Internal Medicine: Inpatient Approval Committees

The Approval Committees aim to maintain a composition that reflects the diversity and complexity of the physician and patient populations that certification serves. They comprise entirely practicing, board certified physicians with active certificates in their respective specialties.

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Headshot of Dr. Jensa Morris

Dr. Morris is a hospitalist physician and the Medical Director of the Hip Fracture Co-Management Program at Yale New Haven Hospital. She is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine.

Dr. Morris was named a Top Hospitalist in 2012 by the American College of Physicians. This honor is awarded to hospitalists making significant contributions to the medical field through their innovation, leadership and clinical skills. Previously, Dr. Morris was named a Yale New Haven Service Excellence Hero, the highest level of recognition at Yale New Haven Hospital for excellence in service to patients.

Dr. Morris earned a bachelor’s degree in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton University and her medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She did her internship and residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

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As of September 2024, Dr. Morris reported no ongoing external relationships.

Headshot of Dr. Kimberly A. Bell

Dr. Bell currently serves as the Regional Medical Director, Team Health Hospital Medicine Division. In this capacity, she is responsible for the clinical, operational and financial oversight for multiple hospital medicine practices located in Washington, California and Hawaii. Her responsibilities are to develop strategies and operational efficiencies resulting in decreased clinical variation, improved patient satisfaction and reduced readmissions.

Prior to her role as Regional Medical Director, Team Health Hospital Medicine, Dr. Bell served as Division Director for CHI Franciscan Inpatient Team and Regional Medical Director for Emcare's West Division for Hospital Medicine. Her roles and responsibilities were to provide clinical and operational oversight for 12 hospital medicine practices located in Washington, Wyoming, California, Nevada and Indiana.

Dr. Bell joined HCA Physician Services in 2006. She started the first hospital medicine service at Centennial Medical Center, the Flagship Hospital for HCA. Prior to her role as the Medical Director of Centennial Medical Center, she served as the Associate Medical Director of the Swedish Inpatient Team. While at Swedish Medical Center, Dr. Bell served as the Chief of Staff for the Swedish Providence Campus.

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As of June 2025, Dr. Bell reported no ongoing external relationships.

Dr. Cunningham is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health, Section of Hospital Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She worked as a hospitalist at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta from 2007 to 2008 and has been a hospitalist at Vanderbilt since 2008. Dr. Cunningham is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine. She is an experienced academic hospitalist who has excelled in diverse clinical, quality and education initiatives during her career. She has a particular interest in care transitions, specifically related to medication reconciliation/medication safety as well as strategies to reduce readmissions.

Dr. Cunningham has authored several reviews on best practices for care transitions and has spoken at national and regional meetings on related topics. She also serves as the Medical Director for the Vanderbilt Familiar Faces program, which aims to provide continuity across care settings for medically complex patients who experience frequent Emergency Department and hospital visits. She has additional expertise in clinical documentation best practices and is the Medical Director for Clinical Documentation and Coding Excellence at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

She has held multiple roles related to medical education, including director for Faculty Development for the Section of Hospital Medicine, and Director for the Quality Improvement and Patient Safety courses for third- and fourth-year Vanderbilt medical students.

She received her undergraduate degree in biology at Emory University in Atlanta and earned her medical degree at Penn State University College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Dr. Cunningham completed her internal medicine residency training at Emory University in 2007.

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As of April 2024, Dr. Cunningham reported no ongoing external relationships.

Dr. Glasheen is the Director of the Institute for Healthcare Quality, Safety and Efficiency (IHQSE), the Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs—Quality and Safety Education and Professor of Medicine with tenure at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. The IHQSE offers multiple distinct development programs in quality, safety and healthcare leadership, having trained over 2,000 participants. It is the only quality development program in the country to be associated with improvements in publicly reported hospital quality rankings.

Dr. Glasheen served as the Chief Quality Officer at the University of Colorado (UC) Hospital (2015 – 2020) and the 12-hospital UCHealth system (2017 – 2020). Under his leadership, UCHealth performed in the top 10% annually of all health systems in the country from 2016 to 2020 for quality performance. UCHealth was named among the top five large health systems in the country for quality performance for three years (2018, 2019 and 2020), and all health system hospitals achieved a 4- or 5-star CMS Quality Ranking.

As the director of the University of Colorado Hospital Medicine Group from 2003 to 2015, he oversaw the growth of the program from two to more than 70 members. He also served as an Associate Program Director in the Internal Medicine Residency and developed the residency’s Hospitalist Training Program, which has offered comprehensive hospitalist training to internal medicine residents since 2004.

Dr. Glasheen is a former member of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) Board of Directors and past chair of the SHM Academic and Annual Meeting Committees. He is also the past chair of the ABIM Hospital Medicine Exam-Writing Committee charged with overseeing the Recognition of Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine Board Certification for hospitalists. He was the course director for the 2010 Academic Hospitalist Leadership Summit and is the director of the Academic Hospitalist Academy, an annual four-day meeting aimed at developing early academic hospitalists’ career skills. He served as the Assistant Course Director for the SHM Annual Meeting in 2011 and the Course Director for the 2012 Meeting in San Diego. He is a past winner of the SHM Award for Excellence in Teaching and the University of Colorado School of Medicine’s Outstanding Clinical Science Teacher Award. He is the former editor of The Hospitalist news magazine and former Senior Deputy Editor of The Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Dr. Glasheen was an Alpha Omega Alpha graduate of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and completed his residency training, including a chief residency year, at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.

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As of September 2024, Dr. Glasheen reported no ongoing external relationships.

Headshot of Dr. David Wooldridge

Dr. Wooldridge is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). Clinically, he works as an academic hospitalist.

A clinician-educator, Dr. Wooldridge has spent his entire career at UMKC, serving in various roles in both undergraduate and graduate medical education, receiving numerous teaching awards. He has served on various ABIM committees since 2008, including the SEP Committee on Internal Medicine, Hospital Medicine Exam-Writing Committee, Hospital Medicine Self-Assessment Committee and the Hospital Medicine Longitudinal Item-Writing Task Force. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP) and a member of the Governing Council of the Missouri Chapter of the ACP.

Dr. Wooldridge obtained a bachelor’s degree and medical degree from UMKC. He remained there for residency training, also completing a year as chief resident.

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As of Aprile 2025, Dr. Wooldridge reported no ongoing external relationships.

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Headshot of Dr. Benjamin A. Hohmuth

Dr. Hohmuth is the Chief Medical Informatics Officer and a practicing hospitalist at Geisinger, where he previously served as Director for Hospital Medicine and Director for Patient Blood Management. He is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine.

Previously, Dr. Hohmuth served as Section Chief for Hospital Medicine and Director of Inpatient Education at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood, New Jersey. Prior to this, Dr. Hohmuth worked as a hospitalist with Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Dr. Hohmuth received a degree in physical anthropology from the University of Michigan and his medical degree from Rutgers University. He completed internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and subsequently completed a master's degree in public health at Columbia University.

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As of May 2025, Dr. Hohmuth reported no ongoing external relationships.

Headshot of Dr. Sharon Kim

Dr. Kim is the Physician Director of Medical Education in the San Diego service area for the Southern California Permanente Medical Group and Assistant Chief of Hospital Medicine over Quality and Education. In these capacities she manages continuing medical education (CME) programs for physicians in all departments, designed and implemented an evidence-based CME curriculum for hospital medicine and oversees quality and peer review for her department as well as inpatient education for family medicine and emergency medicine residents at Kaiser Permanente San Diego (KPSD) Medical Center.

She has previously served as graduate medical education (GME) core faculty, where she developed inpatient medicine curricula and educational content with prior academic appointments at Providence Portland Medical Center, Oregon Health & Science University, St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco and Creighton University. She is active in the American College of Physicians (ACP), where she serves on the Governor's Council for the California Southern Region III Chapter. She co-chaired the ACP California Southern Chapters I, II and III Resident/Fellow, Medical Student & Early Career Physician Poster Competition in 2022 and 2023, continuing this role in 2024. She received the 2023 ACP Chapter Laureate Award, the 2022 ACP All-California Chapters Outstanding Mentor of the Year Award, the 2022 AMWA INSPIRE Award and resident teaching awards, and was elected Hospitalist of the Year at KPSD in 2022.

Dr. Kim received her bachelor's degree in chemistry with distinction from the University of Virginia and her medical degree with honors from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine training in the Osler Medical Residency Training Program at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

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As of October 2024, Dr. Kim reported no ongoing external relationships.

Headshot of Dr. Luci Leykum

Dr. Leykum is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center and South Texas Veterans Health Care System in San Antonio, Texas. She is a Clinician Investigator and serves as Division Chief of Hospital Medicine and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs. She is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine.

Dr. Leykum was previously a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. She serves as Chair of the Research Committee and as a member of the Academic Committee for the Society of Hospital Medicine. She also served as Co-Chair of the Academic Hospitalist Task Force of the Society of General Internal Medicine (of which she remains a member) and is a former Member at Large of the Executive Committee of the Society of Academic Chiefs & Leaders in General Internal Medicine.

Dr. Leykum earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College in New York. She obtained her medical degree and Master of Business Administration from Columbia University, and her master’s degree in clinical investigation from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She completed her residency at Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University.

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As of October 2024, Dr. Leykum reported the following external relationship:

Dr. Leykum serves as a consultant to Brigham and Women’s Hospital for an AHRQ grant and also works part-time for Harbor Health, a multispecialty delivery group. 

Headshot of Dr. Peter Shin

Dr. Peter Shin serves as the Director of Hospital Medicine at Englewood Hospital Medical Center in New Jersey. His previous professional position includes academic hospitalist and Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. He is currently a member of the Society of Hospital Medicine. He is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine.

Dr. Shin's interests include the application of information technology to improve patient care and physician workflow. He has served as a physician liaison for Epic EMR implementation and is a member of the Clinical Informatics Committee at Englewood Hospital. He is also involved in multiple hospital-based initiatives including opioid stewardship, medical staff professional evaluation, multidisciplinary rounding with geographical localization and heart failure readmission reduction. Dr. Shin also supervises medical residents and students at Englewood Hospital to help them manage patients through a continuum of multidisciplinary hospital care. Outside the hospital, Dr. Shin is involved in outreach by giving health information lectures to members of the Korean American community.

Dr. Shin received his medical degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City and completed internal medicine residency training at NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

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As of April 2025, Dr. Shin reported no ongoing external relationships.

Dr. Wolfe is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado Denver, where he serves as an academic hospitalist and as the Director of Clinical Operations for the University of Colorado Hospital’s Hospital Medicine Section. Dr. Wolfe is the Program Director for the Advanced Practice Fellowship, a post-graduate fellowship for nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) interested in hospital-based careers. This unique one-year program is one of the oldest in the country, pioneering aspects of post-graduate hospital-based NP and PA training.

In addition to his clinical director role and fellowship leadership, Dr. Wolfe is the Medical Director for one of the medical-surgical units at the University of Colorado Hospital, where he helps lead initiatives to improve the quality of care provided to inpatients. He also co-chairs the hospital’s Skin Steering Committee, devoted to eliminating hospital-acquired pressure injuries.

Prior to his current position, he served from 2007 to 2010 as the Academic Program Director for the Cogent Hospital Medicine Group at Temple University, and he held a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine appointment at Temple University School of Medicine. His first appointment was as Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine from 2005 to 2007, joining two internists in a then-novel consult/co-management service for subspecialty surgery and opening the first physician hospitalist service at Vanderbilt.

Dr. Wolfe is a member of the Society of Hospital Medicine’s (SHM) National NP/PA Committee and is the past President of the regional SHM chapter.

Dr. Wolfe received his bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry from Emory & Henry College in Emory, Virginia. He earned his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and he completed his internal medicine residency and chief residency at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

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As of April 2025, Dr. Wolfe reported no ongoing external relationship.