Golden receives Junior Investigator Award
This year’s Junior Investigator Award recipient, Blair Golden, MD, MS, is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where she also serves as the director of academic development for the Division of Hospital Medicine. She is a health services researcher and hospitalist clinician whose work focuses on system-based interventions to improve clinician communication with hospitalized patients and caregivers and optimize hospital care for older adults who are at risk for, or experiencing, delirium.
Dr. Golden is supported by a K23 Career Development Award from the National Institute on Aging for her research, which is examining collaborative identification and prevention of delirium superimposed on dementia between family caregivers and clinicians. Her research and viewpoints have been featured in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, the Journal of General Internal Medicine, JAMA Internal Medicine, and the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
Dr. Golden completed her residency and chief residency at Northwestern University in Chicago, where she also received a master’s in health services in Outcomes Research. Since joining SHM in 2020, she has presented at multiple Converge conferences and currently serves on the Research Committee. She is a former Journal of Hospital Medicine Editorial Fellow.
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