University of Minnesota.
SHM’s Junior Investigator Award
Christine D. Jones, MD, MS, is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado's Anschutz medical campus, Aurora, where she is the director of care transitions and director of scholarship for the division of hospital medicine.
Dr. Jones’ research is focused on improving care coordination between clinicians in different settings to improve outcomes for patients discharged with home health care. Her research is supported by a K08 career development award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Her overall goal is to improve the quality of care transitions for hospitalized patients discharged to post-acute care settings, including home health care. Dr. Jones has presented at every SHM annual conference since she joined in 2013.
Chapter Excellence Awards
The Society of Hospital Medicine is proud to recognize outstanding SHM chapters at HM18 for the fifth annual Chapter Excellence Awards. Each year, chapters strive to demonstrate growth, sustenance, and innovation within their chapter activities, which are then applauded for their successes at SHM’s annual conference.
Platinum Chapters: Gulf States, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Carolina Triangle, St. Louis.
Gold Chapters: Hampton Roads, Kentucky, North Jersey, Pacific Northwest.
Silver Chapters: Boston/Eastern Massachusetts, Houston, Los Angeles, Maine, NYC/Westchester, Rocky Mountain, San Francisco Bay Area, South Central PA, Southwest Florida, Wiregrass.
Outstanding Chapter of the Year
New Mexico. SHM’s New Mexico Chapter has been nominated to receive the Outstanding Chapter of the Year Award for 2017. Consistently, leadership and members go above and beyond the basic requirements to maintain status by creating and cultivating multiple innovative and dynamic opportunities for attendees to educate and network. The chapter participated in SHM’s pilot program to offer CME for chapters, bringing a CME-accredited educational presentation on the care of diverse patients. Their annual meeting this year featured a poster competition for residents, students, and early-career hospitalists; a didactic on antimicrobial stewardship; and a business meeting with elections, member benefits, and highlights of the chapter’s year, and chapter awards. The chapter initiated breakfast meetings with didactics on DACA and on burnout and wellness, and collaborated with the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque on a grand rounds series on physician wellness that was available via telecast to numerous hospitals and providers off site. The chapter hosted a book club, a networking session at HM17, and an informational meeting on SHM membership and the Fellows Program. They have supported the future of hospital medicine by having a table at the UNM School of Medicine’s student activities fair, a Resident of the Year Award, and a position on our council for a resident representative. They have collaborated with the sole internal medicine residency program in New Mexico so that residents in the hospitalist training track have membership in SHM, and they have expanded our juried poster competition to include students. The chapter’s level of originality is not only a benefit to the chapter, but SHM’s chapter program as a whole.
Rising Star Chapter
Kentucky. SHM’s Kentucky Chapter has been nominated to receive the Rising Star Chapter Award for 2017 for their innovation and growth. The chapter’s leadership was involved with the establishment of the Heartland Hospital Medicine Conference and hosted a hospital medicine career panel and bustling Research, Innovations, and Clinical Vignettes abstract and poster competition. Nearly 50 abstracts were submitted, and the top 40 were invited to present posters at the competition. These posters included a mix of attendings, advanced practice providers, residents, and students interested in participating in the local hospital medicine community. The chapter sponsored the first prize winner’s travel to attend Hospital Medicine 2018 and gave awards to best resident and best student posters. The Kentucky Chapter directly recruited 27 hospitalists to join SHM membership in 2017. The Kentucky Chapter is an active, enthusiastic chapter that is rapidly growing and thriving.
Student Hospitalist Scholarship Recipients
The Society of Hospital Medicine’s Physician in Training Committee launched a Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant program in 2015 for medical students to conduct mentored scholarly projects related to quality improvement and patient safety.
The program was expanded in 2017 and now includes both a summer and longitudinal program for students.
The committee is happy to announce the 4th year of scholar grant recipients to six students based on their ability and interest in hospital medicine, general qualifications, prior educational training, and promise for scholarly activity.
Summer Program
Ilana Scandariato
Cornell University, New York
Project: Understanding the experience of the long-term hospitalized patient with provider fragmentation: A qualitative study
Mentor: Ernie Esquivel, MD, FHM
Maximilian Hemmrich
University of Chicago
Project: Derivation and validation of a COPD readmission risk prediction tool
Mentor: Valerie Press, MD, MPH, SFHM
Sandeep Bala
University of Central Florida, Orlando
Project: The impact of plain language open medical notes on patient activation
Mentor: Marisha Burden, MD, SFHM
Longitudinal Program
Erin Rainosek
University of Texas, San Antonio
Project Title: Design thinking to improve patient experience
Mentor: Luci Leykum, MD, SFHM
Matthew Fallon
Creighton University, Omaha, Neb.
Project: Reducing the hospital readmission rate of congestive heart failure (CHF)
Mentor: Venkata Andukuri, MD, MPH, FHM
Philip Huang
University of Iowa, Iowa City
Project: Expanded patient regionalization to improve care efficiency
Mentor: Ethan Kuperman, MD, FHM
Resident Travel Grant Recipients
The Society of Hospital Medicine’s Physician in Training Committee launched a Resident Travel Grant Program in 2017 for residents to receive funding to attend SHM’s Annual Conference and be recognized for their scholarly work.
The Committee is pleased to announce the first year of Resident Travel Grant Recipients to 10 Residents based on their ability and interest in hospital medicine, research originality, and teaching value, and general qualifications.
Ashley M. Jenkins, MD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Poster 41 - Aren’t adults just big kids?: Standardizing care of adults in pediatric hospitals
Brian A. MacDonald Jr., MD, PhD
State University of New York at Buffalo
Poster 135 – Phosphatidylethanol level as a predictor of acute alcohol withdrawal
Christopher S. Bartlett, MD, MPH
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque
Poster 47 - Lessons learned from a resident-created experiential quality improvement and patient safety curriculum for medical and nursing students at the University of New Mexico
Christopher T. Su, MD, MPH
Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
Poster 173 - Concurrent NSAID and warfarin use is associated with increased blood transfusions in hospitalized patients
Madeleine Ivrit Matthiesen, MD
Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital Medicine–Pediatrics, Boston
Poster 69 - Resident perceptions of feedback and teaching
Neil Keshvani, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
Poster 237 - Improving respiratory rate measurement accuracy in the hospital: A quality improvement initiative
Peter N. Barish, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Poster 344 - Costs Related to potential overuse of respiratory viral panel PCRs in general medicine patients
Rachna Rawal, MD
Saint Louis University
Poster 259 - Empowering medicine residents to think before ordering daily labs: A quality improvement study
Yihan Chen, MD
University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center
Poster 12 - Hospitalist-directed transfers improve emergency room length of stay
Zachary G. Jacobs, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Poster 233 - The prevalence of treating asymptomatic elevated blood pressure with intravenous antihypertensives on the general medicine wards: A potential target for a quality improvement inter-vention
Poster 96 - Factors Impacting time to antibiotic administration in patients with sepsis: A single-center study of electronic health record data
SHM’s Award of Excellence in Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine
Dr. Flora Kisuule, MD, SFHM, is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the vice chair for clinical operations for the department of medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. While at Johns Hopkins University, both in Baltimore, she codeveloped a hospitalist fellowship program that she now directs, as well as a fellowship program specifically for nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Under her leadership as the associate director of the division of hospital medicine, she helped to bring Johns Hopkins Bayview hospitalists’ quality and mortality indicators into the top 5% nationwide and reduced hospital-acquired conditions at Hopkins Bayview to the best of the four regional Hopkins Health System hospitals.
Nationally, she has served on several SHM committees, facilitated at multiple SHM leadership courses, served as vice president of SHM’s Baltimore Chapter, and consulted on hospitalist programs around the country. Internationally, Dr. Kisuule has developed and mentored hospitalist programs in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Central America. She is currently developing a training program in hospital medicine in Panama and is a Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine.
SHM’s Award of Excellence in Teamwork in Quality Improvement
Since 2011, the Johns Hopkins Health System hospitals have conducted quality improvement projects to increase the value of care for their patients. Their amazing work catalyzed a grass-roots initiative involving faculty and residents at both Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
With a unification of the EHR across the health system, RedondaMiller, MD, MBA, president of Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Renee Demski, MSW, MBA, vice president of quality for Johns Hopkins Health System, created the Johns Hopkins Health System High-Value Care Committee to operationalize initiatives across all six hospitals and Johns Hopkins community physicians. The committee is under the leadership of Trushar Dungarani, DO, FHM, from Howard County General Hospital and Lenny Feldman, MD, SFHM, Amit Pahwa, MD, and Pamela Johnson, MD, from Johns Hopkins Hospital, and comprises provider representatives from each institution and other important contributors from various specialties, including Mike Borowitz, MD, PhD; Dr. Ken Lee, DrPH; Emily Pherson, PharmD; Amy Knight, MD; Tim Niessen, MD, MPH; Keisha Perrin, and Clare Rock.
Initiatives directed by the committee have included reducing inappropriate testing for Clostridium difficile, folate testing for anemia, and duplicative imaging exams, among others. In the 18 months since inception, the committee reduced charges to patients and payers by nearly $4 million and hospital costs by more than $200,000.
Members of this committee joined forces with like-minded institutions to create the High Value Practice Academic Alliance in 2016. Faculty leaders from more than 80 academic centers are now collaborating to increase health care value on a national scale through quality improvement projects, education, and dissemination.
SHM’s Award of Excellence in Teaching
Jennifer O’Toole, MD, MEd, is a med-peds hospitalist at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati Medical Center. She serves as the director of the combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency program and is the director of education for the Children’s Hospital division of hospital medicine. In these roles, Dr. O’Toole has established an acute care track for her med-peds residents interested in careers in hospital medicine and a career development boot camp for early-career faculty members and fellows in the division of hospital medicine.
Perhaps Dr. O’Toole’s most instrumental role as an educator has been her involvement in influential educational programs nationally, including the I-PASS Handoff program. Implementation of I-PASS decreased medical errors by 23% and preventable adverse events by 30% in more than 10,000 patient admissions across nine North American hospitals. She has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed publications related to medical education and has presented more than 50 workshops at national meetings. After serving as a member of the planning committee for the Pediatric Hospital Medicine meeting, she is cochair for the 2018 meeting.
SHM’s Award of Clinical Excellence for Physicians
Rick Hilger, MD, SFHM, has been a hospitalist with HealthPartners Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota for 16 years. He is a national expert in the areas of readmission prevention and care delivery for high-utilizer patients. His work in this area was named Best Clinical Innovation at Hospital Medicine 2012. His collaborative approach to solving complex problems is demonstrated by the amount of time he has volunteered to help other organizations improve their care of high utilizers. Over 90 organizations and hospitals have reached out for assistance in starting their own committees, and Dr. Hilger has shared his time and care plan templates with each one. He was one of the first hospitalists asked to participate on a National Quality Forum committee and has improved hospital reimbursement by over 4 million dollars by developing an internal physician advisor program.
Dr. Hilger also has served on the SHM Annual Conference Committee and the Public Policy Committee, where he has worked with other committee members to advocate for policy changes related to observation status and readmission penalties.
SHM’s Award for Excellence in Humanitarian Services
Michelle Morse, MD, MPH, is a hospitalist and the assistant program director for the internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She is also the founding codirector of EqualHealth, an organization that aims to inspire and support the development of Haiti’s next generation of health care leaders. In 2015, Dr. Morse helped to found the Social Medicine Consortium, a global coalition of more than 450 people representing over 50 universities and organizations in 12 countries, which seeks to address the miseducation of health professionals.
In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Dr. Morse was compelled to collaborate with colleagues and friends to help build capacity of health care providers committed to social medicine, medical and nursing education, and social justice. She helped to open and operate a new 300-bed teaching hospital in rural Haiti and founded the first three residency training programs at the hospital. Since that time, the hospital has expanded to serve an area of 3 million people with an annual budget of $12 million.
SHM’s Award of Excellence in Research
Teryl Nuckols, MD, FHM, is a hospitalist and the director of general internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She also serves as associate professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a health services researcher at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica.
Currently, she is principal investigator and coprincipal investigator on two projects funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality that are evaluating effects of the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. Dr. Nuckols was previously the principal investigator on two R01 research grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the recipient of a K08 Career Development Award. She has evaluated clinical practice guidelines on behalf of SHM as well as policy makers in California and Australia, and her work has led to more than 30 peer-reviewed publications in NEJM, Journal of Hospital Medicine, and JAMA Internal Medicine among others.
SHM’s Award of Clinical Excellence for NPs/PAs
Meredith K. Wold, PA-C, is the supervisor of advanced practice clinicians at HealthPartners Medical Group, which includes 20 nurse practitioners and physician assistants, at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minn. She is also the cofounder and co-curriculum director for the HealthPartners Hospital Medicine Physician Assistant Fellowship Program. Under her leadership, the fellowship program offers a clear curriculum that exposes key clinical scenarios and specialties crucial to hospital medicine, preparing new PAs to contribute immediately to team-based care upon completion of the fellowship.
To prevent burnout in a 7-on/7-off schedule, Ms. Wold thought creatively and developed a pooling and “draft” system to give some flexibility and breaks in the block schedule – almost like a fantasy football draft but with patient care shifts for noncontinuity services.
Excellence in Management in Hospital Medicine
Maria Lourdes Novelero, MA, MPA, is the associate chair for administration of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and has also served as the administrator of the UCSF division of hospital medicine and its associated medical service from 2005 to 2016. In this role, she managed the department’s expansion from a 20-physician division to an 80-physician division. She also led the department’s pioneering efforts in quality, safety, and value.
Ms. Novelero created a structure to build and manage 10 different hospitalist-run services, including cancer, cardiology, neurosurgery, and liver transplant comanagement services; a procedure service; a palliative care service; and a large non–housestaff medicine service. She co-led a multidisciplinary effort to transform the discharge process, and established and cochaired the department of hospital medicine’s high value care committee, which catalyzed value improvement activities throughout UCSF. This committee’s work led to tangible value improvements, such as a 14% reduction in direct costs and a first-ever positive net margin for the medical service.
Ms. Novelero has more than 25 years of experience in management positions in the United States and Japan.
Certificate of Leadership in Hospital Medicine
Benji K. Mathews, MD, SFHM, CLHM, graduated from the Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Medical School. He completed his internal medicine residency and chief residency through the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He joined HealthPartners as an academic hospitalist and holds the titles of section head of hospital medicine at Regions Hospital and director of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) for Hospital Medicine at HealthPartners. He is the president for the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM).
Dr. Mathews has a passion for medical education, care delivery, and quality. He is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota. As such, he is core faculty for the internal medicine residency program and chair of the Clinical Competency Committee. Dr. Mathews is an active member of SHM as a member of SHM's annual meeting planning committee, organizing and setting the agenda for SHM's record breaking meetings for the last 4 years. Dr. Mathews also serves on SHM's Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Committee and is the chair of the Diagnostic Error Subcommittee. He has completed the Certificate of Leadership in Hospital Medicine (CLHM) with his area of focus on ultrasound in hospital medicine. His work in diagnostic error and POCUS has been well recognized with multiple workshops and presentations given locally and nationally. He is a Fellow in Diagnostic Safety through the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine.
Dr. Mathews also has a passion for global health, rooted in his commitment to reducing health care disparities both locally and globally. He has worked with medical missions, NGOs, and orphanages in Nepal, India, Bolivia, Honduras, and Costa Rica. This led him to complete the global health course at the University of Minnesota.
SHM’s Junior Investigator Award
Christine D. Jones, MD, MS, is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado's Anschutz medical campus, Aurora, where she is the director of care transitions and director of scholarship for the division of hospital medicine.
Dr. Jones’ research is focused on improving care coordination between clinicians in different settings to improve outcomes for patients discharged with home health care. Her research is supported by a K08 career development award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Her overall goal is to improve the quality of care transitions for hospitalized patients discharged to post-acute care settings, including home health care. Dr. Jones has presented at every SHM annual conference since she joined in 2013.
Chapter Excellence Awards
The Society of Hospital Medicine is proud to recognize outstanding SHM chapters at HM18 for the fifth annual Chapter Excellence Awards. Each year, chapters strive to demonstrate growth, sustenance, and innovation within their chapter activities, which are then applauded for their successes at SHM’s annual conference.
Platinum Chapters: Gulf States, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Carolina Triangle, St. Louis.
Gold Chapters: Hampton Roads, Kentucky, North Jersey, Pacific Northwest.
Silver Chapters: Boston/Eastern Massachusetts, Houston, Los Angeles, Maine, NYC/Westchester, Rocky Mountain, San Francisco Bay Area, South Central PA, Southwest Florida, Wiregrass.
Outstanding Chapter of the Year
New Mexico. SHM’s New Mexico Chapter has been nominated to receive the Outstanding Chapter of the Year Award for 2017. Consistently, leadership and members go above and beyond the basic requirements to maintain status by creating and cultivating multiple innovative and dynamic opportunities for attendees to educate and network. The chapter participated in SHM’s pilot program to offer CME for chapters, bringing a CME-accredited educational presentation on the care of diverse patients. Their annual meeting this year featured a poster competition for residents, students, and early-career hospitalists; a didactic on antimicrobial stewardship; and a business meeting with elections, member benefits, and highlights of the chapter’s year, and chapter awards. The chapter initiated breakfast meetings with didactics on DACA and on burnout and wellness, and collaborated with the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque on a grand rounds series on physician wellness that was available via telecast to numerous hospitals and providers off site. The chapter hosted a book club, a networking session at HM17, and an informational meeting on SHM membership and the Fellows Program. They have supported the future of hospital medicine by having a table at the UNM School of Medicine’s student activities fair, a Resident of the Year Award, and a position on our council for a resident representative. They have collaborated with the sole internal medicine residency program in New Mexico so that residents in the hospitalist training track have membership in SHM, and they have expanded our juried poster competition to include students. The chapter’s level of originality is not only a benefit to the chapter, but SHM’s chapter program as a whole.
Rising Star Chapter
Kentucky. SHM’s Kentucky Chapter has been nominated to receive the Rising Star Chapter Award for 2017 for their innovation and growth. The chapter’s leadership was involved with the establishment of the Heartland Hospital Medicine Conference and hosted a hospital medicine career panel and bustling Research, Innovations, and Clinical Vignettes abstract and poster competition. Nearly 50 abstracts were submitted, and the top 40 were invited to present posters at the competition. These posters included a mix of attendings, advanced practice providers, residents, and students interested in participating in the local hospital medicine community. The chapter sponsored the first prize winner’s travel to attend Hospital Medicine 2018 and gave awards to best resident and best student posters. The Kentucky Chapter directly recruited 27 hospitalists to join SHM membership in 2017. The Kentucky Chapter is an active, enthusiastic chapter that is rapidly growing and thriving.
Student Hospitalist Scholarship Recipients
The Society of Hospital Medicine’s Physician in Training Committee launched a Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant program in 2015 for medical students to conduct mentored scholarly projects related to quality improvement and patient safety.
The program was expanded in 2017 and now includes both a summer and longitudinal program for students.
The committee is happy to announce the 4th year of scholar grant recipients to six students based on their ability and interest in hospital medicine, general qualifications, prior educational training, and promise for scholarly activity.
Summer Program
Ilana Scandariato
Cornell University, New York
Project: Understanding the experience of the long-term hospitalized patient with provider fragmentation: A qualitative study
Mentor: Ernie Esquivel, MD, FHM
Maximilian Hemmrich
University of Chicago
Project: Derivation and validation of a COPD readmission risk prediction tool
Mentor: Valerie Press, MD, MPH, SFHM
Sandeep Bala
University of Central Florida, Orlando
Project: The impact of plain language open medical notes on patient activation
Mentor: Marisha Burden, MD, SFHM
Longitudinal Program
Erin Rainosek
University of Texas, San Antonio
Project Title: Design thinking to improve patient experience
Mentor: Luci Leykum, MD, SFHM
Matthew Fallon
Creighton University, Omaha, Neb.
Project: Reducing the hospital readmission rate of congestive heart failure (CHF)
Mentor: Venkata Andukuri, MD, MPH, FHM
Philip Huang
University of Iowa, Iowa City
Project: Expanded patient regionalization to improve care efficiency
Mentor: Ethan Kuperman, MD, FHM
Resident Travel Grant Recipients
The Society of Hospital Medicine’s Physician in Training Committee launched a Resident Travel Grant Program in 2017 for residents to receive funding to attend SHM’s Annual Conference and be recognized for their scholarly work.
The Committee is pleased to announce the first year of Resident Travel Grant Recipients to 10 Residents based on their ability and interest in hospital medicine, research originality, and teaching value, and general qualifications.
Ashley M. Jenkins, MD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Poster 41 - Aren’t adults just big kids?: Standardizing care of adults in pediatric hospitals
Brian A. MacDonald Jr., MD, PhD
State University of New York at Buffalo
Poster 135 – Phosphatidylethanol level as a predictor of acute alcohol withdrawal
Christopher S. Bartlett, MD, MPH
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque
Poster 47 - Lessons learned from a resident-created experiential quality improvement and patient safety curriculum for medical and nursing students at the University of New Mexico
Christopher T. Su, MD, MPH
Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
Poster 173 - Concurrent NSAID and warfarin use is associated with increased blood transfusions in hospitalized patients
Madeleine Ivrit Matthiesen, MD
Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital Medicine–Pediatrics, Boston
Poster 69 - Resident perceptions of feedback and teaching
Neil Keshvani, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
Poster 237 - Improving respiratory rate measurement accuracy in the hospital: A quality improvement initiative
Peter N. Barish, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Poster 344 - Costs Related to potential overuse of respiratory viral panel PCRs in general medicine patients
Rachna Rawal, MD
Saint Louis University
Poster 259 - Empowering medicine residents to think before ordering daily labs: A quality improvement study
Yihan Chen, MD
University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center
Poster 12 - Hospitalist-directed transfers improve emergency room length of stay
Zachary G. Jacobs, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Poster 233 - The prevalence of treating asymptomatic elevated blood pressure with intravenous antihypertensives on the general medicine wards: A potential target for a quality improvement inter-vention
Poster 96 - Factors Impacting time to antibiotic administration in patients with sepsis: A single-center study of electronic health record data
SHM’s Award of Excellence in Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine
Dr. Flora Kisuule, MD, SFHM, is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the vice chair for clinical operations for the department of medicine at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. While at Johns Hopkins University, both in Baltimore, she codeveloped a hospitalist fellowship program that she now directs, as well as a fellowship program specifically for nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Under her leadership as the associate director of the division of hospital medicine, she helped to bring Johns Hopkins Bayview hospitalists’ quality and mortality indicators into the top 5% nationwide and reduced hospital-acquired conditions at Hopkins Bayview to the best of the four regional Hopkins Health System hospitals.
Nationally, she has served on several SHM committees, facilitated at multiple SHM leadership courses, served as vice president of SHM’s Baltimore Chapter, and consulted on hospitalist programs around the country. Internationally, Dr. Kisuule has developed and mentored hospitalist programs in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Central America. She is currently developing a training program in hospital medicine in Panama and is a Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine.
SHM’s Award of Excellence in Teamwork in Quality Improvement
Since 2011, the Johns Hopkins Health System hospitals have conducted quality improvement projects to increase the value of care for their patients. Their amazing work catalyzed a grass-roots initiative involving faculty and residents at both Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
With a unification of the EHR across the health system, RedondaMiller, MD, MBA, president of Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Renee Demski, MSW, MBA, vice president of quality for Johns Hopkins Health System, created the Johns Hopkins Health System High-Value Care Committee to operationalize initiatives across all six hospitals and Johns Hopkins community physicians. The committee is under the leadership of Trushar Dungarani, DO, FHM, from Howard County General Hospital and Lenny Feldman, MD, SFHM, Amit Pahwa, MD, and Pamela Johnson, MD, from Johns Hopkins Hospital, and comprises provider representatives from each institution and other important contributors from various specialties, including Mike Borowitz, MD, PhD; Dr. Ken Lee, DrPH; Emily Pherson, PharmD; Amy Knight, MD; Tim Niessen, MD, MPH; Keisha Perrin, and Clare Rock.
Initiatives directed by the committee have included reducing inappropriate testing for Clostridium difficile, folate testing for anemia, and duplicative imaging exams, among others. In the 18 months since inception, the committee reduced charges to patients and payers by nearly $4 million and hospital costs by more than $200,000.
Members of this committee joined forces with like-minded institutions to create the High Value Practice Academic Alliance in 2016. Faculty leaders from more than 80 academic centers are now collaborating to increase health care value on a national scale through quality improvement projects, education, and dissemination.
SHM’s Award of Excellence in Teaching
Jennifer O’Toole, MD, MEd, is a med-peds hospitalist at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati Medical Center. She serves as the director of the combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency program and is the director of education for the Children’s Hospital division of hospital medicine. In these roles, Dr. O’Toole has established an acute care track for her med-peds residents interested in careers in hospital medicine and a career development boot camp for early-career faculty members and fellows in the division of hospital medicine.
Perhaps Dr. O’Toole’s most instrumental role as an educator has been her involvement in influential educational programs nationally, including the I-PASS Handoff program. Implementation of I-PASS decreased medical errors by 23% and preventable adverse events by 30% in more than 10,000 patient admissions across nine North American hospitals. She has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed publications related to medical education and has presented more than 50 workshops at national meetings. After serving as a member of the planning committee for the Pediatric Hospital Medicine meeting, she is cochair for the 2018 meeting.
SHM’s Award of Clinical Excellence for Physicians
Rick Hilger, MD, SFHM, has been a hospitalist with HealthPartners Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota for 16 years. He is a national expert in the areas of readmission prevention and care delivery for high-utilizer patients. His work in this area was named Best Clinical Innovation at Hospital Medicine 2012. His collaborative approach to solving complex problems is demonstrated by the amount of time he has volunteered to help other organizations improve their care of high utilizers. Over 90 organizations and hospitals have reached out for assistance in starting their own committees, and Dr. Hilger has shared his time and care plan templates with each one. He was one of the first hospitalists asked to participate on a National Quality Forum committee and has improved hospital reimbursement by over 4 million dollars by developing an internal physician advisor program.
Dr. Hilger also has served on the SHM Annual Conference Committee and the Public Policy Committee, where he has worked with other committee members to advocate for policy changes related to observation status and readmission penalties.
SHM’s Award for Excellence in Humanitarian Services
Michelle Morse, MD, MPH, is a hospitalist and the assistant program director for the internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She is also the founding codirector of EqualHealth, an organization that aims to inspire and support the development of Haiti’s next generation of health care leaders. In 2015, Dr. Morse helped to found the Social Medicine Consortium, a global coalition of more than 450 people representing over 50 universities and organizations in 12 countries, which seeks to address the miseducation of health professionals.
In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Dr. Morse was compelled to collaborate with colleagues and friends to help build capacity of health care providers committed to social medicine, medical and nursing education, and social justice. She helped to open and operate a new 300-bed teaching hospital in rural Haiti and founded the first three residency training programs at the hospital. Since that time, the hospital has expanded to serve an area of 3 million people with an annual budget of $12 million.
SHM’s Award of Excellence in Research
Teryl Nuckols, MD, FHM, is a hospitalist and the director of general internal medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She also serves as associate professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a health services researcher at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica.
Currently, she is principal investigator and coprincipal investigator on two projects funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality that are evaluating effects of the Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. Dr. Nuckols was previously the principal investigator on two R01 research grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the recipient of a K08 Career Development Award. She has evaluated clinical practice guidelines on behalf of SHM as well as policy makers in California and Australia, and her work has led to more than 30 peer-reviewed publications in NEJM, Journal of Hospital Medicine, and JAMA Internal Medicine among others.
SHM’s Award of Clinical Excellence for NPs/PAs
Meredith K. Wold, PA-C, is the supervisor of advanced practice clinicians at HealthPartners Medical Group, which includes 20 nurse practitioners and physician assistants, at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minn. She is also the cofounder and co-curriculum director for the HealthPartners Hospital Medicine Physician Assistant Fellowship Program. Under her leadership, the fellowship program offers a clear curriculum that exposes key clinical scenarios and specialties crucial to hospital medicine, preparing new PAs to contribute immediately to team-based care upon completion of the fellowship.
To prevent burnout in a 7-on/7-off schedule, Ms. Wold thought creatively and developed a pooling and “draft” system to give some flexibility and breaks in the block schedule – almost like a fantasy football draft but with patient care shifts for noncontinuity services.
Excellence in Management in Hospital Medicine
Maria Lourdes Novelero, MA, MPA, is the associate chair for administration of the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and has also served as the administrator of the UCSF division of hospital medicine and its associated medical service from 2005 to 2016. In this role, she managed the department’s expansion from a 20-physician division to an 80-physician division. She also led the department’s pioneering efforts in quality, safety, and value.
Ms. Novelero created a structure to build and manage 10 different hospitalist-run services, including cancer, cardiology, neurosurgery, and liver transplant comanagement services; a procedure service; a palliative care service; and a large non–housestaff medicine service. She co-led a multidisciplinary effort to transform the discharge process, and established and cochaired the department of hospital medicine’s high value care committee, which catalyzed value improvement activities throughout UCSF. This committee’s work led to tangible value improvements, such as a 14% reduction in direct costs and a first-ever positive net margin for the medical service.
Ms. Novelero has more than 25 years of experience in management positions in the United States and Japan.
Certificate of Leadership in Hospital Medicine
Benji K. Mathews, MD, SFHM, CLHM, graduated from the Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Medical School. He completed his internal medicine residency and chief residency through the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He joined HealthPartners as an academic hospitalist and holds the titles of section head of hospital medicine at Regions Hospital and director of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) for Hospital Medicine at HealthPartners. He is the president for the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM).
Dr. Mathews has a passion for medical education, care delivery, and quality. He is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota. As such, he is core faculty for the internal medicine residency program and chair of the Clinical Competency Committee. Dr. Mathews is an active member of SHM as a member of SHM's annual meeting planning committee, organizing and setting the agenda for SHM's record breaking meetings for the last 4 years. Dr. Mathews also serves on SHM's Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Committee and is the chair of the Diagnostic Error Subcommittee. He has completed the Certificate of Leadership in Hospital Medicine (CLHM) with his area of focus on ultrasound in hospital medicine. His work in diagnostic error and POCUS has been well recognized with multiple workshops and presentations given locally and nationally. He is a Fellow in Diagnostic Safety through the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine.
Dr. Mathews also has a passion for global health, rooted in his commitment to reducing health care disparities both locally and globally. He has worked with medical missions, NGOs, and orphanages in Nepal, India, Bolivia, Honduras, and Costa Rica. This led him to complete the global health course at the University of Minnesota.
SHM’s Junior Investigator Award
Christine D. Jones, MD, MS, is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado's Anschutz medical campus, Aurora, where she is the director of care transitions and director of scholarship for the division of hospital medicine.
Dr. Jones’ research is focused on improving care coordination between clinicians in different settings to improve outcomes for patients discharged with home health care. Her research is supported by a K08 career development award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Her overall goal is to improve the quality of care transitions for hospitalized patients discharged to post-acute care settings, including home health care. Dr. Jones has presented at every SHM annual conference since she joined in 2013.
Chapter Excellence Awards
The Society of Hospital Medicine is proud to recognize outstanding SHM chapters at HM18 for the fifth annual Chapter Excellence Awards. Each year, chapters strive to demonstrate growth, sustenance, and innovation within their chapter activities, which are then applauded for their successes at SHM’s annual conference.
Platinum Chapters: Gulf States, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Carolina Triangle, St. Louis.
Gold Chapters: Hampton Roads, Kentucky, North Jersey, Pacific Northwest.
Silver Chapters: Boston/Eastern Massachusetts, Houston, Los Angeles, Maine, NYC/Westchester, Rocky Mountain, San Francisco Bay Area, South Central PA, Southwest Florida, Wiregrass.
Outstanding Chapter of the Year
New Mexico. SHM’s New Mexico Chapter has been nominated to receive the Outstanding Chapter of the Year Award for 2017. Consistently, leadership and members go above and beyond the basic requirements to maintain status by creating and cultivating multiple innovative and dynamic opportunities for attendees to educate and network. The chapter participated in SHM’s pilot program to offer CME for chapters, bringing a CME-accredited educational presentation on the care of diverse patients. Their annual meeting this year featured a poster competition for residents, students, and early-career hospitalists; a didactic on antimicrobial stewardship; and a business meeting with elections, member benefits, and highlights of the chapter’s year, and chapter awards. The chapter initiated breakfast meetings with didactics on DACA and on burnout and wellness, and collaborated with the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque on a grand rounds series on physician wellness that was available via telecast to numerous hospitals and providers off site. The chapter hosted a book club, a networking session at HM17, and an informational meeting on SHM membership and the Fellows Program. They have supported the future of hospital medicine by having a table at the UNM School of Medicine’s student activities fair, a Resident of the Year Award, and a position on our council for a resident representative. They have collaborated with the sole internal medicine residency program in New Mexico so that residents in the hospitalist training track have membership in SHM, and they have expanded our juried poster competition to include students. The chapter’s level of originality is not only a benefit to the chapter, but SHM’s chapter program as a whole.
Rising Star Chapter
Kentucky. SHM’s Kentucky Chapter has been nominated to receive the Rising Star Chapter Award for 2017 for their innovation and growth. The chapter’s leadership was involved with the establishment of the Heartland Hospital Medicine Conference and hosted a hospital medicine career panel and bustling Research, Innovations, and Clinical Vignettes abstract and poster competition. Nearly 50 abstracts were submitted, and the top 40 were invited to present posters at the competition. These posters included a mix of attendings, advanced practice providers, residents, and students interested in participating in the local hospital medicine community. The chapter sponsored the first prize winner’s travel to attend Hospital Medicine 2018 and gave awards to best resident and best student posters. The Kentucky Chapter directly recruited 27 hospitalists to join SHM membership in 2017. The Kentucky Chapter is an active, enthusiastic chapter that is rapidly growing and thriving.
Student Hospitalist Scholarship Recipients
The Society of Hospital Medicine’s Physician in Training Committee launched a Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant program in 2015 for medical students to conduct mentored scholarly projects related to quality improvement and patient safety.
The program was expanded in 2017 and now includes both a summer and longitudinal program for students.
The committee is happy to announce the 4th year of scholar grant recipients to six students based on their ability and interest in hospital medicine, general qualifications, prior educational training, and promise for scholarly activity.
Summer Program
Ilana Scandariato
Cornell University, New York
Project: Understanding the experience of the long-term hospitalized patient with provider fragmentation: A qualitative study
Mentor: Ernie Esquivel, MD, FHM
Maximilian Hemmrich
University of Chicago
Project: Derivation and validation of a COPD readmission risk prediction tool
Mentor: Valerie Press, MD, MPH, SFHM
Sandeep Bala
University of Central Florida, Orlando
Project: The impact of plain language open medical notes on patient activation
Mentor: Marisha Burden, MD, SFHM
Longitudinal Program
Erin Rainosek
University of Texas, San Antonio
Project Title: Design thinking to improve patient experience
Mentor: Luci Leykum, MD, SFHM
Matthew Fallon
Creighton University, Omaha, Neb.
Project: Reducing the hospital readmission rate of congestive heart failure (CHF)
Mentor: Venkata Andukuri, MD, MPH, FHM
Philip Huang
University of Iowa, Iowa City
Project: Expanded patient regionalization to improve care efficiency
Mentor: Ethan Kuperman, MD, FHM
Resident Travel Grant Recipients
The Society of Hospital Medicine’s Physician in Training Committee launched a Resident Travel Grant Program in 2017 for residents to receive funding to attend SHM’s Annual Conference and be recognized for their scholarly work.
The Committee is pleased to announce the first year of Resident Travel Grant Recipients to 10 Residents based on their ability and interest in hospital medicine, research originality, and teaching value, and general qualifications.
Ashley M. Jenkins, MD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Poster 41 - Aren’t adults just big kids?: Standardizing care of adults in pediatric hospitals
Brian A. MacDonald Jr., MD, PhD
State University of New York at Buffalo
Poster 135 – Phosphatidylethanol level as a predictor of acute alcohol withdrawal
Christopher S. Bartlett, MD, MPH
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque
Poster 47 - Lessons learned from a resident-created experiential quality improvement and patient safety curriculum for medical and nursing students at the University of New Mexico
Christopher T. Su, MD, MPH
Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
Poster 173 - Concurrent NSAID and warfarin use is associated with increased blood transfusions in hospitalized patients
Madeleine Ivrit Matthiesen, MD
Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital Medicine–Pediatrics, Boston
Poster 69 - Resident perceptions of feedback and teaching
Neil Keshvani, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
Poster 237 - Improving respiratory rate measurement accuracy in the hospital: A quality improvement initiative
Peter N. Barish, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Poster 344 - Costs Related to potential overuse of respiratory viral panel PCRs in general medicine patients
Rachna Rawal, MD
Saint Louis University
Poster 259 - Empowering medicine residents to think before ordering daily labs: A quality improvement study
Yihan Chen, MD
University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center
Poster 12 - Hospitalist-directed transfers improve emergency room length of stay
Zachary G. Jacobs, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Poster 233 - The prevalence of treating asymptomatic elevated blood pressure with intravenous antihypertensives on the general medicine wards: A potential target for a quality improvement inter-vention
Poster 96 - Factors Impacting time to antibiotic administration in patients with sepsis: A single-center study of electronic health record data