Welcome
The UC San Diego Division of Hospital Medicine is comprised of 35 faculty hospitalist and nocturnist physicians providing inpatient care for the UC San Diego Health System medical centers in Hillcrest and La Jolla.
The Chief of Hospital Medicine is Health Sciences Clinical Professor Gregory B. Seymann, MD, SFHM. Dr. Seymann joined the Department of Medicine faculty in 1997 and helped establish the original group of hospitalists in 1998.
Pictured in right-hand image in the banner above:
From left, Doreen Nguyen, MD; Health Sciences
Clinical Professor Daniel Bouland, MD;
Joshua Sternbach, MD; Waheed Murad, MD
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 Health System patients more safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable. Our academic work should be linked to effective systems change whenever feasible.
Announcements
Health Sciences Clinical Professor Greg Maynard, MD, MSc, SFHM, is new Senior Vice President of the Society of Hospital Medicine's Center for Hospital Innovation and Improvement. Read more | Read SHM press release
Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professors Diana Childers, MD, and Pedro Ramos, MD, are featured in Today's Hospitalist, May 2009, for their work on inpatient glycemic control protocols ... Health Sciences Clinical Professor Daniel Bouland, MD, is Vice Chair for Clinical Operations for the Department of Medicine.
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