He hopes to put the journal in the position to publish work supported by such new initiatives as the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.
That might mean providing editorials or inviting papers that outline the importance of hospitalists’ involvement in those initiatives, then making sure the journal is opportunistic in reviewing and publishing high-quality work, he explains.
Andrew Auerbach, MD, MPH, SFHM
Age: 44
Academic rank: Associate professor of medicine, University of California at San Francisco’s Division of Hospital Medicine
Administrative titles at UCSF: Attending physician, Department of Medicine; director of research for division of hospital medicine; associate director of the General Medicine Research Fellowship; chair of the Clinical Content Governance Committee at UCSF Medical Center
Education: Bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine (1988); medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H. (1992); master’s of public health in clinical effectiveness from Harvard School of Public Health, Boston (1998)
Clinical training: Internship in internal medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn. (1992-1993); residency in internal medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn. (1993-1995); fellowship in general internal medicine, Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center, Boston (1996-1998)
Principal positions held: Attending physician at Moffitt-Long Hospitals in San Francisco (1998-present); clinical fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston (1996-1998); emergency room physician at Milton Hospital, Milton, Mass. (1996-1998); physician and co-director of student health services at University of New Haven, New Haven, Conn. (1995-1996); hospitalist at Hospital of Saint Raphael, New Haven, Conn. (1995-1996); admitting officer at West Haven Veterans Administration Hospital, West Haven, Conn. (1994-1996)
Awards and honors: Western Society for Clinical Investigation, Investigator of the Year Award (2010); Orthopaedic Research Society Harris Award for Outstanding Research (2010); fellow, American College of Physicians (2009); James Rand Award for Outstanding Research Project (2008); Society of Hospital Medicine Young Investigator Award (2004)
Professional memberships: Association of Chiefs of General Internal Medicine, Society of Hospital Medicine, American Medical Association, American College of Physicians, Society of General Internal Medicine
Most Significant Co-Authored Publications
- Rothberg M, Maselli J, Pekow P, Lindenauer P, Auerbach AD. Cost-effectiveness of changes in care at U.S. hospitals from 2000-2004. In press, Health Affairs.
- Auerbach AD, Wachter RM, Cheng H, et al. Effects of a neurosurgery-hospitalist comanagement model on outcomes of patients with neurosurgical illnesses. In press, Arch Int Med.
- Auerbach AD, Hilton JF, Maselli JM, Pekow P, Rothberg M, Lindenauer PK. Follow the crowd or shop for the best: How volume and care quality influence outcomes of cardiac surgery. Annals Int Med. 2009;150(10):696-704.
- Auerbach AD, Landefeld CS, Shojania KS. The tension between needing to improve care and knowing how to do it. N Engl J Med. 2007;357(6):608-613.
- Lindenauer PK, Pekow P, Rothberg M, Benjamin E, Auerbach AD. Outcomes of patients treated by hospitalists, general internists, and family physicians. N Engl J Med. 2007;357(25):2589-2600.
Bold New Direction
The JHM team, which partners SHM leaders and the journal’s publisher, Wiley-Blackwell Inc., is revisiting the journal’s press relations and editorial strategy (Wiley-Blackwell also publishes The Hospitalist). Discussions also are under way about whether to increase the journal’s publishing frequency, as well as how the journal can increase its digital footprint and take advantage of social media outlets to increase the usability and visibility of its offerings, Dr. Auerbach says.
“One side effect of JHM ’s growth has been growing constraints on space to publish excellent work,” he says. “Our team will focus a great deal on strategies to increase JHM ’s ability to review and publish the many outstanding papers submitted each year.”