Welcome
The UC San Diego Division of Hospital Medicine is comprised of 23 hospitalist physicians providing inpatient care for the UC San Diego medical centers in Hillcrest and La Jolla.
The Chief of Hospital Medicine is Gregory A. Maynard, M.D., M.Sc., who joined UC San Diego in January of 2003. The American College of Physicians named Dr. Maynard a Top Hospitalist in November 2008.
Pictured in right-hand image in the banner:
From left, medical student Doreen Nguyen, M.D.; Associate Professor Daniel Bouland, M.D.; intern Joshua Sternbach, M.D.; junior resident Waheed Murad, M.D.
What Is a Hospitalist?
The Society of Hospital Medicine has adopted the following official definition of "hospitalist."
Hospitalists are physicians whose primary professional focus is the general medical care of hospitalized patients. Their activities include patient care, teaching, research and leadership related to hospital medicine.
The term "hospitalist" was first used in a New England Journal of Medicine article in August of 1996. Learn more
Our Mission
Our program has three pillars to support excellence:
- Excellent care of the individual patient.
- Effective teaching of residents, students, and each other.
- Systems change to make the care of UC San Diego Medical Center patients more safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable. Our academic work should be linked to effective systems change whenever feasible.
Announcements
Assistant Professors Diana Childers, M.D., and Pedro Ramos, M.D., are featured in Today's Hospitalist, May 2009, for their work on inpatient glycemic control protocols ... Daniel Bouland, M.D., Associate Professor, has been named Vice Chair for Clinical Operations for the Department of Medicine ... the Medical Center Diversity Association, in which Assistant Joel Mojica is an Executive Board member, has won a Vice Chancellor's 2008 Diversity Award.
