The UNC Division of Hospital Medicine met many milestones during Fiscal Year 2025. Nearly 50% faculty contributed to abstracts that were accepted at the Society of Hospital Medicine Triangle Chapter Research, Innovation
and Clinical Vignette Poster Competition. The majority of those abstracts were presented at the national SHM Converge in Las Vegas in April.
The division provided 60 invited presentations across NC and the country on topics including POCUS, innovations related to patients “medically-ready” for discharge, and the TEC2.0 curriculum. The division had 21 publications and four promotions,—Evan Raff, MD to Professor of Medicine and Elizabeth Cole, MD, Rimma Osipov, MD, PhD, and Mukhtar Adem, MD, FACP to Associate Professor of Medicine. There are now three faculty members who have been promoted to Associate Professor while serving as full-time nocturnists, a remarkable achievement and a record of success rarely seen in other academic hospital medicine divisions.
The following received division awards for FY25:
Physician of the Year: William Kwan, MD: Dr. Kwan was recognized for his clinical excellence, dedication to both bedside education and compassionate care, and for living the mission of our division. He has been cited as a consistent example for all faculty throughout his time with Hospital Medicine and we are sad to say goodbye to him in the coming weeks.
Advanced Practice Providers of the Year: Dana Mabry, NP: Dana has always been recognized as a thoughtful and intuitive provider who takes excellent care of her patients and of the team in the office including our physicians and other APPs. This year, she has also provided exceptional leadership, helping with solutions to our short staffing, driving our recruiting efforts and onboarding and mentoring multiple providers.
Educator of the Year: Jessica Fuller, MD: Dr. Fuller has been both one of our highest rated bedside educators on our General Medicine teaching service as well as a highly regarded leader for her work in the 1st and 2nd year Case-Based Learning courses in the Foundation Phase and the Rap-id Response simulation training for UNC Medicine residents. She has also been recognized this year with an Academy of Educators Professorship award and as core faculty for UNC Internal Medicine residency program.
Health Systems Improvement Award: Leo Marucci, MD: Dr. Marucci was recognized for his long-standing service to our division, department and system in the ISD world. This year, he has helped lead initiatives to spread clinical decision-making support through the Agile Pathways@UNC, to improve billing through note templates and to pilot new technologies for the EHR including AI generated hospital summaries and the Abridge ambient scribe.
