Dr. Michael J. Pistoria’s pet peeve is when physicians and nurses talk at patients instead of talking with them.

Less than a year after taking the helm as president of the medical staff at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, Pa., Dr. Pistoria has urged his colleagues to use plain language when speaking to patients about their treatment. That means... »

When Dr. Patience Reich, an assistant professor of medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C., came out of residency training, she knew she still had a lot to learn about the finances of a hospital medicine group, navigating hospital politics, and becoming a leader. So she asked for help, finding mentors in and out of hospital... »

Dr. Peter K. Lindenauer is used to making headlines with his research on hospital quality of care. Dr. Lindenauer, who directs the Center for Quality of Care Research at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Mass., led the research team that uncovered significant variations in how physicians care for patients with acute exacerbations of chronic... »

Dr. Margaret Fang, the medical director of the Anticoagulation Clinic at the University of California, San Francisco, has spent the past several years studying ways to prevent hemorrhage in older Americans through proper anticoagulation therapy. As a member of the Kaiser Permanente of North California ATRIA (Anticoagulation and Risk Factors in Atrial... »

Dr. Vivek Murthy, a hospitalist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, is a passionate advocate for reforming the health care system. When he’s not seeing patients, teaching, or conducting research, he’s encouraging his colleagues to lobby state and federal lawmakers on health care issues ranging from the need for more loan repayment programs for... »

Dr. Lauren Doctoroff, an academic hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, is part of a small but growing number of hospitalists who are seeing patients after they leave the hospital. Dr. Doctoroff, who is also an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, is the medical director for the post-discharge clinic run jointly... »

Dr. Kendall M. Rogers, the division chief of hospital medicine at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, helped dramatically improve glycemic control for patients at the Albuquerque hospital. In just 2 years, the glycemic control quality improvement project that Dr. Rogers launched helped to lower the hospital’s rate of hyperglycemia from 55%... »