The Society of Hospital Medicine meeting (SHM Converge) was held in San Diego this past week (Apr 12-15). This is the largest conference for hospitalists annually, with several thousand attending nationwide. Many Duke hospitalists and trainees attended the meeting, with several selected to give a platform or poster presentation. Here are some of the presenters at this year’s meeting (compiled by Dr. Suchita Shah Sata). Abstracts will be published in an online supplement of the Journal of Hospital Medicine. Congratulations to all for being recognized for your excellence in clinical practice and research.
Presentations:
- Adia Ross - DRH, Chief Medical Officer
- Lecture - Navigating the Pace of Change: Insights for Thriving through Evolving Practice Management
- David Boyte - DRH, Medical Director of Perioperative Medicine
- Workshop - Building Inpatient Co-management Programs and Pathways
- Suchita Shah Sata – DUH
- Plenary Session- Updates in Hospital Medicine
- Workshop - Planning for Dissemination of your QI Innovations: from Project to Publication, insider advice from Journal of Hospital Medicine
- Workshop - Care Traffic Control: Optimizing team collaboration in high-acuity healthcare settings
Research & Innovation Abstract presentations:
- Oral abstract - V Press, A Jenkins, A Sumarsono, MT Prochaska, SK Mueller, Juliessa Pavon MD, JD Harrison, S Dugani, BP Golden, N Caravelli, A Jackson-Sagredo, VM Vaughn, A McWilliams: Research priorities for adult hospital medicine - a survey of US hospital medicine leaders.
- Finalist poster – Judith Vick MD MPH, Ben Berger MD, HyunBin You MSN RN, Jessica Ma MD, Marie Haverfield PhD, Christopher Cox MD MHA MPH, Deepshika Ashana MD MBA MS: Shared decision-making and surrogate prognostic misunderstanding after family meetings.
- Anivarya Kumar BA, Lucy Cummins BA BS, Ryan Slauer MD, Dana Clifton MD: Drivers of self-directed discharge in patients with opioid use disorder
- Parisa Farahana MD MPH, Atoosa Bigvand, Felicia Ruffin, Christopher Leo MD, Yiran Yang MD PhD, Grace Dreyer PA-C, Neil Stafford MD, David Edelman MD, Lana Wahid MD, Valerie Renard NP, Hui-Jie Lee, Truls Ostbye, Hanzhang Xu, David Gallagher MD, Tatyana Der MD, Emily Ko MD PhD, Nkiruka Azuogalanya: Sepsis readmission prediction: pilot study of social determinants of health.
- Nadia Pasha MD, Ruwan Gamarallage MD, Eliseu Chuang MD MHA, Zahra Mahbooba MPH, Amal Youssef MD: Improving hospital admission time by 35%
- Ryan Duffy MD, Suchita Shah Sata MD, Joel Boggan MD MPH, Brian Schneider MD, Alex Linares BS, David Simel MD: Reducing low-value CBCs: audit and feedback using resident defined standards
- J Ramesh, Michael Pignone MD MPH, C Moriates, A Boulton, R Holliman, FJ Ibarra, O Dede-Bamfo, N Kluz, K Von Sternberg, M Velasquez: Screening and treatment of unhealthy alcohol use during acute hospitalization.
- A Fried, D Bynum, S Dorn, W Leland, E Mullen, D Williams, Aimee Zaas MD MHS: Generative Artificial Intelligence use among internal medicine residents.
Clinical Vignette presentations:
- Sanjay Adi MD, Ruwan Gamarallage MD. Can rifaximin trigger rhabdomyolysis despite long-term use of atorvastatin?
- Eleanor Bate MD, Pahresah Roomiany MD MS: Catatonia in systemic lupus erythematosus: a multifaceted clinical presentation.
- Katrina Guardino BA, River Jordan, Jenny Van Kirk MD: Cutaneous cytomegalovirus as a harbinger of dissemination in immunocompromised patients.
- Roshini Srinivasan MS, Joanna Cavalier MD, Aubrey Jolly Graham MD: Something in the water: curious case of peritoneal dialysis-associated peritonitis.
- Alexandra Lee MD, Mary-Nel Saarloos DO: Beware of the loitering goiter
- James R Watson MD, Suchita Shah Sata MD, Tara Spector MD: Lactobacillus bacteremia and endocarditis presenting as a lower-extremity rash.