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    In the (Prez) Room —Where it Happens!

    October 3, 2022

    Dr. Kumar Recently several SHM Pediatrics Special Interest Group (SIG) members had the pleasure of participating in Drs. Rachel Thompson and Kris Rehm’s inaugural Prez Room at the 2022...

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    Introducing The Prez Room!

    October 3, 2022

    Since I joined the SHM Board of Directors in 2017, the most rewarding part of my experience has been meeting and learning from SHM members across the country and the globe. As president-elect, I want...

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    A Love for General Internal Medicine Inspired This Hospitalist

    October 3, 2022

    Q & A with Lonika Sood, MD, MBBS, MHPE, FACP, FHM, Washington State University, Spokane, Wash. As a volunteer member of The Hospitalist’s editorial board, Dr. Sood considers SHM one of her...

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    Investing in the Future

    September 1, 2022

    Q & A with Raman Palabindala, MD, MBA, SFHM, CLHM, regional medical director of population health, Optum, Seattle, Wash. Dr. Palabindala, a volunteer member of The Hospitalist's editorial...

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    SHM Is Using Its Voice. Help Us Stay on Message.

    September 1, 2022

    Dr. Howell I begin this article with the obvious: these are challenging times. Some of the challenges are thrust upon us, like the COVID-19 virus, and some are made by our own society, like the...

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    Hospitalist Finds Her Niche in Quality and Patient Safety

    August 4, 2022

    Q & A with Isha Puri, MD, MPH, FHM, Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital, Fort Worth, Texas Dr. Puri, a volunteer member of The Hospitalist’s editorial board, joined hospital medicine when...

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    SHM’s 2022 Hill Day a Success

    August 1, 2022

    US Capitol. Getty Images It’s been two years since members of SHM’s Public Policy Committee (PPC) participated in Hill Day—the annual visit to Washington, D.C. to meet with legislators and...

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    Gun Violence is a Public Health Crisis and as Hospitalists, It’s Time to Step Up

    July 12, 2022

    I did not think that becoming a pediatric hospitalist would require me to become an expert in firearm injury, but here I am. Every day more than 300 people are shot in the United States.1,2 That fact...

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    Hospitalists’ Jam Session

    July 1, 2022

    These members of the band performed in Nashville: standing (L to R): Kevin Maguire, Do, FHM, John Nelson, MD, MHM, Robert Zipper, MD, MMM, SFHM, Thomas McIlraith, MD, CLHM, SFHM, and David Lake, MD;...

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    How Hospitals Analyze and Learn from Adverse Events

    July 1, 2022

    Presenter: Daniel Steinberg, MD, FACP, SFHM, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York In this session, the speaker walked through the steps institutions practicing...