Hien Huy Nguyen, M.D.

Clinical/Research Interests

Dr. Nguyen's clinical interests and patient care work include transplant and general infectious diseases, outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy, drug resistant infections, and travel medicine. His research interests include quality healthcare delivery models, electronic health records and secondary use of data, ventilator associated pneumonia, and sepsis.

Title:

Associate Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Medicine, Medical Director, Electronic Health Records, Medical Director, Acute Infections Management Service

Specialty:

Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Hospitalist

Center/Program Affiliation:

Clinical and Translational Science Center

Address:

Lawrence J. Ellison Ambulatory Care Center
4860 Y St.
Sacramento, CA 95817

Phone:

800) 4-UCDAVIS or (800) 482-3284

Other Languages:

Vietnamese

Education:

UCLA School of Medicine
Los Angeles, California
M.D. 1997

UCLA and UC Riverside
Los Angeles, California
B.A. 1993

Internships:

UC Davis Medical Center
Sacramento, California
1998

Residency:

UC Davis Medical Center
Sacramento, California
2000
Internal Medicine

Fellowships:

UC Davis Medical Center
Sacramento, California
2002
Infectious Diseases

Board Certifications:

American Board of Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease, 2003
American Board of Internal Medicine, 2000

Professional Memberships:

American College of Physicians
Infectious Diseases Society of America

Honors and Awards:

Chief of Staff Award for EMR Implementation, 2008
UC Davis Chief Resident, 2001
Graduated cum laude, with Honors, 1994
Dean's Honor List, 1990-94
University Honors Scholarship, 1990-92
Distinguished Scholar, Biomedical Sciences Program, 1990-92

Select Recent Publications:

Carini S, Pollock BH, Lehmann HP, Bakken S, Barbour EM, Gabriel D, Hagler HK, Harper CR, Mollah SA, Nahm M, Nguyen HH, Scheuermann RH, Sim I. Development and evaluation of a study design typology for human research. AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, Nov 14: 81-5. 2009.

Meehan J, Jamali AA, Nguyen H. Prophylactic antibiotics in hip and knee arthroplasty. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 91(10):2480-90. 2009.

Fernandez Y Garcia E, Nguyen H, Duan N, Gabler NB, Kravitz RL. Assessing Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects: Are Authors Misinterpreting Their Results. Health Services Research, Nov(19):[Epub ahead of print]. 2009.

Bernstam EV, Hersh WR, Johnson SB, Chute CG, Nguyen HH, Sim I, Nahm M, Weiner M, Miller P, DiLaura RP, Athey BD, Scheuermann RH, Anderson N, Starren JB, Harris PA, Cole C, Smith JW, Barbour E, Silverstein JC, Krusch DA, Nagarajan R, and Becich MJ. Synergies and distinctions between computational disciplines in biomedical research: Perspective from the clinical and translational science award programs. Academic Medicine, 84(7): 964-970. 2009

Joseph Rencic and Hien Nguyen. A Young Man with Progressive Dysarthria. SGIM Forum, 32(11): 8,13. 2009.

Rakoczy KS, Cohen SH, and Nguyen HH. Derivation and validation of a clinical prediction score for isolation of inpatients with suspected pulmonary tuberculosis. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemilogy, 29(10): 927-932. 2008.

Huang H, Cohen SH, King J, Monchaud C, Nguyen HH, and Flynn N. Injecting drug and community associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 60: 347-350. 2008.

Leigh JP, Gillen M, Franks P, Sutherland S, Nguyen HH, Steenland K, and Xing G. Cost of needlestick injuries and subsequent hepatitis and HIV infection. Current Medical Research and Opinions, 23(9):2093-2105. 2007.

Keenan CR, Nguyen HH, and Srinivasan M. Electronic medical records and their impact on resident and medical student education. Academic Psychiatry, 30(6): 522-527. 2006.

Asmuth DM, Nguyen HH, Melcher GP, Cohen SH, and RB Pollard. Treatments for Hepatitis B. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 39:1353-1362. 2004.