Andrew Auerbach MD, MPH, MHM
HOMERuN Co-Founder
Director of Research Division of Hospital Medicine, UCSF
Dr. Auerbach is Professor of Medicine at UCSF in the Division of Hospital Medicine. Dr. Auerbach is a widely recognized leader in Hospital Medicine, having authored or co-authored the research describing effects of hospital medicine systems on patient outcomes, costs, and care quality, as well as being past Editor in Chief of the Journal of Hospital Medicine. He and Dr. Lindenauer co-founded HOMERuN in 2011.
Vineet Chopra, MBBS, MD, MSc
Chair of Medicine and professor of medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Dr. Chopra is the Robert W. Schrier Chair of Medicine and professor of medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. His research interests focus on improving the safety of hospitalized patients through prevention of hospital-acquired complications and his work focuses on identifying and preventing complications associated with central venous catheters, with a particular emphasis on peripherally inserted central catheters.
Dr. Chopra’s Bio at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Department of Medicine
Scott Flanders MD, MHM
Professor of Internal Medicine and Chief Clinical Strategy Officer at University of Michigan
Dr. Flanders is Professor of Internal Medicine and Chief Clinical Strategy Officer at University of Michigan and at the time of HOMERuN’s founding was Director of the University of Michigan’s Hospital Medicine program. Dr. Flanders helped develop and lead two statewide, hospitalist-focused quality collaboratives; the Michigan Hospital Medicine Safety (HMS) consortium, focused on preventing adverse events in hospitalized patients, and the Integrated Michigan Patient-Aligned Care Transitions (I-MPACT) collaborative.
Shoshana J. Herzig MD, MPH, SFHM
Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of Hospital Medicine Research in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at BIDMC
Dr. Herzig is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of Hospital Medicine Research in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Her research focuses on the interplay between medication decisions and adverse outcomes in the hospital setting. Dr. Herzig is a Senior Deputy Editor at the Journal of Hospital Medicine.
Sunil Kripalani MD, MSc, SFHM
Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dr. Kripalani is Professor of Medicine and Health Policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he serves as Director of the Center for Heatlh Services Research and Vice President for Health System Sciences. Dr. Kripalani is an applied implementation scientist whose research interests include health communication, medication safety, care transitions, social determinants of health, implementation of evidence-based practice, and de-implementation of low-value care.
Dr. Kripalani’s Information at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Peter K. Lindenauer, MD, MSc, MHM
Director at Center for Quality of Care Research & Baystate Medical Center
Professor of Medicine and Quantitative Health Sciences University of Massachusetts Medical School
Dr. Lindenauer is Director of the Institute for Healthcare Delivery and Population Science and Professor of Medicine and Quantitative Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Medical School – Baystate. A founding Board member of the Society of Hospital Medicine, Dr. Lindenauer’s research focuses on developing and testing strategies for improving the care of patients with obstructive lung disease and other common inpatient conditions.
Institute for Healthcare Delivery and Population Science (IHDPS)
David Meltzer MD, PhD, SFHM, MHM
Dr. Meltzer is Chief of the Section of Hospital Medicine and Director of the Center for Health and the Social Sciences at UChicago, Urban Health Lab
Dr. Meltzer is Chief of the Section of Hospital Medicine, Director of the Center for Health and the Social Sciences and the UChicago Urban Health Lab, and Chair of the Committee on Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Chicago, where he is the Fanny L. Pritzker Professor in the Department of Medicine, the Harris School of Public Policy Studies, and the Department of Economics.
Joshua P. Metlay, MD, PhD
Professor and Chief of the General Medicine Division at Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Metlay is professor and Chief of the General Medicine Division at Massachusetts General Hospital. His research interests focus on two major areas: the epidemiology of drug resistance among common bacterial respiratory pathogens, particularly S. pneumoniae, and the development and evaluation of interventions to improve the quality of treatment decisions for respiratory tract infections.
Dr. Metlay’s Bio at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Jennifer Susan Myers MD, FHM, FACP
Professor of Clinical Medicine, the Director of the Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Safety, and the Director of Faculty Development at University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
Dr. Myers is Professor of Clinical Medicine, the Director of the Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Safety, and the Director of Faculty Development within the Section of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine. She also is founder of the SHM Quality and Safety Educators Academy.
Kevin J. O’Leary MD, MS
John T. Clarke Professor of Medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Dr. O’Leary is the John T. Clarke Professor of Medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where he serves as Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine, Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine for Quality, and Medical Director for Quality for Northwestern Memorial Hospital. His primary research interest focuses on improving the design of hospital systems to improve interprofessional collaboration and quality of care.
Edmondo J. Robinson MD, MBA, FACP
Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Innovation Officer for Moffitt Cancer Center
Dr. Robinson is Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Innovation Officer for Moffitt Cancer Center. He is responsible for expanding Moffitt’s ecosystem from within and outside of health care to deliver on consumer-oriented, real-world solutions for clinical practice, research, and administrative processes essential to support growth and competitive advantage.
Gregory W. Ruhnke MD, MS, MPH, SFHM
Senior Deputy Editor of the Journal of Hospital Medicine and Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Chicago
Dr. Ruhnke is Senior Deputy Editor of the Journal of Hospital Medicine and Associate Professor of Medicine at University of Chicago, where he focuses on the measurement of outcomes, quality, and resource utilization among patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Dr. Ruhnke led the effort to recruit 2000 patients into the CMMI-funded Comprehensive Care Physician RCT, a novel care model for complicated inpatients.
Jeffrey Schnipper MD, MPH, SFHM
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Research Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine, and Primary Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dr. Schnipper is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Research Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Director of Clinical Research for the Brigham Health Hospital Medicine Unit. His research interests focus on effective medication use, transitions in care, diagnostic errors, home hospital, health information technology, and communication among health care providers and between patients and providers.
Dr. Schnipper’s Bio at Harvard Catalyst
Mark V. Williams MD, FACP, MHM
Dr. Williams is Professor and Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine
Dr. Williams is Professor and Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. He established the first hospitalist program for a public hospital in 1998 at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, and built three of the largest academic hospitalist programs in the U.S. at Emory (1998–2007), Northwestern (2007–2013) and the University of Kentucky (2014-2019). With a history of more than $34 million in grants and contracts as principal or co-principal investigator and 190+ peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Williams’ research focuses on quality improvement, care transitions, teamwork, and the role of health literacy in the delivery of health care.
Dr. Williams’s Bio at Washington University School of Medicine
