Division of Hospital Medicine

The Division of Hospital Medicine (DHM) is part of the Department of Medicine at Oregon Health &Science University and encompasses the Sections of Hospital Medicine at the University (OHSU campus), Tuality Community Hospital, and the Portland VA Medical Center. The University Section is further comprised of the inpatient Medicine Teaching Service (MTS), the inpatient Clinical Hospitalist Service (CHS), and the outpatient Preoperative Medicine Clinic (PMC).

The outstanding faculty are characterized by their infectious enthusiasm, boundless curiosity, engaging and respectful personalities, expertise as clinicians and educators, and a tendency to cycle-commute to work. We are dedicated to serving the people of Oregon by providing excellent clinical care, and serving the region and the nation through research and education.

In addition to providing stellar clinical care to patients in and outside of the hospital, our faculty are consummate educators. We are closely affiliated with the OHSU Internal Medicine Residency Program, and our faculty actively participate in multiple ways through the OHSU School of Medicine MD Program including classroom-based learning and 3rd/4th year clinical experiences.

Open Positions

Please contact the Division administration team for interest.

DHM Faculty News

Check out the new OHSU News article, "Why is My Physician on Twitter?" Dr. Honora Englander (@honoraenglander) was interviewed in the piece, and Dr. Avital O'Glasser (@aoglasser) also received a recommendation as a tweeting physician to follow.

Congratulations to the following faculty member for new distinctions!

Drs. Renee Dversdal and Targol Saedi were promoted to Associate Professor
Dr. Sima Desai was promoted to Professor
Dr. Sara Schwanke Khilji received FACP from the American College of Physicians

Congratulations to multiple Division members who were honored with awards at the end of the 2017-2018 Academic Year:

Dr. Stephanie Halvorson received the OHSU Professional Staff Award for "Outstanding contribution to missions of education and research in the clinical setting"
Dr. Andre Mansoor is the OHSU Physicians Assistant (PA) Class of 2018 recipient ofthe James M. Ryan, MD, Award for Excellent in Clinical Teaching
Dr. Peter Sullivan received multiple honors from the Medical School, including the Excellence in Teaching Award, Outstanding ThreadDirector Award, invited Commencement Speaker (remarks here),Faculty Mentor Award, and Alan J. Hill Award
Dr. Elizabeth Lahti received induction to the Gold Honor Society and the L. Tow Humanism Award from the Medical School
Multiple faculty were honored by the OHSU Internal Medicine Residency Program at the June 2018 Graduation and Awards Reception, including: Chief Resident Award to the Medicine Teaching Service Attendings (specifically Drs. Shadi Dowlatshahi, Patricio Riquelme, David Harmon, and Avital O'Glasser with Brian Ricci from DGIM), Chief Resident Award to Dr. Avital O'Glasser. Dr. Kevin Piro received a Junior Faculty Teaching Award.
Dr. Renee Dversdal was a finalist for the School of Medicine Faculty Senate Award
Dr. Michael Hendricks was recognized by Dean Sharon Anderson and Dr. John Hunter for great department-level initiatives to promote faculty engagement and career development for his work as Chair of Morale

The Northwest Narrative Collaborative (Drs. Elizabeth Lahti &Rebecca Harrison) received a grant from the Medical Society of Metropolitan Portland for launch of the Narrative Medicine Collaborative Practice Monthly Series, held the 3rd Tuesday of each month, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at The Lucky Labrador Brew Pub on Hawthorne Blvd. Please join!

Dr. Targol Saedi was elected as the OHSU School of Medicine Unit B Faculty Senate Representative.

Dr. Avital O'Glasser began a three year term on ACP's National Council of Early Career Physicians at the National ACP Meeting in April.

Dr. Sara Schwanke Khilji received the "Exceptional Mentor Award" from the American Medical Women's Association.

Drs. Kellie Littlefield, Bailey Pope, Patty Ritze and Scott Stroup completed the OHSU Paths to Leadership program.

Multiple Division faculty members were very busy during this Spring's "conference season", including:

National ACP conference:

Dr. Renee Dversdal presented a 2-day precourse on point-of-care ultrasound inaddition to delivering a "Meet the Professor" session on the subject during themain academic sessions
Dr. Pete Sullivan presented "Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis"
Dr. Avi O'Glasser moderated a panel for the session, "Wearables and Other Patient-Generated Data: Perils and Opportunities". The session received attention from several press outlets,including "ACP Internist" and MedPage. She also served as a judge for this year's "ACP Innovation Challenge".

Society of Hospital Medicine:

Dr. Cornelia Taylor presented at the panel discussion, "Deep Dive: Case-Based Advanced Perioperative Clinical Reasoning" as well as served as a table moderator for the Pre-operative medicine precourse
Dr. Renee Dversdal was a presenter for the point-of-care-ultrasound precourse

Society for General Internal Medicine:

Drs. James Clements, Angela Alday, and Ani Chintalapani presented "Taming the Pager: Understanding Hospitalist Pages in Order to Reduce Them and Improve PatientCare" at a Special Symposium "Using HIT to optimize hospital based work."

Academic Internal Medicine Week (AAIM/APDIM):

Dr. Sima Desai served as the course director for the Chief Residents' meeting
Drs. Sima Desai and Avi O'Glasser presented a poster, "Healthcare Social Media(#hcsm): One Residency Program's Experience Using Twitter"
Dr. Kevin Piro co-presented a workshop, "Ultrasound as a Second Language (USL): Learning the Lingo of Ultrasound for the Clinician Educator"
Dr.Avi O'Glasser co-presented a workshop, "The Doctor Will Tweet You Now: Incorporating #HSCM into Your Residency Program", at the Chief Resident meeting