Michelle Guidry, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Education & Affiliations
Biography
After completing a year as Chief Resident in Internal Medicine, Michelle M. Guidry joined the Tulane University Medical School faculty in 2006 and has an appointment of Associate Professor of Medicine. She is the Section Chief of Hospital Medicine at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Healthcare System where she leads a team of active academic hospitalists.
At the end of her first year as faculty, she completed the Harvard University School of Public Health Summer Program in Clinical Effectiveness. During the summer program, Dr. Guidry studied “Improving Quality in Healthcare” taught by the Institute of Healthcare Improvement’s Maureen Bisognano, Donald Berwick, and others. This sparked her interest in quality improvement and patient safety. She is involved in multidisciplinary quality improvement activities where she mentors residents and participates in projects focused on medication reconciliation, hospital discharge flow, and other transitions of care foci.
Interests:
Dr. Guidry’s research interests currently involve inpatient management of alcohol withdrawal, inpatient management of Covid-19, and medical education in the inpatient hospital setting.
Research
Dr. Guidry’s research interests currently involve physician communication during transitions of care, improving resident proficiency in quality improvement and patient safety, and the impact of the pharmaceutical industry’s interaction with healthcare professionals.
Contributions
- Heppe DB, Beard AS, Cornia PB, Guidry MM, et al. A Multicenter VA Study of the Format and Content of Internal Medicine Morning Report. J Gen Intern Med 2020; https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-020-06069-6.
- Wiese, J.G. & Guidry, MM (2012). Edema. In M. Henderson, The Patient History: An Evidence-Based Approach to Differential Diagnosis (pp. 1-9). Noida, India: Cenveo.
- Wiese, J.G. & Guidry, MM (2012). Gait Abnormalities. In M. Henderson, The Patient History: An Evidence-Based Approach to Differential Diagnosis (pp. 633-640). Noida, India: Cenveo.
- Guidry MM, Drennan RH, Wiese JG, et al. Serum Sepsis Not Sickness. Am J Med Sci 2011; 341:88-91.
- Guidry MM, Rothwell W, Conkerton B. Integrated Multidisciplinary Training and Practiced Coaching of TeamSTEPPS Improves Reporting of Teamwork in Code Blue and Rapid Response Performance. Hosp Med. 2011;6(suppl 2): S32.
- Wiese JG, Guidry MM: Pharyngitis. In: Infectious Diseases; Emergency Department Diagnosis & Management, 1st ed. Slaven EM, Stone SC, Lopez FA (editors). McGraw-Hill, 2007.
- Guidry MM, Toprani A, Wiese JG. Providing Pharmaceutical Samples; a Cost Analysis. J Gen Intern Med 2005; 19(supp. 1).
Dr. Guidry’s research interests currently involve inpatient management of alcohol withdrawal, inpatient management of Covid-19, and medical education in the inpatient hospital setting.
