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Plenary Sessions
President's Luncheon

Induction of Inaugural Class of Fellows in Hospital Medicine
Patrick Cawley, MD, FHM

Awards of Excellence
Patrick Cawley, MD, FHM

President's Address
Patrick Cawley, MD, FHM

State of SHM
Laurence Wellikson, MD, FHM

Incoming President's Address
Scott Flanders, MD, FHM

TRACK: Clinical 1
TRACK: Clinical 2
TRACK: Clinical Case Studies
TRACK: Evidence-Based Rapid Fire
TRACK: Practice Management
TRACK: Research
TRACK: Academic

Simulation-Based Education Reduces Complications from Central Venous Catheter Insertion
Jeffrey Barsuk

Hospital Co-Management of Elderly Patients with Traumatic Falls
Michael S Cratty

Higher Quality of Care for Hospitalized Frail Older Adults is Associated with Improved Survival One Year After Discharge
Melissa Fish

Discharge Documentation of Patients Discharged to Sub-Acute Facilities: Results of a Three-Year Quality Improvement Process Across An Integrated Health Care System
Esteban Gandara

As Length of Stay Falls, Does 30-Day Hospital Readmissions Rate Increase in Veterans Administration Hospitals? 1997 to 2007
Jorge Go, Mary Vaughan-Sarrazin, Peter Kaboli

Innovative Strategies Which Improve the Clinical Handoff (I-Switch) Phase II: Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating Educational Modalities Including Cognitive Simulation
Jenny Han, Anna Lukowski, Peter Watson

The Incidence and Implications of Post-Discharge Adverse Events
Eric Siegal, Lee Lindquist, Kimberly Dickinson, Mark Williams

A Hospitalist-Run Geriatrics Service is Associated with Improved Processes of Care
Heidi Wald, Ethan Cumbler, Jeannette Guerrasio, Jean Youngwerth, Jeffrey Glasheen

A Hospitalist Model to Address the Quality of Care of Admitted Patients in the Emergency Department
Alan Briones, Andrew Dunn, Andy Jagoda, Navneet Kathuria, Brian Markoff, Ramiro Jervis, Lawrence Mumm

Teaching New Dogs New Tricks: An Interactive Patient Safety Curriculum for Housestaff
Andrew Dunn, Navneet Kathuria, Jill Goldenburg, Brian Markoff, Ramiro Jervis, Julie Nissim, Kristopher Smith, Michael Purdehnad, Lauren Peccoralo, Evgenia Litrivis

Enhancing a Commercial Electronic Health Record with a Novel Patient Handoff Application
Matthew Fred, David Vawdrey, Daniel Stein, Peter Stetson

Development of a Computerized Decision Support System for Critical Laboratory Values and Abnormal Trends on Discharge
George Mathew, Abel Kho, Lien Huynh, Corinne Fantz, Nathan Spell, Paul Dexter

The Effects of a 'Discharge Time-Out' on the Quality of Hospital Discharge Summaries
Prashant Vaishnava, Catherine Liang, Namita Mohta, Siqin Ye, Matthew Vitale, Jeffrey Schnipper

Disseminated Cryptococcal Infection Causing Epididymo-Orchitis and Masquerading as Lymphoma
Abhinav Chandra, Bipul Roy, Rubina Akhter

The New Mimicker of Pancreatic Cancer: Sarcoidosis
Jahnavi Naik, Daniel Dressler, Vincent Yang

An Orange a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
Jason Price, Thanakorn Jirasevijinda, Nena Osorio

Beware of the Seemingly Stable Sickle Cell Patient
Lisa Wasson, Junaid Bhutto

Teaching Safe Transitions
Jennifer Myers and Jennifer Kogan

Teaching Quality Improvement in Our Hospitals
Anjala Tess and Alex Carbo

Teaching on the Wards: Strategies for Success
Bradley Sharpe

TRACK: Quality

Teamwork: Project Interact - Improving Patient Safety with Interdisciplinary Teamwork
Kevin O'Leary, Corinne Haviley, and Julius Yang

How Hospitalists Can Use Root Cause Analysis Tools to Improve Patient Safety/Change Safety Culture in their Hospitals
Charles Watts

Improving Handoffs of Care
Vineet Arora and Erin Stucky

Performance Measure Grand Rounds
Patrick Torcson, Jill Epstein, and Eric Siegal

Project BOOST - A National Discharge QI Project
Mark Williams, Jeffrey Greenwald, and Lakshmi Halasyamani

Crisis in our Nation's Emergency Departments - What is the Role of the Hospitalists?
Adrienne Green, Matthew Landler, David Zull, and Heather Masters

Crossroads Between Care and Documentation
Bryce Gartland

Leveraging Your Existing IT to Implement and Enhance Protocol-Drive Care (with and without CPOE)
Kendall Rogers, Gregory Maynard, and Jason Stein

Rapid Response Teams: What Works and What Doesn't
Sumant Ranji, Kathy Duncan, and Winthrop Whitcomb

TRACK: Pediatric
TRACK: Pain/Palliative & Post Acute Care
TRACK: Potpourri