As an undergraduate, Dr. Tess earned her degree from Brown University, in Rhode Island, and received her medical degree at Washington University’s St. Louis School of Medicine. She completed her residency at Beth Israel Deaconess. She also completed fellowships at Harvard Medical School, the Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education Research and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Award for Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine: David Zipes, MD, director of pediatric hospitalist service at the Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis, Ind.
Dr. Zipes oversees all hospitalists and staff, leads strategic planning for the group and the hospital, oversees the business and financial issues of the group and provides general medical direction and leadership of the pediatric units at both the Peyton Manning’s Children’s Hospital and its suburban campus.
As a founding member of SHM, Dr. Zipes is active on its Annual Meeting Planning Committee, Pediatrics Committee, and Pediatrics Core Competencies Task Force. He is also a contributing author for Pediatric Hospital Medicine and the Textbook of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, and a founding member of the annual pediatric hospital medicine meeting.
He also has been the recipient of several awards, including the Family Medicine Teacher of the Year Annual Award (2002, 2005, and 2006) and the St. Vincent Spirit of Caring Award for Service and Dedication to the Hospital (2006 and 2007.)
Dr. Zipes earned his bachelor’s and medical degrees from Indiana University. He completed his residency at Children’s Hospital Medicine Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Drs. Jenkins, left, and Maynard, among the winners of the Team Approaches in Quality Improvement Award for their project “Optimizing Prevention of Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism.”
Award for Team Approaches in Quality Improvement: Team Leader, Greg Maynard, MD, MSc, professor of clinical medicine and chief of the division of hospital medicine at the University of California, San Diego.
Dr. Maynard and his team (Ian Jenkins, MD, Sarah Stone, MD, Josh Lee, MD, Ed Fink, Tim Morris, MD, Peter Fedullo, MD, Robert Schoenhaus, PharmD, Doug Humber, PharmD, Marian Renvall, Pat Cal, and Isabella London) are the recipients of the first Team Approaches in Quality Improvement Award for their project “Optimizing Prevention of Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism.”
Dr. Maynard led the three-year project, which has been implemented at more than 25 sites. Using proven performance-improvement methods and a multidisciplinary team structure, Maynard and his team designed a VTE-prevention protocol for all adult inpatients at their academic center. The protocol integrated a simple VTE risk assessment with a menu of prophylaxis options preferred at each level of risk.
During three years of study, the percentage of patients with adequate VTE prophylaxis regimens increased from 55% to 98%, and the number of patients suffering from hospital-acquired VTE decreased dramatically.