DHM
SUMMER 2024
Check out our top Division of Hospital Medicine (DHM) accomplishments from the last quarter!
Get to know the newest faces around DHM including our recent clinical and global health scholars.
Stay up to date with the latest wins, recognition, and awards within the DHM.
Explore our recently published research and articles featuring team members from our division!
Explore the daily happenings in hospital medicine that build into our efforts to improve lives through excellence in patient care, education, and cutting edge innovation.
Get to know our data team, the projects they work on, and the Colorado School of Public Health MPH internship program they host interns for.
A Message from Marisha Burden, MD, MBA
Medical Campus
I am delighted to share with you our Summer DHM Newsletter! This edition highlights our strong commitment to building community and supporting our
team members. We have much to celebrate, including the well-deserved promotions of our faculty and staff, the arrival of our newest teammates, and the recognition of new leadership roles and accolades. You will also find our latest publications and media features, showcasing our team’s dedication to improving patient experience, advancing education, and contributing to cutting-edge research. We have also been working hard to equip our trainees with essential skills in areas such as data and analytics, leadership, and quality improvement. We hope you enjoy the read!”
#CUDHM ACCOMPLISHMENTS
DHM Top Quarterly Accomplishments
These are just three of the many accomplishments for this incredible team. Stay tuned for our next newsletter and follow us on X @CUDivHospMed to hear what we are up to next!
Fostering Mentorship & DOM Launch Teams
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Our division is working on innovative avenues to increase mentorship opportunities for our team. One of these efforts includes mentorship check-ins where individuals are encouraged to join and pair up with leadership to provide new perspectives and opportunities to grow. In addition to our mentorship efforts, the CU Department of Medicine offers several mentorship opportunities. One in particular includes the Launch Teams - a pilot program aimed at mentoring the department’s early-career faculty. Learn more about the program here!
Cultivating a closer community
We’ve been hard at work aiming to create an environment in our division that supports connection and belonging between our team members. To increase this connection, we recently launched a Teams page to connect our team members with meet ups and resources, such as foodie finds, group activities, impromptu hangouts and more. This is just one small step we hope cultivates a strong community!
Recent Promotions (Faculty, APP, and Admin)
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Help us celebrate the recent promotions on our hospital medicine team!
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NEWEST TEAM MEMBERS
Welcome the Newest #CUDHM Team Additions
We want to give a warm welcome to our newest faculty starting from July to September this year!
“The University of Colorado Division of Hospital Medicine (CUDHM) is an established national leader driven by its mission: Improving lives through excellence in patient care, education, and cutting edge innovation.
Our Mission
Colleen Long, MD
Sarah Beilke, MD
Kyle McDaniel, MD
Anita Moudgal, MD
Jeffrey Wagner, MD
Matthew Wofford, MD
Sandra GarciaHernandez, MPH
Eva Grobbel, MPH
Beret Fitzgerald, MD | Clinical Scholar
Jason Gilbert, MD | Clinical Scholar
Alexander Magee, MD | Clinical Scholar
Gregory Peterson, MD | Clinical Scholar
Angeline Sawaya, MD | Global Health Scholar
Jennifer Santos, MD | Clinical Scholar
Eden Bernstein, MD, MPH
Cassandra Skittle, MD
Katherine Jankousky, MD Carston Dammann, MD
Lucas Zarling, MD
Maggie Kuusinen, MD
Claire Schmitz, MD
#CUDHM WINS
Hospital Medicine Leadership Updates
Co-lead APP
Alice Curchin, PA-C
DHM Journal Club Co-Director
Claire Brickson, MD
New Internal Medicine Residency Program Director
Julia Limes, MD
Help us congratulate Dr. Limes on her recent appointment to University of Colorado Internal Medicine Residency Program Director
“Our mission is for each resident to fully realize their potential. We strive to prepare graduates to excel in their pivotal roles as physicians, researchers, teachers, and community leaders. I’m excited to show you what we have to offer and how we can help you to become the doctor you have always imagined.”
Learn more about the Internal Medicine Residency Program
2024 Longitudinal Integrated Curriculum (LIC) Awards
2024 Internal Medicine LIC Teacher of the Year Award
Alan Roberts, MD
The Teacher of the Year Award is an incredible honor and testament to the value Dr. Roberts brings to our students and his commitment to medical education. Students across the entire CUSOM curriculum (191 of them!) were invited to
submit nominations of their faculty who exemplified outstanding teaching, patient care, and role modeling. Dr. Roberts was selected among a tremendous number of compelling nominations. We are so grateful to you and excited to celebrate this award with you!
2024 LIC Bardsley Award
Ashley Takahashi, MD
This award was selected among close to 70 student nominations speaking to preceptor humanism in patient care and excellence in teaching. This award meant to celebrate Dr. Takahashi’s tremendous contributions to CUSOM’s curriculum along with the value she brings to our students through her teaching and mentorship as well as her incredible role modeling in patient care.
PUBLICATIONS & ARTICLES
Recent Publications
Check out our CUDHM faculty publications and blogs! Click here to see a list of the publications.
Article Highlights
MED PEDS
PHYSICIAN TRAINING
LONGITUDINAL INTEGRATED CLERKSHIP
REPRESENTATION & CAREER TRENDS
ADMINISTRATIVE HARM
Leading Patients Out of No Man’s Land: Med-Peds Team Bridges Gap Between Pediatric and Adult Care
Written by Mark Harden, Featuring Aaron Manning, MD
Training foreign doctors already in Colorado will go a long way to solving state’s physician shortage
The Colorado Sun, Op-Ed by Phil Fung, MD
CU’s School of Medicine is first to move to new model for training doctors
The Denver Post, Featuring Emily Gottenborg, MD
National Study Shows How Internal Medicine Chief Residency Has Changed Over 20 Years
Written by Tayler Shaw, Featuring William Turbyfill, MD
Tackling administrative harm can yield better decisions for better care Stat News, Featuring Marisha Burden, MD, MBA
DHM DAILY
Health Innovations Scholar Program (HISP) Recap
Our Health Innovations Scholar Program (HISP) is a 4-week long intensive training program for medical students. When accepted to the program, students use tools from LEAN, design-thinking, and change management, students analyze the existing workflows, identify targets for improvement, and work with stakeholders to enact changes. The HISP participants have the opportunity to decide their innovation project and work together as a team through their time to analyze and identify improvements for their chosen topic.
Sam Porter, MD Director
This year, the scholars developed a project to enhance care plans for sickle cell patients, aiming to improve patient-provider communication during hospital stays and reduce prolonged hospitalization. Additionally, they analyzed the processes of a multidisciplinary peripheral nerve injury clinic to identify areas for efficiency improvements and better patient outcomes. We always look forward to hosting health innovation scholars each year as they bring in new perspective and innovative approaches to improve our healthcare systems.
Michelle Knees, DO Associate Director
Anusha Raja, MD Associate Director
“HISP aims to produce leaders who are prepared to beneficially reinvent the healthcare system. Utilizing the core principles and practices of the hospital medicine movement, our program creates a cadre of future leaders, who can transform the quality, safety, efficiency, and patient experience in healthcare.
Health Innovations Scholar Program Leadership
HISP Leadership Team
2024 HISP Learners
DHM DAILY
Patient Experience Highlight
We have a Patient Experience Task Force in place to ensure our efforts toward patient experience improvement is a focus in our division. Our division lead of patient experience, Hillary Western, MD, has put together a highlight for this newsletter to raise awareness of our efforts and share best practices other divisions or institutions might find helpful!
Tip of the Month
Responsiveness is a key improvement domain within patient experience.
To decrease call bell volumes and thus improve staff response times, providers should end every patient encounter by asking “Is there anything else I can get for you?” Patient care goes beyond diagnosis, and we can all pitch in with waters, ice, blankets, lights, etc.
Other Current Patient Experience projects include:
• A redesign of the medicine discharge order set to enhance After Visit Summary (AVS) organization, address patient-centered questions (like driving restrictions!), and target an ideal reading level.
• A pilot for Spanish speaking patients to encourage audio recording of the discharge review process, as AVSs incompletely print in languages other than English.
• A strategy to improve nurse-provider communication so patients experience unification amongst their care teams.
• A work group aimed at improving provider listening.
Staff Highlight
Mario Rubio, BS | CARE Coordinator
Our admin team is full of bright, talented individuals that each bring a unique skill-set to our team. We want to highlight one of those incredible individuals, Mario Rubio, BS, and his work as a coordinator for the Clinical Assessment and Rapid Evaluation (CARE) Clinic.
The CARE Clinic at the University of Colorado Cancer Center is an Advanced Practice Provider (APP) led clinic that provides intensive symptom-management and urgent care services for solid tumor oncology patients at the University of Colorado Hospital. The goal of the clinic is to provide oncology patients with a cost-effective alternative to the emergency department while undergoing cancer treatment.
Mario provides personal follow ups with individuals that come through the clinic and ensures that individuals are seeking the treatment and care needed. His thoughtfulness for these patients is unmatched and one of the reasons the CARE Clinic has so much success. Help us celebrate Mario and the wonderful work he does to make our community a better place!
Hillary Western, MD
SUMMER SPOTLIGHT
Insight into our Data Team and MPH Internship Program
Did you know we host students each year through the Colorado School of Public Health practice-based learning program? This opportunity stemmed from our highly involved research (dream) team. We offer students the opportunity to work alongside our data team to gain handson experience with gathering and analyzing data from real-time research, quality improvement, and medical education projects within hospital medicine. During the internship program, students select their project based on a curated list of potential research, quality improvement, and medical education projects. From there, students lead the project for hands-on, real-time experience. To learn more about the degree, check out the MPH Program website.
We recently welcomed a graduate of the MPH program and our internship to join us full-time as our project load continues to grow from the amazing projects and ideas from our hospital medicine team. We are so grateful to have Eva Grobbel, MPH, join our team and look forward to her amazing skills in data and research.
Meet our Data Team
Angela Keniston, PhD, MSPH Director of Data Analytics
Data Projects
Each individual in our data team brings a unique skill-set that helps our team accomplish a variety of research projects for our team. To the left you can find the different type of projects our data team assists our hospital medicine team with.
With the help of the Data Team, our division worked on 64 unique projects in the past year that push outstanding clinical outcomes, supports quality improvement efforts, and builds best practices for clinical operations. Learn more about our data team and the exciting work they’re doing.
Lauren McBeth, BA Data Analytics Principal Professional
Sarah Mann, MA Research Project Coordinator
Eric Grimm, MS Senior Data Analyst
Eva Grobbel, MPH Data and Analytics Entry Professional
STAY CONNECTED
Announcements
Hospital Medicine Writing Challenge Recap
Our challengers wrote a total of 61,688 words during our July Hospital Medicine Writing Challenge! We had a blast connecting with hospitalists and admin from all over the country. During this month-long challenge, we encourage participants to set apart time to write at least 400 words, 4 times a week. This is the third year we have run this challenge and it’s one of the programs we look most forward to for the connection and motivation it provides for individuals. Look out for registration emails this winter when we will start a new challenge in January 2025!
Mentorship Academy
Upcoming
August 23
Hospital Medicine
Visiting Professor
September 2 Labor Day
September 18
CU Anschutz Block Party
Save the date for the upcoming Mentorship Academy on November 4, 2024 at the Hyatt Regency Aurora-Denver Conference Center! This all-day event is hosted by the University of Colorado Department of Medicine and Michigan Medicine. You can expect Ted Talkstyle sessions, a keynote speaker, and breakout rooms to facilitate discussion and provide actionable advice/guidance for faculty and staff interested in developing their mentorship skills. This in-person only event is open to all! Keep an eye out for registration opening September 1, 2024. We hope to see you there!
DOM Annual Report
The University of Colorado Department of Medicine just realized their 2023-2024 Annual Report. They feature highlights and stories from each of the division held within the Department of Medicine, including the Division of Hospital Medicine! Check out the report here.
A Chance to be Featured
For social media, newsletter or digital marketing content, please send your submission to Kelsey Hussey, BA at kelsey.hussey@cuanschutz.edu for a chance to be featured! You can also use our hashtag #CUDHM or tag us in your post.
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