Medicine Grand Rounds: Engaging Physicians in a Culture of Safety: Views of a Recovering Autonomy Addict
Einstein/Montefiore Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
Thursday, March 22, 2012
8:00 AM: Forchheimer 3rd Floor Lecture Hall, Einstein
Repeated @ 12:15 PM: Cherhasky Auditorium, Montefiore Medical Center
Speaker & Info
Dan Brotman, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Hospitalist Program
Department of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Daniel J. Brotman, MD, FACP, FHM
Dr. Daniel Brotman is currently the director of the Hospitalist Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he has developed a center of excellence in the field of academic Hospital Medicine, and serves as an Associate Professor of Medicine. He hails originally from New England, where he earned his undergraduate degree in Biology at Harvard University before matriculating to the University of Virginia for medical school. After completing residency in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital, he spent 5 years at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation where he practiced as a hospitalist and led the hospital medicine fellowship program. His clinical research has spanned from cardiovascular physiology, to thrombosis, to healthcare delivery. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed articles and currently serves as a Senior Deputy Editor for the Journal of Hospital Medicine. In addition to leading a group of over a dozen faculty members at Johns Hopkins Hospital, his current academic and operational projects include championing a health-system wide initiative to reduce unnecessary hospitalizations through improved care coordination, and playing leadership roles in IT-development initiatives related to patient education, provider clinical documentation, and inter-provider communication. Recently, he has been named a Top Doctor in Baltimore Magazine, and won the 2012 Outstanding Hospitalist Physician Award from the Maryland Chapter of the American College of Physicians.
Accreditation: Albert Einstein College of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.
Host: Department of Medicine