7:00am

Registration and continental breakfast

7:30am

Welcome & Introduction - Daniel Dressler, MD, MSC

7:45am

Hospitalists’ Impact on Quality & Specialty care - R. Wayne Alexander, MD, PHD

8:00am

VTE Care & Update - Steven Deitelzweig, MD, MMM

8:45am

Blood Glucose Management in the IcU, non-IcU and with TPN - Guillermo Umpierrez, MD

9:30am

Acute Heart failure: evidence-based management and New therapies - Andrew Smith, MD

10:20am

Break

10:40am

Best Practices and Update in Resuscitation - Jason Persoff, MD

11:30am

KEYNOTE: improving Quality of care in America : 2008 & Beyond - Steven Manoukian, MD, FACC, FSCAI

12:15pm

LUNCH (on your own)

1:45pm

Workshop: Session I

Difficult ventilator cases - David Schulman, MD, MPH

Clinical Documentation: New Requirements - Bryce Gartland, MD

Pharmacological: Update on Antibiotic and Antifungal therapeutics - Ashley Herring, PharmD

3:00pm

Break

3:15pm

Workshop: Session II

Healthcare Associated Pneumonia - Christine Lallos, MD

Improving throughput, Length of Stay, and Healthcare cost - Mitchell Wilson, MD

Assuring care Quality and Reducing medication errors - Janice Glascock, PharmD

4:30pm

Break

4:45pm

Workshop: Session III

Central Nervous System Infections - Shanta Zimmer, MD

Patient Satisfaction - David Lee, MD

Safe Use of Sedatives and Paralytics - Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP

5:45pm

Adjournment & Announcements

5:45- 6:45pm

Job Fair - time for practitioners and trainees to explore opportunities with local, regional, and national employers.

6:30- 8:00pm

Reception for Poster competition

7:00am

Registration and continental breakfast

7:00am

Breakfast with the Professor (Limited to 30 participants, pre-registration required)

Session A: Difficult Perioperative cases - Amir Jaffer, MD

Session B: Heparin-Induced thrombocytopenia - Sylvia mcKean, MD

Session C: Inpatient and Perioperative Delirium - Michael Lubin, MD

7:55am

Welcome & Introduction

8:00am

The Hospital medicine movement - Mark v. Williams, MD, FACP

8:45am

Perioperative Update - Amir Jaffer, MD

9:30am

KEYNOTE: crossroads of Healthcare Quality and financing - Fred Sanfilippo MD, PhD

10:15am

Break

10:35am

Neurologic emergencies - Owen Samuels

11:20am

Advances in management of valvular Heart Disease - Vasilis Babaliaros, MD

12:05pm

LUNCH (on your own)

12:05pm

SHM Luncheon
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2:00pm

Workshop: Session I

Management of cirrhosis complications - Arvin Singh, mD

Transitioning to a better Discharge - Mark v. Williams, MD, FACP

Drug Overdose - Brent Morgan, MD

3:15pm

Break

3:30pm

Workshop: Session II

COPD exacerbation Inpatient Strategies - Daniel Dressler, MD, MSC

Diagnostic Decision making - Kevin Hude, MD

Pain management Level II - Stephanie Grossman, MD

4:30pm

Break

4:45pm

Workshop: Session III

Hospitalist co-management of Orthopedic Patients - Vasu Vuppola, MD

LeAN Process to Improve care Quality - Valery Akopov, MD

Medication management in Renal failure - Sara Saxer, PharmD

5:45pm

Adjournment & Announcements

7:30am

Continental breakfast

7:55am

Welcome & Introduction - Daniel Dressler, MD, MS

8:00am

Fulminant Hepatic Failure - Ram Subramanian, MD

8:45am

Skin and Soft tissue Infections - Susan Ray, MD

9:45am

Update of Sepsis management - Corey Kershaw, MD

10:30am

Break

10:45am

Update in Hospital medicine - Neil Winawer, MD

12:00pm

Wrap-up and conclusions - John vazquez, MD

12:30pm

Adjournment