Members of the American College of Physicians contribute posts from their own sites to ACP Internist. Contributors include:
Auscultation
Ira S. Nash, MD, FACP, is
the senior vice president and executive director of the North Shore-LIJ Medical
Group and a professor of cardiology and population health at Hofstra North
Shore-LIJ School of Medicine. He is board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular
diseases and was in private practice in cardiology before joining the full-time
faculty of Massachusetts General Hospital. He then held a number of senior
positions at Mount Sinai Medical Center prior to joining North Shore-LIJ. He is
married with two daughters and enjoys cars, reading biographies and histories,
and following his favorite baseball team, the New York Yankees, when not
practicing medicine
Zackary
Berger
Zackary Berger, MD, ACP Member, is a primary care doctor and general internist
in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins. His research
interests include doctor-patient communication, bioethics, and systematic
reviews
Controversies
in Hospital Infection Prevention
Run by three ACP members, this blog ponders vexing issues in
infection prevention and control, inside and outside the hospital. Daniel J.
Diekema, MD, FACP, Michael B. Edmond, MD, FACP, and Eli N. Perencevich, MD, ACP
Member, are infectious diseases physicians and health care epidemiologists who divide
their time among patient care, research, education, and prevention. Their focus
is on understanding why infections occur in health care settings and how to
prevent them.
db's
Medical Rants
Robert M. Centor, MD, MACP, contributes short essays contemplating medicine and
the health care system. He is an academic general internist at the University
of Alabama School of Medicine and serves as regional dean for the Huntsville
Regional Medical Campus. He is a past Chair of ACP's Board of Regents.
Suneel Dhand, MD, ACP
Member
Suneel Dhand, MD, ACP Member, is a
practicing physician in Massachusetts. He has published numerous articles in
clinical medicine, covering a wide range of specialty areas including
pulmonology, cardiology, endocrinology, hematology, and infectious
disease. His other clinical interests
include quality improvement, hospital safety, hospital utilization, and the use
of technology in health care.
Everything
Health
Toni Brayer, MD, FACP, blogs about the rapid changes in science, medicine,
health and healing in the 21st century. She is the CEO of a large medical group
in Northern California.
>Glass Hospital
John H. Schumann, MD, FACP, provides transparency on the workings of medical
practice and the complexities of hospital care, illuminates the emotional and
cognitive aspects of caregiving and decision-making from the perspective of an
active primary care physician, and offers behind-the-scenes portraits of
hospital sanctums and the people who inhabit them. He is the president of the
University of Oklahoma-Tulsa
Informatics
Professor
William Hersh, MD, FACP, is professor and chair of the Department of Medical
Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health & Science
University in Portland. He posts his thoughts on various topics related to
biomedical and health informatics.
David
Katz, MD
David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACP, is an authority on nutrition, weight management,
and the prevention of chronic disease, and a leader in integrative medicine and
patient-centered care. He is the director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention
Research Center in Derby, Conn.
MD
Whistleblower
Michael Kirsch, MD, FACP, is a gastroenterologist in Willoughby, Ohio, whose
blog addresses the joys and challenges of medical practice, including
controversies in the doctor-patient relationship, medical ethics, and measuring
medical quality. When he's not writing, he's performing colonoscopies.
More Musings
Rob Lamberts, MD, ACP Member, a med-peds and general practice internist in
Georgia, returns with "volume 2" of his personal musings about
medicine, life, armadillos, and Sasquatch at More Musings (of a Distractible
Kind).
Peter
A. Lipson, MD
Peter A. Lipson, MD, ACP Member, is a practicing internist and teaching
physician in Southeast Michigan. His blog, which has been around in various
forms since 2007, offers musings on the intersection of science, medicine, and
culture.
Reflections of a Grady Doctor
Kimberly Manning, MD, FACP, reflects on the personal side of being a doctor in
a community hospital in Atlanta.
Why
Is American Health Care So Expensive?
Janice Boughton, MD, FACP, practiced internal medicine for
20 years before adopting a career in hospital and primary care medicine as a
locum tenens physician. She lives in Idaho when not traveling.
World's Best Site
Daniel Ginsberg, MD, FACP, is an internal medicine physician
who has avidly applied computers to medicine since 1986, when he first wrote
medically oriented computer programs. He is in practice in Tacoma, Wash.
