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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Society of Hospital Medicine Names Andrew Auerbach Next Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Hospital Medicine

(DALLAS, May 12, 2011) — The Society of Hospital Medicine has named Andrew Auerbach, MD, MPH, of the University of California, San Francisco, as the next editor-in-chief of SHM's peer reviewed journal, the Journal of Hospital Medicine. Dr. Auerbach will assume the role in January 2012.

Dr. Auerbach will be the second editor-in-chief of the Journal of Hospital Medicine, following the journal's founding editor-in-chief, Mark V. Williams, MD, FHM.

Hospital medicine is the fastest growing medical specialty in the history of modern medicine. In his new role, Dr. Auerbach will review the literature and evidence to guide best practices for more than 30,000 hospitalists practicing in more than 3,300 hospitals nationally.

"I am honored to follow Mark Williams and look forward to continuing to shape the growth of the Journal of Hospital Medicine," said Dr. Auerbach. "I particularly am excited to expand the Journal's role as a source of the highest quality evidence for hospitalists who care for patients, seek to improve health delivery, or focus on enhanced teaching in the inpatient setting."

Andrew Auerbach, MD, MPH, is Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF in the Division of Hospital Medicine, where he is Director of Research for the Division, co-directs the Research Fellowship in General Internal Medicine, and is the Chair of the Clinical Content Oversight Committee for UCSF Medical Center.

Dr. Auerbach's past research has focused on evaluation of care delivery models, with a specific emphasis on hospital medicine systems and comanagement systems, as well as methods for improving the measurement of quality of care. Dr. Auerbach's research has been published in prominent journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Archives of Internal Medicine. Dr. Auerbach received his MD from Dartmouth Medical School, trained in Internal Medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital, and was a Fellow in Primary Care Research at Beth Israel-Deaconness Medical Center, and received an MPH in clinical effectiveness from Harvard.

"Hospitalists depend on the best in evidence-based medicine to take the best possible care of their patients and move the specialty forward," said SHM's CEO Larry Wellikson, MD, SFHM. "The Journal of Hospital Medicine has become a critical part the hospitalist's knowledge base and we are confident that it will continue to thrive under his leadership."

The Journal of Hospital Medicine is the premier, ISI indexed publication for the specialty of hospital medicine and official journal of the Society of Hospital Medicine. The Journal advances excellence in hospital medicine as a defined specialty through the dissemination of research, evidence-based clinical care, and advocacy of safe, effective care for hospitalized patients. For more information, please visit www.journalofhospitalmedicine.com.

ABOUT SHM

Representing the fastest growing specialty in modern healthcare, the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) is the leading medical society for more than 31,000 hospitalists and their patients. SHM is dedicated to promoting the highest quality care for all hospitalized patients and overall excellence in the practice of hospital medicine through quality improvement, education, advocacy and research. Over the past decade, studies have shown that hospitalists can contribute to decreased patient lengths of stay, reductions in hospital costs and readmission rates, and increased patient satisfaction.

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