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Hospitalists as Triple Threat Leaders: Clinical Excellence, Education, and Systems Innovation
August 3, 2026
Over the past three decades, hospital medicine has evolved from a pragmatic response to system inefficiencies into one of the most influential and foundational domains in healthcare delivery. First...
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When the Skin Speaks First: Inpatient Dermatology Pearls from Converge 2026
July 1, 2026
In a city where cover bands are judged on whether they can sell the song in the first eight bars, Steven Chen, MD, MPH, MS-HPEd, opened his Converge 2026 session on inpatient dermatology with an...
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The Latest and Greatest Strategies for Treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal and Alcohol Use Disorder
July 1, 2026
“The Latest and Greatest Strategies for Treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal and Alcohol Use Disorder” provided a practical, evidence-informed update highly relevant to hospitalists managing patients...
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Life-Threatening Inpatient Endocrine Emergencies
July 1, 2026
While Nashville’s honky-tonks and hot chicken stressed our endocrine systems, one talk at SHM Converge gave us the tools to master the metabolic chaos of true endocrine emergencies we may face in...
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Update in Perioperative Medicine: What the Past Year Taught Us
July 1, 2026
Every year, the perioperative medicine update at Converge gives hospitalists a reason to recalibrate, and the Nashville session (anchored, fittingly, around an 84-year-old woman with the kind of...
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Optimizing Transitions of Care: Lessons from a Hospital Medicine Transitions Clinic
July 1, 2026
Nashville has always understood that the magic happens in the handoff, the moment one musician passes the melody to the next without missing a beat. In hospital medicine, that handoff is at...
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Advances in Pharmacotherapy: New Drugs Hospitalists Should Know
July 1, 2026
This session was presented by Niti Patel, MD, PharmD, assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, and Thomas Chen, MD, PharmD, assistant professor of...
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Updated Guidelines on Preoperative Cardiac Risk Assessment
July 1, 2026
Hospitalists often encounter an increasing number of patients with cardiac disease and complex illnesses who need noncardiac surgery. Approximately one in 33 patients over the age of 45 experiences...
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“Bless Your Heart”—Update in Heart Failure
July 1, 2026
The session “Bless Your Heart—Update in Heart Failure” provided a high-yield, evidence-based review of recent trials and evolving strategies in the management of heart failure (HF), with a...
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Acute Brain Dysfunction: A Roadmap to the Prevention and Treatment of Coma, Delirium, and Agitation in the Critically Ill Patient
July 1, 2026
Acute brain dysfunction—encompassing delirium, coma, and agitation—is one of the most common and consequential complications of critical illness, yet it remains under-recognized and...