Section of Hospital Medicine

2022 Update on Hospital Medicine Conference - Registration Open

This CME conference will be held September 23 - 24, 2022, at the Omni Oceanfront Resort on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. This accelerated, two-day conference will include lectures led by expert faculty covering a dozen topics, including an optional post-course POCUS workshop. We look forward this educational weekend!

Register Now

Section of Hospital Medicine 2018 The Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Section of Hospital Medicine Mission:

To provide our patients, families, and colleagues with safe, efficient, high-quality, cost-effective and inpatient medical care (value-based health care and population health)
To deliver a unified continuity of care between the outpatient setting and the inpatient setting
To educate residents, medical students, and advanced practitioner students about hospital medicine
To discover and publish hospital medicine related research as a learning healthcare system
To be a key section in the success of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist as it relates to operations, quality, growth, and finances.

Our services cover five hospitals within the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. We have a diverse group of quality providers from all over the world with various training backgrounds. We actively support their career development and are very proud of our providers' accomplishments. They have ranged from winning oral case presentations at national conferences to our own section chief, Chi-Cheng Huang, MD, being named a 2018 Top 10 ACP Hospitalist.

Clinical Services

Our hospitalists and advanced practice professionals work as an operational collaborative unit so patients receive timely care as an inpatient and return home or to a post-acute facility in an efficient manner.

Research

Hospital Medicine’s research mission is to conduct and initiate clinical research that contributes to the field of hospital medicine and healthcare learning systems.

Education

The Section of Hospital Medicine contributes to the educational vision of Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the Department of Internal Medicine in many ways.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Section of Hospital Medicine at Wake Forest Baptist is committed to creating a culture that is just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive. Therefore, we have created a Justice-Equity-Diversity-Inclusion (JEDI) Committee that we hope serves as a model to be used in other sections across the health system.

Wellness

Our goal is to foster provider well-being by offering strategies and activities that promote pleasure in clinical practice, engagement and healthy behaviors.

Careers

What do our providers say about Wake?

"I achieve immense satisfaction and gratitude when I come to work at Wake each day, because I know my patients will receive very high quality medical care. Wake was my first employer after residency and have been grateful that I have achieved tremendous success in my clinical, personal and leadership career being here."

- Pankaj Kumar, MBBS, MBA
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

“Wake is in a fantastic location! Within a blink of an eye, you can be hiking in the mountains or soaking up the sun on the beach.”

- Jacqueline Lippert, MD
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and Lexington Medical Center

See More Provider Comments

Technology Transfer and Commercialization

Research Focus Areas

Translation to Care

More Resources

Section of Hospital Medicine Department of Internal Medicine

2022 Update on Hospital Medicine Conference - Registration Open

Leadership

Gary Elliot Rosenthal, MD, FACP

Chi-Cheng Huang, MD

Dawn Smith

John Blalock, MHA