Converging on San Diego to Teach, Learn, and Grow in Hospital Medicine

Converging on San Diego to Teach, Learn, and Grow in Hospital Medicine
Written by Annie Massart, MD, and Mary Ann Kirkconnell Hall, MPH.

Photo collage pictured above: Top left: Dan Dressler; Photo credit: Annie Massart | Top middle (pictured left to right): Yoo Mee Shin, Manpreet Malik, and Noble Maleque; Photo credit: Yoo Mee Shin | Top right: John Vazquez; Photo credit: Annie Massart | Bottom left (pictured from left to right): Ingrid Pinzon, Melissa Beshay, Shaheen Fatima, Maha Sulieman, Mary Ann Kirkconnell Hall, Sara Millwee, Annie Massart, and Khaalisha Ajala; Photo credit: Shaheen Fatima | Bottom right: Alex Arges; Photo credit: Annie Massart.

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Each year, more than 3,000 academic and community hospitalists gather from around the United States for the Society of Hospital Medicine’s Converge annual meeting. Emory’s Division of Hospital Medicine put on a strong showing at this year’s Converge 2024 meeting in San Diego, California. Twelve division members spoke at pre-conference courses, workshops, or didactic talks, and more than 20 faculty were authors of poster presentations.

Highlights of the Conference

• Alex Arges was a contestant in the first-annual MED-TED Teaching Competition with her talk Help Doc, I Can’t Breathe!—Pulmonary Complications of Cirrhosis (Pictured right; Image credit: Annie Massart)
• Joanna Bonsall presented Pneumonia: Updates, Best Practices, and Controversies and co-led the Don’t Throw Away Your Shot: Negotiation for Hospitalists workshop
• Yelena Burklin presented Tackling Obesity and the New Weight Loss Drugs: What a Hospitalist Needs to Know
• Dan Dressler presented Syncope: Things We Do For No Reason & Things We Do For Reason and Let’s Get Physical: Exam Maneuvers that can Improve Your Clinical Judgement (Pictured right; Image credit: Annie Massart) 
• Aaron Gluth presented Mental Health Crisis on the Wards: Hospitalists Managing Patients with Psychiatric Disorders
• Mary Ann Kirkconnell Hall co-led the Survey Savvy: Designing and Launching Effective Surveys workshop
• Noble Maleque presented Rapid Responses: Approaches to Care For Patients in Need of Urgent or Emergent Care
• Manpreet Malik presented To Stick or Not to Stick: A Primer on Ultrasound Guided Procedural Safety and taught the Point-of-care Ultrasound for the Hospitalist Advanced Learning Course prior to the conference
• Annie Massart presented When You Have More Junior Hospitalists Than Fish in the Sea: Creating Mentorship Programming for all Practice Settings and was a moderator and primary planner for the MED-TED Teaching Competition
• Sara Millwee presented Best Practice Care Models for Effective Hospital Medicine Teams
• Mohamad Moussa accepted the Platinum Chapter Award for the Atlanta SHM Chapter, where he is President and Maha Sulieman is Vice-President.
• Dustin Smith presented Best of the Best: Updates in Acute Coronary Syndrome and co-led the Changing Your Niche in Hospital Medicine: S-curves, Not Straight Lines workshop
• John Vazquez presented An Interhospital Transfer Primer: Current Strategies and Innovations for Safer, More Appropriate, and More Efficient Transfers (Pictured right; Image credit: Annie Massart)

A number of Division of Hospital Medicine faculty, staff, and trainees, presented posters as well.

• Monee Amin, Yelena Burklin, Meredith Trubitt, Eric Baken, Madhavi Chavan, Malavika Kapuria, Dan Hunt, Dustin T. Smith: Successful Design and Execution of an Institutional Teaching Competition
• Shaheen Fatima, Iheoma Alinnor, Stephen Haff, Antinesha Wyatt: Myths and Mitigation Efforts to Prevent Phlebotomy-Associated Anemia
• Liliana Guevara-Bermudez, Mary Ann Kirkconnell Hall, Sandeep Bhargava: Improving Length Of Stay: Patients with Septic Shock upon Admission
• Gabrielle Gundermann, Jung Mia Park, Anandi Sheth, Lakshmi Katta: Oligoathralgia, Inflammatory Arthritis, Epidural Abscess: Can Chlamydia Do it All?
• Kain Kim, Michael Debakey, Nurcan Ilksoy: Consider Skipping Leg Day: An Unexpected Case Of Diabetic Myonecrosis
• Jennifer Li, Jonathan Heyman, Elizabeth Moss, Toby Terwilliger: Secondary Syphilitic Surprise: An Atypical Cause Of Acute Nephrotic Syndrome
• Jason M. Lucas, Hila Calev, Samantha Goldstein, Jessica Barnes: Upper Gastrointestinal Adenocarcinoma Presenting as a Solitary Cervical Neck Mass
• Annie Massart, Mary Ann Kirkconnell Hall, Malavika Kapuria, TaRessa Wills, Manpreet Malik, Mohamad Moussa, Dhyana Sankar, Maha Sulieman, Joyce Akwe: Unintentional Ingestion of Psychoactive Cannabis Products Among Adults: Scoping Review
• Christopher M. O’Donnell: Bridge the Gap; Insights on Discharge Summaries from Inpatient Clinicians
• Jung Mia Park, Shaheen Fatima: Developing a Hospitalist-Run Short-Stay Unit To Improve Throughput
• Yoo Mee Shin, Shaunak Varma, Bashir Geer, Joyce Rankin: Family History Matters: Case Of Acute Paralysis From Multiple Sclerosis
• Yoo Mee Shin, Prathima Pangulur, Allie Goins, Allyson Herbst, Erica Han: Striking A Nerve: A Case Of Post-COVID–Induced Guillain-Barre Syndrome
• Dustin T. Smith, Varun Phadke, Theresa Vettese, Alexander Matelski, Karen Law, Reena Hemrajani: Learning Augmentation Plan for At-Risk Residents for Licensing Exam Failure
• Dustin T. Smith, Eric Caliendo, Harshita Jain, Brett Montelaro, Caroline Chivily, Vidya Viswanathan, Caroline Coleman: Transfusion Challenges Due to a Rare Kell Autoantibody
• Adrian Umpierrez, Paging Hospital Medicine- Admission for Fall and Placement…NOT!
• Adrian Umpierrez, Central Line Placement on the Wards Versus Intensive Care Unit
• Matthew Zimmerman, Yoo Mee Shin, Jonathan Huang: Sudden Darkness: Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Optic Neuritis Causing Bilateral Blindness