The Improving Adherence to Evidence-Based Recommendations for Common Serious Childhood Infections team at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is the 2014 recipient of SHM’s Award of Excellence in Teamwork in Quality Improvement. The team, led by Samir S. Shah, MD, MSCE, FHM, division of hospital medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, has earned this award for their commitment to enhancing teamwork among physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers in an effort to ultimately improve outcomes for hospitalized patients.
Patience Reich, MD, SFHM, has been selected as the first-ever recipient of SHM’s Award for Excellence in Humanitarian Service. This award is intended to highlight the volunteer effort SHM members give to at-risk populations, above and beyond the hospital care provided to patients and their families during daily activities as hospitalists. Dr. Reich’s humanitarian work spans her medical career and consists of providing medical care and service in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, the United States, and Haiti, where she will be returning in April 2014 with four professional colleagues and 25 medical students from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C.
2014 Masters in Hospital Medicine
Each year, SHM awards the Masters in Hospital Medicine—its highest honor—to a select group of hospitalists who have distinguished themselves uniquely through their contributions to hospital medicine and healthcare as a whole. Considered the “Hall of Fame” of the hospital medicine movement, the 2014 Masters join thirteen other MHMs in the specialty, for a total of 16 Masters.
Patrick Conway, MD, MSc, MHM, FAAP, chief medical officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), has been elected a Master in Hospital Medicine in recognition of his tireless commitment to reshaping the nation’s healthcare system to provide exceptional care to hospitalized patients—and all Americans. He also serves as director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, and deputy administrator for Innovation and Quality for CMS.
Steven Z. Pantilat, MD, MHM, has been elected a Master in Hospital Medicine in honor of his foundational leadership in the hospital medicine movement and his pioneering work in improving care for seriously ill and dying patients. He is a professor of clinical medicine in the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, the Alan M. Kates and John M. Burnard Endowed Chair in Palliative Care, and the founding director of the UCSF Palliative Care Program.
Jack Martin Percelay, MD, MPH, FAAP, MHM, has been elected a Master in Hospital Medicine in recognition of his national leadership in shaping the pediatric hospital medicine specialty and his ability to advance the concerns of hospitalized children and hospitalists everywhere. Dr. Percelay is a pediatric intensive care hospitalist at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., and teaches in the department of physician assistant studies at the Pace University College of Health Professions in New York City.
Similar to SHM’s Fellows in Hospital Medicine (FHM) and Senior Fellows in Hospital Medicine (SFHM), the Masters in Hospital Medicine have earned the right to append “MHM” to their names as a designation.
New Board Leadership
As part of its governance process, SHM members elect new directors to its board. This year, SHM is pleased to welcome the following new members of the Board of Directors:
Ron Greeno, MD, MHM, FCCP, founder of Cogent Healthcare and Cogent’s Executive VP for Strategy and Innovation, and