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We would like to take a moment to highlight the outstanding success and published work that 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!

Lily Cervantes, MD
Matus Gonzalez, A., Hughes, A., Molina, S., Arancibia, M., Sepulveda, A., Malvar, A., Ferreiro, A., Mellado, H., Lorca, E., Trimarchi, H., Claure-Del Granado, R., Guha, C., Cervantes, L., Levin, A., Mascheroni, C. A., Weng, L., Wong, G., Sola, L., Lampo, M., Monkowski, M., … Life Participation Workshop Investigators (2025). Impact of CKD on Life Participation in Latin America. Kidney international reports, 11(4), 103741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ekir.2025.103741
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41717129/

Susan Calcaterra, MD, MPH, MS; Eric Grimm, MS; Angela Keniston, PhD, MSPH
Calcaterra, S. L., Lockhart, S., Grimm, E., Holtrop, J. S., Keniston, A., Hoppe, J. A., Lebin, J. A., & Binswanger, I. A. (2026). A mixed methods assessment of an electronic health record-embedded intervention with supportive education and outreach to increase in-hospital opioid use disorder treatment initiation. Journal of hospital medicine, 10.1002/jhm.70289. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70289
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41715987/

Brandon Fainstad, MD; Eric Grimm, MS
Fainstad B, Thompson L, Brett M, Grimm E, Battistone MJ, Barker AM. In the Nick of Time: Same-Day Simulation-Paired Procedure Clinic for Internal Medicine Residents. J Grad Med Educ. 2026 Feb;18(1):51-58. doi: 10.4300/JGME-D-25-00643.1. Epub 2026 Feb 13. PMID: 41694769; PMCID: PMC12903347.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12903347/

Jeffrey Wagner, MD
Wagner J. R. (2026). From Flashlights to Probes: Do You See the JVP?. Journal of general internal medicine, 10.1007/s11606-026-10286-w. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-026-10286-w
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41761017/

Santana Sanchez, MD; Amiran Baduashvili, MD; Susan Calcaterra, MD, MPH, MS
Sanchez, S., Baduashvili, A., & Calcaterra, S. L. (2026). From Stigma to Stability: Addiction Consultation Services with Peer Support for Reducing Patient-Directed Discharges. Journal of general internal medicine, 10.1007/s11606-026-10291-z. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-026-10291-z
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41748997/

Mark Kissler, MD
Jamie Burke, Mark J Kissler, Anthony Q Nguyen, Timothy Amass, Melissa L New, Reading between the lines: evaluating an undergraduate medical education shared decision making curriculum via thematic and narrative analyses, Academic Medicine, 2025;, wvaf083, https://doi.org/10.1093/acamed/wvaf083
https://www.lifescience.net/publications/1901416/reading-between-the-lines-evaluating-an-undergradu/

Lily Cervantes, MD
Ceja A, Tran NK, Peña JM, et al. Preferred Panethnic Terms Among Latina/o and Hispanic Sexual and Gender Minority People. JAMA Netw Open. 2026;9(2):e260060. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.0060
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2845572

Murea, M., Gautam, S. C., & Cervantes, L. (2026). Dialysis Research at Crossroads of Immigration Policy. Journal of immigrant and minority health, 10.1007/s10903-026-01865-4. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-026-01865-4
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41637038/

Rizzolo, K., Robledo, K., Rupa Bavi, S., Juarez-Colunga, E., Murray, R., Sharma, P., & Cervantes, L. (2026). Trainee Awareness of Transplant Barriers for Undocumented Immigrants. Journal of immigrant and minority health, 10.1007/s10903-026-01862-7. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-026-01862-7
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41634511/

Matthew Westfall, MD; Kevin Sullivan, MD; Amiran Baduaschvili, MD
Westfall, Matthew & Sullivan, Kevin & Baduashvili, Amiran. (2026). From Heuristics to Test Characteristics: Evidence-Based History-Taking in Acute Abdominal Pain. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 10.1007/s11606-026-10292-y.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/401237779_From_Heuristics_to_Test_Characteristics_Evidence-Based_History-Taking_in_Acute_Abdominal_Pain

Michelle Knees, DO
Knees, M., & Fuest, S. (2026). More Than Messages: Communication Work and Gender in Secure Messaging. Journal of general internal medicine, 10.1007/s11606-026-10289-7. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-026-10289-7
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41741865/

Henry Kramer, MD; Chris King, MD
Elizabeth R Maginot, Peter K Moore, Cesar Davila-Chapa, Jiashan Wang, Henry Kramer, Christopher J King, Joseph J McBride, Reynold Henry, Daniel Hershberger, Christopher D Barrett, PLUTO Study Group, High tPA Activity but Absent PAI-1 and Plasminogen Function Early in Intrapleural Lytic Therapy, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2026;, aamag041, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajrccm/aamag041
https://academic.oup.com/ajrccm/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ajrccm/aamag041/8494329#google_vignette

Susan Calcaterra, MD, MPH, MS
South, Anna-Maria & Calcaterra, Susan & Martin, Marlene. (2026). Things We Do for No Reason™: Withholding opioids among patients with acute pain and opioid use disorder. Journal of hospital medicine. 10.1002/jhm.70295.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/401153846_Things_We_Do_for_No_Reason_Withholding_opioids_among_patients_with_acute_pain_and_opioid_use_disorder

Kasia Mastalerz, MD; Michelle Knees, DO; Katie Raffel, MD
Mastalerz, K. A., Knees, M., & Raffel, K. E. (2026). Caring for hospitalized patients in US immigration and customs enforcement custody. Journal of hospital medicine, 21(3), 317–320. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.70280
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41656896/

Elizabeth Gillespie, MD
Gillespie, E., Sorensen, C., Rao, S., Ghosh, A. K., Rosencranz, H., Bernstein, J., Erny, B., & Philipsborn, R. (2025). Practical tools to align planetary health objectives within the current Liaison Committee on Medical Education accreditation Process. The journal of climate change and health, 24, 100468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joclim.2025.100468
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41647670/

Rosen, L., Cerceo, E., Chen, C., Edwards, S., Erny, B. C., Fitzpatrick, C. M., Gillespie, E., Pillai, P., Rocchetti, C., Rosencranz, H., Sheffield, P., Wellbery, C., Wheat, S., & Sorensen, C. (2026). The Climate Health Curriculum Tool (CHCT): an assessment framework for integrating climate health education in U.S. undergraduate medical curricula. BMC medical education, 26(1), 316. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-026-08671-4
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41634687/

Amy Yu, MD
Yu, A., Harrison, J. D., Kelly, C., Leykum, L., & Mueller, S. K. (2026). Decision-Making in the Interhospital Transfer of Medicine Patients: A Novel Conceptual Model. Journal of general internal medicine, 10.1007/s11606-026-10186-z. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-026-10186-z
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41639369/

Elizabeth Boggs, MD
Boggs, E., Stefanescu, A., Gritz, M., Lindrooth, R., Admon, L., & Tipirneni, R. (2026). Medicaid Expansion and Rural-Urban Disparities in Postpartum Medicaid Coverage. Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974), 333549251403896. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00333549251403896
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41635169/

Angela Keniston, PhD, MSPH; Hillary Western, MD
Roda, G., Keniston, A., Wood, N., & Western, H. (2026). Double trouble: a propensity-matched cohort study evaluating the associations between duplicate medical records and patient outcomes. BMJ quality & safety, bmjqs-2025-019112. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2025-019112
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41633841/

Eden Bernstein, MD
Bernstein, E. Y., Wilson, L. M., Kruse, G. R., Edelman, E. J., Herzig, S. J., & Anderson, T. S. (2025). Alcohol-Related Hospitalizations From 2016 to 2022. JAMA network open, 8(12), e2550589. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.50589
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41632143/

Tyler Anstett, MD
Urban, A. N., Schneiter, C., Liska, A., Maloney, J. A., Bushur, K., Kim, K. M., Martin, L., Meyers, M. L., Monson, M., LeBlanc, R., Koehler, R., Milla, S. S., Acker, S., Culbertson, T., Anstett, T., & English, B. (2026). Optimizing Pediatric Trauma Imaging Interpretation Timeliness: A Multicenter Quality Improvement Study. Journal of trauma nursing : the official journal of the Society of Trauma Nurses, 33(2), 139–143. https://doi.org/10.1097/JTN.0000000000000913
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41666384/

Nick Bianchina, MD
Article published in JGME, "Being Fat in Residency": https://jgme.kglmeridian.com/view/journals/jgme/18/1/article-p71.xml

Hayato Mitaka, MD
Hayato Mitaka, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, and Michelle A. Barron, MD, Professor of Medicine, are co-authors of an Images in Clinical Medicine article, “Peritoneal Coccidioidomycosis,” published February 18 by The New England Journal of Medicine.

Cason Pierce, MD 
John M Cunningham MD FACP, Rachael Tan Ph. D., Cason Pierce MD FHM, Andrew Faber MD, Jennifer E Adams MD FACP, Tai Lockspeiser MD. Development and Validity Evidence of a Multiple-Choice Electrocardiogram Test for Undergraduate Clerkship Medical Students. Journal of Electrocardiology.