CU DHM Winter 2025 Newsletter by CU Division of Hospital Medicine

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#CUDHM Accomplishments

Check out our top Division of Hospital Medicine (DHM) accomplishments from the last quarter!

Stay up to date with the latest

Explore our recently

Explore the daily happenings in hospital medicine that build into our eﬀorts to improve lives through excellence in patient care, education, and cutting edge innovation.

Read about our Diagnostic Excellence Coalition where we're striving to be the best diagnosticians in hospital medicine.

Welcome to our Winter 2025 Newsletter! In this issue, we celebrate our thriving community, including recent promotions and new teammates, as well as the latest research, educational initiatives, and leadership milestones. You will see how our teamʼs dedication to patient care, scholarship, and personal growth continues to strengthen our Division. I hope you enjoy reading about our accomplishments—and that you find inspiration in the exciting work we are doing together.

#CUDHM ACCOMPLISHMENTS

DHM Top Quarterly Accomplishments

These are just a few of the many accomplishments for this incredible team. Stay tuned for our next newsletter and follow us on X @CUDivHospMed to hear what we are up to next!

1 Division Members Featured in High Impact Journals

We are extremely proud of the work our team puts into research. In just the last three months, we have has 6 publications published in high impact journals such as JAMA, NEJM, JAMA Internal Medicine, and Annals. This is a huge accomplishment we feel is worth mentioning and celebrating!

Check out page 8 for a deeper insight to recent publications from our faculty and read the featured articles on our faculty!

Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) Went Live

Hospitalist Service at the Beginning of March!

with

Virtual

We are thrilled to have recently added APPs on to our Virtual Hospitalist Service allowing this service to reach a wider patient audience. We look forward to seeing the impact of this increased reach and better connect without community. It is always our mission to focus on team-based care and this is just another way we are keeping true to that focus!

Denver Health Advanced Practice Providers Now Faculty

3

Faculty appointments were recently expanded at Denver Health to include APPs. Help us congratulate Sarah Cope, NP who received her appointment as assistant professor, as well as Brendan Notestein, NP and Janice Van Bockern, PA-C who were appointed as instructors on January 1, 2025.

Celebrating National Hospitalist Day

Our favorite day of the year has come and passed, but we will hold on to the positive influx of messages and celebrations that honored our hospitalists!

NEWEST TEAM MEMBERS

Advanced Practice Fellowship March 2025 Cohort

Started in 2009, the Advanced Practice Fellowship is one of the oldest Advanced Practice Provider inpatient training fellowships based on the successes of the Division's Hospitalist Training Program for Internal Medicine Residents. Our Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship program uses a multiphase approach to develop learners into well-rounded, competent inpatient clinicians. The Division of Hospital Medicine (DHM) has built core clinical teams around fellows in order to provide opportunities for high-yield, bedside clinical instruction from talented Physician and Advanced Practice Provider (APP) faculty. In addition to a strong clinical core, the APF utilizes frequent didactic sessions and case-based learning to enhance fellow development.

Help us welcome the three newest members of the March 2025 Cohort!

Sheyenne Lewis MSN, ACNP-BC MSN, RN, PCCN

Staﬀ Highlight - CARE Clinic

Grace Maurer, BSN, RN

Grace is an amazing contributor to our CUDHM admin team. In her role as Value-Based Care Program Manager, she works closely with our CARE Clinic team to provide support with oncology-related programs. Her background Inpatient Oncology & Hospice, UCHealth, as well as her degree in Bachelor of Science in Nursing, she is uniquely qualified to manage these complex programs. Some of those programs include: Advance Care Planning, CARE Clinic, Collaborative Case Reviews, Electronic Symptom Management, and Oncology Provider/Team Quality Scorecards. She loves learning more about the ins and outs of hospital medicine and looks forward to learning more about the business operations side of things. Thank you for the incredible work you do!

CUDHM WINS

Jason John, MD

Core Faculty in the Hospitalist Training Program

Lung Ultrasound Credentialed

Kimberly Indovina, MD

Board-certified in Palliative Care

We oﬀer quarterly “lung ultrasound and finding fluid” workshops that are four hours long and available to all CU faculty. The goal of these workshops is to provide faculty with the skills to obtain good quality lung ultrasound and pleural eﬀusion/ascites images and integrate these scans into their clinical practice. The time is split between hands-on scanning practice and case review. During these workshops, we also provide the criteria for hospital credentialing and assist faculty in beginning this process. Congrats to the most recent faculty who went through the workshop and earned their lung ultrasound credentials! Learn more about our Lung POCUS

Amy Sheldahl, MD

Tuong Phan, MD

Joe Gulick, PA-C

Jeﬀ Wagner, MD

Ashley Takahashi, MD

CUDHM WINS

Wins & Awards

Khoosh Dayton, MD

Admitted as a 2025 Society of Hospital Medicine Fellow

Elizabeth Breitbach, MD New Interim Section Chief of Hospital Medicine (VA)

Andrew Berry, MD New Deputy of Hospital Medicine (VA)

Healthcare is about caring for people, not just treating illness — it's about making life better, one step at a time."

Susan Calcaterra, MD

Accepted a position as a Co-Editor for Journal of Addiction Medicine

Marisha Burden, MD, MBA

Selected as a winner of the John A. Benson Jr., MD Professionalism Article Prize for Administrative Harm article

Jason John, MD

Appointed inaugural General Internal Medicine deputy editor for the Mednet

CUDHM WINS

2025 UCHealth Medical Staﬀ Awards

The UCHealth Medical Staﬀ Awards kicked oﬀ February with an inspiring celebration of leadership and innovation in hospital and patient care—and our CU Division of Hospital Medicine team shined brightly! Several of our outstanding colleagues were honored for their dedication, groundbreaking contributions, and commitment to patient care.

We are beyond proud and grateful to see these incredible individuals recognized for the passion and hard work they pour into their patients every single day. Their achievements reflect the heart and soul of our mission, and we canʼt wait to see what they accomplish next!

Ben Haerther, MPAS, PA-C

Erin Vipler, MD Partner in Care

Lisa Fosnot, MD

Bedside Manner Award

Stacey Staudinger, MS, PA-C Medical Staﬀ Clinician of the Year Award

Bedside Manner Award

PUBLICATIONS & ARTICLES

Recent Publications

Check out our CUDHM faculty publications and blogs! Click here to see a list of the publications.

Recent Articles

ALCOHOL USE

DISORDER

ADMINISTRATIVE HARM

TRAINING

HEALTH

PROFESSIONALS

PHYSICIAN

WELLNESS

Alcohol is a Leading Cause of Cancer, But Will the Public Heed a New Warning?

Written by Mark Harden, Featuring Eden Bernstein, MD

First, do no (administrative) harm Featuring Marisha Burden, MD, MBA

How one Colorado program is training health professionals on the front line of the climate crisis

Media Interview: Featuring Beth Gillespie, MD

Coaching Program to Reduce Burnout Expands to CU Department of Medicine

Written

by Tayler Shaw, Featuring Adrienne Mann, MD

DHM Visiting Professor Program in Full Swing!

The DHM Visiting Professor Program is an exchange program that gives CU faculty opportunities to lecture at outside institutions and brings faculty from outside institutions to the University of Colorado. We love getting the opportunity to hear from outside healthcare experts, gaining diﬀerent perspectives and institutions! Since its inception in 2022 the exchange program has brought an average of 7 visiting professors per year to the University of Colorado and sent 7 of our DHM faculty as visiting professors to outside institutions.

We kicked oﬀ the year strong with Dr. Maya Defoe from Northwestern University with her presentation on Tackling Physician Burnout. During the presentation she taught how to: Define burnout and engagement, identify causes of burnout, and describe frameworks to address burnout.

Outside of professors visiting our campus, we've had several individuals present at outside institutions. In 2024, Dr. Maria Klimenko from University of Colorado giving a talk on hospitalist identity and mentoring at John's Hopkins University. Check out her photo to the left!

We have a great line up of visiting professors for 2025 coming to our campus! We are excited to learn from these incredible individuals and put into practice what we learn. Stay informed on our program by following us on social media - our platforms can be found at the end of this newsletter!

DHM DAILY

Division-Appointed Wellness Leads

The Department of Medicine has adjusted the structure of their wellness initiatives to empower wellness leads at the division-level. Congratulations to the team below!

2025 Initiatives

Quarterly Check-Ins

We conduct quarterly check-ins with faculty and staﬀ to identify areas where we can oﬀer support. Based on the feedback gathered during these check-ins, the wellness team aims to implement meaningful improvements.

Wellness Cart

The wellness team has created their very own wellness cart to spread wellness through items like fidget toys, snacks, goal journals, etc.

Peer Support Program

The wellness team is creating a network of peer supporters, providing training to help them eﬀectively support their colleagues. Individuals are encouraged to reach out anonymously to be matched with a peer for enhanced support.

Community Building Opportunities

On top of all the other initiatives, at the end of the day we want to create a place where individuals feel supported and welcomed. We're working to develop more activities to support that connectedness.

"We look forward to creating a space that supports wellness! It's always been a personal mission of mine to make sure individuals feel welcomed, included, and listened to, so I'm thrilled to be a part of a team making that happen!"

Lexie Gallant, PA-C Zuz Czernik, MD

Katherine Frank, BA Kelsey Hussey, BA

- Kelsey Hussey, BA

Diagnostic Excellence Coalition WINTER SPOTLIGHT

Our Goal

To be the best diagnosticians in Hospital Medicine so that no patient is harmed by the wrong diagnosis at the University of Colorado.

Our Aims

Research has shown that nearly one in six patients who experience a rapid response, ICU escalation or death in the hospital may have experienced a diagnostic error. Our Division has been proven as a leader in understanding diagnosis through a number of eﬀorts, including participating sites in the UPSIDE/ADEPT studies. We are now building a program to help transform diagnosis.

1. Build a sustainable system for case review that acts as a mechanism for detecting diagnostic opportunity areas.

2. Lead innovation in diagnostic improvement to support our institution's six pillars of quality.

3. Ask new questions about diagnosis in an eﬀort to contribute to scientific scholarship at large.

4. Foster excellent diagnosticians at all levels of medical training.

WINTER SPOTLIGHT

Diagnostic Excellence Coalition Team

We are working on building dedicated teams to help push forward our goals and aims. Below are the individuals involved in the process broken up into specific teams. We are proud to see so many individuals invested in diagnostic excellence and look forward ton seeing the impact it has on our patients daily lives!

Mentors

Raﬀel, MD

Innovation

• Anusha Raja, MD

• Nick Bianchina, MD

• David Klimpl, MD

• Thomas Mee, MD

• Priscilla Collier, MD

• David Scudder, MD

• Bhavyaa Bahl, MD Patient Experience

• Thomas Mee, MD

• Alex Abramowicz, MD

Education/Diagnostic Reasoning

• David Klimpl, MD (Lead)

• Molly McCullough, PA-C

• Michelle Fleshner, MD

• Kirsten Bolstad, PA-C, MPAS

• Priscilla Collier, MD

• David Scudder, MD

• Jason John, MD

• Haley Briggs, PA-C

• Bhavyaa Bahl, MD

• Alex Ambramowicz, MD

• Catherine Callister, MD

Case Review

• Michelle Fleshner, MD (Lead)

• Molly McCullough, PA-C

• Nick Bianchina, MD

• David Klimpl, MD

• Khoosh Dayton, MD

• Jason John, MD

• Haley Briggs, PA-C

• Scott Saunders, MD

Research

• Michelle Knees, DO

• Thomas Mee, MD

Katie

Rachel Weiss, MD

Anunta Virapongse, MD

STAY CONNECTED

Recent & Upcoming Dates

MAR 6

National Hospitalist Day

MAR 7

Visiting

Professor: Dr. Desiree

Burroughs-Ray

Announcements

Read our Advanced Practice Fellowship (APF) Winter 2025 Newsletter!

MAR 28

Want to learn more about our APF Program? Check out the recent updates and program features in the APF Winter 2025 Newsletter!

Preparing for Conference Season

Advanced Practice Fellowship Graduation

MAR 30

National Doctors' Day

Spring is an exciting time for us as we look forward to upcoming conferences. We love the opportunity to learn from incredible hospitalist leaders and showcase the research weʼve dedicated so much time to. We hope to see you there! Follow us on social media to stay updated on where to find our CUDHM team.

Our 2025 POCUS Course Dates are out!

Join us September 18-19, 2025, for our spring POCUS Course! The Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine Point-of-Care Ultrasound Course is designed to allow participants to gain knowledge and skill in POCUS image acquisition, interpretation and integration into clinical decision-making. Live demonstrations, interactive case reviews, and didactics will complement hours of hands-on practice sessions. Completion of the 2-day course can be applied toward the SHM POCUS certificate of completion program and participants will receive 16 CME credits. For more information on this course, visit our website.

A Chance to be Featured

For social media, newsletter or digital marketing content, please send your submission to Kelsey Hussey, BA at kelsey.hussey@cuanschutz.edu for a chance to be featured! You can also use our hashtag #CUDHM or tag us in your post.