Dr. Antony Arumairaj is recognized as a noteworthy internist and clinical assistant professor of medicine

Richard W. Hoffler Jr., MD, is noted for his distinguished tenure as a physician

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Feature Articles

Quality Improvement Success Stories are published by the American Diabetes Association in collaboration with the American College of Physicians, Inc. (ACP), and the National Diabetes Education Program. This series is intended to highlight best practices and strategies from programs and clinics that have successfully improved the quality of care for people with diabetes or related conditions. Each article in the series is reviewed and follows a standard format developed by the editors of Clinical Diabetes. The following article describes an initiative of the Cleveland Clinic’s internal medicine residents to improve diabetes care and outcomes within an underserved patient population at an East Cleveland, OH, health center.

Bickley, Lynn S., author

Interview with Alexander T. Sandhu, MD, MS, author of Association Between Offering Limited Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction Echocardiograms and Overall Use of Echocardiography

Interview with Daniel Scott. Reuland, MD MPH, author of Evaluating Shared Decision Making for Lung Cancer Screening, and Bruno Heleno, MD, PhD, author of Estimation of Overdiagnosis of Lung Cancer in Low-Dose Computed Tomography Screening

Interview with Ananias C Diokno, MD, author of Effect of Group-Administered Behavioral Treatment on Urinary Incontinence in Older Women: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Interview with Julia Baudry, PhD, author of Association of Frequency of Organic Food Consumption With Cancer Risk: Findings From the NutriNet-Santé Prospective Cohort Study, and Jorge E. Chavarro, MD, ScD, author of Organic Foods for Cancer Prevention—Worth the Investment?

Interview with Mikel Izquierdo, Ph.D, and Nicolás Martínez-Velilla, PhD, authors of Effect of Exercise Intervention on Functional Decline in Very Elderly Patients During Acute Hospitalization: A Randomized Clinical Trial, and William J. Hall, MD, author of A Novel Exercise Intervention and Functional Status in Very Elderly Patients During Acute Hospitalization

Interview with Robert W. Yeh, MD, MSc, MBA, author of Temporal Trends in Unstable Angina Diagnosis Codes for Outpatient Percutaneous Coronary Interventions, and David L. Brown, MD, FACC, author of Gaming, Upcoding, Fraud, and the Stubborn Persistence of Unstable Angina

Interview with Aaron Kesselheim, author of Analysis of Proposed Medicare Part B to Part D Shift With Associated Changes in Total Spending and Patient Cost-Sharing for Prescription Drugs, and Francis J. Crosson, M.D., author of Managing the Cost of Medicare Part B Drugs: Implications for the Program and Beneficiaries

Interview with Dae Hyun Kim, author of Evaluation of Changes in Functional Status in the Year After Aortic Valve Replacement, and Emily Finlayson, MD, MS, author of Invasive Procedures to Improve Function in Frail Older Adults: Do Outcomes Justify the Intervention?

Interview with Christopher W. Goodman, MD, author of A Clinical Overview of Off-label Use of Gabapentinoid Drugs

Interview with Krisda Hirschman Chaiyachati, MD, MPH, MSHP, author of Assessment of Inpatient Time Allocation Among First-Year Internal Medicine Residents Using Time-Motion Observations, and Christopher Moriates, MD, author of A Modern Snapshot of the Daily Work of Medical Interns—The Burden of Indirect Patient Care

Interview with George F. Sawaya, MD, author of Estimated Quality of Life and Economic Outcomes Associated With 12 Cervical Cancer Screening Strategies: A Cost-effectiveness Analysis, and Sarah Feldman, M.D. M.P.H., author of Screening Options for Preventing Cervical Cancer

Interview with Kari A O Tikkinen, MD, PhD, author of Decision Aids for Prostate Cancer Screening Choice: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Interview with Dimitrios A. Koutoukidis, PhD, author of Association of Weight Loss Interventions With Changes in Biomarkers of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Interview with Katherine L. Possin, PhD, author of Effect of Collaborative Dementia Care via Telephone and Internet on Quality of Life, Caregiver Well-being, and Health Care Use: The Care Ecosystem Randomized Clinical Trial, and Jennifer Tjia, MD, MSCE, FAAHPM, author of A Telephone-Based Dementia Care Management Intervention—Finding the Time to Listen

Interview with Alicia Fernandez, MD, author of Physician and Trainee Experiences With Patient Bias, and Lisa A. Cooper, MD MPH, author of Confronting Bias and Discrimination in Health Care—When Silence Is Not Golden

Interview with James S. Goodwin, MD, author of Association of the Work Schedules of Hospitalists With Patient Outcomes of Hospitalization

Interview with Jay Sengupta, MD, author of Outcomes Before and After the Recall of a Heart Failure Pacemaker, and David O. Arnar, MD PhD EMPH, author of Long-term Outcome of Implantable Cardioverter/Defibrillator Lead Failure

Interview with Laura Hawks, MD, author of Trends in Unmet Need for Physician and Preventive Services in the United States, 1998-2017, and John Z. Ayanian, MD, MPP, author of Looking Back to Improve Access to Health Care Moving Forward

Interview with Christina Vandenbroucke-Grauls, MD, PhD, author of Evaluation of the Association Between Gastric Acid Suppression and Risk of Intestinal Colonization With Multidrug-Resistant Microorganisms: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, and Todd Campbell Lee, MD MPH, author of Deprescribing Proton Pump Inhibitors: Overcoming Resistance

Interview with Brad Spellberg, MD, author of Evaluation of a Paradigm Shift From Intravenous Antibiotics to Oral Step-Down Therapy for the Treatment of Infective Endocarditis: A Narrative Review

Interview with Mara A. Schonberg, MD, MPH, author of Effect of a Mammography Screening Decision Aid for Women 75 Years and Older: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial, and Quyen Ngo-Metzger, MD, MPH, author of The Life and Death of Mammograms in Patients 75 Years and Older—To Screen or Not to Screen?

Interview with Hsien-Ho Lin, MD, ScD, author of Contact Tracing Assessment of COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics in Taiwan and Risk at Different Exposure Periods Before and After Symptom Onset

Interview with Colin P. West, MD, PhD, author of Quality of Life, Burnout, Educational Debt, and Medical Knowledge Among Internal Medicine Residents

Interview with Colin P. West, MD, PhD, author of General Medicine vs Subspecialty Career Plans Among Internal Medicine Residents