CURRICULUM VITAE
Chi Zheng MD
Chi Zheng MD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Division of Medicine General Internal
Department of Medicine
Division of Medicine General Internal
OFFICE ADDRESS: |
9200 West Wisconsin Avenue |
Milwaukee, WI 53226 |
EDUCATION: |
2002 - 2006 B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering, Summa cum laude, University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI |
2006 - 2010 M.D., University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA |
2010 - 2013 Internship and Residency with focused training in the Hospitalist Training Tract, University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO |
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS: |
2013 - 2015 Attending Physician, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO |
2013 - 2015 Moonlighter Physician, Kindred Hospital, Aurora, CO |
2013 - 2015 Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO |
2015 Volunteer Staff Physician, DAWN free clinic, Aurora, CO |
2015 - 2016 Attending Physician, Legacy Medical Group, Portland, OR |
2016 - 2022 Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO |
2016 - 2017 Attending Physician, Department of Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO |
2017 - 2024 Attending Physician, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO |
2022 - 2024 Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO |
2025 - Present Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI |
2025 - Present Attending Physician, Froedtert Lutheran Memorial Hospital, Milwaukee, WI |
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS: |
2005 - 2006 Interpreter Services, Language: Mandarin Chinese, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI |
SPECIALTY BOARDS AND CERTIFICATION: |
Board Certified | Issue Date | Expiration |
Colorado Board of Medical Examiners | 09/2012 | 04/2027 |
American Board of Internal Medicine | 10/2013 | None |
Oregon Medical Board | 04/2015 | 2026 |
Certificates | Issued By | Issue Date | Expiration |
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support | American Heart Association | 03/2019 | 03/2023 |
Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Certificate of Completion | Society of Hospital Medicine | 03/2020 | None |
Licensure | Number | Issue Date | Expiration |
Wisconsin DEA | 09/2012 | 05/2027 | |
Oregon DEA | 05/2015 | 05/2018 | |
Wisconsin Medical License | 11/2024 | None | |
AWARDS AND HONORS: |
2002 - 2006 Dean’s Engineering Honors List, University of Michigan |
2002 - 2006 Ford Endowment Scholarship recipient |
2003 - 2006 James B. Angell Scholar award for sustained undergraduate academic excellence |
2008 Pittsburgh Albert Schweitzer Fellow for Life award for community-service |
2010 Gold Humanism Honor Society for student excellence in patient care, professionalism, leadership, and service |
2010 Safar Memorial Award for student excellence in critical care medicine |
2011 Gold Humanism Honor Society for resident excellence in teaching and patient care |
2012 Interdisciplinary Favorite Recognition for multi-disciplinary patient care in inpatient geriatric medicine, University of Colorado Hospital |
2013 TEAM Award, Denver Health AUCC Out of County Revenue Cycle RIE |
2014 Patient Experience Pillar Award for promoting “real time” improvements in the 9A patient experience |
2014 Employee and Provider Engagement Pillar Award for effective action planning and exemplary effort in employee engagement |
2015 TEAM Award, Denver Health AUCC Process Improvement |
2017 Catch a Star Recognition, Good Samaritan Hospital – Patient recognition |
2017 Nominated for Frederick Brancati Mentorship and Leadership Award, SGIM |
2017 Clinical Nurse Partner of the Year, Chief Nursing Officer of Denver Health |
2018 Nominated for Dan Bessessen teaching award for General Internal Medicine |
2018 Best Scientific Abstract: Teaching Transitions of Care: Who Owns It?, SGIM |
2019 Dan Bessessen teaching award for General Internal Medicine |
2020 Nominated for Dan Bessessen teaching award for General Internal Medicine |
2020 2019 ACS quality award, Top 5 in Webb Adult Clinic (out of 19 providers) for meeting ambulatory quality targets 74.6 % of (Clinic average 71.8%) |
2021 Golden Stethoscope Award for Fostering Curiosity |
2023 Top 10 outpatient provider star-rating based on patient survey, Denver Health 411 |
MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: |
2009 - Present Gold Humanism Honor Society (Member) |
2011 - Present American College of Physicians (Fellow) |
2016 - Present Society of General Internal Medicine (Member) |
2016 - Present Society of Hospital Medicine (Member) |
RESEARCH GRANTS/AWARDS/CONTRACTS/PROJECTS: | ||||||||||||||
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INVITED LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS: |
National |
Zheng C, Hanratty R, Try and Try again, a 52 year-old man presenting with cardiac, renal and hepatic dysfunction., Clinical Vignette poster presented at the national American College of Physicians meeting, New Orleans, LA, 04/2012 |
Jodon G, Miller T, Landy A, Zheng C, Where O Where Art Thou Aneurysm, Clinical Vignette poster presented at the national American College of Physicians meeting, San Diego, CA, 04/2017 |
Miller T, Jodon G, Zheng C, Lemierre's? I beg to differ, let’s call it pseudo-Lemierre’s., Clinical Vignette poster presented for the national Society of Hospital Medicine meeting, Las Vegas, NV, 05/2017 |
Flaten H, Johnson-Paben R, Knoeckel J, Zheng C., To Metastasize or To Embolize: A case of vanishing liver lesions., Clinical Vignette poster presented for the national Society of Hospital Medicine meeting, Orlando, FL, 04/2018 |
Chopra P, Stoen E, Zheng C., A Great imitator of Positional Vertigo, Clinical Vignette oral presentation for national American College of Physicians annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 04/2019 |
Gardner T, Breitbach E, Ortiz-Lopez C, Zheng C, Fleshner M., POCUS Portfolio Development and Quality-Assurance for an Internal Medicine Residency., Abstract accepted for Society of Hospital Medicine meeting, Austin, TX, 03/2023 |
Local |
Zheng C, Stella JA, and Sacks MS, Quantitative Image Analysis and 3-D Digital Reconstruction of the Right Coronary Aortic Valve Leaflet, Research poster presented at Duquesne University Summer Research Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA, 08/2006 |
Zheng C, Tomaino NC, and Markle WH, Development of a Community-Based Free Clinic for the Uninsured, Clinical Innovations poster presented at Society of Teachers in Family Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, 09/2007 |
Zheng C, Edema after Resuscitation for Postpartum Hemorrhage, Clinical Vignette poster presented at Rocky Mountain Hospital Medicine Symposium, Denver, CO, 10/2011 |
Hemmat M, Stotts M, Zheng C, Lloyd S, Pearson A, Goolsby T, Scherer S, Schmell K, Sturges R, Barber G, Furfari K, Pierce R, Price L, Improving the Quality of Care for Patients with Pneumonia: Reducing Readmissions and Improving Core Measure Compliance, Quality Improvement poster presented at Rocky Mountain Hospital Medicine Symposium, Denver, CO, 09/2012 |
Ryan P, Zheng C, Echaniz M, Minding the Gap: Improving PCP-Hospitalist Communication., Work-shop presented the Mountain West regional General Internal Medicine meeting, Denver, CO, 10/2017 |
Flaten H, Dill S, Zheng C, Stichman J, Mastitis-induced antiphospholipid antibody syndrome in a young woman with lupus., Clinical Vignette poster presented for the national Society of General Internal Medicine meeting, Denver, CO, 04/2018 |
Chopra P, Stoen E, Zheng C., A Great imitator of Positional Vertigo, Clinical Vignette poster presented at Rocky Mountain Hospital Medicine Symposium, Denver, CO, 09/2018 |
PEER REVIEWED WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS: |
National |
Ryan P, Zheng C, Stella S, Echaniz M, Hanratty R, Mending the Discharge Fence: Implementation of a Community Health Hospitalist Ambassadorship Program, Clinical Innovations poster presented for the national Society for General Internal Medicine, Washington D.C., 04/2017 |
Ryan P, Skinner A Zheng C, Teaching Transitions of Care: Who Owns It?, Research poster presented for SGIM Mountain West Region Annual meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 10/2018 |
Ryan P, Zheng C, Furniss A, Rice, J, Huebschmann A, Bayliss E., Agree to Disagree? Contrasting Opinions in PCP and Hospitalist Communication, Research poster presented for national Society of General Internal Medicine meeting, Washington DC, 05/2019 |
Indovina K, Zheng C, Northcutt N, Munoa AM, Red Eye Rounds: Knowledge in the Cloak of Darkness. Innovations in Medical Education, poster presented for national Society of General Internal Medicine meeting, Washington DC, 05/2019 |
Chopra P, Stoen E, Zheng C, A Great imitator of Positional Vertigo, Clinical Vignette poster presented for national Society of General Internal Medicine meeting, Washington DC, 05/2019 |
Ryan P, Skinner A Zheng C, Teaching Transitions of Care: Who Owns It?, Research poster presented for national Society of General Internal Medicine meeting, Washington DC, 05/2019 |
Ryan P, Zheng C., Readmission Risk Factors for Urban Safety-net Patients, Presentation at Mountain West Regional Society of General Internal Medicine meeting, Phoenix, AZ, 10/2019 |
COMMITTEE SERVICE: |
Medical College of Wisconsin |
2025 - Present Member, QI affinity group, GIM, MCW |
Hospital |
2013 - 2015 Healthy Hearts, core measure monitoring for cardiovascular disease outcomes, Denver Health |
2014 - 2015 Champion, Patient Satisfaction/AIDET, Division of Hospital Medicine |
2014 - 2022 Co-Chair, Transitions of Care Work Group, Denver Health |
2015 - 2021 Physician lead, Medication Transitions Team, Denver Health |
2016 - 2019 Ethics Committee, Denver Health |
2016 - 2017 Task Force, Ins and Outs rapid improvement, Denver Health |
2016 - 2022 House-staff, Hospitalist Liaison task force, Division of Hospital Medicine |
2016 - 2021 Acute Care committee, Denver Health |
2016 - 2021 Medication Reconciliation committee, Denver Health |
2017 - 2019 VTE Work Group, Denver Health |
2017 - 2019 Red-Eye Rounds task force, Night-time resident education, Division of Hospital Medicine |
2017 - 2018 Champion, Point-of-Care Ultrasound, Division of Hospital Medicine |
2017 - 2019 Inpatient physician champion, Anticoagulation, Denver Health |
2018 Patient Safety and Quality Steering Committee, Denver Health |
2018 - 2022 Physician leader, 6A, Local Leadership Team, Denver Health |
2018 - 2024 Inpatient physician lead, Hospital Transitions Clinic, Denver Health |
2020 Readmissions Lean Event, Denver Health |
2021 - 2024 Physician lead, HCPF’s (Colorado Department of Health Care Policy) Hospital Transformation Program for hospital readmission and follow-up care coordination, Denver Health |
2021 - 2024 Chair, Inpatient readmission reduction committee, Denver Health |
EXTRAMURAL TEACHING: |
Medical Student Education |
2013 - 2024 CU SOM 1st year medical student preceptor (Foundations of Doctoring/Developing our Clinical Skills) |
2020 - 2024 CU SOM Longitudinal Integrated Curriculum (LIC) preceptor for 2nd and 3rd year medical students |
2025 - Present Transition to Residency - Radiology for Interns, Lecturer |
2025 - Present Master Clinician Elective (MEDI-D47203), Instructor |
Resident and Fellow Education |
06/2014 Central Venous Catheter workshop for incoming Interns |
2015 - 2016 Legacy Inpatient Medicine Service attending (30% clinical time on with residents) |
2016 - 2024 Denver Health Inpatient Medicine Ward attending (6 weeks per year) |
2017 Central Venous Catheter workshop for incoming Interns |
2018 - 2024 Course Director, Transitions of Care Elective for CU IMRP |
2018 - 2024 University of Colorado, Core Faculty, Hospitalist Training Tract of University of Colorado Internal Medicine Residency Program |
2021 - 2024 IMRP intern procedure curriculum faculty |
2022 - 2024 Associate site director for IMRP POCUS curriculum, involved in curriculum design, delivery of didactics, mentored scanning sessions and quality assurance |
EXTRAMURAL STUDENTS, FACULTY, RESIDENTS, AND CLINICAL/RESEARCH FELLOWS MENTORED: |
Medical Students |
Hillary Ta, Nikita Deng, Alla Yousif, Sameer Andani, Kyle McDaniel, Megan Reed RN, Heather Kron RN, Eman Mesigna, Priya Chopra, Hania Flaten, Roya Mirhossaini, Elizabeth Patterson, Queenter.Kinsang, Amy Leach, Timothy Miller, Michael Frank, Carley Hurley, Adam Kolnik, Matthew Bezzant, Ian Eisenhauer |
Residents |
Shea Claflin MD, Minh Do MD, Caroline Behr MD, Devang Amin MD, Conor Grogan MD, Rebecca Johson-Paben MD, Gray Jodon MD, Daniel Juneau, MD; Martin King, MD; Andrew Bolton, MD |
COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES: |
2007 Western Pennsylvania rural preceptorship in Greenville, PA – 6 week rural medicine rotation |
2007 - 2010 9th Street Clinic in McKeesport, PA – started free clinic for uninsured patients |
2012 Indian Health Services rotation in Fort Defiance, NM – HIS rotation in residency |
2015 DAWN student-run free clinic in Aurora, CO – Volunteer Staff Physician |
2016 Abstract reviewer for SHM 2017 |
2016 Ad hoc manuscript reviewer for The American Journal of Managed Care |
2017 - 2019 Ad hoc manuscript Reviewer for JGIM |
2017 Abstract reviewer for SGIM 2017 |
INSTITUTIONAL PRESENTATIONS: |
06/2013 Pneumonia Readmissions and Core Measures QI Project |
10/2013 Hospitalist M&M |
09/2014 Inpatient-Outpatient Quality Conference |
09/2014 Adult Urgent Care Clinic M&M |
10/2014 - 03/2018 Hospitalist quarterly Journal Club |
12/2014 Hospitalist Acute Care Grand Rounds |
02/2015 Hospitalist Outcomes Conference |
08/2016 - 01/2020 CT scan for the Internist, Monthly Resident Noon Conference |
11/2016 - 01/2020 Hospitalist Outcomes Conference, Monthly hospitalist QI conference |
06/2022 Hospital Transformation Program Inpatient Readmission updates |
INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS: |
07/2011 - 06/2013 Reducing readmissions in patients hospitalized with pneumonia |
04/2014 - 09/2014 Hospitalist face card initiative |
06/2014 - 05/2015 Post-hospitalization phone-line for patients recently discharged from internal medicine service |
03/2018 - 2024 Hospital Transitions Clinic, help create and staff a post-discharge clinic |
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers |
1. Ryan P, Huebschmann A, Zheng C, Furniss A, Rice J, and Bayliss E. Agree to Disagree? Contrasting Opinions between Primary Care Providers and Hospitalists on Communication Needed at Hospital Discharge. Manuscript submitted. |
2. Indovina K, Keniston A, Reid M, Sachs K, Zheng C, Ali Z, Bui K, Guirguis H, Hernandez D, Nguyen T, Tong A, Albert RK, Burden M. Real-Time Patient Satisfaction Surveys of Hospitalist Physicians. J Hosp Med. 2016 Apr;11(4):251-6. |
3. Zheng C, Kane TD, Irlano K, Spahr J, Potoka DA, Weardon P, Morrell V, Kurland G. Safety and Efficacy of Laparoscopic Nissen Fundoplication After Pediatric Lung or Heart-Lung Transplantation: Should This Be The Standard? Surg Endosc. 2011 Jan; 25(1):249-54. |
4. Echaniz M, Zheng C, Ryan P. CHHAPs: a program designed to bridge the Inpatient – Outpatient divide. Accepted for publication Denver Health Blog in 2017. Accessed at https://www.denverhealth.org/blog?page=2&services=primary+care+hospital+medicine |
