Dr. Greg Maynard will be the Keynote Speaker at the 2009 BCMA Section of Hospital Medicine AGM.  The Meeting entitled "Leading Quality Improvement and Patient Safety in BC", will be held November 28, 2009 at the Wosk Center in Vancouver.

Dr. Maynard is the principal investigator of an Agency for Healthcare Quality Research (AHRQ)-funded study to optimize venous thromboembolism (VTE) prevention at UCSD. He and others at SHM built the VTE Prevention Implementation Guide and the VTE Resource Room.

He is also a funded co-leader of a national SHM collaborative on VTE prevention.

Dr. Maynard leads a national SHM task force to promote effective glycemic control in hospitalized patients. The Glycemic Control Task Force is an SHM collaborative effort with the American Diabetes Association, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, and the American College of Physicians.

The American College of Physicians named Dr. Maynard a Top Hospitalist in the United States in November 2008.