FPHM: Open for Business
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Brendon Shank is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia.
Fellow in Hospital medicine Spotlight
Margaret Fang, MD, FHM
Dr. Fang is assistant professor in residence, division of hospital medicine, and medical director of the anticoagulation clinic at the University of California at San Francisco.
Undergraduate: Northwestern Univer-sity, Evanston, Ill.
Medical school: Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago.
Notable: A practicing hospitalist and SHM member since 2003, Dr. Fang was the co-chair and founding member of SHM’s Young Physicians Task Force in 2003. She has been an active member of SHM’s Scientific Abstracts Committee since 2004 and the Research Committee since 2009. She also has been an assistant editor for the Journal of Hospital Medicine since 2006.
FYI: Outside of the hospital, Dr. Fang has developed a strong interest in food and wine, “which is only natural living in the beautiful bay area of San Francisco,” she says. She recently read “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan, and has subscribed to Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) ever since. She enjoys being adventurous and creative with her recipes, using locally grown ingredients supplied by the CSA. She indulges her interests in both cooking and eating, “with a bigger emphasis on eating.”
Quotable: “As a hospitalist that is actively involved in clinical research and administration, I get the opportunity to try out a lot of different things and pursue my many interests. SHM tries to embrace all aspects of the hospitalist field, and I am a big advocate of promoting clinical research and quality-improvement projects in our field.”
