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SHM 2008 Annual Meeting Presentations

April 4 - April 5, 2008
San Diego, California

Plenary Sessions

The Future of Hospital Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges
John Nelson, MD
Ron Greeno, MD
John Laverty, MD
Mike Guthrie, MD

Hospitalists and the Quality Revolution
Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP

Hospitalists and the Future of Healthcare
Ian Morrison, PhD

Update in Hospital Medicine
Jeffrey Glasheen, MD
Joseph Li, MD

Pediatric Session: Improving Throughput Throughout the Hospital
John Fontanesi, PhD

Whipsawed: How Can Hospitalists Thrive in the Face of Co-Management, Non-Teaching Services, Transparency and the Reality of Perpetual Change
Robert M. Wachter, MD

What Have We Learned Wrap Up
Joseph Li, MD

Clinical 1 Track

Nosocomial Infections and Resistant Organisms
James Pile

COPD: Practical Evidence-Based Strategies
Daniel Dressler

Update in Perioperative Care: Perioperative Anticoagulation
Steven Deitelzweig

Chronic Heart Failure: When Should You Be Worried?
James Fang

Evaluation and Initial Management of Intracranial Hemorrhage and Other Neurosurgical Emergencies
Galen Henderson

Clinical 2 Track

Cutting Through the Confusion: The Diagnosis, Prevention, and Management of Acute Delirium
Heidi Wald

Principles of Wound Management: Clinical and Legal Considerations
Gerit Mulder

Chest Radiology: Plain Films and CT - Beyond the Basics
John Renner

The How, When, and Why of Comanagement
Eric Siegal

Advances in Inpatient Diabetes
Gregory Maynard

Rapid Fire Track

Controversies in Critical Care
David Schulman

Clot Controversies: Thrombolysis and VTE Prophylaxis
Timothy Morris

Controversies in Transfusion Medicine
Jeffrey Carson

Acute Coronary Syndrome Trials & Tribulations
William Southern

Management of Anticoagulant - Related Bleeding Complications
Amir Jaffer

Acute Renal Failure: Prophylaxis, Med Dosing and Acute Management
James Paparello

Perioperative Cardiac Guidelines
Lee Fleischer

Inpatient and Impatient Stroke Management
Galen Henderson

Common Endocrine Problems for the Hospitalist
Jordan Geller

New Practices in ACLS
Jason Persoff

Operational Track

Working with Non-Physician Practitioners: Risks, Benefits, Alternatives, and Indications
Mitchell Wilson

Results of the 2007 - 2008 SHM Survey, "The Authoritative Source on the State of the Hospital Medicine Movement"
Joseph Miller
Burke Kealey

Case Studies in Career Satisfaction
Chad Whelan
Douglas Carlson
Tosha Wetterneck

Designing Compensation and Bonus Plans to Drive Desired Behaviors
Rachel George
John Bulger
Winthrop Whitcomb

Measuring and Achieving Value in Hospitalist Programs
Michael Wagner
Robert Bessler
Stephen Houff

Academic Track

Keys to a Successful Academic Hospitalist Program: What Hospitalists and Their Leaders Should Do
Adrienne Bennett
Brian Lucas
Robert M. Wachter

Research 101
Jeffrey Schnipper
Peter Lindenauer
Margaret Fang

How to Network, Find a Mentor, be a Mentor
Andrew Auerbach
Jeffrey Wiese

Developing a Research Question and Conceptual Framework for a Grant Application
Sunil Kripalani
Vineet Arora
Peter Kaboli

How to Get Promoted as an Academic Hospitalist
Scott Flanders
David Meltzer

Quality Track

Improving Quality and Safety During Transitions of Care
Eric Coleman Lakshmi Halasyamani
Mark Williams
Jeffrey Greenwald

VTE Collaborative Experience
Gregory Maynard
Jason Stein
VTE Mentee Panel

Quality and Leadership: What is Needed to Support Hospitalist Quality Initiatives
Mark Novotny
Janet Nagamine
Erin Stucky
Joan Faro
Jennifer Myers

Lean Thinking Application to Optimize Hospital Flow
Christopher Kim
Vikas Parekh
Allen Kachalia
Christopher Roy

Quality Improvement Through Hospital Based Palliative Care
Howard Epstein

Pediatric Track

Surveys Say... Current Reports on Pediatric Hospitalist Workload and Compensation
Jack Percelay
David Zipes

Radiology Conundrums: A Pediatric Radiologists Guide
Lorna Browne

Pyelonephritis: Why Management is Still Unclear and Questions Continue
Erin Stucky

Clinical Pathways on a Budget
Steve Narang

Pancreatitis: Evidenced-Based Management
Bryan Fine

Skin, Soft Tissue, and Bone Infections
Theoklis Zaoutis