Conference Agenda
| Wednesday, September 24 | ||
| 7:00am | Evidence-Based Medicine for Hospitalists – Practical Strategies at the Point of Care View Details | |
| 1:00 pm | Electrolyte and Acid-Base Challenges That Every Hospitalist Can Manage View Details | |
| 5:30pm |
| 6:45am - 8:00am | Registration/Visit Exhibits | ||||
| 7:00am - 8:00am | Continental Breakfast | ||||
| 8:00am - 8:10am | Welcome & Introductions Daniel D. Dressler, MD, MSc, SFHM, FACP | ||||
| 8:10am - 9:00am | 2025 ACS Guidelines Dustin Smith, MD, SFHM | ||||
| 9:00am - 9:45am | Things We Do For No Reason (TWDFNR) in Hospital Medicine: What’s Valuable, What’s New? Monee Amin, MD and Meredith Trubitt, MD | ||||
| 9:45am - 10:15am | Morning Break/Visit Exhibits | ||||
| 10:15am - 11:00am | Update in Hospital Medicine (Part 1): 2025 Literature Impacting Inpatient Care Annie Massart, MD | ||||
| 11:00 am - 11:10 am | Updates Q&A | ||||
| 11:10am - 12:00pm | Keynote: Managing Hospitals and Health Systems: “May You Live in Interesting Times” Joon Lee, MD, CEO Emory Healthcare | ||||
| 12:00 pm – 12:45pm | Personal Finances for Practicing Physicians: Savvy Advice from a Physician-Turned-Financial-Advisor-for-Physicians Sotirios Keros, MD, PhD, EA | ||||
| 12:45pm - 2:15pm Lunch and Learn Options | Continuous Glucose Monitoring in the Hospital Patricia Hwang, MD [Additional fee, includes lunch and interactive session] | Lunch Symposium (TBD) | Lunch on your own | ||
| BREAKOUT SESSIONS | Track A Rapid Fire 1 | Track B Rapid Fire 2 | Track C Systems/Quality | Track D Mini-Sessions | |
| 2:15pm - 3:00 pm | In-flight Emergencies Mike Jones, MD | Artificial Intelligence and the Electronic Medical Record Haroon Jakher, MD | Professional Billing and Coding Changes and Best Practices in 2025 Jeremiah Newsom, MD, and Jennifer Burtch, DNP, APRN, ANP-C, FHM | ||
| 3:00 pm - 3:10 pm | Short Break | ||||
| 3:10 pm - 3:55 pm | Altered Mental Status – Acute Encephalopathy Evaluation Caley McIntyre, MD | Managing and Mitigating Medical-Legal Challenges as a Hospitalist Neil Winawer, MD, SFHM, and Daniel Dressler, MD, MSc, MHM, FACP | From Waste to Value: Evidence-Based Strategies for Institution-Led Change Suchita Sata, MD | ||
| 3:55pm - 4:20pm | Afternoon Break/Visit Exhibits | ||||
| 4:20 pm - 5:05 pm | Inpatient Alcohol Withdrawal Management Bashir Geer, MD | “When the Beans are Down…” Approach to Acute Kidney Injury in Hospitalized Patients Caroline Coleman, MD | Best Practices in Clinical Documentation: Hospitalist Value Impacting Hospital Solvency A PRACTICAL CASE-BASED DISCUSSION Jessica Nave, MD + Sarah DeCaro, MD | ||
| 5:05 pm - 5:15 pm | Short Break | ||||
| 5:15 pm - 6:00 pm | Hematologic Emergencies for the Hospitalist Lorraine Cafuir, MD | Halle Field, MD | Recruiting, Building and Training your Hospitalist APP Workforce Sara Millwee, DNP | ||
| 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm | Stump the Professor Noble Maleque, MD | ||||
| 6:30pm – 7:45pm | Poster Session and Reception |
| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | Continental Breakfast/Visit Exhibits | ||||
| 7:00am - 8:00am | Breakfast with the Expert An Audience Guided Journey Through Anticoagulation Mikhail Akbashev, MD Additional fee | ||||
| 8:00am - 8:15 am | Welcome& Introductions | ||||
| 8:15am - 9:00am | 2025 Stroke Management Eleni Antzoulatos, MD | ||||
| 9:00 am - 9:10 am | Q&A | ||||
| 9:10am - 9:55 am | Update in Hospital Medicine (Part 2): 2025 Literature Impacting Inpatient Care Daniel D. Dressler, MD, MSc, MHM, FACP | ||||
| 9:55 am - 10:00 am | Q&A | ||||
| 10:00am - 10:30am | Morning Break/Visit Exhibits | ||||
| 10:30am - 11:15am | KEYNOTE: Hospital Medicine in 2025 and Beyond Chad T. Whelan, MD, MHSA, SFHM President, Society of Hospital Medicine | ||||
| 11:15am-11:20am | Keynote Q&A | ||||
| 11:20am – 12:05pm | The Hospitalized Patient with a Tracheostomy: What Every Hospitalist Needs to Know [note: Additional Hands-on practice sessions for interested participants, concurrent with afternoon breakouts] Brian Kaufman, MD | ||||
| 12:05 pm - 12:15 pm | Q&A | ||||
| 12:15pm - 1:45pm | Top Hospitalist Guidelines #1 Bhavin Adhyaru, MD and Mikhail Akbashev, MD [Additional fee, includes lunch and interactive session] | Lunch Symposium | Lunch on your own | ||
| BREAKOUT SESSIONS | Track A Clinical 1 | Track B Clinical 2 | Track C Education and Scholarship | Track D Mini Sessions | |
| 1:45 pm - 2:25 pm | Sepsis Management in 2025 Kevin Felner, MD | What’s New in Clostridioides Difficile Management? Nirja Mehta, MD | Best Practices for Bedside Rounding Noble Maleque, MD | ||
| 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Acute Poisoning Evaluation and Management Jonathan de Olano, MD, MAT | GI bleeding: Guidelines and Best Practices Jason Brown, MD, AGAF, FACG | Giving Feedback Harika Gorti, MD | ||
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Afternoon Break/Visit Exhibits | ||||
| 4:00 pm - 4:55 pm | Accurate Neurologic Physical Examination to Optimize Medical (...and Legal) Risk Taylor Harrison, MD | Vascular Surgery Emergencies for Hospitalists Jaime Benarroch-Gampel, MD | Best Practices for Chalk Talks Mike Gallagher, MD | ||
| 4:55 pm - 5:00 pm | Short Break | ||||
| 5:00pm - 5:45 pm | Ethically Navigating Requests for "Futile" Treatment from Patients or Families Kari Esbensen, MD, PhD | Sickle Cell High Quality Care in 2025 Yoo Mee Shin, MD | Innovative Approaches to Scholarship as a Hospitalist Dan Hunt, MD, MHM and Mary Ann Hall | ||
| 5:45 pm | Adjourn |
| 7:00am - 8:00am | Continental Breakfast/Visit Exhibits | |||
| 7:00am - 8:00am | Breakfast with the Expert Perioperative Cardiac Risk Assessment Babar Junaidi, MD Additional Fee | |||
| 8:00am | Welcome & Introductions | |||
| 8:15am - 9:15am | Acute on Chronic Pain Management Malavika Kapuria, MD and Tracy Vettese, MD | |||
| 9:20am – 10:15am | Updates in Hospital Medicine #3 Dustin Smith, MD, SFHM | |||
| 10:15am - 10:45am | Morning Break/Visit Exhibits | |||
| 10:45am – 11:30am | Diagnostic Stewardship Eli Wilbur, MD | |||
| 11:30am - 12:15pm | Venous Thromboembolism Cutting-Edge Care in 2025 Steven Deitelzweig, MD, MMM, SFHM, FACP, FACC | |||
| 12:15pm | Main Meeting Adjourn |