Stephanie Conner, MD, FACP, FHM

Stephanie Conner, MD, FACP, FHM is an Associate Professor of Medicine and the Director of POCUS for the Division of Hospital Medicine, as well as the Medical Director for the Inpatient Medicine Teaching Service (Firm 2). She has an interest in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), medical education, clinical operations, and quality improvement. She attends frequently on the inpatient medicine teaching service and bedside procedure service, and cares for patients directly on the hospitalist service. Dr. Conner is involved in both regional and national POCUS education and CME conferences and serves on the Executive Council of the Society of Hospital Medicine POCUS Special Interest Group. She is the recipient of a grant from the Barnes Jewish Hospital Foundation for the development and implementation of a POCUS curriculum for hospitalist faculty. She has published several articles on developing POCUS curricula and inpatient medical education in recent years. 

Education

BA: Biology-Chemistry, Claremont, California (2009)

Medical Degree: New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York (2013)

Residency, Internal Medicine: Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut (2016)

Clinical Interests

Hospital medicine, point-of-care ultrasound, graduate medical education, diagnostic reasoning

Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications:

Claytor JD, Viramontes O, Conner S, Wen KW, Beck K, Chin-Hong PV, Henrich TJ, Peluso MJ. “TNF-alpha inhibition in the setting of undiagnosed HIV infection: a call for enhanced screening guidelines.” AIDS, 2021 Nov; 35(13): 2163-2168.

Melamed J, Gerona R, Blanc P, Takamoto, Conner S, Goodnough R. “Gamma-butyrolactone overdose potentially complicated by co-ingestion of industrial solvent N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone.” Journal of Analytical Toxicology, 2020 July, https://doi.org/10.1093/jat/bkaa076

Conner S, Chia D, Lalani F, O’Brien M, Anstey J, Jensen T, Afshar N. “Minding the Gap(s): Hospitalists Experience Aspirational, Safety, and Knowledge Deficits That Prevent Them From Practicing POCUS.” POCUS Journal, 2019 Nov; 4(2): 27-32.

Girard OM, Ramirez R, McCarty SK, Mattrey RF. “Toward absolute quatification of iron oxide nanoparticles as well as cell internalized fraction using multiparametric MRI.” Contrast Media and Molecular Imaging, 2012 July- Aug; 7(4): 411-7