Committees

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About SHM Committees

Committees play an essential role in SHM’s operations. Joining a committee allows you to play a bigger role in SHM’s major initiatives, from building resources for the specialty to ensuring that SHM remains at the forefront of hospital medicine. As a committee member, you will work with hospital medicine professionals on a national and international stage.

Committee Member Expectations

Committees are charged with ensuring that SHM is effectively meeting its mission and goals. Please review the charges and goals outlined below to ensure that you are prepared to actively participate and contribute to the team. In addition to the committee’s charges and goals, you must:
  • Be an active member of SHM
  • Be prepared to dedicate no less than 2 hours each month to the work of the committee, including participation in conference calls and projects
  • Demonstrate a professional background or interest that can enhance the objectives of the committee
View Committee Roles and Responsibilities

2026-2027 Committee Term

Applications for the 2026-2027 committee term opened on August 21, 2025, and closed on October 6, 2025. Decisions will be provided to applicants by the end of December 2025. Click here to learn about more ways to get involved, including applying to join an Advisory Council.

Questions? Contact us.

Current SHM Committees

The charge of the Academic Program Committee is to:
  1. Support the development of key academic resources for hospitalists to attend that will enhance their knowledge and bring community.
  2. Provide guidance regarding best ways for SHM to support career development for academic hospitalists
Chair: Jennifer Readlynn
The charge of the Annual Conference Committee is to:
  1. Develop the content for SHM’s annual conference:
    • Encourage and solicit peers to submit content
    • Review and evaluate all submissions from the call for content.
    • Develop the areas of focus, or tracks, for the accepted content.
    • Work with externally focused groups to develop content for tracks as deemed necessary and appropriate
  2. Determine recommendations regarding the educational focus for the Advanced Learning Courses
  3. Recommend and invite a diverse group of speakers for Converge
  4. Update conference guidelines to ensure all speakers meet key deadlines and understand specified requirements
Chair: Alfred Burger

The charge of the Awards Committee is to develop, revise, and promote the awards that are to be given at SHM Converge every year. The committee will review the submitted potential awardees and recommend winners to the Board of Directors. They are also charged with reviewing the slate of awards every year and recommending the addition or deletion of awards for future consideration by the Board of Directors.

Please note this is a closed committee comprised of a mix of past award winners and appointees from the SHM board of directors.

Chair: Valerie Press

The charge of the Chapter Support Committee is to:

  1. Support staff in the development and selection of chapters that qualify for SHM’s annual Chapter Initiative Funds program.
  2. Support staff in developing and selecting Chapter Excellence Awards recipients.
  3. Assist staff in the development and identification of Chapter Leader resources and opportunities for Chapter Leader training.
  4. Assist staff in the organization of a chapter leader networking event at SHM Converge.

Please note this is a closed committee comprised of current or past chapter leaders appointed by the SHM board of directors.

Chair: John Vazquez

The charge of the Education Committee is to:
  1. Support the annual selection process for updates speakers.
  2. Advise staff on the changing and evolving educational needs of key audiences at academic and community hospitals, and at various stages of training and career growth. This may include:
    • Provide recommended delegates to represent SHM and the hospitalist perspective at routine and ad hoc educational forums and collaborations, including the Internal Medicine Education Advisory Board (IMEAB), Association of Specialty Professors (ASP) council, or meetings of the ABIM Liaison Committee for Certification and Recertification (LCCR).
    • Provide educational needs assessment, leaning on the representative experience and expertise of members of the education committee, with a particular emphasis on recent or anticipated changes in guidance, updates to the literature, or timely events or trends in patient populations.
  3. Support staff and educational program leadership with recommendations for subject matter expertise as needed.
  4. Provide cyclical review and updates as necessary to the Core Competencies in Hospital Medicine, advising on revisions and new chapters as needed.
Chair: Megan Brooks

Charge: The Fellows Selection Committee reviews applications for Fellow and Senior Fellow designations. The committee will make recommendations for final approval to the SHM Board of Directors annually. Additionally, the Fellows Selection Committee will review the FHM and SFHM applications to ensure that criteria and instructions are up-to-date and appropriate.

Please note that to serve on this committee you MUST be a current Fellow (FHM) or Senior Fellow of Hospital Medicine (SFHM).

Chair: Brian Kwan

The charge of the Community Engagement Committee is to:

  1. Support the development and framework to support a sustaining community engagement agenda for SHM’s membership
    • Develop tangible and actionable opportunities to engage underrepresented minorities in medicine and enhance the pipeline of future hospitalists.
      • Identify and define tactics to recruit, engage and mentor underrepresented minorities in hospital medicine.
    • Facilitate discovery of current community engagement practices that have been successfully implemented to support broader translation and implementation and into practice.
    • Identify preliminary framework to support membership baseline diversity data collection to better understand opportunities for improvement.
  2. Review organizational position statements and other content to ensure consistency with the articulation and practice of community engagement.

Chair: Amira del Pino-Jones

The charge of the POCUS Certificate of Completion Steering Committee is to:
  1. Identify POCUS best practices, as defined by SHM and external organizations or agencies, that should be incorporated in SHM-Chest POCUS COC program.
  2. Serve as an advisory group for issues related to the SHM POCUS COC program:
    • Guide coordination and collaboration with Chest on POCUS educational activities
    • Review alternative pathway applications
    • Vote on special requests for exceptions and exemptions by learners
    • Recommend changes to components of the programs and requirements as needed
    • Support staff in the recruitment of subject matter experts from within and without the committee to serve key in key faculty and reviewer roles within the COC.
    • Provide input to annual meeting and SHM POCUS Special Interest Group as requested
  3. Present for consideration by staff and the committee new ideas in POCUS education and potential collaborations with external organizations (e.g. other medical societies, industry, and educational institutions).
  4. Keep abreast of advances in ultrasound technology and related clinical simulation that can affect the SHM-Chest POCUS COC program.
Chair: Nilam Soni
The charge of the Performance Measurement and Reporting Committee is to:
  1. Provide feedback and subject matter expertise on quality measures and pay for performance program structure to CMS, the Partnership for Quality Measures, measure developers, other payers, and other stakeholders.
  2. Source subject matter experts to committees at the Partnership for Quality Measures, measure development technical expert panels (TEPs) and other related external activities.
  3. Support the development of educational resources and other resources relating to quality measures and performance assessment programs.
Chair: Joshua Allen-Dicker
The charge of the Practice Management Committee is to:
  1. Support the selection of content and speakers for the Practice Management Track at Converge, appealing to a broad and inclusive audience.
  2. Support the ongoing Practice Management Webinar Series by identifying educational needs, content experts, and speakers.
  3. Support staff with recommendations for subject matter expertise upon request and guidance on staff projects and initiatives.
  4. Support SHM members by developing resources for hospitalists to improve their operational practice so they can focus on patient care.
Chair: Adia Ross
The charge of the Public Policy Committee is to:
  1. Make recommendations to the SHM Board on policy statements, positions, and objectives and respond to Board inquiries on the same.
  2. Advise staff on the changing and evolving policy needs of hospital medicine and support advocacy staff with recommendations and subject matter expertise upon request.
  3. Strategize with SHM staff to actively advocate for board approved positions and policy objectives.
Chair: Jennifer Cowart

The charge of the Research Committee is to:

  1. Develop and make recommendations of a hospital medicine research agenda.
  2. Advise on the guidelines in which SHM and hospitalists should play a role, be it as lead, partner, or promoter.
  3. Work with staff and Board of Directors to encourage and promote research activities in hospital medicine.

Chair: Valerie Vaughn

The charge of the RIV Committee is to:

  1. Identify abstract scoring best practices, as defined by SHM and external organizations or agencies, that should be recommended to abstract reviewers.
  2. Serve as the decision makers in determining scoring decisions for inclusion or declination to the onsite competition.
  3. Present for consideration by staff and the committee new ideas for growing and innovating the onsite competition.
  4. Keep abreast of advances in the abstract competition technology or convention that might affect the SHM RIV Abstract Competition.

Please note that this is a closed committee. To be eligible to serve on the RIV Committee you must be a past reviewer and onsite judge for the RIV Competition at an SHM Converge Conference. If you are interested in becoming a reviewer, please look for the call for reviewers in September.

For further questions please contact abstracts@hospitalmedicine.org

Chair: Valerie Vaughn

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