I went to a most extraordinary Grand Rounds on May 3, 2012 at the University of Iowa. The presentation gave an excellent glimpse at how all of us- physicians and patients alike- will need to assist if we are to bend the cost curve.
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Peter Cram, MD, MBA
Carver College of Medicine Distinguished Associate Professor and
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- General Medicine and Cardiology Hospitalists
- General Internal Medicine Outpatient Faculty
- General Medicine Physician Investigators
Eunjin (Danielle) Chung, M.D., M.A.
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Eunjin (Danielle) Chung, M.D., M.A.
Dr. Chung is a graduate of Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea where she received a bachelor of arts. In 1998, she moved to New York City to attend the Manhattan School of Music where she earned a master’s degree in piano performance. In 2000, she enrolled at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign for her pre-medical education. She received her Doctorate of Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2008 and completed her residency at the University of Iowa. Dr. Chung joined the Division of General Internal Medicine as a non-teaching hospitalist in July 2011.
Outside of work, Dr. Chung spends as much time as possible with her two children (4 years and 3 months). She returns to the piano whenever she finds the time.
When asked about her passion for her work, Dr. Chung says “I work as a hospitalist because I like hospital medicine. What we do in the hospital matters and makes differences in the patient and families’ lives. Moreover, it is never boring because of the challenges it gives every moment I am at work."
Read more about Dr. Chung here.
ARTICLE: A Population Approach to Mitigating the Long-Term Health Effects of Combat Deployments
AUTHOR: Heather Schacht Reisinger, PhD, et. al.
JOURNAL: SPrev Chronic Dis 2012;9:110116.
A major focus of the mission of the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is to respond to the needs of military personnel returning from war. Given the broad spectrum of the potential effects of combat deployment on the health and well being of service members, VA is increasingly oriented toward comprehensive postcombat support, health promotion, disease prevention, and proactive approaches to caring for combat veterans. This article briefly summarizes the health care needs of service members returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, describes VA’s approaches to addressing their needs, and outlines VA’s evolving vision for how to apply principles of population health management to ensure prompt and effective response to the postdeployment needs of veterans returning from future conflicts. At the heart of postcombat care will be population-based approaches oriented to health recovery using interdisciplinary, team-based platforms.
To read the whole editorial, click here.
- Looking in from the Outside (SGIM)
William Iverson, M.D. - With Doubts, FDA Panel Votes For Yaz And Related Contraceptives (NPR)
Peter Kaboli, M.D. - Terry Wahls gives TED Talk
- New Hip Implants No Better Than Older Ones, Study Finds (MSN)
Peter Cram, M.D. - UI researchers develop innovative protocol of treatment for MS patients
Terry Wahls, M.D. - Hospitalist programs growing in Cedar Rapids-Iowa City Corridor (Cedar Rapids Gazette)
Scott Wilson, D.O. - Beware of Curtain! Pat hogens Plentiful on Hospital Partitions (Internal Medicine News)
Marin Schweizer, Ph.D. - African American patients more likely to receive replacement surgery in low-quality hospitals (News Medical)
Xueya Cai, Ph.D. - Return to smoking after heart attack ups death risk (Reuters)
David Katz, M.D. - Rural living with COPD is risky (Health24.com)
Thad Abrams, M.D. - How Much Is a Drug-Resistance Death Worth? Less Than $600 (wired.com)
Eli Perencevich, M.D. - Shorter Hospital Stays, More Readmissions After Hip Replacements (USNews.com)
Peter Cram, M.D. - Infection Prevention and Comparative Effectiveness Research (JAMA)
Eli Perencevich, MD - Impact of Telemedicine Intensive Care Unit Coverage on Patient Outcomes
(Archives of Internal Medicine)
Brendan Young, Ph.D., Peter Cram, M.D., M.B.A., and Colleagues - Local VA at forefront of telemedical research (Iowa City Press Citizen)
Peter Kaboli, M.D., M.S, Eli Perencevich, M.D., M.S. - Defining Moment: Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine (The Hospitalist)
Melinda Johnson, M.D. - End-of-life counseling means ‘survival panels’ (The Daily Iowan)
Ann Broderick, MD, MS
Awards and Honors
- 2012 Teacher of the Year Awards: Congratulations to Joseph Szot for his nomination for M3 Senior Faculty teacher of the Year.
- Richard LeBlond was elected to membership in the American Clinical and Climatological Association (ACCA) at the organizations October meeting in Sarasota, Florida.
- Katie Harris's article, "Portion Control for the Treatment of Obesity in the Primary Care Setting" was been accepted to BioMed Central this fall.
- Five General Medicine physicians were named “Best Physician” by the 2011 Listing of “US News Top Doctors” compiled by US News and World Report Magazine. Those included are Lauris Kaldjian, Richard LeBlond, Paul Mulhausen, Margo Schilling, and Tim Thomsen.
- Peter Kaboli was recently appointed to the Drug Safety and Risk Management (DSaRM) Advisory Committee of Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Members of this committee serve on FDA panels to review post-marketing drug safety issues. In the past year Dr. Kaboli has reviewed the erythrocyte stimulating agent darbepoetin alpha (Aranesp) and echocardiographic contrast agents for safety concerns. http://www.medpagetoday.com/HematologyOncology/Anemia/22818
- Eli Perencvich has been selected to speak at the 1st International Infection Control Conference (ICPIC) in Geneva.
- Aparna Kamath has recently had an abstract accepted to the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM). She is the first author on her abstract titled “Improving Handoff Communication: Implementing a Standard Verbal Communication Tool”. Dr. Kamath will present that abstract at the Academic Internal Medicine Week 2011 in Anaheim, CA
- Michele Fang has received a 2nd place certificate at the GME Leadership Symposium Poster Session for her poster entitled "Implementation of Curriculum Improves Resident Satisfaction and Test Scores." Contributing authors were Rick Axelson and Jane Rowat.
- Bieber receives Collegiate Teaching Award
Recent Publications
- Mary S. Vaughan Sarrazin, PhD, Gary E. Rosenthal, MD. Finding Pure and Simple Truths With Administrative Data. JAMA, April 4, 2012—Vol 307 (13):1433-35.
- Debra S. Brandt, MSB, MSN, RN; Laura A. Shinkunas, BA; Thomas G. Gehlbach, MD; Lauris C. Kaldjian, MD, PhD. Understanding Goals of Care Statements and Preferences Among Patients and Their Surrogates in the Medical ICU. J Hosp Palliat Nurs. 2012 Mar;14(2):126-132.
- Justin M Glasgow, Michael L Davies, Peter J Kaboli. Findings from a national improvement collaborative: are improvements sustained? BMJ Qual Saf (2012). doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2011-000243.
- Saket Girotra, MD, SM, Peter Cram, MD, MBA, and Ioana Popescu, MD, MPH: Patient Satisfaction at America’s lowest Performing Hospitals. Circulation, CIRCOUTCOMES.111.964361 Published online before print April 10, 2012, doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.111.964361
- Michael Ohl, MD, MSPH, Marin Schweizer, PhD, Maggie Graham, MS, Kristopher Heilman, BS, Linda Boykin, BS, Daniel Diekeman, MD: Hospital Privacy Curtains are Frequently and Rapidly Contaminated with Potentially Pathogenic Bacteria. American journal of infection control 1 April 2012 (Article in Press DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2011.12.017).
Presentations
- Terry Wahls Seminar, October 20, 2011
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| Wednesday, May 16 | ||
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Palliative Care Conference "Pain Control in the Setting of Addiction and Abuse" by Anthony Miller, MD | 5970-Z JPP |
| Thursday, May 17 | ||
| 12:00 PM |
Internal Medicine Grand Rounds "RENAL PHYSICIANS DAY- "The Path to Progressive Kidney Disease in Patients with Diabetes"" by Katalin Susztak, MD | Med Alumni Auditorium |