SHM Converge 2025 Las Vegas delivers
New Masters in Hospital Medicine, the latest in medical research, and more gave attendees plenty to talk about.
SHM Converge 2025 featured a wide array of educational courses and networking opportunities, while also recognizing notable achievements of a number of clinicians in hospital medicine.
The annual conference kicked off on Tuesday, April 23, with the induction of four Masters in Hospital Medicine: Guilherme B. Barcellos, MD, MHM, Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSc, MHM, Jennifer S. Myers, MD, MHM, and Rachel E. Thompson, MD, MPH, MHM. Their addition brings the total number of SHM Masters in Hospital Medicine to 50.
SHM outgoing President Flora Kisuule, MD, MPH, SFHM, also recognized 97 new SHM Fellows and 72 new SHM Senior Fellows.
“They join the ranks of more than 2,131 other SHM members who have made hospital medicine their career and set themselves apart in our specialty,” Dr. Kisuule told the crowd.
And the Masters weren’t the only honorees at SHM Converge 2025. The Award of Excellence Winners showcased the best in clinical leadership, research, teaching and more.
Update in Hospital Medicine
If you are looking for the latest medical research that impacts hospital medicine, look no further than Thursday’s session, Update in Hospital Medicine.
Joanna Bonsall, MD, PhD, SFHM, chief of the Emory Medical Service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, and Dustin Smith, MD, SFHM, associate professor in the department of medicine at Emory University, walked attendees through nine studies with significant research findings in heart failure, hemoglobin, early diagnostic paracentesis, and more.
“Whether or not you are sitting here ahead at the casinos, we can assure you that you will come out ahead after this update in Hospital Medicine,” Dr. Smith said.
What’s on your mind?
This year, SHM Converge Daily News introduced a new editorial feature called Converge Chit Chat. We visited with attendees about what they were seeing and learning at SHM Converge 2025.
Abiola Adebayo, MD, from the Bronx, New York, said she learned a lot about the importance of knowing the history of your patients.
“There have been a lot of interesting cases presented and a couple of them highlighted the fact that good history-taking is important in patient outcomes,” she said. “Some of the representations of diseases that we saw in some of the cases went back to the history-taking process. Not just what the patient presented on the day of admission, but things that could have been happening three to five years prior. So that’s something I would take with me, just digging in and listening to people. It helps us as hospitalists to better care for our patients.”
Attendees also found plenty to take away from SHM Converge 2025 to bring back to their home hospitals.
“I was in this interesting talk about heart failure management with acute diuresis, so I’ve learned a couple of things,” said Vatsal Patel, MD, Suwannee, Georgia. “I’m definitely going to use it like a guideline for directed medical therapy. As a hospitalist, we usually don’t think about it and let the cardiologist decide it, but the data shows that if you start them as early as you can, the outcome is better, and mortality will decrease.”
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Thanks to all who attended SHM Converge 2025! SHM is already planning for SHM Converge 2026, March 29–April 1 in Nashville. Register now to receive the early bird rate.
