News & Events

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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 throughout the year. We've collected publications including research from Denver Health and the VA Medical Center from the past month. Please take a look at the links below!

Juan Lessing, MD; Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc
Lessing, J. N., & Chopra, V. (2024). What Drives Clinicians to Teach While Caring for Patients?. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 10.1097/ACM.0000000000005938. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000005938
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39626117/

Lily Cervantes, MD
Brosi, D., Wainstein, M., Cervantes, L., & Schold, J. D. (2024). Global perspectives on transplant disparities. Current opinion in organ transplantation, 10.1097/MOT.0000000000001200. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/MOT.0000000000001200
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39743983/

Cervantes, L., Jolles, M. P., Rizzolo, K., Golastenah, L., & Glasgow, R. E. (2024). Contributions from the Implementation Science Field to Clinical Trial Design for Kidney Research: Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Studies. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN, 10.1681/ASN.0000000596. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1681/ASN.0000000596
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39671246/

Rizzolo, Katherine1,2; Murray, Ryan3; Teakell, Jade4; Kerns, Eric5; Acharya, Prakrati6; Patel, Priti7; Sharma, Prachi3; Cervantes, Lilia8;  on behalf of the Expanding Access to Kidney Care for Uninsured Individuals Workgroup of the ASN Health Care Justice Committee. Immigration Status Checks, Emergency Medicaid Utilization, and Health Care Access for Uninsured Individuals with Kidney Disease. Journal of the American Society of Nephrology ():10.1681/ASN.0000000589, December 2, 2024. | DOI: 10.1681/ASN.0000000589
https://journals.lww.com/jasn/fulltext/9900/immigration_status_checks,_emergency_medicaid.495.aspx

Rizzolo, K., Dubey, M., Feldman, K. E., Powe, N. R., & Cervantes, L. (2025). Provision of Home Dialysis and Vascular Access for Undocumented Immigrants with Kidney Failure in the USA. Journal of general internal medicine, 10.1007/s11606-024-09323-3. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-024-09323-3
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39753810/

Vishnupriya Khatri, MD; Philip Mehler, MD; Dennis Gibson, MD
Khatri, V., Stein, A., Mehler, P. S., & Gibson, D. (2025). Association of Phosphate Supplements With Refeeding Oedema in Restrictive Eating Disorders. European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association, 10.1002/erv.3169. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.3169
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39743664/

Sarah Stella, MD
Matthew Y. Westfall, Pranav Padmanabhan, Jianing Wang, Samantha K. Nall, Sarah A. Stella, Margot Kushel, Christian Belcher, Lanae Davis, Elysia Versen, Whitney LeBeouf, Joshua A. Barocas; Youth Homelessness in Denver, Colorado: 2017–2021. Pediatrics 2025; e2024067965. 10.1542/peds.2024-067965
https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/doi/10.1542/peds.2024-067965/200542/Youth-Homelessness-in-Denver-Colorado-2017-2021

Habib, A. R., Stella, S. A., Farkouh, E. K., Grenko, C. M., Hart, D., & Pasha, A. S. (2025). Recommitting to Housing and Health Care Justice After City of Grants Pass v Johnson. American journal of public health, 115(1), 18–22. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307870
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39631088/

Maria Klimenko, MD
Bloom-Feshbach, K., Klimenko, M., Fluet, K., & Lang, V. J. (2024). Mentoring: Shaping the professional identity of the academic internal medicine hospitalist. Journal of hospital medicine, 19(12), 1104–1112. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13452
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38965768/

Katie Raffel, MD
Kaiksow, F. A., Brendel, M., Hubbard, C. C., Lee, T., Chia, D., Brooks, K., Ruhnke, G. W., Raffel, K. E., Goyal, A., Kantor, M. A., Helminski, A. S., Alday, A., Astik, G. J., Barish, P., Schnipper, J. L., & Auerbach, A. D. (2024). Measuring the association between diagnostic errors and neighborhood disadvantage. Journal of hospital medicine, 10.1002/jhm.13574. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13574
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39668396/

Beth Gillespie, MD
Gillespie, E., Steiner, A., Durfee, J., Scott, K., Stein, A., & Davidson, A. J. (2024). Novel Method for Measuring Ambient Heat Exposure-Acute Healthcare Utilization Associations Within a Safety Net: A Retrospective, Longitudinal Study. Journal of general internal medicine, 10.1007/s11606-024-09231-6. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-024-09231-6
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39663343/

Cassandra Skittle, MD
Skittle, C., Bonifacino, E., & McQuade, C. N. (2024). Medical language matters: impact of clinical summary composition on a generative artificial intelligence's diagnostic accuracy. Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany), 10.1515/dx-2024-0167. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1515/dx-2024-0167https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39661726/

Susan Calcaterra, MD, MPH/MSPH, MS
Kee, D. P., Buyske, J. J., & Calcaterra, S. L. (2024). Things We Do for No Reason™: Avoiding naltrexone for alcohol use disorder in liver disease. Journal of hospital medicine, 10.1002/jhm.13569. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13569
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39655573/

Susan Calcaterra, MD, MPH/MSPH, MS; Sarah Mann, MA; Eric Grimm, MS; Angela Keniston, PhD, MSPH; Scott Saunders, MD
Calcaterra, S. L., Mann, S., Grimm, E., Keniston, A., & Saunders, S. (2024). Perspectives of In-Hospital Intramuscular Naltrexone and Oral Medications for Alcohol Use Disorder: A Study of Addiction Clinicians and Hospitalized Patients. Journal of general internal medicine, 10.1007/s11606-024-09228-1. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-024-09228-1
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39707083/

Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc
Katayama, K., Takada, T., Nishizaki, Y. et al. Self-Reported Time-at-Bedside and Its Association with In-Training Examination Scores of Residents in Japan. J GEN INTERN MED (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-024-09244-1
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-024-09244-1

Cat Callister, MD; Khoosh Dayton, MD; Angela Keniston, PhD, MSPH; Lauren McBeth, BA; Amy Yu, MD; Marisha Burden, MD, MBA
Callister, C., Astik, G., Atkins, R. M., Alday, A., Dayton, K., Keniston, A., Linker, A., McBeth, L., Merriman, J., Westergaard, S., Yu, A., Auerbach, A., & Burden, M. (2024). Optimizing learners on direct care teaching services: A qualitative study of hospitalist clinicians at 26 sites. Journal of hospital medicine, 10.1002/jhm.13561. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13561
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39674907/

Adrienne Mann, MD
Fainstad, T., Rodriguez, C., Kreisel, C., Caragol, J., Thibodeau, P. S., Kostiuk, M., & Mann, A. (2024). Impact of an Online Group-Coaching Program on Ambulatory Faculty Physician Well-Being: A Randomized Trial. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM, jabfm.2024.240022R1. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2024.240022R1
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39725465/

Sarah Beilke, MD
Kolb, J. M., Davis, C., Hochheimer, C. J., Beilke, S., Ma, I., Fox, C., Gallegos, J., O'Hara, J., Tarter, W., & Wani, S. (2024). Time to Therapy May Not Impact Diagnosis Upstaging in Patients Referred for Management of Luminal Gastrointestinal Neoplasia. Digestive diseases and sciences, 10.1007/s10620-024-08814-x. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-024-08814-x
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39724468/

Marisha Burden, MD, MBA; Angela Keniston, PhD, MSPH; Lauren McBeth, BA; Michelle Knees, DO; Amy Yu, MD
Burden, M., Keniston, A., McBeth, L., Astik, G., Kangelaris, K. N., Kochar, A., Knees, M., Segon, A., Westergaard, S., Yu, A., Sakumoto, M., & Chadha, R. (2024). Big brother or big opportunity? Utilization of EHR use metadata in the inpatient setting: A mixed methods study at 16 organizations. Journal of hospital medicine, 10.1002/jhm.13572. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13572
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39722164/

Ben Vipler, MD
Vipler, B., & Thomas, J. (2024). To See or Not to See: Blind auditions and what academic medicine can learn from music. The American journal of medicine, S0002-9343(24)00819-2. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2024.12.014
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39716497/

Wykowski, J. H., & Vipler, B. S. (2024). Creating Health Professions Trainee-Heroes Through Transformative Learning. Medical education, 10.1111/medu.15589. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.15589
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39638569/

Joseph Simonetti, MD
Monteith, L. L., Kittel, J. A., Polzer, E. R., Holliday, R., Simonetti, J. A., & Hoffmire, C. A. (2025). Suicide by suffocation among Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Veterans in the USA (2012-2018). Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention, ip-2024-045425. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2024-045425
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39753338/

Claire Brickson, MD; Dagan Hammar, MD; Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc; Amiran Baduashvili, MD
Brickson, C., Hammar, D., Harnke, B., Chopra, V., Li, T., & Baduashvili, A. (2024). Enhancing provider-patient connection through low-effort interventions: a scoping review protocol. BMJ open, 14(12), e082057. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-082057
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39632120/

Christine Jones, MD; Adrienne Mann, MD
Syed, A., Thibodeau, P. S., Dieujuste, N., Jones, C. D., Dunbar, K. S., Mann, A., & Fainstad, T. (2024). Examining the Impact of Moral Injury on Burnout, Impostor Syndrome, and Low Self-Compassion Among Female Medical Trainees: A Secondary Analysis. Mayo Clinic proceedings, 99(12), 1905–1912. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2024.07.015
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39631988/

Larry Haber, MD
South, AM., Haber, L.A. & Berk, J. Caution Around Reinforcing Baseline-Shackling Practices. J GEN INTERN MED (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-024-09330-4
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-024-09330-4#citeas

Marisha Burden, MD, MBA
Minnesota Medicine article on administrative harm is now available online: First, do no (administrative) harm

Eden Bernstein, MD, MBA
Articles on Alcohol + Cancer:
Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/03/alcohol-surgeon-general-warning-label/22d5ecf4-c9e8-11ef-a9b8-74e0b395057f_story.html

CU Cancer Center: https://news.cuanschutz.edu/cancer-center/alcohol-cancer-surgeon-general-wood-kruse-bernstein

Beth Gillespie: Media Interview
https://www.cpr.org/2024/08/29/training-colorado-health-professionals-climate-crisis/