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 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!

Elizabeth Breitbach, MD; Andrew Berry, MD; Julia Limes, MD; Sneha Shah, MD; Tyler Miller, MD; Michelle Fleshner, MD; Carolina Ortiz-Lopez, MD
Gardner, T. A., Breitbach, E. K., Limes, J. E., Connors, G. R., Berry, A. R., Longino, A. A., Shah, S., Fainstad, B., Miller, T. M., Ortiz-Lopez, C., & Fleshner, M. (2023). A Quality Improvement Approach to Modification of a Point-of-Care Ultrasound Curriculum. ATS scholar, 4(4), 538–545. https://doi.org/10.34197/ats-scholar.2023-0018IN
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38196688/ 

Christine Welles, MD
Stellern, J. J., Plaisted, J., & Welles, C. (2024). Disseminated nocardiosis with persistent neurological disease. BMJ case reports, 17(1), e257935. https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2023-257935
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38195189/ 

Amy Yu, MD; Vineet Chopra, MD, MsC; Christine Jones, MD
Yu, A., Chopra, V., Mueller, S. K., Wray, C. M., & Jones, C. D. (2024). Engineering safe care journeys: Reenvisioning interhospital transfers. Journal of hospital medicine, 10.1002/jhm.13266. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.13266
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38193639/

Katie Raffel, MD
Auerbach, A. D., Lee, T. M., Hubbard, C. C., Ranji, S. R., Raffel, K., Valdes, G., Boscardin, J., Dalal, A. K., Harris, A., Flynn, E., Schnipper, J. L., & UPSIDE Research Group (2024). Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Adults Who Died or Were Transferred to Intensive Care. JAMA internal medicine, 184(2), 164–173. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.7347
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38190122/

Angela Keniston, PhD, MSPH; Lauren McBeth, BA
Morrison, K. T., Jensen, K. M., Keniston, A., McBeth, L., Vermeesch, A. L., & O'Connor, K. N. (2024). Evaluation of a Guided Nature and Forest Therapy Walk for Internal Medical Residents - A Brief Report. Global advances in integrative medicine and health, 13, 27536130241228181. https://doi.org/10.1177/27536130241228181
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38250708/ 

John Cunningham, MD
Cunningham, J. M., Mackey, A., & Tharp, C. (2024). Atypical Wenckebach without grouped beating due to dual AV nodal conduction. Journal of electrocardiology, 82, 83–85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2023.11.012
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38070250/

Ben Vipler, MD
Vipler B. (2024). Availability Bias: The Peril of Modern Patient Safety Reviews. Journal of patient safety, 10.1097/PTS.0000000000001208. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/PTS.0000000000001208
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38265053/ 

Cat Callister, MD; Sam Porter, MD; Angela Keniston, PhD, MSPH; Lauren McBeth, BA; Sarah Mann, MA; Susan Calcaterra, MD, MPH/MSPH, MS; Julia Limes, MD
Callister, C., Porter, S., Vatterott, P., Keniston, A., McBeth, L., Mann, S., Calcaterra, S. L., & Limes, J. (2024). The Impact of Completing X-Waiver Training and Clinical Addiction Exposure on Internal Medicine Residents Treating Patients With Opioid Use Disorder. Substance use & addiction journal, 29767342231221004. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/29767342231221004
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38258815/

Joseph Simonetti, MD
Hoisington, A. J., Stearns-Yoder, K. A., Stamper, C. E., Simonetti, J. A., Oslin, D. W., & Brenner, L. A. (2024). Longitudinal Influence of Prescribed Antidepressants on Fecal and Oral Microbiomes Among Veterans With Major Depressive Disorder. The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences, appineuropsych20220221. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.20220221
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38258376/

Kasia Mastalerz, MD
Mastalerz KA, Jordan SR, Townsley N. “We're all truly pulling in the exact same direction”: A qualitative study of attending and resident physician impressions of structured bedside interdisciplinary rounds. J Hosp Med. 2024;1‐9. Published online 17 January 2024. doi:10.1002/jhm.13272