Advances in Pediatric Hospital Medicine: Back to the Future

Mark Shen, MD

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Hospital Medicine has emerged as a rapidly growing new field in Pediatrics. However, familiar and age-old concepts are guiding future care:

• Process improvement theory is being applied to the care of everyday hospital diseases
• There is a renewed emphasis on communication with the primary medical home
• Old bugs are causing new problems

Speaker Bio

Mark Shen, MD, is the director of hospital medicine at Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas and an assistant professor at UT Southwestern Austin Pediatrics. As an academic pediatric hospitalist, he has strong interests in medical education and quality improvement.