Editorial Advisory Board

Franklin A. Michota, M.D., medical editor in chief, is director of academic affairs in the Department of Hospital Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. He was a charter member of the Society of Hospital Medicine and has served on both the national Education and Research Committees. He has written extensively and presented hundreds of CME presentations on the topics of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, congestive heart failure, laboratory testing, preoperative evaluation and perioperative care.

Alpesh Amin, M.D., M.B.A., is founder and executive director of the hospitalist program at the University of California–Irvine School of Medicine. He is also vice chair of clinical affairs and quality assurance and the interim chair of medicine at the school.

Thomas W. Barrett, M.D., is an assistant professor 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.

Steven B. Deitelzweig, M.D., is vice president of medical affairs, chair of hospital medicine, and assistant program director for internal medicine at Ochsner Health System in New Orleans. In addition, he is clinical associate professor of medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine. His research interests include the prevention of deep venous thrombosis.

Amir K. Jaffer, M.D., is associate professor of medicine at the Miller School and chief of the division of hospital medicine at the University of Miami. In 2010, he was honored with the Society of Hospital Medicine’s award for excellence in teaching.

Peter Lindenauer, M.D., M.SC., is director of the Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass. He also serves as the medical director of clinical decision support and quality informatics for Baystate Health and is associate professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. His areas of research include the use of large administrative datasets to measure the quality of care for patients with pneumonia and COPD.

Michelle M. Marks, D.O., is a staff physician in the department of general pediatrics at the Cleveland Clinic’s main campus. She also is director of pediatric hospitalist medicine, associate program director of the pediatric residency and director of medical operations at the Cleveland Clinic’s Children’s Hospital.

Geno J. Merli, M.D., 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.

Robert Pendleton, M.D., is associate professor of medicine in the general internal medicine division at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. He serves as both the director of the University Healthcare Thrombosis Service 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., is the president of the medical staff in the division of general internal medicine and medical director of hospitalist services at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, Penn. His specific focuses include systems-based practice, throughput efficiencies, and medical education.

Chad T. Whelan, M.D., is associate chief medical officer for performance improvement and innovation and an associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago. His specific areas of interest include quality, informatics, medical education, pain measurement and management, and gastrointestinal bleeding.

Last updated October 13, 2011