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Viviane Alfandary, MD, is a hospitalist with John Muir Medical Group in Walnut Creek, Calif., the fourth hospitalist program she has worked with since 1994. A Berkeley native and a former program director at John Muir, Dr. Alfandary
came to hospital medicine after serving in several free clinics in the Bay Area.
Alpesh Amin, MD, MBA, is professor and founder and executive director of University of California, Irvine's hospitalist program. He also serves as the
interim chair of the department of medicine and has served as vice chair for clinical affairs and quality assurance.
Vineet Arora MD, MPP, is an assistant dean for curricular innovation at the Pritzker School of Medicine and an associate program director for the internal medicine residency program at the
University of Chicago. An academic hospitalist, Dr. Arora's academic work has focused on resident duty hours, handoffs, professionalism and quality of hospital care.
Laura Badwan, MD, is a pediatric hospitalist at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago and a clinical instructor in pediatrics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Dr. Badwan has been at Children's for almost four years and is currently the PICU hospitalist site leader. In addition to working in the PICU, she is part of the hospitalist sedation service.
Kimberly Bell, MD, is regional medical director of EmCare Inpatient Services, based in Auburn, Wash. Dr. Bell was previously director of the hospitalist program at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., an HCA hospital, and had served as associate medical director for the adult hospitalist team at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle. Dr. Bell is chair of the women in hospital medicine task force for the Society of Hospital Medicine.
Robert Bessler, MD, is president and CEO of Sound Physicians, a nationwide leading hospitalist practice. Sound Physicians has developed and operates a unique hospitalist model
focused on manageable encounters, investment in technology and clinical tools, on-going training, professional advancement, and a partnership track.
Martin B. Buser, MPH, is a co-founding partner of Hospitalist Management Resources LLC, a hospitalist consulting firm based in San Diego and Colorado Springs, Colo. The group helps hospitals and
medical groups develop hospitalist and intensivist programs, emergency department call panels, and other strategic objectives.
Albert Caccavale, DO, founded Northern Arizona Hospitalists in Prescott, Ariz., in 2003 and continues as its director. The private local hospitalist group serves Yavapai Regional Medical Center,
a two-hospital community system. Dr. Caccavale, who is double boarded in internal medicine and critical care, directs Yavapai Regional's cardiac rehabilitation program.
Erik DeLue, MD, MBA, is medical director of the hospitalist program at Virtua Memorial, in Mt. Holly, N.J. This is the third community hospital program that Dr. DeLue has worked for in his 10 years as a hospitalist. He is a blogger for Today's Hospitalist.
William T. Ford Jr., MD, is section chief at Temple University Health System in Philadelphia, leading a team of 28 physicians who cover three hospitals and have four surgical comanagement services. A
hospitalist since 2003, Dr. Ford is also a certified physician executive and holds several teaching positions, including ones at Temple University and Tufts University schools of medicine.
David Frenz, MD, a hospitalist for the HealthEast Care System in St. Paul, Minn., also teaches evidence-based medicine and psychopharmacology at the University of Minnesota. A family physician,
Dr. Frenz is medical director of addiction medicine and helps manage an inpatient chemical dependency unit.
Christopher Frost, MD, is vice president of hospital medicine and clinical excellence for TeamHealth Hospital Medicine, a Knoxville, Tenn.-based hospitalist management company with more than 600
hospitalists working across 22 states. Dr. Frost oversees the improvement of patient care for TeamHealth hospitalists.
Dan Fuller is co-founder and president of IN Compass Health Inc., a hospitalist management company based in Alpharetta, Ga., that employs 300 hospitalists in 35 hospitals across 12 states.
Mr. Fuller has extensive experience helping hospitals and medical groups establish quality, cost-effective, inpatient physician practices.
Ron Greeno, MD, is co-founder and chief medical officer of Cogent Healthcare, which has more than 30 programs across 15 states, as well as senior consultant for its consulting arm, The Cogent Group,
both of which are based in Brentwood, Tenn. Dr. Greeno is a nationally recognized author and speaker on issues related to hospital medicine.
Stephen L. Houff, MD, is CEO of Hospitalists Management Group in Canton, Ohio, a physician-owned and -managed hospitalist company that employs more than 300 physicians in several dozen practices across
14 states. Dr. Houff started the company in 1999 after serving as a solo hospitalist who helped develop the hospitalist program at Ohio State University Hospital East in Columbus.
Martin C. Johns, MD, practices at Gifford Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Randolph, Vt., and is associate medical director of hospitalist and emergency services. Double boarded in
internal medicine and pediatrics, he began the now successful rural hospitalist program.
Steven A. Nahm, MBA, is vice president of The Camden Group, a national health care consulting company with offices in Los Angeles and Chicago. His primary consulting focuses on the effective design and
operations of hospital-based physician services, including hospitalist, intensivist, and surgical services, ED coverage physicians, and others.
Ruben J. Nazario, MD, is a pediatric hospitalist at Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children in Falls Church, Va. A published author, Dr. Nazario is a blogger for Today's Hospitalist.
Cheryl W. O'Malley, MD, is a hospitalist at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz., where she is the internal medicine residency program director. Trained in med/peds, Dr. O'Malley
focuses primarily on inpatient adult medicine and has led Banner Good Samaritan's glycemic control efforts.
Vikas I. Parekh, MD, is associate director of the hospitalist program and associate program director of the internal medicine residency program for the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor.
Dr. Parekh is active in education and hospital medicine research, and he designed and implemented the new non-housestaff service in response to ACGME resident work-hour rules.
Eric Rice, MD, MMM, was the first hospitalist hired by the multispecialty group Methodist Physicians Clinic in Omaha, Neb. He started the hospitalist program at Methodist Hospital, which has grown to 13
physicians covering two hospitals. He was program director until 2008 and continues there as a hospitalist. Dr. Rice initially served as a physician in the U.S. Army.
Sandeep Sachdeva, MD, MBBS, with 10 years of hospitalist experience, practices at Seattle's Swedish Medical Center and is assistant professor in medicine at the University of Washington. Dr. Sachdeva,
who has a particular interest in medical informatics and stroke care, blogs for Today's Hospitalist.
Bradley A. Sharpe, MD, is a hospitalist and associate clinical professor of medicine at University of California, San Francisco. He is also the associate program director for inpatient affairs for UCSF's
internal medicine residency program, associate division chief of hospital medicine and associate editor of the Web-based version of AHRQ's Morbidity & Mortality Rounds.
Adam Singer, MD, is founder and CEO of IPC The Hospitalist Company, which is based in North Hollywood, Calif., and has more than 650 full-time hospitalists practicing in 350 facilities. IPC made
headlines in 2008 when it became the first national hospitalist company to go public.
Alan Wang, MD, is director of Emory HealthCare's hospital medicine in Atlanta, the country's largest academic hospital medicine program. Directing nearly 100 physicians
across eight hospitals, Dr. Wang is also chief medical officer at Emory Johns Creek Hospital and an assistant professor at Emory School of Medicine's department of medicine.
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