Dearth of Hospitalist Investigators in Academic Medicine: A Call to Action

Evan Michael Shannon^{1

2}, Vineet Chopra³, S Ryan Greysen^{4

5}, Shoshana J Herzig^{2

6}, Sunil Kripalani^{7

8}, Kevin J O'Leary⁹, Eduard E Vasilevskis^{10

7}, Mark V Williams¹¹, Stephanie K Mueller^{1

2}, Andrew D Auerbach¹², Jeffrey L Schnipper^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Division of Hospital Medicine, University of Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
⁴ Section of Hospital Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁵ Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁶ Division of General Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁷ Section of Hospital Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
⁸ Center for Clinical Quality and Implementation Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
⁹ Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
¹⁰ Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, VA Tennessee Valley, Nashville, Tennessee.
¹¹ Center for Health Services Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.
¹² Division of Hospital Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

Evan Michael Shannon et al. J Hosp Med. 2021 Mar.

. 2021 Mar;16(3):189-191.

doi: 10.12788/jhm.3536.

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Division of Hospital Medicine, University of Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
⁴ Section of Hospital Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁵ Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁶ Division of General Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁷ Section of Hospital Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
⁸ Center for Clinical Quality and Implementation Research, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
⁹ Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
¹⁰ Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, VA Tennessee Valley, Nashville, Tennessee.
¹¹ Center for Health Services Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.
¹² Division of Hospital Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

No abstract available

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