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Alpesh Amin, M.D., M.B.A., is founder and executive director of the hospitalist program, the Thomas & Mary Cesario Chair for the Department of Medicine, and professor of medicine, business, public health, nursing science and biomedical engineering at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine.

Thomas W. Barrett, M.D., M.C.R., is an associate in the section of general medicine at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and the division of hospital medicine at the Oregon Health & Science University, Portland. His areas of interest include perioperative translational research.

Seema Chandra, M.D., is a hospitalist at West Kendall Baptist Hospital and is the clerkship director for the Hospital Medicine rotation for the Florida International University Family Medicine residency. Her areas of interest include perioperative medicine and medical consultation, medical education, and patient safety and quality.

Steven B. Deitelzweig, M.D., is associate professor of medicine, Ochsner Clinical School -- University of Queensland (Australia), and system chair of the department of hospital medicine, Ochsner Health System in New Orleans. He is also clinical associate professor of medicine at the Tulane University. His research interests include the prevention of deep vein thrombosis.

Claudia K. Geyer M.D., is the hospital medicine fellowship director at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, ME. She is board certified in internal medicine and family medicine with recognition of focused practice in hospital medicine. Her interests include academic pursuits in the community teaching hospital, and she serves as the rotation director for the inpatient medicine teaching service and is current chair of the Society of Hospital Medicine national Family Medicine Committee.

Amir K. Jaffer, M.D., MBA, is professor of medicine and the senior vice chair for clinical affairs in the department of medicine and the assistant chief medical officer at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He is also the division director for Hospital Medicine. Dr. Jaffer is a national authority and educator in perioperative medicine, anticoagulation and thrombosis, and is a recipient of the Society of Hospital Medicine’s Excellence in Teaching Award. He is an editor of two books, author of numerous book chapters and papers including the American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-based Guidelines in Antithrombotic Therapy.

Peter Lindenauer, M.D., M.SC., MHM is director of the Center for Quality of Care Research at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass, and is associate professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. His research focuses on the quality and outcomes of care for patients hospitalized with common medical conditions, and the design, implementation and evaluation of strategies to translate evidence into routine clinical practice.

Michelle M. Marks, D.O., is the interim chair of the department of pediatric hospital medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital. She is also medical director of inpatient pediatrics for the Children's Hospital.

Geno J. Merli, M.D., is a board-certified specialist in internal medicine. He is

co-director of the Jefferson Vascular Center and senior vice president and chief medical officer at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals. His research interests have focused on prophylaxis for DVT/PE and the management of DVT in acute spinal cord injury, total joint replacement, trauma, high-risk cancer patients and acute medically ill patients.

Cheryl O’Malley, M.D., is program director of the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center internal medicine residency program and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Her areas of interest are inpatient glycemic control, patient safety, faculty development, and the assessment of learners.

Robert Pendleton, M.D., is chief medical quality officer of University of Utah

Healthcare in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is also associate professor of medicine in the general internal medicine division and co-director of the University Hospitalist program. His research interests include the prevention and management of venous thromboembolism, as well as improving the safety of anti-thrombotic therapy.

Michael J. Pistoria, D.O., Chief of Hospital Medicine at Coordinated Health, Bethlehem, Pa., focuses on systems-based practice, throughput efficiencies, and medical education. He served as lead editor of the publication “Core Competencies in Hospital Medicine,” which defined hospitalists’ roles.

Hiren Shah, M.D., is an assistant professor of medicine in the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University and a medical director of the medicine and cardiac telemetry hospitalist unit at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, IL. He has also held numerous leadership positions in the division of hospital medicine, including associate director and director of clinical affairs. Dr. Shah is the national chair of the Clinician Committee for ACP’s Initiative on Stroke Prevention and Atrial Fibrillation and is the lead physician for the Society of Hospital Medicine’s National Atrial Fibrillation Initiative.

Chad T. Whelan, M.D., is chief medical officer at Loyola University Health Center, Chicago. His specific areas of interest include quality, informatics, medical education, pain measurement and management, and gastrointestinal bleeding.

David J. Yu, M.D., M.B.A., is the medical director of the adult inpatient medicine service of Presbyterian Medical Group, in Albuquerque, N.M. He is interested in lean processes in hospital medicine and has gained recognition for his work surrounding the unit-based care model with multidisciplinary rounding.

Last updated February 20, 2014

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