Society of Hospital Medicine Elects Board Members
PHILADELPHIA, April 26 /PRNewswire/ — The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) has elected Jeffrey Wiese, M.D., to serve as a new member of its board of directors and has re-elected Russell L. Holman, M.D.; Lisa Kettering, M.D., FACP; and Jack Percelay, M.D., FAAP; to new terms on the board. Each of the newly elected and returning officials will serve three-year terms, effective May 2006. SHM is the premier medical society representing hospitalists — physicians whose primary focus is the care of hospitalized patients.
“All of these individuals are accomplished and highly respected physician leaders who have consistently demonstrated their commitment to hospital medicine and to SHM’s goals of enhanced quality and patient safety,” said SHM Chief Executive Officer Laurence Wellikson, M.D., FACP. “We are extremely pleased to welcome them to our board.”
“These physicians each bring unique strengths to the board that will help us continue to succeed in our role of supporting hospitalists and shaping the field of hospital medicine,” said SHM President Steve Pantilat, M.D.
Newly elected board member Jeffrey Wiese, M.D., is an associate professor of medicine at Tulane University Health Sciences Center, where he also serves as associate chairman of medicine, director of the Tulane Internal Medicine Residency Program, and associate director of student programs, internal medicine. He is also course director for clinical diagnosis and biostatistics, advanced internal medicine, clinical education, and medical art and observation. Dr. Wiese also is chief of medicine at the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans and Charity Hospital, and is president of the medical faculty there.
Dr. Wiese has written more than 50 articles, books or book chapters, is assistant editor for two educational textbooks, and is a reviewer or editorial board member for a number of medical journals. An award-winning instructor at Tulane University, Dr. Wiese has received more than 21 awards for teaching, including the prestigious all-Tulane Faculty of the Year Award and the Virginia Furrow Award for Innovation in Medical Education. In 2005, he was awarded the SHM national Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Dr. Wiese received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, in 1995. He completed his residency and chief residency training in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where he also completed a fellowship in general internal medicine with a focus on hospital medicine. He joined Tulane University in 2000 after being recruited to start a hospitalist system at the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (Charity Hospital).
Russell L. Holman, M.D., is senior vice president and national medical director for Cogent Healthcare, an industry-leading organization managing hospital medicine programs throughout the country. He is responsible for program implementation and management, quality systems reporting and auditing, physician leadership development, and data systems integration. Dr. Holman serves on two national editorial boards for medical publications, and he is currently co-authoring and editing a comprehensive textbook and electronic decision-support tool in hospital medicine.
Formerly, Dr. Holman was the medical director of Hospital Services for HealthPartners Medical Group & Clinics, part of HealthPartners, Inc. in Minnesota, where he also was the founder and director of the HPMG fellowship program in hospital medicine. Dr. Holman graduated from Washington University School of Medicine and trained as a resident and chief medical resident at the University of Minnesota.
A long-time leader within SHM, Dr. Holman is currently chair of the leadership development committee, course director of the SHM leadership academy, and member of the public policy committee. In 2002, his contributions to the field of hospital medicine were recognized when he received SHM’s national Award for Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine. Dr. Holman will be serving his second term as an SHM board member, having previously served as a board member and treasurer from 2004-2005.
Also serving a second term on the board is Lisa Kettering, M.D., FACP, medical director for Midtown Inpatient Medicine, a hospitalist group serving Exempla-Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, CO. Dr. Kettering is also director of the evidence-based medicine curriculum for the Exempla-Saint Joseph Hospital internal medicine residency program and is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Prior to her current positions, Dr. Kettering developed and directed a 12-physician, multi-specialty hospital service at a community-based hospital.
A practicing hospitalist since 1996, Dr. Kettering became a charter member of SHM in 1997 and was elected to the board in 2003 to serve as secretary. She currently is a member of SHM’s Western Regional Council and is president of the Rocky Mountain chapter, which she founded. She has been a member of the board of directors of the Denver Medical Society, a representative for the Council on Legislation of the Colorado Medical Society, and a member of the Governor’s Council for the Colorado chapter of the American College of Physicians.
Dr. Kettering completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and earned an M.D. with honors from the University’s School of Medicine in 1991.
Jack Percelay, M.D., MPH, is director of Virtua Inpatient Pediatrics, a 14-person pediatric hospitalist group covering two hospitals in Southern New Jersey. A pediatric hospitalist since 1991, Dr. Percelay is the founding chairperson and immediate past chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Hospital Medicine and co-authored the AAP policy statement on pediatric hospitalists. Throughout his career Dr. Percelay has been closely involved in collaborative pediatric hospital medicine projects such as the PRIS (“prize”) research network and the Denver 2005 Pediatric Hospital Medicine Conference as well as the upcoming 2007 conference.
A charter member of the SHM, in 2005 Dr. Percelay was elected to SHM’s first pediatric seat on the board of directors. He also serves on the public policy committee and co-chairs the pediatric committee. He completed his medical school and pediatric training at the University of California, San Francisco, and earned an MPH at the University of California at Berkeley.
Hospital medicine is the fastest-growing medical specialty in the U.S., with today’s 15,000 hospitalists projected to grow to about 30,000 by the end of the decade. Over the past few years, research has proven that hospitalists decrease patient lengths of stay, hospital costs and patient mortality rates while increasing patient satisfaction. Such studies have galvanized the specialty and spurred demand for hospitalists nationwide.
The Society of Hospital Medicine was established in 1997 to support and enhance the practice of hospital medicine. Hospitalists’ activities include patient care, research, teaching and leadership related to hospital care. For more information, visit the SHM Web site at http://www.hospitalmedicine.org/.
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