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    Chapter Spotlight: Nebraska

    November 1, 2024

    Mohammed Zalabani, MD, FHM, had just stepped away from a directorship role and was looking for less leadership responsibility and more time with “my kids and my family and my house and my...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Pittsburgh

    October 1, 2024

    Reimagining the chapter as members and their needs evolve In Pittsburgh, someone who identifies with the city is called a Yinzer. And Yinzers tend to stick around. That’s as true in the old steel...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Sacramento

    September 3, 2024

    Most chapters for SHM begin with a gaggle of hospitalists meeting up and becoming friends, bound by shared work experience. Things work differently in the Sacramento chapter, founded as a...

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    Chapter Spotlight: New Hampshire and Vermont

    August 1, 2024

    Perhaps the best description of SHM’s combined New Hampshire and Vermont chapter is camaraderie and curriculum, with a dash of snow. Dr. Krawitt “We’re creating…a kind of neighborhood...

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    Celebrating the 2023 Chapter Excellence Status Awards Recipients

    June 3, 2024

    Celebrating the 2023 Chapter Excellence Status Awards Recipients SHM has five international and 65 U.S. chapters, extending SHM’s reach and providing networking and information at the local level....

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    Chapter Spotlight: Pee Dee

    June 3, 2024

    COVID-19 was brutal on SHM chapters nationwide, immediately forcing events to teleconference technology and eliminating the in-person networking and education that has become a staple of the...

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    SIG Spotlight: Patient Experience

    June 3, 2024

    Length of stay, work-relative value units, hospital-acquired infections. There is no shortage of metrics—and their accompanying acronyms—that silo, summarize, and study whether hospitalists are...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Kansas

    May 1, 2024

    All SHM chapters talk about getting early-career hospitalists more involved. The Kansas chapter puts its money where its mouth is. Dr. Rafiq Its president, Ali Rafiq, MD, FACP, first got...

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    Chapter Spotlight: San Diego

    March 1, 2024

    Ali Farkhondehpour, MD, FACP, FHM, was a third-year medical student who got involved in SHM early in his career, so it likely wouldn’t surprise anyone he’s risen to president of its San Diego...

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    Chapter Spotlight: Maryland

    February 1, 2024

    If there’s one struggle that all SHM chapters know well, it’s engagement. Evelyn Gathecha, MD, FACP, FHM, tackles the issue head-on as president of the Maryland outpost. Dr....