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2025 Award of Excellence Winners

See the complete list of this year's outstanding honorees.

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2024 Award of Excellence Winners

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Excellence in Research awarded to Parks Taylor

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Bonsall receives Clinical Leadership for Physicians award

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Golden recieves Junior Investigator Award

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Khanijow honored for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leadership

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Haupt recognized for Clinical Leadership for Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants

Shining a Spotlight on National Hospitalist Day

Shining a Spotlight on National Hospitalist Day

The Hospitalist recently caught up with a handful of hospitalists to find out more about their work and what makes them tick professionally.

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The Chapter of the Year Award goes to …

SHM honors chapters around the country.

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2024 Clinical Leadership for Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants

This year's recipient developed a division-wide peer feedback program for physicians and APPs to provide feedback on clinical skills.

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2024 Clinical Leadership for Physicians

This awardee has overseen the expansion of hospitalists from 40 to more than 100 physicians and APPs at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.

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2024 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Leadership Award

The winner of this award has served roles furthering diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice at local, regional, and national levels, including those within graduate medical education, the division, department, with the Society of Hospital Medicine.

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2024 Excellence in Humanitarian Services

The Excellence in Humanitarian Services awardee is the founding medical director of HEAL Refugee Health & Asylum Collaborative in Baltimore, Maryland.

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2024 Excellence in Research

The recipient of the Excellence in Research Award is seeking to reduce unnecessary hospitalizations and long-term nursing home care for frail older adults.

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2024 Excellence in Teaching

The recipient of this award has led numerous curricular changes at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with a focus on real-time case presentations, problem representation, and illness script formation.

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2024 Leadership for Practice Managers

This award winner played a crucial role in implementing health IT during the initial years of Obamacare in 2012, which ignited a passion for health care administration.

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2024 Outstanding Service in Medicine

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2024 Junior Investigator Award

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And the Chapter Excellence Award goes to …

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2023 Award of Excellence Winners

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2023 Clinical Leadership for Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants

2023 Clinical Leadership for Physicians

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2023 Diversity Equity & Inclusion Leadership Award

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2023 Excellence in Humanitarian Services

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2023 Excellence in Research

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2023 Excellence in Teaching

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2023 Leadership for Practice Managers