COURSE DESCRIPTION: 

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 & DISCLOSURE

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

Luis A. Compres Brugal, M.D. 
Neurologist 
Baptist Health South Florida
Miami, Fla. 

Alexander Egusquiza, M.D. 
Pulmonology 
Baptist Health South Florida
Miami, Fla. 

Daniel Gelrud, M.D. 
Gastroenterology 
Baptist Health South Florida
Miami, Fla. 

Srikanth Nagalla, M.D.
Oncology
Miami Cancer Institute 
Baptist Health South Florida
Miami, Fla.

Raj Uttamchandani, M.D.
Infectious Diseases
Baptist Health South Florida
Miami, Fla. 

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

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

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

Marco Ruiz M.D., MPH. MSc. MBA
Professor of Medicine
Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine 
Associate Director of Malignant Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplant 
 

Mario Pascual, M.D., 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.

Luis A. Compres Brugal, M.D., Alexander Egusquiza, M.D, Daniel Gelrud, M.D., Srikanth Nagalla, M.D., Raj Uttamchandani, M.D., Marco Ruiz M.D., MPH. MSc. MBA, faculty of this educational activity, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose, and has indicated that the presentation(s) or discussion(s) will/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 the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual 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.