Russell Holman.

Russell Holman, MD, is president-elect of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), the premier national medical society representing hospitalists. He is also Cogent Healthcare's senior vice president and national medical director, and is based in Raleigh, N.C. A long-time member of the SHM, Holman has served on numerous committees and previously was secretary for the organization's board of directors. Since beginning his career as a hospitalist in the mid-1990s, Holman's commitment to hospital medicine and to the mission of the SHM has been pivotal in helping to establish nationally recognized standards in the areas of hospital quality improvement, models of medical education, observation units, communications systems, compensation plans, case management, surgical co-management collaborations and patient flow initiatives. Earlier this year, Holman was promoted to senior vice president of Cogent and is responsible for program implementation and management, quality systems reporting and auditing, physician leadership development, and data systems integration. Holman received his MD from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and trained as a resident and chief resident in internal medicine at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. He currently serves on two national editorial boards for medical publications and is co-authoring and editing a comprehensive textbook and electronic decision support tool in hospital medicine. Today there are approximately 15,000 hospitalists, with the number expected to grow to 30,000 by the end of the decade.

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