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David Chen, MD

Attending Physician
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Clinician Educator), Keck School of Medicine of USC

David Chen, MD is a board-certified pediatric hospitalist in the Division of Hospital Medicine at Children's Hospital Los Angeles - and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine.

Since completing his training at CHLA, he has served as a critical care transport physician on the CHLA Emergency Transport Team, and a pediatric hospitalist within the Kaiser Northern California healthcare system. There, he practiced a combination of tertiary and community hospital medicine – including neonatal intensive care and critical care transport. He then returned to CHLA where he currently serves as a hospitalist and clinician educator.

Dr. Chen's principal interest outside of his clinical practice is medical education. He enjoys patient-centered learning with trainees, as well as developing didactics, educational activities, and curricular content for the residency and hospital medicine fellowship programs. He currently serves as rotation director for the hospital medicine fellows' Community Medicine and Newborn rotations.

Education

Medical School

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Internship

Children's Hospital Los Angeles, General Pediatrics

Residency

Children's Hospital Los Angeles, General Pediatrics

Accomplishments

Certification

General Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics
Pediatric Hospital Medicine, American Board of Pediatrics

Memberships

American Academy of Pediatrics