Scholarship & Recognition

Below is some of the scholarship from the medical students, residents, and faculty from the Student High Value Care Initiative.

Awards and Recognition:

Blue Ribbon Winner, 17th Annual Mt Sinai Institute of Medical Education Research Day. Sticking Points: Assessing Prevalence, Provider Awareness and Nurse Perceptions about Fingerstick Blood Glucose Testing in Hospitalized Patients. Alyssa Gontzes, Madeline Floodstrand, Jared Dashevsky, Samir Kamat, Caroline Liu, Annie Linker, Grenye O’Malley.

Oral Presentation. Student High Value Care Committee: A Model for Student-Led Implementation. 4th Annual Lown Institute Conference 2016. Chicago, IL.

Semi-finalist. ACP Dragon’s Lair: Breathing Fire into Health Care Transformation Competition 2017. American College of Physicians.

Finalist, Teaching Value. Costs of Care Creating Value Challenge 2017. Costs of Care and ABIM Foundation.

Audience Choice Award, Best Research Abstract. Lown Institute Research Symposium 2017. Assess Before Rx: The Harmful Overtreatment of Asymptomatic Hypertension. [Abstract]. Boston, MA. Pasik SD, Chiu S, Yang JY, Sinfield C, Tummalapali S, Cho H, Krouss M.

Oral Presentation. Implementation of a House Staff-Led Pneumonia Antibiotic Stewardship Program. Hospital Medicine 17, Society of Hospital Medicine May 2017. Las Vegas, NV. Anderson D, Janda A, Li M, Lutz C, Cho HJ, Dunn AS, Jogendra M.

Finalist, Innovations. Hospital Medicine 17, Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting 2017. Please ‘THINK’ before you order: a multidisciplinary approach to decreasing overutilization of daily labs. Shinwa M, Bossert A, Cushing A, Chen I, Grier D, Slamovitz G, Weinstein S, Dunn A, Cushnie S, Cho H.

Blue Ribbon Winner, 14th Annual Mt Sinai Institute of Medical Education Research Day. A Novel Intervention to Decrease Unnecessary Folate Ordering in the Inpatient Setting. DiCapua J, Lee I, Mei R, Narula S, Zarrin S, Cho H, Goetz C.

Plenary Session. Hospital Medicine 18, Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting 2018. The Sleep Hygiene in the Hospital Project: SHH!. Herscher M

Abstracts, Presentations, and Publications:

Kwon DY, Wang A, Park J, et al. Don’t Hesitate, Moms Vaccinate: Exploring Varicella and MMR Vaccination Rates in Postpartum Mothers. Poster presented at: 2023 Association of Clinicians for the Underserved Annual Conference. July 23-26, 2023; Washington, DC. 

Kwon DY, Letchuman S, Aoun R, & Linker A. Improving Health Equity Through Student-Driven High Value Care Initiatives. Poster presented at: 2023 Association of Clinicians for the Underserved Annual Conference. July 23-26, 2023; Washington, DC. 

Letchuman S, Zhou A, Gyasi A, Yang A, Gallate Z, Delicce A, Aoun R, Linker A, Fuller R. Improving Antibiotic Stewardship: Optimizing Procalcitonin Utilization in Patients Admitted with Respiratory Tract Infections. Poster presented at 2023 Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Medicine Research Day. May 16, 2023; New York, NY. 

Dashevsky, J; Floodstrand, M; Gontzes, A; Kamat, S; Liu, C; O’Malley, G; Linker, A. Saving Sticks: Assessing Prevalence, Provider Awareness and Nurse Perceptions about Fingerstick Blood Glucose Testing in Hospitalized Patients. Abstract published at Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition. Abstract 332 Journal of Hospital Medicine. https://shmabstracts.org/abstract/saving-sticks-assessing-prevalence-provider-awareness-and-nurse-perceptions-about-fingerstick-blood-glucose-testing-in-hospitalized-patients/. July 15th 2020.

Liu C, Kamat S, Dashevsky J, Gontzes A , Floodstrand M, Linker A., O’Malley, G. Sticking Points: Assessing Prevalence, Provider Awareness and Nurse Perceptions about Fingerstick Blood Glucose Testing in Hospitalized Patients. Accepted for Oral Abstract by Society of General Internal Medicine; May 2020; Birmingham, AL.

Implementation in High Value Care. Department of Medicine Grand Rounds. Mount Sinai Hospital. October 18, 2016.

High Value Care, Changing Our System. Temple University Hospital Department of Medicine Grand Rounds, Philadelphia PA. December 2016.

DiCapua J, Lee I, Mei R, Narula S, Zarrin S, Cho H, Goetz C. A Novel Intervention to Decrease Unnecessary Folate Ordering in the Inpatient Setting. NY ACP Conference 2016.

Holzer HE, Marqueen KE, Reisman A, Thomas T, Anthony Y, Goetz C, Cho HJ. Drivers of Overuse of Pancreatic Enzyme Lab Testing at an Academic Medical Center. [abstract]. Society of Hospital Medicine May 2017. Las Vegas, NV. Abstract Presentation.

Tsega S, O’Conner M, Poeran J, Iberti CT, Cho HJ. Bedside Assessment of Necessity of Daily Lab Testing for Patients Nearing Discharge. [abstract]. Society of Hospital Medicine May 2017. Las Vegas, NV. Abstract Presentation.

Caro J, Jiang SL, Mathis J, Cushnie S, Israilov S, Sakai Y, Race J, Raja A, Cho HJ. Increasing Mobility and Reducing Falls and Falls-Related Injuries in Hospitalized Medicine Patients. [abstract]. Society of Hospital Medicine May 2017. Las Vegas, NV. Abstract Presentation.

Cho HJ, Goetz C, Dunn AS, Di Capua J, Lee IT, Makhni S, Korenstein DR. Student High Value Care Committee: A Model for Student-Led Implementation. [abstract]. Society of Hospital Medicine May 2017. Las Vegas, NV. Abstract Presentation.

Lutz C, Cho HJ. Are We Causing Anemia in Patients By Ordering Unnecessary Blood Tests? Cleve Clin J Med. 2016 Jul;83(7):496-497.

Jones MG, Tsega S, Cho HJ. Inappropriate Prescription of Proton Pump Inhibitors in the Setting of Steroid Use: A Teachable Moment. JAMA Intern Med. 2016 May 1;176(5):594-5.

Cho HJ, Khalil S, Poeran J, Mazumdar M, Bravo N, Wallach F, Markoff B, Lee N, Dunn AS. “Lose the Tube”: A Choosing Wisely initiative to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections in hospitalist-led inpatient units. Am J Infect Control. 2017 Mar 1;45(3):333-335.

Lee IT, Di Capua J, Cho HJ. Consider Cocreation for the Choosing Wisely List. Academic Medicine. 2017 May 1;92(5):576.

Tummalapalli L, Qui Y, Cho HJ. Anticoagulation Reversal for Supratherapeutic International Normalized Ratio. A Teachable Moment. JAMA Intern Med. 2017 Jun 1;177(6):869-870.

Tsega S, O’Connor M, Poeran J, Iberti C, Cho HJ. Bedside Assessment of the Necessity of Daily Lab Testing for Patients Nearing Discharge. J Hosp Med. 2017 Oct 18:E1-E3.

Makhni S. Co-Creation in Health Systems Design. AMA journal of ethics. 2017 Nov 1;19(11):1070.

Turakhia P, Combs B. Using Principles of Co-Production to Improve Patient Care and Enhance Value. AMA journal of ethics. 2017 Nov 1;19(11):1125.

Israilov S, Cho HJ. How Co-Creation Helped Address Hierarchy, Overwhelmed Patients, and Conflicts of Interest in Health Care Quality and Safety. AMA journal of ethics. 2017 Nov 1;19(11):1139.

Kochar A, Chisty A. What Should Leaders Do When Inefficiency Is Perceived as a Cost of Inclusivity in Strategic Planning Processes in Health Care?. AMA journal of ethics. 2017 Nov 1;19(11):1081.

Reisman A, Cho HJ, Holzer H. Unnecessary Repeat Enzyme Testing in Acute Pancreatitis. A Teachable Moment. JAMA Intern Med. 2018.

Cho HJ, Herscher M, Pai A. Older Adults’ Perceptions of Healthcare Overuse. J Gen Intern Med. 2018.