- Describe the primary conclusions of the studies reviewed
- Identify changes to your clinical practice
- Implement these changes going forward
Mel L. Anderson, MD, MACP
National Program Director, VHA Hospital Medicine, Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Deputy Editor, Journal of Hospital Medicine
Mel L. Anderson, MD, MACP is an Academic Hospitalist and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (UCSOM). He serves as the National Program Director for Hospital Medicine in the Veterans Healthcare Administration. Dr. Anderson graduated AOA from the University of Texas, Houston, School of Medicine (now the McGovern School of Medicine) in 1994 and completed Internal Medicine residency and a Chief Residency at the David Grant USAF Medical Center in California. Dr. Anderson served for many years as an associate program director and interim program director for the UCSOM Internal Medicine Residency Program, where he founded and led the Clinician/Educator residency pathway and mentored hundreds of future internists. His academic interests center on bedside clinical teaching, faculty development, and teaching and implementing Evidence-Based Medicine. He loves spending time with spouse and best friend Maria, daughter Claire, and friends and family.
Cason Pierce, MD, MA, FHM
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Academic Hospitalist in Division of Hospital Medicine, Denver Health
Cason Pierce, MD, MA, FHM is an academic hospitalist at Denver Health, a medical Educator, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (CUSOM). He attended medical school at the University of Texas Southwestern, and he completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. In 2012, he became a full-time hospitalist at Denver Health and a faculty member at CUSOM. He is a graduate of the CUSOM Teaching Scholars Program and is a member of its Academy of Medical Educators. In addition to being a full-time clinician, he has developed or co-developed courses for CUSOM students and residents on a hypothesis based physical exam and point-of-care ultrasound. He is a regular reviewer for the Journal of General Internal Medicine and the Journal of Hospital Medicine. His own publications include a Best Evidence in Medical Education review on effective clinical teaching strategies. He was a plenary speaker in 2015 for the Mountain West Society of General Internal Medicine annual meeting, and he has given an annual “Updates in Hospital Medicine” lecture to the Department of Family Medicine faculty at Denver Health since 2016.