Hospital Medicine
What is a hospitalist?
Hospital Medicine providers, called hospitalists, specialize in caring for infants, children and adolescents during a hospital stay.
What’s special about the Hospital Medicine team at Seattle Children’s?
Our team features board-certified pediatricians who serve as the attending doctors during your child’s stay. We work closely with medical, surgical and emergency medicine specialists. We care for infants, children and adolescents during their hospital stay at Seattle Children’s and at several other hospitals in the region.
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Your family has a full team behind you, from diagnosis to treatment and follow-up. Our team is specially trained to work with children and their families. All of our locations provide a kid-friendly, family-centered approach.
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Our hospitalists care for thousands of children each year. We treat both common and complex health conditions. We are dedicated to providing a thorough evaluation of your child and will take time to explain your child’s condition and answer all your questions. We help you understand your treatment options and make choices that are right for your family.
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Our providers are involved in committees focused on patient safety, communication and finding ways to offer cost-effective patient care. We are also helping train future physicians by providing education and supervision to medical students and residents.
Services We Provide
Our Hospital Medicine providers staff the pediatric inpatient units at these hospitals around Washington state:
- Seattle Children’s main campus in Seattle
- EvergreenHealth Kirkland
- Providence Regional Medical Center Everett
- Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia
- Skagit Valley Hospital in Mount Vernon
Members of the Hospital Medicine team care for infants, children and adolescents with general and complex medical needs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Your child may be seen by a hospitalist when your primary care physician does not care for patients at Seattle Children’s or at 1 of the regional locations. We work closely with primary care, emergency medicine and medical and surgical specialty providers.
Who’s on the team?
Our hospitalists are board-certified pediatricians who specialize in the general medical care of infants, children and adolescents during their hospital stay at Seattle Children's or at 1 of several other hospitals in the region. They serve as a child’s attending doctor and are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Seattle Children’s Hospital Medicine providers include:
Leadership
- Brian Duncan Johnston, MD, MPH, interim division chief
- Brian Cartin, MD, associate division chief in Seattle, Everett and Kirkland
- Jeff Foti, MD, director of Children’s Employed Physicians in Mount Vernon and Olympia
Seattle providers
These providers are located at Seattle Children’s main campus in Seattle.
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- Brian Cartin, MD, associate division chief
- Abena Knight, MD, medical director of Team 8 and the resource team
- Brett Leggett, MD, medical director of general medicine and medically complex child services
- Seth Adams, MD
- Jimmy Beck, MD
- Julianne Bishop, MD
- Mersine Bryan, MD
- Pearl Chang, MD
- Arti Desai, MD, MSPH
- Sanyukta Desai, MD
- Meagan Dodge, MD
- Jeff Foti, MD
- Michelle Gern, MD
- Elena Griego, MD
- Janie Hallstrand, MD
- Susan Hunt, MD
- Rebecca Jennings, MD
- Katie Kazmier, MD
- Lynda Ken, MD
- Navita Kumar, MD
- Michael Leu, MD
- Sarah Mahoney, MD, PhD
- Corrie McDaniel, DO
- Darren Migita, MD
- Sahar Rooholamini, MD, MPH
- Jason Rubin, MD
- Virginia Sanders, MD, MDiv
- Tracy Seimears, MD, MEd
- Tamara Simon, MD, MSPH
- Glen Tamura, MD, PhD
- Michelle Terry, MD
- Matthew Test, MD
- Joel Tieder, MD, MPH
- Kristina Toncray, MD
- Amy Trowbridge, MD
- Carlos Villavicencio, MD, MS/MI
- Jessica Warner-Grant, MD, PhD
- Sarah Zaman, MD
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- Brett Leggett, MD, medical director of general medicine and medically complex child services
- Jimmy Beck, MD
- Julianne Bishop, MD
- Brian Cartin, MD
- Jeff Foti, MD
- Janie Hallstrand, MD
- Susan Hunt, MD
- Navita Kumar, MD
- Sahar Rooholamini, MD, MPH
- Jason Rubin, MD
- Tamara Simon, MD, MSPH
- Michelle Terry, MD
- Kristina Toncray, MD
- Carlos Villavicencio, MD, MS/MI
- Amber Bock, ARNP
- Annie McDermott, ARNP, DNP
- Trevor McLay, ARNP, DNP
Everett providers
These providers are located at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett.
- Uma Khazanie, MD, co-medical director
- Virginia Sanders, MD, MDiv, co-medical director
- Patricia Bai, ARNP, newborn rounding supervisor
- Rachel Baker, MD
- Mersine Bryan, MD
- Michelle Gern, MD
- Ruchi Gupta, MD
- Jeanie Hwang, MD
- Jennifer Jerome, MD
- Todd Koffler, MD
- Sarah Mahoney, MD, PhD
- Corrie McDaniel, DO
- Jessica Meikle, MD
- Julie Tea, MD
- Matthew Test, MD
- Kimberly Buller, ARNP
- Michele Frame, ARNP
- Svetlana McGrath, ARNP, DNP
Kirkland providers
These providers are located at EvergreenHealth Kirkland.
- Jim O'Callaghan, MD, medical director
- Rachel Baker, MD
- Mersine Bryan, MD
- Pearl Chang, MD
- Michelle Gern, MD
- Ruchi Gupta, MD
- Jean Hwang, MD
- Rebecca Jennings, MD
- Jennifer Jerome, MD
- Lynda Ken, MD
- Uma Khazanie, MD
- Todd Koffler, MD
- Jessica Meikle, MD
- Darren Migita, MD
- Julie Tea, MD
- Matthew Test, MD
Mount Vernon providers
These providers are located at Skagit Valley Hospital in Mount Vernon.
- Barbara Geraghty, MD, co-medical director
- Jennifer Taylor, MD, co-medical director
- Erin Charles, MD
- Caitlin McGrath, MD
- Donna Schoonover, MD
- Michael G. Thompson, MD, MPH
- Anne Welsh, MD
Olympia providers
These providers are located at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia.
Paying for Care
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