Danielle Scheurer, MD, MSCR, SFHM, is a hospitalist and the chief quality officer at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston. She is former SHM physician advisor, an SHM blogger, and member of SHM's Education Committee. She also serves as faculty of SHM's annual meeting "ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Learning Session" pre-course. Dr. Scheurer earned her undergraduate degree at Emory University in Atlanta, graduated medical school from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and trained at Duke University in Durham, N.C. She has served as physician editor of The Hospitalist since 2012.
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