Editor in Chief
Jeanne Huddleston, MD, FACP
President, Society of Hospital Medicine (2004-2005)
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo College of Medicine
Director, Hospital Medicine
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Managing Editor
Tina Budnitz, MPH
Director of Education
Society of Hospital Medicine

Contributors
Jan Clarke, MD, MPH
In-Patient Program
Geriatrics Division
Advocate Health Centers
Chicago, Illinois

Frank Michota, MD
Head, Section of Hospital Medicine
Director, Hospital Medicine Fellowship
Associate Director, Internal Medicine Residency
Department of General Internal Medicine
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland Ohio

Lorraine Mion, PhD, RN
Director of Nursing Services for Geriatrics
MetroHealth Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio

Robert M. Palmer, MD, MPH
Head, Section of Geriatric Medicine
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio

Mary Colleen Royer, MSN, RN
Director Department of Case Management and Social Work
MetroHealth Medical Center
Cleveland, Ohio

SHM Geriatrics Task Force Expert Review Board
Jeanne Huddleston, MD, FACP
President, Society of Hospital Medicine (2004-2005)
Chair, SHM Geriatrics Task Force
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo College of Medicine
Director, Hospital Medicine, Mayo Clinic

Alpesh Amin, MD, MBA, FACP
Chair, SHM Education Committee
Associate Professor
Director, Hospitalist Program
University of California, Irvine

Tina Budnitz, MPH
Director of Education
Society of Hospital Medicine

Jan Clarke, MD, MPH
In-Patient Program
Geriatrics Division
Advocate Health Centers Chicago, Illinois

Jonathan M. Flacker, M.D.
Medical Director, Emma I. Darnell Geriatrics Center
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology
Emory University School of Medicine

Evelyn C. Granieri, M.D., MPH, MSEd
Professor, Deputy Vic-Chair for Education
Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Chief, Geriatrics
Bronx VA Medical Center

William R. Hazzard, MD
Director, Geriatrics and Extended Care
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
Professor of Medicine
University of Washington

Michael C. Lindberg, MD, FACP
Director of Inpatient Clinical Services
Department of Medicine
Hartford Hospital

William L. (Bill) Lyons, M.D.
Medical Director
Assistant Professor, Section of Geriatrics and Gerontology
Department of Internal Medicine 981320 Nebraska Medical Center

Lorraine Mion, PhD, RN
Director of Nursing Services for Geriatrics
MetroHealth Medical Center Cleveland, Ohio

Jeanne St. Pierre, MN, APRN, BC
Gerontological Clinical Nurse Specialist
Ball Memorial Hospital

Donna I. Regenstreif, Ph.D.
Senior Program Officer
The John A. Hartford Foundation, Inc.

Robert Schreiber MD
Chairman, Department of Geriatrics
Lahey Clinic Burlington, MA

Glendo Tangarorang, MD
Clinical Instructor of Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
University of Connecticut School of Medicine

Philip Weisfelder, MD
Hospitalists of Mt. Auburn Cincinnati, OH