Alpesh Amin

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.