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Monthly Newsletter | February 2018
News
Archna Eniasivam was appointed as the Assistant Director of the Health & Individual/Society Blocks. In this role, she assists with curriculum and content development, course logistics, and teaching and shaping the long-term vision for both blocks that occur during Foundations 1.
Julia Adler-Milstein
Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research (CLIIR)
Other news
Saj Patel was selected as one of Journal of Hospital Medicine's (JHM) most highly rated peer reviewers for 2017.
Academic Hospital Medicine Fellows, Peter Barish and Zac Jacobs both received one of 10 national SHM Travel Awards issued to trainees whose abstracts were scored highly and who have the potential to contribute significantly to the field of hospital medicine.
Publications
Sujatha Sankaran, Ethel Wu, Margaret Fang, Raman Khanna, Madhavi Dandu, and James Harrison conducted a three year intervention in a remote tribal region of Southern India where they trained community health workers linked with a central clinic to diagnose and manage hypertension and showed excellent hypertension control rates.
Madhavi Dandu published a paper on chemical irritants used in crowd control, such as tear gases and pepper sprays, are generally considered to be safe and to cause only transient pain and lacrimation.
In this month’s issue of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research journal, James Harrison, Andy Auerbach, Wendy Anderson, Jonathan Duong, and Sherry Chen worked with HOMERuN and a group of patient advisors report findings of qualitative study exploring barriers and solutions to support patient stakeholder engagement in research.
DHM Data Core Highlights
In QI, data core collaborated with Ari Hoffman and Saj Patel to develop a new measure for how patients are sleeping in the hospital called “sleep opportunity”, which uses EHR data to measure the longest uninterrupted time period that patients experienced each night.
In Administration, data core partnered with Annie Droste and Brad Monash to quantify the proportion of time that patients on different medical services spend on different units in the hospital, summarized by a mathematical formula called entropy, in order to determine which services have the lowest geographic localization.
Oralia Schatzman
"Thank you Oralia Schatzman for coordinating our annual holiday party and State of the Division update. It was clear that everyone enjoyed themselves! Thank you for all that you do for the division."
- Brad Sharpe
Manisha Israni-Jiang
"Manisha Israni-Jiang is an outstanding physician and colleague, who champions for her patients and advocates for her nursing colleagues. Her active listening skills makes her easy to approach with clinical questions. She is always professional, courteous, and a great provider. We are fortunate to work with her!"
- Cara Richoux, RN
