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We want to take the time to highlight the great success and published work our Division of Hospital Medicine faculty produces through out the year. We've collected their published work including work from Denver Health and the VA Medical Center from the past month. Please take a look at the links below!

Ethan Cumbler, MD
O'Brien, E., Ludwigson, A., Vemuru, S., Higgins, M., Hampanda, K., Adams, M., Wolverton, D., Sams, S., Taft, N., Miles, R., Lin, C. T., Cumbler, E., & Tevis, S. (2024). Interpretation of immediately released health information: Informing patient medical education in breast oncology. American journal of surgery, 115853. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2024.115853
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39095250/

Khomiak, A., Ghaffar, S., Rodriguez Franco, S., Ziogas, I. A., Yee, E. J., Franklin, O., Cumbler, E., Chauhan, A., McCarter, M. D., Gleisner, A. L., Ahrendt, S., Del Chiaro, M., Schulick, R. D., & Mungo, B. (2024). Survival Outcomes of Cytoreductive Surgery with HIPEC in Gastric Adenocarcinoma: A National Cancer Database Study. Annals of surgical oncology, 10.1245/s10434-024-16142-7. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-024-16142-7
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39237827/

Susan Calcaterra, MD, MPH/MSPH, MS
Calcaterra, S. L., Yamkovoy, K., Swathi, P. A., Ciccarone, D., Del Pozo, B., Englander, H., Wang, J., & Barocas, J. A. (2024). U.S. trends in methamphetamine-involved psychiatric hospitalizations in the United States, 2015-2019. Drug and alcohol dependence, 262, 111409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.111409
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39089187/

Lily Cervantes, MD
Mohottige, D., Adler, K. A., Charney, A., & Cervantes, L. (2024). What Should Clinicians in Organizations Without Established MLP Programs Do When Their Patients Need Lawyers to Meet Their Health Needs?. AMA journal of ethics, 26(8), E605–E615. https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2024.605
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39088407/

Vineet Chopra, MD, MBBS, MSc
Miyagami, T., Watari, T., Nishizaki, Y., Sekine, M., Shigetomi, K., Miwa, M., Chopra, V., & Naito, T. (2024). Survey on nurse-physician communication gaps focusing on diagnostic concerns and reasons for silence. Scientific reports, 14(1), 17362. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-68520-6
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39075186/

Rachel Weiss, MD
Curatola, N., Juergens, N., Atkinson, M. K., Schnipper, J. L., Weiss, R., Cohen, E. Y., Cimino, J., To, C., Bambury, E. A., Barkoudah, E., Mani, S., Khalil, H., Mora, R., Maru, J., & Harrison, J. D. (2024). Inpatients' understanding of the hospitalist role and common medical terminology. Journal of hospital medicine, 10.1002/jhm.13492. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13492
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39199015/

Leah Puckett, MD; Philip Mehler, MD
Puckett, L., Stein, A., Kelley, M., & Mehler, P. S. (2024). Evaluation of Mean Plasma Glucose Levels Using HbA1C in Patients With Severe Eating Disorders. The International journal of eating disorders, 10.1002/eat.24285. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.24285
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39243171/

Tyra Fainstad, MD
Jauregui, J., McClintock, A. H., Schrepel, C., Fainstad, T., Bierer, S. B., & Heeneman, S. (2024). You Get What You Reward: A Qualitative Study Exploring Medical Student Engagement in 2 Different Assessment Systems. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 10.1097/ACM.0000000000005848. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000005848
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39240980/

Mel Anderson, MD
Gilmartin, H. M., Connelly, B., Daus, M., Hess, E., Leonard, C., Morgan, B., Nolan, J. P., Jr, Perry, P., Sjoberg, H., Subramaniam, S., & Anderson, M. L., 3rd (2024). Implementation of the Acute Inpatient Medicine-High Reliability, Learning Environment, and Workforce Development Initiative (AIM-HI) in rural Veterans Health Administration hospitals: A mixed methods evaluation protocol. Journal of hospital medicine, 10.1002/jhm.13474. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13474
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39149834/

Gaby Frank, MD
Wiersch, J., Lenz, E., Medero, K., Sorenson, A., Fray, J., Angell, K., Persson, C. C., Frank, M. G., & Savor, C. (2024). A Virtual Assessment Model for At-Home Evaluation of Suspected Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Cases. Health Security, 10.1089/hs.2023.0157.
https://doi.org/10.1089/hs.2023.0157

Juan Lessing, MD
Rodman A, Mark NM, Artino A. Lessing JN. AM Last Page: Using Generative Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education. Accepted to Acad Med. 

Jagannath AD, Lessing JN, Shekarchian S. Expanding Horizons: The New Direction of the Exercises in Clinical Reasoning Series. J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Sep 9. doi: 10.1007/s11606-024-08973-7. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39249648. (all authors contributed equally)

Elizabeth Boggs, MD & Greg Misky, MD
Boggs, E., Misky, G., Scarbro, S., Gritz, M., Tipirneni, R., & Lindrooth, R. (2024). Disparities in postdischarge follow-up and risk of readmission between Medicaid and privately insured patients. Journal of hospital medicine, 10.1002/jhm.13486. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13486
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39164869/

Evan Taylor, MD
Taylor, E., Wershba, E. (2024). Rash, Pedal Edema, and Severe Anemia in a 17-year-old Male. Pediatr Rev, 45 (8): 472–475. https://doi.org/10.1542/pir.2022-005667
https://publications.aap.org/pediatricsinreview/article/45/8/472/198007/Rash-Pedal-Edema-and-Severe-Anemia-in-a-17-year?autologincheck=redirected