Research

Our faculty members are actively involved in scholarship and research activities within the field of hospital medicine, and are published in numerous, prominent journals.

"More than 90% of excess antibiotic duration happens after patients leave the hospital." - Valerie Vaughn, MD, MSc

Areas of Current Research

• Appropriate use of urinary catheters and associated CAUTI
• Appropriate use of antibiotics in hospitalized medical patients
• Appropriate use of inpatient nebulizers at the VA
• Appropriate use of inpatient daily labs at the VA
• Geriatric/Palliative Care inter-professional rounding
• Hospitalist-Oncologist communication
• Impact of early mobilization on functional outcomes in patients with severe sepsis who are admitted to the general medicine wards
• Improving the efficiency of hospital-based care
• Infection prevention and control in acute care hospitals
• Physician attire
• Less Lumens = Less Risk -multidisciplinary process targeting reducing unnecessary PICC lumens

Also of note are the following, which are led by Michigan Medicine hospitalists:

• Patient Safety Enhancement Program
• Michigan Hospital Medicine Safety Consortium (HMS)
• ImprovePICC

Faculty Publications

• Nauzley Abedini, MD
• Fares Alsawah, MD
• Anita Vasudev Amin, MD
• Vineet Chopra, MD, MSc
• Daniel Cronin, MD
• Zuzanna Czernik, MD
• Taylor Dawson, MD
• Derek Dimcheff, MD
• Brian Emmer, MD
• Rawden Evans, MD
• Aaron Fisher, DO
• Scott Flanders, MD
• Daniel Giesler, MD
• Juan Gonzalez, MD
• Anupama Goyal, MD
• Paul Grant, MD
• M. Todd Greene, PhD, MPH
• Ashwin Gupta, MD
• Jason Ham, MD
• Sarah Hartley, MD
• Lauren Heidemann, MD
• Nathan Houchens, MD
• John Hunter, MD
• Rafina Khateeb, MD
• Jessie King, MD, PhD
• Sweta Kochhar, MD
• Mark Kolbe, MD
• Stephanie Lazar, MD
• Kathryn Levy, MD
• Alexis Lopez, MD
• Michael Lukela, MD
• Matthew Luzum, MD, MPH
• Megan Mack, MD
• Jessie Marshall, MD, MPH
• Huram Mok, MD
• Satyen Nichani, MD
• Rachel Osborn, MD
• David Paje, MD
• Vikas Parekh, MD
• Robert Paretti, MD
• William Repaskey, MD
• Mary AM Rogers, PhD, MS
• Jeffrey Rohde, MD
• Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH
• D'Anna Saul, MD
• Richard J. Schildhouse, MD
• Jonathan Sebolt, MD
• Vijay Singh, MD
• Jennifer Stojan, MD
• Scott Stonington, MD, PhD
• Porama Thanaporn, MD
• Valerie Vaughn, MD
• Jennifer Vredeveld, MD
• David Wesorick, MD
• Tingting Xiong, MD

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