JOHNBUCK CREAMER, MD, SFHM KEY CLINICAL QUESTION JOHN NELSON, MD, MHM Scope of services Managing CIED The causes of continues to evolve infection hospitalist burnout PAGE 8 PAGE 12 PAGE 29 VOLUME 21 NO. 7 I JULY 2017 AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE SOCIETY OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE Meet the Pediatric hospitalists two newest march toward recognition SHM board members By Richard Quinn HM’s two newest board Smembers – pediatric hospital- ist Kris Rehm, MD, SFHM, and perioperative specialist Rachel Thompson, MD, MPH, SFHM – By Larry Beresford will bring their expertise to bear on the society’s top panel. ediatric hospital medicine is moving However, neither woman sees her Pquickly toward recognition as a role as shaping the board. In fact, they board-certified, fellowship-trained see themselves as lucky to be joining medical subspecialty, joining 14 other the team. pediatric subspecialties now certified by “It’s a true honor to be able to sit on the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP). the board and serve the community It was approved as a subspecialty by the of hospitalists,” said Dr. Thompson, American Board of Medical Specialties outgoing chair of (ABMS) at its October 2016 board meet- SHM’s chapter ing in Chicago in response to a petition support commit- from the ABP. Following years of discus- tee and head of sion within the field,1 it will take 2 more the section of years to describe pediatric hospital medi- hospital medicine cine’s specialized knowledge base and write at the University test questions for biannual board exams that of Nebraska in PEDIATRIC CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 Omaha. “I really want Dr. Thompson to hear everyone’s voice, and I hope to see how we can all move to better places together,” added Dr. Rehm, associate professor of clini- cal pediatrics and director of the divi- sion of hospital medicine at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. Both board members were officially FlairImages/Thinkstock seated for 3-year terms at HM17 in Las Vegas. They replace former SHM SHM MEMBER president Robert Harrington, MD, Q&A SFHM, and veteran pediatric hospi- SPOTLIGHT talist Erin Stucky Fisher, MD, MHM. Each of the new board members Pediatrics Committee brings a strong perspective to the panel. chair grows with SHM For Dr. Thompson, that viewpoint Sandra Gage, MD, PhD, is based in engagement. She is the former chair of SHM’s Pacific North- SFHM west chapter and has spent the past few SEE PAGE 11 years leading the perioperative issues Plainview, NY 11803-1709 NY Plainview, Lebanon Jct. KY Jct. Lebanon for the society’s work group. Permit No. 384 No. Permit Suite 2, 2, Suite PAID “We get to a certain point in our 151 Fairchild Ave., Ave., Fairchild 151 U.S. Postage U.S. Presorted Standard Standard Presorted career as hospitalists, and if we’re just THE HOSPITALIST HOSPITALIST THE CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED SERVICE CHANGE NEW MEMBERS CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 SHM NEWS I By Matt Pesyna Hospitalist movers Volume 21 Number 7 July 2017 PHYSICIAN EDITOR THE SOCIETY OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE Danielle B. Scheurer, MD, SFHM, MSCR Phone: 800-843-3360 [email protected] Fax: 267-702-2690 Website: and shakers PEDIATRIC EDITOR www.HospitalMedicine.org Weijen Chang, MD, FACP, SFHM Laurence Wellikson, MD, MHM, CEO [email protected] Lisa Zoks hree members of the hospital medi- comes to Bath from the Sioux Falls (N.Y.) COORDINATING EDITORS Vice President of Marketing & cine community – Thiruvoipati VA, where she was Christine Donahue, MD Communications T THE FUTURE HOSPITALIST [email protected] Nanda Kumar, MD, Anthony a hospitalist and a Aghenta, MD, MS, FACP, and Angela hospitalist-clinician Jonathan Pell, MD Brett Radler Aboutalib, MD – recently were honored educator, while also KEY CLINICAL GUIDELINES Communications Specialist [email protected] for their work by the International Associ- serving as clinical CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Felicia Steele Houriya Ayoubieh, MD ation of HealthCare Professionals, earning assistant professor for Communications Coordinator Eileen Barrett, MD, MPH spots in its publication, The Leading Physi- New York Medical [email protected] Larry Beresford cians of the World. College and medical Sarah Burns, DO, MS SHM BOARD OF DIRECTORS Hospitalist and internist Dr. Nanda director at Norwalk Tracy Cardin, ACNP-BC, SFHM Ron Greeno, MD, FCCP, MHM Kumar serves patients at Vibra Hospital (Conn.) Hospital. Dr. Whelan Johnbuck Creamer, MD, SFHM President in Redding, Calif., where he is also a clini- Dr. Herson served John L. Davisson, MD Nasim Afsar, MD, SFHM cal associate professor at the University of in the U.S. Navy, doing her training at Howard R. Epstein, MD, SFHM President-Elect Carl Galloway, MD, FHM, FAAP Christopher Frost, MD, SFHM California at Davis. He is a member of both Walter Reed Medical Center, Bethesda, Jacob Imber, MD Treasurer the Society of Hospital Medicine and the Md. She was a general medical officer while Sean M. Lockwood, MD Howard R. Epstein, MD, SFHM American Diabetes Association. stationed at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Leonard J. Marcus, PhD Secretary Dr. Aghenta is a 17-year veteran internist Lejeune in Jacksonville, N.C. Shadi Mayasy, MD Brian Harte, MD, SFHM John Nelson, MD, MHM Immediate Past President who currently serves as medical director for Matt Pesyna Tracy Cardin, ACNP-BC, SFHM Coronado Healthcare Center in Phoenix. Chad Whelan, MD, has been elevated to Richard Quinn Jeffrey J. Glasheen, MD, SFHM There, he also is affiliated with St. Joseph’s president of the Loyola University Medical Alexander Rankin, MD Kris Rehm, MD, SFHM Hospital and Medical Center. A member of Center, Chicago, moving up from his chair Meghan Sebasky, MD, FHM Bradley Sharpe, MD, FACP, SFHM Claudia Stahl Rachel Thompson, MD, MPH, SFHM SHM, Dr. Aghenta also has the title of Fellow as senior vice president and chief medical Joseph Sweigart, MD Patrick Torcson, MD, MMM, SFHM of the American College of Physicians. officer. This longtime hospitalist also serves FRONTLINE MEDICAL COMMUNICATIONS as a professor of medicine in the Loyola FRONTLINE MEDICAL COMMUNICATIONS EDITORIAL STAFF ADVERTISING STAFF Stritch School of Medicine. Editor in Chief Mary Jo M. Dales VP/Group Publisher; Director, Dr. Whelan is a former director of hospi- Executive Editors Denise Fulton, FMC Society Partners Kathy Scarbeck tal medicine at Loyola and has held various Mark Branca Three members of Editor Richard Pizzi positions, including associate chief medical Director, Business Development Creative Director Louise A. Koenig the hospital medicine officer, at the University of Chicago. He is Director, Production/Manufacturing Angela Labrozzi, 973-206-2971 an associate editor of the Journal of Hospi- Rebecca Slebodnik cell 917-455-6071 [email protected] community recently tal Medicine. EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Classied Sales Representative Geeta Arora, MD Heather Gonroski, 973-290-8259 were honored for their Kevin Tulipana, DO, recently was Michael J. 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