Alpesh Amin, MD, MBA, MACP, SFHM, FACC, FHFSA, FRCP (Lond) is with the University of California–Irvine (UCI) in the capacity of the Tom and Mary Cesario Chairman, Department of Medicine. He is Professor of Medicine, Business, Public Health, Nursing, and Biomedical Engineering at UC Irvine. He is also founder and executive director of Hospital Medicine. Dr. Amin has served as Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs and Quality for 12 years, Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine for 6 years, Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program for 14 years, and Medicine Clerkship Director for 14 years. Dr. Amin obtained his MD degree at Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, and later he completed his internship and his residencies in internal medicine, including a chief residency, at UCI. Also at UCI, he earned a healthcare MBA. Dr. Amin is the first Hospitalist to be named Chief of a Division of GIM, and then subsequently the first Hospitalist to be named Chairman of a Department of Medicine nationally.
Dr. Amin started his career as a Biomedical/Process/Implementation Engineer at Cholestech designing the drying machine and package insert for an office-based cholesterol measuring device. He also served as co-Founder, Board of Director, and Chief Financial Officer of Power Savers Electronics for 3 years. Throughout his medical career, Dr. Amin has been innovative in clinical, quality, and educational program development. He advised the Hamad Medical Corporation in Doha, Qatar on Quality Improvement efforts across eight hospitals under the national health ministry council. He has developed processes to improve patient care delivery looking at ways to reduce readmission and avoidable admissions, as well as improvements in length of stay, mortality, and customer service. Dr. Amin is an expert in implementation science and measuring outcomes to improve sustainable long-lasting results. He is founder of UCI’s Empowering Patient Progression initiatives. He also applies information technology to improve the delivery of care through development of projects such as NHCPlus, eConsults, Apps for Safe Anticoagulation Use, VSS Covid-19 Risk Stratification Tool, and others. He is one of the co-founders and Associate Director for ITEQC, Program of Research in Translational Technology Enabling High Quality Care.
During his career, Dr. Amin has served as principal investigator, co-investigator, and faculty sponsor on clinical trials and research projects focusing on clinical topics such as VTE, pneumonia, heart failure, and Covid-19. His research interest is in health outcomes related to patient safety & quality improvement and medical education. Dr. Amin’s leadership in integrating clinical care, innovations in delivery of care, and outcomes of care was demonstrated by his leading the Covid-19 efforts across UCI Health to the lowest mortality for Covid-19 patients nationally. He is a member of professional organizations as the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), the American College of Physicians (ACP), the Society of General Internal
Medicine (SGIM), Academic Chiefs and Leaders of General Internal Medicine (ACLGIM), Academic Alliance of Internal Medicine (AAIM), and Association of Professors of Medicine (APM). Dr. Amin has authored or co-authored over 270 peer-reviewed articles. He is the co-editor/co-author of the Core Competencies for Hospital Medicine by SHM. He served as Chair of SHM’s Education Committee for 4 years, the 2006 SHM Annual Meeting Course Director, and was on the SHM’s Board of Directors. Dr. Amin was Associate Editor of Hospital Medicine Secrets. Dr. Amin is also co-editor of the book Contemporary Hospitalist Guide to Anticoagulation and OB/GYN Hospital Medicine. Dr. Amin has also served as President of the California/Hawaii Region of SGIM, Councilor of ACLGIM, Governor of ACP, and President of APM. Dr. Amin has served as President of UCI Medical Center Medical Staff.
Among Dr. Amin’s numerous awards and honors include the American College of Physicians Special Recognition Award, a Masters of the ACP, a Senior Fellow of SHM, Fellow of ACC, Fellow of HFSA, and Fellow of RCP (London), named as one of “America’s Top Physicians” by the Consumers’ Research Council of America, Orange County Physician of Excellence Award, and ACP’s Top 10 Hospitalist Award. Dr. Amin has won the Physician of the Year Award for the Indian Medical Association of Southern California (IMASC) and for the Orange County Medical Association (OCMA). Dr. Amin is also the recipient of the Alfred Soffer Award from the ACCP, the Venous Research Award for Quality Improvement and Implementation of Best Practices from the Venous Disease Coalition (VDC)/Vascular Disease Foundation (VDF), Exceptional Leadership Award by ALCGIM, CDC’s HA-VTE Prevention Champion, and HMC’s Stars of Excellence Award. He founded and directs the UCI Anticoagulation Clinic which is recognized nationally as an AC Forum Center of Excellence for many years repeatedly. Dr. Amin has also been selected as a nominee for Modern Healthcare’s Top 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare.
