Alan Kubey

From Davis, CA. Huge Cal Bears, NASA, spreadsheet, and Top Gun fan. Hospitalist @ TJUH & Mayo Clinic . . . views expressed are my own.

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#NASA #BigThingsGoingFast #ChooseToDoTheHardThings @NASA

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T-73 min!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
https://t.co/h6az9Z7Sxz

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... and 🇨🇦🤓!

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@TJUHospital Why listen to us? @TJUHospital is the only hospital in universe* to be top 5 in BOTH #HF Vizient mortality index AND adjusted 30D readmission. #QI #FTW Help us help you. Spread the goodness; save some lives! (Totally unofficial poster follows ❤️😁)
*technically true . . . 🤠

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All right team, hold onto your hats; @TJUHospital Hospital Medicine is at @SocietyHospMed #SHMConverge2026, and is here to share making medicine better and @JeffersonUniv @JeffAcCommons @ResearchAtJeff @JeffersonUniv proud. 🧵 to follow . . .

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4. Next @CalBear5 shows the incredible #HeartFailure #EBM #QI @TJUHospital improvement.
📌CDSS improves mortality index by 32%!
📌30D readmission affected more by case review
📌Shovel ready to implement at your hospital now; save grandma and keep lights on!
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Full presentation video is must watch tv for those who love impactful #QI with thoughtful exploration subgroup effects: https://t.co/P7SxPcCXLa

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12. Then Dr. Pirquet crushes day 2 w/ podium winner on disparate impact of #HF #QI on #GDMT rx across patients w/ varying insurance.
📌Equally-applied intervention does NOT guarantee equal outcomes; must check
📌Disparate co-pay burden a likely culprit
📌More study to come!
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@JeffersonUniv

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16. Then a first-ever case report on a aytpical mech-of-injury for esophageal perf w/ @JeffersonUniv MSI DiMarino & @CalBear5
📌Listen to the patient! She will tell you the diagnosis #Osler
📌Speed to treatment is key in perf
📌History! History! History!
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18. Then Dr. Ackermann does talk #2!! This time IP endo emergencies.
📌They DO exist
📌Phone an endo friend when able
📌YOU can manage a lot of this!
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23. That's a wrap on @TJUHospital hospital medicine at @SocietyHospMed #shmconverge2026! Strong showing.
📌11 posters (1 finalist!)
📌 4 talks
📌 1 workshop
📌 1 MED TED
📌 1 Podium 🏆
Can we Top it next year?

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22. Finally the @TJUHospital crew celebrating a conference well done, Nashville-style with live music and good cheer!

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21. Then a wonderful collaborative happy hour with the @HOMERuN_Network crew!
📌 sharing best practice improves care!
📌 we are all fighting the same battles
📌 good people doing great things
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20. Finally talk, Dr. Duffy and Nardone lure the audience with humor and show and tell to win the end of day 2!
📌collab = 🔑
📌 anatomy informs likely dx/tx
📌 stents are catnip for Physicians🤣
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19. Our final poster w Dr. Khurso & Yeager on an uncommon pres of GI bleed.
📌know your emergent temporizing Tx in bleeding varices
📌Definitive Tx for portalHTN induced = TIPS or splenectomy
📌Multidisciplinary care = 🔑
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17. Penultimate poster with Thomas and Dr. Nardone on spontaneous TLS!
📌High-suspicion for TLS key
📌High tumor burden sufficient catalyst for TLS
📌Rapid dx/tx key for positive outcome
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15. Back to posters! Dr. K and Matt Planchon present an odd cause of complex VZV
📌Can be delayed presentation
📌Maintaining high-suspicion is key
📌... even in immunocompetent patients!
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14. Then our first workshop - where @TJUHospital HM team shined with ~10 folks contributing to a Coaching master class w/ @RJmdphilly @qihospital
& more!
📌You can start coaching your teams now!
📌The worksheets has everything you need!
📌Incredibly positive early feedback!
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13. Then Dr. Ackermann packs the house for her FIRST talk - a master class in periop!
📌DL those slides! High yield!
📌Your IP patients are sicker than OP; real DVT ppx on DC for hip!
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@SocietyHospMed @SuchitBhutani @RJmdphilly @QIHospitalist

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11. Good people doing great things at @SocietyHospMed #shmconverge2026 who are ALSO are a solid hang! (And talking at process improvement even on the 27th floor 🤣🤓)
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