Marisha Burden, MD, FACP, SFHM is currently the Division Head of Hospital Medicine and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Dr. Burden completed her undergraduate work at the University of Oklahoma and earned her medical degree at the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine graduating with the honor of Alpha Omega Alpha. She completed her residency at the University of Colorado in the hospitalist training track. Dr. Burden’s interests include hospital systems improvement, which includes patient experience, patient flow, quality, and transitions of care. Dr. Burden is interested in utilizing technology to improve communication with patients and health care providers. She is also very interested in promoting gender equity and is a member of the Department of Medicine Program to Advance Gender Equity and the AAMC Group on Women in Medicine and Science (GWIMS) Equity in Recruitment Task Force. Dr. Burden is a member of the Society of General Internal Medicine, the Association of Chiefs and Leaders of General Internal Medicine. She is also an active member of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) and is a Senior Fellow of Hospital Medicine. She currently serves on the National SHM Patient Experience Committee and the SHM Research Committee and is Executive Co-Chair for the Diversity and Inclusion Interest group. Dr. Burden speaks nationally on the topics of hospital systems improvements, clinical operations, and diversity and equity. She has given multiple talks or workshops at the SHM national conference.