Meet our 2026 Duke Updates in Hospital Medicine
Conference Speakers
Lyn Weinberg MD
Geriatrics, Alleghany Health Network
Dr. Lyn Weinberg is a board-certified Geriatrician and proudly serves as the Division Director for Geriatrics at Allegheny Health Network (AHN), an integrated academic health system based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She completed her medical school training at Jefferson Medical College, residency in Internal Medicine at Temple University Hospital, and fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. Weinberg is passionate about driving Age-Friendly aligned initiatives, with the aim of improving the safety and experience for older adults and their caregivers across the full spectrum of care. She currently serves as the Medical Director of AHN’s AGS CoCare: Hospital Elder Life Program (also known as HELP), which has earned status nationally as a HELP Center of Excellence, and she was appointed as the Chair of the American Geriatrics Society CoCare: HELP Advisory Board in 2025. She also serves as Medical Director for the AHN Aging Brain Care Program and GUIDE model, a supportive program for caregivers of people living with dementia. She has led the implementation of innovative clinical services in Geriatrics at AHN, including inpatient Geriatric co-management services at 3 hospitals and an integrated outpatient Geriatric consultative model. In addition to her responsibilities as Division Director, she maintains an active clinical practice in Geriatrics, providing care for older adults in the outpatient, inpatient, and home-based settings. Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her husband and two kids, aged 7 and 9, and enjoys early morning runs outdoors with friends.
Tara McNally PA-C
Hospital Medicine, Duke Regional Hospital
Tara McNally PA-C is a hospital medicine PA at Duke Regional Hospital. She received her undergraduate degree in general biology from Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania and her Master of Health Science and PA certification from Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania. In 2018, she became an APP Team Lead within the hospital medicine department at DRH, where she is also a unit medical director for the Clinical Decision Unit. Additionally, she has an interest in academia and is an Adjunct Associate in Family Medicine and Community Health for the Duke PA Program and intermittent faculty with the UNC PA Program. She completed a teaching certificate program with Duke AHEAD. Tara has also served as the secretary for the Triangle NC Chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM).
Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family, crafting homemade coffees and perfecting her latte art, visiting local restaurants and breweries, golfing, indoor cycling, climbing, and jogging.
Pahresah Roomiany MD, MS, FACP
Hospital Medicine, Duke Regional Hospital
Dr. Pahresah Roomiany is an academic hospitalist at Duke Health. She has an interest in improving education for students and trainees not meeting milestones as well as integration of POCUS into clinical practice.
Lalit Verma MD
Hospital Medicine, Duke Regional Hospital
Dr. Lalit Verma is a board-certified hospitalist with 25 years of experience in Hospital Medicine. He completed his training at the University of Maryland for medical school and residency. He has been serving in his current role as the medical director for Duke Regional Hospital for the past 15 years. He has historically focused on numerous areas including physician leadership, quality and safety, research, and medical education. His latest focus is advancing patient care in the area of inpatient sleep. When not seeing patients Dr. Verma enjoys cycling and triathlons. He is an active member of SHM and ACP.
Jenna Lanz MD
Hospital Medicine, Duke University Hospital
Dr. Jenna Lanz is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She completed her medical school, internal medicine residency and chief residency at Columbia University in New York City. She joined Duke Hospitalist faculty in July 2024 and is interested in quality and patient safety work in hospital medicine. She is thrilled to be taking on the role of course director for this year's Duke Updates in Hospital Medicine conference. When not at work, she enjoys spending time with her husband Alex, son Henry and dog Brisket.
Taylor Broome MD, FACP, FAAP
Hospital Medicine, Duke University Hospital
Dr. Taylor Broome is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and a combined internal medicine-pediatrics hospitalist at Duke University Hospital. Dr. Broome is a North Carolina native and was raised on a cattle farm in rural southern Virginia. She completed medical school at Duke University School of Medicine and combined internal medicine-pediatrics residency at the University of Michigan. She began working as a hospitalist at Duke University Hospital in 2021 where she attends on resident teams on pediatrics and general medicine. She is passionate about adult learning theory, using digital tools to enhance education and creating safe learning environments for learners. She is the course director for a 4th year medical student elective that teaches medical students basic adult learning theory and a senior pediatrics elective that teaches clinical operations from a pediatric hospital medicine perspective. Dr. Broome enjoys gardening, pilates, baking, spoiling her dog and two cats and recently welcomed a baby boy in January.
James Andrews MD
Neurology
Dr. James Andrews is a NC native and graduated from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine before returning to NC for neurology residency at UNC. After that, he completed my Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy Fellowships at Duke University. His special interests include stereotactic EEG and intraoperative neuromonitoring. In August 2026, he will start as an intraoperative neuromonitoring interpreting physician with Accurate Neuromonitoring. Outside of work, he enjoys photography and is looking forward to the 2026 World Cup on home soil!
Molly McDonough MD
Infectious Disease, Duke University Hospital
Dr. Molly McDonough completed internal medicine residency (2017-2020) and a chief medical residency (2020-2021) at the University of Cincinnati before coming to Duke for ID Fellowship (2021-2023). She joined Duke faculty in 2023 as a clinician educator and associate program director for the Duke Adult ID Fellowship. Her academic interests are in quality improvement and patient safety, and she is the medical director of the Duke General ID Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) program.
Stephanie Conner MD, FACP, FHM
Hospital Medicine, Columbia University
Dr. Stephanie Conner is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Director for the Section of Hospital Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Her interests in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), medical education, clinical operations, and physician leadership. Dr. Conner holds POCUS Executive Council positions for the Society of Hospital Medicine and the American Society of Echocardiography. She has authored several peer-reviewed publications and presented at numerous national conferences abstracts related to the development and implementation of POCUS curricula for hospitalists and internal medicine residents, as well as trainee autonomy and supervision.
Dr. Conner is passionate about the growth and expansion of POCUS in hospital medicine and graduate medical education, academic hospital medicine, and optimizing clinical workflows for the benefit of clinicians, trainees and patients.
Maureen Kelly MD
Hospital Medicine, Columbia University
Dr. Maureen Kelly is the current Associate Hospitalist Director for Columbia University, as well as the Director of Quality and Patient Safety for the Department of Medicine. In addition, she is the Course Director for the Quality Academy at NYP/Columbia. Her work focuses on advancing system-based improvements that enhance patient safety, care quality, and operational reliability in complex inpatient settings.
Lindsey Naumuk MSN, FNP-C
Perioperative Medicine, Duke Regional Hospital
Lindsey Naumuk, MSN, FNP-C, earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Cincinnati.
She began her Duke career as a registered nurse on the trauma, vascular, and abdominal transplant floor, where she cared for complex surgical patients for seven years. For the past twelve years, she has worked in perioperative medicine at Duke Regional Hospital and currently serves as the Associate Medical Director of Perioperative Services. In this role, she is dedicated to advancing perioperative quality, patient safety, and collaborative, team-based surgical care.
Outside of work, she enjoys spending time outdoors with her family. As a proud parent of three very active children, she can often be found cheering them on at softball games and cheer competitions.
Kyle McCormick MD
Orthopedics, NYU
Dr. Kyle L. McCormick is a fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon specializing in hip and knee reconstruction. She is currently completing her adult reconstruction fellowship at NYU Langone Hospital, where she has focused on advanced primary and revision hip and knee arthroplasty, including robotic-assisted techniques. She will be joining Columbia University Irving Medical Center at Columbia Brooklyn as an attending surgeon in hip and knee reconstruction this fall. Dr. McCormick is an active clinical researcher, with research interests including optimizing outcomes after fragility fracture surgery in the elderly, periprosthetic joint infection, preoperative patient optimization, and the use of technology to improve outcomes in joint replacement.
Vivian Chen-Andrews MD
Hospital Medicine, Duke University Hospital
Vivian Chen-Andrews is a North Carolina native and grew up in the Triangle. She completed her residency in combined internal medicine and pediatrics at Duke and stayed on as an adult hospitalist at Duke University and Duke Regional Hospitals.
Gracie Ernstberger MD
Hospital Medicine, Duke University Hospital
Dr. Gracie Ernstberger is from Birmingham, Alabama and received her medical degree from the UAB School of Medicine. She moved to Durham, North Carolina for internal medicine residency at Duke and now considers herself a bandwagon Blue Devil fan. She greatly enjoys working as a hospitalist at Duke and spends dedicated time doing bedside procedures and rounding on the specialty pulmonary service line. Increased exposure to complex pulmonary disease has fostered new interests and has inspired her non-invasive ventilation talk. When she is not in the hospital, she enjoys traveling, hiking with her dog named Sister, and spending time with her family.