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Greenwald Wins ‘Outstanding Service to Hospital Medicine’ Award

Dr. Jeff Greenwald receiving the 2017 ‘Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine’ award at the Society for Hospital Medicine’s annual meeting in early May.

Jeff Greenwald, of the Core Educator Faculty in the Department of Medicine, received the Society of Hospital Medicine Award for Outstanding Service in Hospital Medicine, the highest honor the society gives to a physician for exceptional service in the discipline. He was recognized for his contributions to the field of Care Transitions through his work on Project BOOST (for which he was lead developer of the intervention and mentor of over 25 sites), medication reconciliation, and other quality improvement efforts. He is also founder and chair of the Boston Association of Academic Hospital Medicine (BAAHM). Since joining the MGH in 2009, his work has concentrated on improving MGH and Partners’ discharge care transitions efforts and on the development of novel tools to assess readmission risks; more recently he has been working with Palliative Care at MGH to help disseminate primary palliative care skills to Hospital Medicine and other providers across the MGH care continuum.

Additionally, Kathleen Finn, inpatient associate program director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program and Core Educator - Hospitalist, has been named course director for the annual Society of Hospital Medicine National meeting for 2018. This year Finn served as the meeting’s co-course director.

Read more articles from the Summer 2017 edition of Generally Speaking