2026 Hospital Medicine
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
3:00 – 3:30 PM Registration, Refreshments and Exhibitors
3:30 - 4:15 Keynote Address: Planetary Health
David Rand, DO
4:15 – 5:00 Infectious Disease
Kristen Pierce, MD
5:00 – 5:15 Break and Exhibitors
5:15 – 6:00 Capacity Assessment and What to do When Your Patient Refuses Treatment
Dylan Hershkowitz, MD
6:00 – 6:30 Quick Hits: Pharmacy Pearls
Ashley Houseman, PharmD, BCPS
6:30 Adjourn
7:00 Optional Dinner
Thursday, February 5, 2026
7:00 AM Continental Breakfast and Exhibitors
7:30 – 8:15 Euglycemic DKA and Other Complicated Diabetes Cases
David Felske, MD
8:15 – 9:00 Inpatient Anemia Work-up and Treatment
Jacqueline Poston, MD
9:00 – 9:15 Break and Exhibitors
9:15 – 10:00 Management of Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure
Ram Baalachandran, MD
10:00 – 10:30 Quick Hits: On Safari
Aaron Levit, DO
10:30 Adjourn
Thursday Evening Session
4:00 PM Refreshments and Exhibitors
4:30 – 5:15 End of Life Symptoms Management
Patricia Whitney, MD
5:15 – 6:00 Caring for the Hospitalized Patient with Parkinsons Disease
James Boyd, MD
6:00 – 6:15 Break and Exhibitors
6:15 – 7:00 Dermatology in the Hospital
Joseph Pierson, MD
7:00 – 7:30 Quick Hits: Updates in Hospital Medicine
Preetika Muthukrishnan, MD
7:30 Adjourn
Friday, February 6, 2026
7:00 AM Continental Breakfast and Exhibitors
7:30 – 8:15 Updates in Hematology
Timothy Plante, MD
8:15 – 9:00 Toxidromes
Joseph Kennedy, MD
9:00 – 9:15 Break and Exhibitors
9:15 – 9:45 Quick Hits: Things We Do For No Reason
Caleb Burr, MD
9:45 – 10:30 How to Make Your Hospitalist Career Work For You
Naomi Hodde, MD
10:30 Adjourn