Big Thompson Medical Group welcomes new hospitalist

LOVELAND, Colo.  (July 21, 2009) – Eddie Chen, D.O., has joined Big Thompson Medical Group as a hospitalist. He will provide inpatient care as a hospitalist at McKee Medical Center.

As a hospitalist, Dr. Chen specializes in caring for patients while they are in the hospital and coordinates with those patients’ primary care physicians.

Dr. Chen was born in Kaoshiung, Taiwan, and grew up in Clinton, Okla. He received his bachelor’s degree in pharmacy at the University of Oklahoma. After a year working for Eckerd Drugs in Texas, he went to medical school at Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Tulsa, Okla.

Dr. Chen completed his Internship and Residency at Case Western University–St. Vincent Charity Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, and is board certified in internal medicine. After residency, he had a traditional internal medicine practice in Alamosa and started the hospitalist program at the San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center. Coming from a long line of physicians and dentists, he is the only member of his family to specialize in internal medicine.

Dr. Chen is married and has four cats and two dogs. He and his wife, a school psychologist, enjoy traveling, gardening, hiking, bicycling and spending time outdoors with family and friends. Dr. Chen has bicycled across the country on numerous rides to help support charity events.