Brendon Shank joined the Society of Hospital Medicine in February 2011 and serves as Associate Vice President of Communications. He is responsible for maintaining a dialogue between SHM and its many audiences, including members, media and others in healthcare.
For hospitalists who were practicing medicine in 1996, it may seem like just a few years ago; however, that was when the term “hospitalist” was first ...
SHM’s Practice Administrators Committee piloted a mentor/mentee program in January 2014 as a way to assist those who were new to practice administrati...
Approximately 1.7 million patients are hospitalized for acute coronary syndrome (ACS), and 600,000 die of an acute myocardial infarction. Although ACS...
In 2015, three medical students received the first SHM Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant to complete scholarly work related to patient safety in the h...
SHM’s new Engagement Benchmarking Service helps hospital medicine groups (HMGs) better understand how to engage their physicians for increased retenti...
[caption id="attachment_9221" align="alignright" width="295"] Outgoing SHM President Burke Kealey (center) awards SHM CEO Larry Wellikson (left) and B...
