Welcome
Amir Jaffer, MD, FHM

Hospitalists and Healthcare Reform
Eric Siegal, MD, SFHM, Patrick Conway, MD, MSc, Leslie Norwalk, Ronald Greeno, MD, SFHM

Keynote Address: The Hospitalist’s Role in the Hospital of the Future
Paul Levy

Effects of Hospitalists on 1-Year Post-Discharge Resource Utilization by Medicare Beneficiaries
David Meltzer, MD, FHM

The Medical Respite Program: Ensuring Safe Discharges for Homeless Patients
Audrey Kuang, MD

Induction of Fellows, Senior Fellows, and Masters in Hospital Medicine
Scott Flanders, MD, SFHM

President’s Address
Scott Flanders, MD, SFHM

Awards of Excellence
Scott Flanders, MD, SFHM

President Elect’s Address
Jeffrey Wiese, MD, SFHM

State of SHM April 2010
Larry Wellikson, MD, SFHM

Hospital Medicine Update 2010
Danielle Scheurer, MD, MSc, SFHM, Brian Harte, MD, SFHM

Update in Pediatric Hospital Medicine 2010
Erin R. Stucky, MD, FAAP, SFHM

How Health Care Reform Changes the Hospitalist Field and Vice Versa
Robert M. Wachter, MD, MHM

What Have We Learned Wrap Up
Daniel Dressler, MD, SFHM

Common Pitfalls in the Management of Sickle Cell Disease
Sophie Lanzkron, MD, MHS, Niraj Sehgal, MD, MPH

Ten Commandments of Medical Consultation
Geno J. Merli, MD, FACP, FHM

Critical Care Literature Review: Doing Good, Avoiding Harm, Wasting Resources?
Andrew F. Shorr, MD, MPH, FCCP, Chee M. Chan, MD

What’s New in Atrial Fibrillation: Rate Control, Anticoagulation and Procedures
Jonathan L. Halperin, MD

Emerging Antimicrobial Resistance: How to Keep Your Patients and Your Hospital Safe
Glenn Wortmann, MD, FACP, FIDSA

Common Hematologic Emergencies and Consults
Craig M. Kessler, MD, MACP

Updates in Hospital Medicine: Alcohol Withdrawal
Michael P. Lukela, MD, FAAP, FACP, FHM

COPD: Is it Worth Treating?
Michael Campos, MD, FACP

Clinical Problem Solving: Cases from the Wards
Daniel J. Brotman, MD, FACP, FHM

Update in ACS
Steven Bailey, MD

Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Chad T. Whelan, MD

HIV Management 2010
Henry Masur, MD

How Drug Abusers See the World
Glenn J. Treisman, MD, PhD

How to Prevent Heart Failure Hospitalizations
Gregg C. Fonarow, MD, FACC, FAHA

Controversies in Anticoagulation and Thrombosis Workshop
Peter Kaboli, MD, MS, Amir K. Jaffer, MD, Beth Barlow, Alpesh Amin, MD, MBA, David Lovinger, MD, FHM, Andrew Dunn, MD, FACP

Clostridium Difficile
John G. Bartlett, MD

The Black Box: Medical Management of the Hospitalized Neurosurgery Patient
Christina Gilmore, MD, Rachel Thompson, MD, FHM

Controversies in Perioperative Medicine
Steven L. Cohn, MD, FACP, Leonard S. Feldman, MD, SFHM, FACP

Establishing Trust: Effectively Communicating with Challenging Patients and Families
Vicente Velez, MD, FACP, William Braun

Obstructive Sleep Apnea in the Hospital Setting
Geoffrey Gilmartin, MD, Suzie Bertisch, MD

Managing Acute Stroke: Difficult Cases
Geoffrey Ling, MD, PhD

Pharmacologic Advances 2009
Joseph Ming Wa Li, MD, SFHM

50 Ways to Kill Your Kidneys: Kidney-related Drug Toxicities
Derek Fine, MD

Don’t Get Inflamed! Vasculitis and Other Curbside Rheumatology Consultations
Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD, FACP

Complications of Cirrhosis
Frank Herlong, MD

Who’s Your Sugar Data? Rapid Fire - Inpatient Glycemic Control
Greg Maynard, MD, MSc, SFHM

Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Shirin Shafazand, MD, MS, FRCP(c), FCCP, D.ABSM

Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation in Acute Respiratory Failure
Eric M. Siegal, MD, FHM

MRSA Infection: Challenges and Controversies
Jim Pile, MD, FACP, SFHM

Now You’re Awake Now You’re Not...Effective, Efficient and Prudent Syncope Evaluation
Daniel D. Dressler, MD, MSc, SFHM

Call or Don’t Call: (What and When the Surgeon Needs to Know)
Timothy G. Buchman, PhD, MD, FACS, FCCM

The Skinny on Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
Sabitha Rajan, MD, MSc, FHM

Greatest HITS of Hospital Medicine: Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia
Teresa L. Carman, MD

Staying Alive: Coping Skills for Leaders in Challenging Times
Val Ulstad, MD, MPA, MPH

Negotiating Your Continued Financial Support for a State of the Art Hospitalist Program
Martin B. Buser, MPH, FACHE, Roger A. Heoux, PhD, FACHE

The Patient Experience: What Hospitalists Need to Know About Measurement, Reporting, and Benchmarking
Winthrop F. Whitcomb, MD, MHM, Nancy Mihevc, PhD

Who Gets Which Patients? Methods for Distributing Workload Among Hospitalists
John Nelson, MD, MHM

Enhance Your Influence on Your Medical Staff
Arthur D. Snow Jr., MD, FAAFP, CMD

The SHM-MGMA Survey: Why We Did it and What We’ve Learned
Leslie Flores, MHA, Todd Evenson, MBA

Creative Hospitalist Compensation Models and Incentive Plans
Leslie Flores, MHA, Rob Bessler, MD, Christine Lum Lung, MD, John Nelson, MD, MHM, Vikas Parekh, MD, Win Whitcomb, MD, MHM

The Integration Imperative: Financial and Operational Partnerships for Hospitalists and Physicians
Amanda Shoemaker Berra

Documentation Tips Your Hospital Will Love You For
Richard D. Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS

Our Group Has Hired NPP's, Now What?
David Friar, MD, SFHM

Geographic (Unit Based) Deployment of Hospitalists
Russell Holman, MD, SFHM, Burke Kealey, MD, SFHM, Kelly Caverzagie, MD, FACP, Kevin O’Leary, MD, MS

Introduction to Decision Analysis
Sandeep Vijan, MD

How to Use Large Databases for Research
Sunil Kripilani, MD, MSc, Heidi Wald, MD, MSPH, Andrew Auerbach, MD, MPH

How to Develop Effective Research and Innovations Abstracts
Luci K. Leykum, MD, MBA, MSc, Margaret C. Fang, MD, MPH, Jennifer S. Myers, MD, FHM

Comparative Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness Research
David Meltzer, MD, PhD, Anirban Basu, PhD

How to Use Anticogulation Guidelines in the Hospital to Meet Joint Commission's Measures and Achieve National Patient Safety Goals
Scott Kaatz, DO, MSc, FACP, David Paje, MD, FACP, David Feinbloom, MD, Steven Deitelzweig, MD

Making Quality Improvement Count in Your Academic Career: How to Document, Disseminate, and Promote Your Work
Vikas Parekh, MD, Brad Sharpe, MD, Benjamin Taylor, MD, MPH

Quality Improvement Curriculum: How to Get Started and Keep Going
Nasim Afsar-Manesh, MD, Jennifer Myers, MD, Erin Stucky, MD, Arpana Vidyarthi, MD

Front and Center: Is Your Frontline Patient-Centered?
Jason Stein, MD, SFHM, Julie Hollberg, MD, Kevin O'Leary, MD, MS

Introduction to Quality Improvement Methods
Alex Carbo, MD, FHM, Christopher Kim, MD, FHM

The Value Proposition to C-Suites: Aligning Hospital Resources to Support Hospitalist QI, or…How Do We Get This Stuff Done?
Mark Novotny, MD, Lakshmi Halasyamani, MD

First Do No Harm: Dangers in EMR/ CPOE Design and Implementation
Kendall Rogers, MD, FHM, Ross Koppel, PhD

Turning QI Into Research: What, When, How, and Why
Jeffrey L. Schnipper, MD, MPH, FHM, Andrew Auerbach, MD, MPH, Kaveh G. Shojania, MD

Patient Safety Advanced Concepts: Human Factors Engineering
John Gosbee, MD, MS

BOOSTing the Hospital Discharge
Tina Budnitz, MPH, Mark V. Williams, MD, FACP, FHM, Jeffrey Greenwald, MD, FACP, SFHM, Eric A. Coleman, MD, MPH

Multidisciplinary Teamwork and Communication: Implementation and Impact
Niraj Sehgal, MD, MPH

The Top 10 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started (and wish you did too!)
Basil J. Zitelli, MD

Hospitalist Preparedness for Pandemic Flu
Jeff Bennett, MD, FAAP, FHM

Insight and Inquiry: Going From Conflict to Collaboration
Allison Ballantine, MD, Lisa Zaoutis, MD

Reviewing for Medical Journals: Improving Peer Review
Samir S. Shah, MD, MSCE

Pediatric Palliative Care Consultation in the Hospital Setting: Why, When, How?
Todd R. Cote, MD, FAAHPM, FAAFP

Nutrition in the Hospital Setting
Nancy Nevin-Folino, Med, RD, CSP, LD, FADA

Pediatric Hospital Medicine Core Competencies
Mary Ottolini, MD, FHM

Making Your Mark: How to Create Effective Powerpoint Presentations
Vineet Chopra, MD, FHM, Paul Grant, MD, Craig Warren Marzola, DO, MPH, Kabir Mody, MD, Joshua LaBrin, MD

Improving Care for the Hospitalized Elder
Ethan Cumbler, MD

ICU Workload: Do You Need Relief?
Mary Jo Gorman, MD, MBA

Co-Management Workshop
Sylvia McKean, MD, Hugo Quinny Cheng, MD, Eric Siegal, MD, Chris Whinney, MD

Strategies to Improve Trainee Supervision
Vineet M. Arora, MD, MA, Jeanne M. Farnan, MD, MHPE, Bradley Sharpe, MD

Learning to See: Application of Lean Methodology to Hospital Medicine
Julius Yang, MD, PhD, Alice W. Lee, Anjala Tess, MD

Virtual Patient Examinations: Improving Cardiac Clinical Skills for Practicioners, Clerkships and Residency Programs
Jasminka Criley, MD, Preetha Basaviah, MD, Stuart Criley, MBA, Hemal Kadakia, MD, Ian Tong, MD

Ultrasound Imaging Skills for Invasive Bedside Procedures
Venkat Kalidindi, MD, Joshua Lenchus, DO, David Litchman, PA-C, Andres Soto, MD, Nilam Soto, MD, Ricardo Franco, MD

Transparency and Quality in Hospital Medicine: Identifying Ways to Drive Performance and Quality
Robert A. Bessler, MD, CEO

Effective Teamwork
Steven Deitelzweig, MD, SFHM, MMM, Patience Agborbesong, MD, SFHM

The Doctor Information Relationship - Are You Ready for Commitment?
Eduard E. Vasilevskis, MD

The Hospitalist-ED Relationship Making it a Partnership for Success
Robert Holloway, MD, FACP, SFHM

Teaching Rounds in the Era of the Hospitalist
Eric Kupersmith, MD, SFHM, Lisa Cerceo, MD, Vijay Rajput, MD, Anuradha Mookerjee, MD, MPH

Peer Review and Writers' Workshop Succeeding As a Reviewer and Author
Mark V. Williams, MD, FHM, FACP, Brian J. Hart, MD, FHM, Thomas Baudendistel, MD, Phaedra E. Cress

The Tee Shot: A Teaching Exercise in the Art of Asking Questions
Dan Hunt, MD

Blood Management - Hospitalists in a New Role
Ajay Kumar, MD, FACP, Tomas Villaneuva, DO, MBA

Value of Repeat Stool Testing for Clostridium difficile Infection Using the EIA technique
Preethi Patel, MD

The Impact of a Rapid Response Team on Intensive Care Unit Readmission Rate
Brad Butcher, MD

The Effect of Race and Ethnicity on Outcomes Among Critically Ill Patients
Ed Vasilevskis, MD

Assessing the Impact of Usual Care on Quit Rates at 4 Weeks Post-Discharge Among Hospitalized Smokers
Lisa M. Shah, MD, MA

The BOOST 7P Screening Tool for Transitions as a Predictor of Readmission
Emmanuel King, MD, FHM

Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in U.S. Hospitals: 2005 to 2009
Sarah L. Krein, PhD, RN

Higher Hospital Spending Does Not Result in Lower Adjusted Mortality in Sepsis
Tara Lagu, MPH, MD

Improving Patient Safety: Impact of Structured Interdisciplinary Rounds on a Medical Teaching Unit
Kevin O’Leary, MD, MS

Assessment of Improvements to IT-Based Medication Reconciliation
Jeffrey L. Schnipper, MD, MPH

Discharged Against Medical Advice (AMA): 30-day Readmission and Mortality Rates
Justin Glasgow, MS

Examining the Relationship Between Patient Safety Climate and Hospital Readmission
Luke Hansen, MD, MHS

Hand Hygiene - Follow the Leader?
Stephanie Carr, MD(c)

Do Hospitals Measure Up to the National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services Standards?
Lisa Diamond, MD, MPH

The ABCs of Hospitalized Patients: A Multidisciplinary Checklist for Improving Quality of Inpatient Care
Nasim Afsar-Manesh, MD

Implementing Strategies to Improve Transfusion Practices at an Academic Medical Center
Jeffrey M. Rohde, MD

Standardized Patients for Improving House Staff Rounding and Discharge Planning
Kristofer L. Smith, MD, MPP

Using ABIM Performance Improvement Modules to Improve Care Set Usage, Quality-Care Indicators and Enhance Resident Education in Quality Improvement
Mihaela Stefan, MD

Pharmacist-Driven Discharge Medication Reconciliation as Part of Project BOOST
Janelle Ocampo, PharmD, BCPS

Innovative Strategies Which Improve the Clinical Handoff (I-SWITCH) Phase 3: Multi-Institutional Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating the Educational and Performance Effect of Cognitive Simulation on Resident Handoffs
Peter Watson, MD, FACP, FHM

Practical Pearls of Palliative Pain Management
Stephanie Grossman, MD, FHM, FAAHPM, Howard Epstein, MD, FHM

Ethical Issues at the End of Life
Keith M. Swetz, MD

Non-Pain Symptom Management
Stephen Bakanich, MD

Medical Homes and Hospitalists
Frederick L. Brancati, MD, MHS, FACP

Focused Pathways in Hospital Medicine: A Concept Whose Time Has Come?
Kelly Caverzagie, MD, FACP, Eric Holmboe, MD, FACP

Teaching on the Fly: How to Promote and Assess Clinical Reasoning, Communication Skills, Professionalism on Rounds and in Small Groups
Becky Blankenburg, MD, MPH, Michele Long, MD, Nicole Marsico, MD, Noelle Johnstone, MD, Elizabeth Stuart, MD, MSEd

Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods
Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH, Joshua Metlay, MD, PhD, Frances Barg, PhD