Rheumatoid Arthritis Clinical Clinical Excellence Society Rheumatology
Growing up in Iowa, Jason Kolfenbach, MD, might not have seemed the most likely person to pursue a medical career. He did not come from a family of physicians. In fact, he was the first in his blue-collar family to go to college.
Patient Care Clinical Internal Medicine Clinical Excellence Society
An incredibly talented physician, a role model, a source of guidance and comfort, and the best of the best. These are the words patients and colleagues have used to describe Ronald Colson, MD — one of 21 University of Colorado Department of Medicine faculty members inducted into the department’s Clinical Excellence Society, a program that began this year to recognize clinicians who serve as champions for their patients.
Patient Care Clinical Liver Clinical Excellence Society
It was a special moment for Lisa Forman, MD, when she and 20 of her colleagues in the University of Colorado Department of Medicine were inducted into the department’s Clinical Excellence Society, a new program that recognizes clinical faculty who exude excellence toward patients.
Patient Care Philanthropy Clinical Internal Medicine Endowed Chair Patient Experience
Annie Moore, MD, MBA, is passionate about the clinical care experience of patients – and now she is the inaugural holder of a new endowed chair devoted to improving that experience.
Geriatrics Clinical Primary Care Clinical Excellence Society
“Really? Me?”
Bennett Parnes, MD, recalls that as his initial reaction when he learned he would be among 21 University of Colorado Department of Medicine faculty members to be honored for their clinical work as the inaugural class of the department’s Clinical Excellence Society (CES).
Clinical Hospital Medicine Hospitalists
While hospitals have been around for centuries, hospitalists – hospital-based physicians and other practitioners – are far more recent. In fact, the term “hospitalist” wasn’t coined until 1996 in a New England Journal of Medicine paper.
Honors Quality and Clinical Effectiveness Clinical
One by one, amid smiles and applause from peers and families, 21 members of the University of Colorado Department of Medicine’s clinical faculty took to the stage, donned crisp white lab coats adorned with special insignia, hoisted trophies, and heard words of praise from grateful patients and admiring colleagues.
Medscape
July 18, 2024
Experts debating the pressing issue of how to prioritize patients in the increasingly common scenario of loss of access or insurance coverage for anti-obesity glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist drugs argued that comorbidities and obesity severity should strongly warrant continued coverage — while offering key strategies for getting and retaining approval from payers.
McKnights Long Term Care News
July 17, 2024
Nursing home residents could greatly benefit from expanded access to palliative care, but providers need more access to standardized tools, staff education and relationships with clinicians to make informed decisions about care, specialists say.
Medscape
July 16, 2024
“One of the things we worried about was that the pandemic would make [burnout findings] look worse,” said lead author Dan Heppe, a hospitalist and associate director of the CU Internal Medicine Residency Program. “Anecdotally, residents may have had more support in our program than perhaps some other programs. Though they had long hours with very sick patients, we tried to keep going in a positive direction.”
The New York Times
July 15, 2024
Pregnant women are bombarded with advertisements — on social media, in childbirth classes, even in their doctors’ offices — urging them to bank the blood in their baby’s umbilical cord and gain “peace of mind.”
Mark Harden
