The 2025-2026 Current Concepts in Hospital Medicine Lecture Series is designed to provide busy clinical staff with interdisciplinary updates on the latest advances in hospital medicine. Each lecture delivers high-yield, practical clinical information to support and enhance patient care in the hospital setting.

Hospitalists and other healthcare providers will gain increased awareness and knowledge of current guidelines and recommendations for managing disease states and conditions considered core competencies in hospital medicine. This series aims to improve clinical decision-making and optimize patient outcomes through evidence-based practice.

Target Audience

Hospitalists, internists, family practitioners, nurses, advanced practice providers and other interested healthcare providers.

Learning Objectives

• Implement current guidelines and recommendations for the core competencies in hospital medicine as identified by the Society of Hospital Medicine. 
• Analyze and assess current literature in hospital medicine. 

Faculty

Seema Chandra, D.O. 
Hospitalist 
Baptist Health South Florida
Miami, Florida

Mario Pascual, M.D.
Baptist Health Heart and Vascular Care
Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute
Baptist Health South Florida
Miami, Florida

Javier Perez Fernandez, M.D.
Critical Care Medicine,
Pulmonology
Baptist Health South Florida
Miami, Florida

Samer D. Tabbal, M.D.
Neurologist
Director of the Movement Disorders Program
Miami Neuroscience Institute
Baptist Health South Florida
Miami, Florida

Disclosures And Resolution Of Conflict Of Interest

Dr. Javier Perez Fernandez, M.D., Dr. Samer D. Tabbal, M.D., faculty of this educational activity, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose, and have indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.

Mario Pascual, M.D., faculty of this educational activity, is a consultant for Abbott and Medtronic, and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.

Tina Sanjar, M.D, and Seema Chandra, M.D., directors of this educational activity, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose, and have indicated that the presentation(s) or discussion(s) will not include off-label or unapproved product usage

All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this/these individual(s) has/have been mitigated.

*Ineligible companies – Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Disclosure Policy and Disclaimer

Accreditation

Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.

Baptist Health South Florida designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ each.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.   

This activity has been approved for 1.5 credit hours each, CE Broker Course #20-1226842, by the Florida Boards of Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine and Physician Assistants.

This activity has also been approved for 1.5 credits each for Nurses and Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists and Techs and Respiratory Therapists.. Baptist Health South Florida CE Broker Provider #50-182.