Eduard Vasilevskis, MD, MPH, has joined the Department of Medicine as the new chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine.

Dr. Vasilevskis joins us from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was an associate professor and the chief of the Section of Hospital Medicine within the Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health.

His clinical and research interests focus on improving the quality of care for older hospitalized patients, specifically around delirium, transition to post-acute care settings, and polypharmacy. 

A skilled educator, Dr. Vasilevskis directed the Vanderbilt School of Medicine’s internal medicine clerkship for nine years and led the Measurement and Analysis in Healthcare Improvement course for its Master of Public Health Program. He has won numerous institutional and society awards for his teaching and scholarship.

He is a Fellow of the Society of Hospital Medicine and a member of the Society of General Internal Medicine's Academic Hospitalist Commission.  

Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Dr. Vasilevskis earned his medical degree from Oregon Health Sciences University. He then completed an internal medicine residency and fellowships in health services research and general internal medicine at the University of California San Francisco and a Master of Public Health at Vanderbilt University.

“I am thrilled to join a group of remarkable clinicians, educators, and researchers in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of Wisconsin,” Dr. Vasilevskis says. “Although I am at the starting line, I have already witnessed an unwavering commitment to clinical quality, innovative curricula to meet modern learners’ needs, and the development of research/policy agendas to address health inequities and the needs of an aging population in the hospital. There is something special at UW and I am honored to now be part of it.”