Hien Huy Nguyen, M.D., M.A.S.
Professor of Medicine, UC Davis Health
Vice Chief of Infectious Diseases, UC Davis Health
Chief of Infectious Diseases, VA Northern California Health Care System
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Locations and Contact
Lawrence J. Ellison Ambulatory Care Center
Infectious Diseases Clinic
4860 Y St.
Sacramento, CA 95817
Phone: 916-734-2737
Additional Numbers
Physician Referrals
Clinical Interests
Dr. Nguyen's clinical interests and patient care work include general infectious diseases, outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy, drug resistant infections, and travel medicine.
Research/Academic Interests
Dr. Nguyen's research interests include quality healthcare delivery models, electronic health records and secondary use of data, ventilator associated pneumonia, and sepsis.
Division
Infectious Diseases
Undergraduate School
B.A., UCLA and UC Riverside, Los Angeles CA 1993
Medical School
M.D., UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles CA 1997
Internship
UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento CA 1998
Residency
UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento CA 2000
Fellowship
UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento CA 2002
Excellence in Quality, UC Davis, 2015
Chief of Staff Award, UC Davis, 2008, 2015
Chief Resident in Internal Medicine, UC Davis, 2000, 2001
To view Dr. Nguyen's publications, please click here.
Nguyen H. ACTIV-3/TICO Study Group [Nguyen, HH]. Efficacy and Safety of Envisobep for Adults Hospitalized with COVID-19. Ann Intern Med. 2022 Aug 9. ePub: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.7326/M22-1503
Bays DJ, Nguyen MH, Cohen SH, Waldman S, Martin CS, Thompson GR, Sandrock C, Tourtellotte J, Pugashetti JV, Phan C, Nguyen HH, Warner GY, Penn BH. Investigation of nosocomial SARS-CoV-2 transmission from two patients to healthcare workers identifies close contact but not airborne transmission events. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021 Sep;42(9):1046-1052. doi:10.1017/ice.2020.321. Epub 2020 Jul 3. PMID:32618530.
Hood-Medland EA, Stewart SL, Nguyen H, Avdalovic M, MacDonald S, Zhu SH, Mayoral A, Tong EK. Health System Implementation of a Tobacco Quitline eReferral. Appl Clin Inform. 2019 Aug;10(4):735-742. doi:10.1055/s-0039-1697593. Epub 2019 Oct 2. PMID:31578046.
Polage CR, Gyorke CE, Kennedy MA, Leslie JL, Chin DL, Wang S, Nguyen HH, Huang B, Tang YW, Lee LW, Kim K, Taylor S, Romano PS, Panacek EA, Goodell PB, Solnick JV, Cohen SH. Overdiagnosis of Clostridium difficile Infection in the Molecular Test Era. JAMA Intern Med. 2015 Nov;175(11):1792-801. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.4114. PMID:26348734.
Perez SL, Paterniti DA, Wilson M, Bell RA, Chan MS, Villareal CC, Nguyen HH, Kravitz RL. Characterizing the Processes for Navigating Internet Health Information Using Real-Time Observations: A Mixed-Methods Approach. J Med Internet Res. 2015 Jul 20;17(7):e173. doi:10.2196/jmir.3945. PMID:26194787.
Halilovic J, Christensen CL, Nguyen HH. Managing an outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy team: challenges and solutions. Ther Clin Risk Manag. 2014 Jun 18;10:459-65. doi:10.2147/TCRM.S48906. PMID:24971015.
Gultepe E, Green JP, Nguyen H, Adams J, Albertson T, Tagkopoulos I. From vital signs to clinical outcomes for patients with sepsis: a machine learning basis for a clinical decision support system. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2014 Mar-Apr;21(2):315-25. doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2013-001815. Epub 2013 Aug 19. PMID:23959843.
Rakoczy KS, Cohen SH, Nguyen HH. Derivation and validation of a clinical prediction score for isolation of inpatients with suspected pulmonary tuberculosis. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2008 Oct;29(10):927-32. doi:10.1086/590667. PMID:18785863.
Nguyen HH. Hospitalist to home: outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy at an academic center. Clin Infect Dis. 2010 Sep 15;51 Suppl 2:S220-3. doi:10.1086/653523. PMID:20731580.