Our NM Hospital Medicine Step Challenge led by Niti Patel, MD, PharmD kicked off today. The goals of are:

✔️ Competing (shaming) colleagues
✔️ Raise funds for charity
✔️ Get us outside to enjoy the beautiful Chicago views (see pic)

Oh and also because it’s good for our health🤣 Let’s do this!

Big congrats to Danielle Steker (Danielle Steker) on her FY24 promotion to Assistant Professor of Medicine!! 💪 #Promotion #NMHospMed

Kudos to Joanna Vakros (Joanna) on her FY24 promotion to Assistant Professor of Medicine! 🎉 #Promotion #NMHospMed

Congratulations to Alice Cheong on her FY24 promotion to Assistant Professor of Medicine! #Promotion #NMHospMed

Kudos to Andrew Schleuning (@aschleuning) on his FY24 promotion to Assistant Professor of Medicine! 👏 #Promotion #NMHospMed

Huge congratulations to Josh Hauser on his FY24 promotion to Professor of Medicine! 🥳 #NMHospMed #PalliativeCare #Promotion

Today we are highlighting Dr. Ann-Marie Tantoco for #AsianAmericanPacificIslanderHeritageMonth 🎉

Her advice to future young leader & aspiring Asian American and Pacific Islander hospitalists is to find mentors and sponsors who understand your goals & will help you reach them.

We held a great NM Hospital Medicine Idea Incubator where we discussed
✅ Polypharmacy
✅ Opioid use disorder
✅ Microaggressions

& how to turn ideas into #scholarship w/
☑️ Survey design
☑️ Study methodology
☑️ Stakeholders & more

Can't wait for the next one! #professionaldevelopment

Congratulations to Rachna Rawal on her recent publication in Journal of Hospital Medicine which encourages clinicians to Stop. Think. 'Does My Patient Need Those Labs?'

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I love #SHMConverge23 , but my favorite activity by far is the annual dinner with my ⁦NM Hospital Medicine⁩ friends. Love these amazing people!

Happy National Doctors' Day, team! Today we celebrate and are so grateful for everything you continually do for our patients, our health system, and each other! Cheers to you! 🩺💜👏 #NMHospMed

Congratulations Gopi Astik for her Journal of Hospital Medicine publication on this very important topic! #NMHospMed

On International Women’s Day, we’re happy to share images of some of the powerful women in our Northwestern Medicine communities. Thank you for making us better.

#InternationalWomensDay #empowerment #NMBetter 💜

Today kicks off the 1st Medical Education Conference in Kenya, which is co-hosted by Maseno University & Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine & aims to gather global medical training program stakeholders. Shout out to speakers ashti doobay-persaud Debi Mitra & all who helped plan! #NMHospMed #globalhealth #MedEd

Check out this recent op-ed in The Hill by Diane Wayne, MD, Bill McGaghie, and our own Jeffrey barsuk from Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine NU Simulation™ on the importance and need of simulation in medical training. 🩺 #NMHospMed

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This year, we look to the future of hospital medicine and the hospitalists that continue to advance the field. From trainees to mentors, we celebrate the connections that build our community. 🤝

#HowWeHospitalist #FutureOfHospitalMedicine #NationalHospitalistDay

Happy National Hospitalist Day, team! Northwestern Medicine wouldn't be the same without the stellar care you provide our patients, and we can't imagine having a better group of colleagues! THANK YOU for all you do in advancing this amazing specialty! #HowWeHospitalist #NMHospMed 💜

Today is Thank a Resident Day! We absolutely love working with our fantastic residents NU Internal Medicine and are always thankful for their hard work, enthusiasm, and compassion! 🥇 Cheers to this awesome group! Northwestern Medicine #ThankAResidentDay #NMHospMed

Check out our very own Tara Lagu on the Yale University “Health & Veritas” Podcast! #NMHospMed
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Although the last Ebola outbreak was declared over in January, NMH was prepared! As our Chief Kevin O'Leary said, we're grateful to all who volunteered for training, as well as our Infection Prevention colleagues who ensured we were ready! #NMHospMed

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