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CONTINUING EDUCATION

HM09 Keynote Speaker: Let's Work Together

Mark Chassin, MD, president of The Joint Commission, sees value in collaboration with hospitalists

By Mark Leiser

Mark Chassin, MD, isn’t quite sure what he’ll say when he steps to the podium to deliver the keynote address at sold-out HM09.

“At the pace everything is changing, it’s hard to know exactly what I’ll want to talk about,” says Chassin, president of The Joint Commission.

He is certain about one thing, however: the importance of reaching out to and connecting with hospital-based physicians.

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MOVERS AND SHAKERS

Nurses Honor New Jersey Hospitalist

Staff embrace communication, relationships fostered by HM model

By Richard Quinn

Sutharsanam Veerappan, MD, a pediatric hospitalist, learned while on a family vacation to India that his New Jersey hospital had chosen him as 2008's Physician of the Year. So he did what anyone 7,000 miles from work would do: He cut short the family time to receive an honor from his other family.

"Dr. Veerappan just gets it," says Jeanne Whaley, RN, manager of the Maternity and Newborn Care Center at Hunterdon Medical Center (HMC) in Raritan Township, N.J. "He understands what it means to be a team."

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