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2024 Award of Excellence Winners

See the full list of this year’s winners and learn about their accomplishments.

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The Chapter of the Year Award goes to …

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2024 Clinical Leadership for Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants

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2024 Clinical Leadership for Physicians

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2024 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Leadership Award

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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.

SHM’s Hill Day 2023: Continuing the Conversation With Legislators

SHM’s Hill Day 2023: Continuing the Conversation With Legislators

Each year SHM members and staff head to Washington D.C. to discuss key concerns and policy issues affecting hospitalists and their patients.

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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

The recipient of this award has served as co-director of the Southern Hospital Medicine and Gulf States Courses for 23 years, contributing to the education of more than 1,000 hospitalists.

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2024 Junior Investigator Award

The Junior Investigator Award winner's work has had important policy impact on both the state and national levels and she has testified before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Health regarding payment policy.

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2024 Award of Excellence Winners

SHM will honor the best of hospital medicine at Converge 2024.

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And the Chapter Excellence Award goes to …

SHM honors chapters around the country.

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2023 Award of Excellence Winners

See the full list of this year's winners and learn about their accomplishments.

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2023 Clinical Leadership for Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants

This year's recipient oversees the clinical performance, staffing, and career mentorship of the NP/PA Hospitalist team at University of Chicago Medicine.

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

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2023 Excellence in Teamwork

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2023 Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine

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2023 Junior Investigator Award

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Junior Investigator Award