Hospitalists converge at Converge 2026
Our newly formed Division of Hospital Medicine is already making an impact on the national stage. Members recently attended the Society of Hospital Medicine’s SHM Converge 2026 in Nashville, Tennessee, March 29-April 1, 2026.
Like any society’s national meeting, SHM’s event offered opportunities for informal interactions as well as many formal presentations. Topics this year ranged from updates in traditional areas like clinical diagnostics and education innovations to more from this current moment, like sensibly and safely using AI in clinical decision making to health equity in an era of increasing numbers of un- or underinsured patients.
Opportunities for our own faculty members to share what they have learned were included in the wealth of accepted abstracts. They included:
- Mortality Patterns Among Veterans with Alcohol Use Disorder: A National Cohort Study Using National Death Index Data
James C. Willey, Shivali Patel, Bjarni Haraldsson, George Bailey, Andrea Holcombe, Amy O’Shea, Thad Abrams, and Jeydith Gutierrez - Acute Pancreatitis: An Eye-Opening Twist
Anthony H. Chen and Katherine Harris - A Postpartum Puzzler
Sahana Sarin and Katherine Harris - A Retrospective Char Review of Rapid Response and Code Blue Events on Adult Inpatient Psychiatry Units at a Quaternary Academic Center
Nicholas Coffey and Aubrey Chan
We are grateful to interim Division Director Jeydith Gutierrez, MD, MPH, for sharing these photos and captions from her division’s travels. Follow her links and boost your LinkedIn connections!
Lots of learning, networking + enjoying good food and good music with this great crew, made of this #SHMConverge26 the best one yet!
Dr. James Willey did a great job representing the IOWA CITY VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM and our work in alcohol use disorder in Veterans!
Enjoyed more of #SHMConverge26 today, finished my day with “Perioperative Pitfalls” by our own colleague Ethan Kuperman, in addition to Avital O’Glasser, Kunjam Modha, and Sanjay Singh! Thanks for the insightful cases!
Sahana Sarin and Anthony Chen represented our medical students with poster presentations!