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Erik Hans Hoyer

Erik Hans Hoyer, MD

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

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Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty

Languages

  • Spanish
  • English

14 Insurances Accepted

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Gender

Male

About Erik Hans Hoyer

Professional Titles

  • Vice Chair for Quality, Safety and Satisfaction, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
  • Co-director, Activity and Mobility Promotion Program, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Primary Academic Title

Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Background

Dr. Erik Hoyer is an associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His clinical interests include inpatient rehabilitation, musculoskeletal and neurological rehabilitation, injection procedures to manage abnormal muscle tone (spasticity), and electrodiagnostic medicine (EMG).

As the vice chair for quality, safety and service, he leads efforts to improve patient safety and care at Johns Hopkins, including an initiative called activity and mobility promotion (AMP) to get patients up and moving following surgery.

Dr. Erik Hoyer graduated summa cum laude and received his master's degree in computer science from Brandeis University prior to graduating from the Sackler School of Medicine in Tel Aviv, Israel. He completed his internship in internal medicine at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York, and subsequently finished his residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation from Johns Hopkins University. He excelled during his residency, receiving the Hopkins Healer Award twice, and was selected as a trainee to the Rehabilitation Medicine Scientist Training Program.

Dr. Hoyer’s research interests include quality improvement, implementation science, and health services research focused on improving outcomes for hospitalized patients.

Additional Academic Titles

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Research Interests

Brain Plasticity, Quality Improvement

Research Summary

Dr. Hoyer conducts research studying motor recovery after stroke from both behavioral and neurophysiologic perspectives under the mentorship of Amy Bastian, Ph.D., and Pablo Celnik, M.D.

His recent research showed that patients freshly discharged from acute care hospitals with low scores on a standard test that measures how well they perform such everyday activities as moving from a bed to a chair are far more likely to need readmission to a hospital within 30 days than those who score better.

Selected Publications

  • Hoyer EH, Brotman DJ, Apfel A, Leung C, Boonyasai RT, Richardson M, Lepley D, Deutschendorf A. Improving outcomes after hospitalization: a prospective observational multicenter evaluation of care coordination strategies for reducing 30-day readmissions to Maryland Hospitals. J Gen Intern Med. 2017 Nov 27. doi: 10.1007/s11606-017-4218-4. 

  • Hoyer EH, Padula WV, Brotman DJ, Reid N, Leung C, Lepley D, Deutschendorf A. Patterns of hospital performance on the hospital-wide 30-day readmission metric: is the playing field level? J Gen Intern Med. 2017 Oct 2. doi: 10.1007/s11606-017-4193-9. PubMed PMID: 28971369.

  • Hoyer EH, Young DL, Klein LM, Kreif J, Shumock K, Hiser S, Friedman M, Lavezza A, Jette A, Chan KS, Needham DM. Toward a common language for measuring patient mobility in the hospital: reliability and construct validity of interprofessional mobility measures. Phys Ther. 2017 Nov 2. doi: 10.1093/ptj/pzx110. PubMed PMID: 29106679.

  • Brotman DJ, Hoyer E, Deutschendorf A. Hospital-readmission risk - isolating hospital effects. N Engl J Med. 2017 Dec 21;377(25):2504-5. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc1713509

  • Pronovost PJ, Brotman DJ, Hoyer EH, Deutschendorf A. Reconsidering hospital readmission measures. J Hosp Med. 2017 Dec;12(12):1009-1011. doi: 10.12788/jhm.2799. 

Honors

Hopkins Healer Award, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Locations

  1. Johns Hopkins Community Physicians - Johns Hopkins Health Care & Surgery Center, White Marsh
    • 4924 Campbell Boulevard, Suite 110, Nottingham, MD 21236

    Expertise

    Education

    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

    Residency, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2010

    Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University

    Medical Education, MD, 2006

    Board Certifications

    Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

    American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2011

    Insurance

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