Rate My Professor Chad Vokoun

Chad Vokoun, MD, FACP, FSHM, is Professor and Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha. A native Nebraskan from Grand Island, he earned his BS from the University of Nebraska at Kearney in 1996 and his MD from UNMC in 2000. He completed residency in Internal Medicine at UNMC in 2003, followed by a Chief Resident year at the Omaha VA Medical Center in 2004. Vokoun joined UNMC as one of the first hospitalists in 2004. By 2011, as an assistant professor in the division of general medicine, he received the UNMC Outstanding Teacher Award. He advanced through leadership roles, serving as acting section chief of hospital medicine and medical director for hospital medicine at Nebraska Medicine in 2019. In 2020, he became the inaugural chief of the newly established Division of Hospital Medicine. He was promoted to Professor effective July 1, 2024. Vokoun holds clinical appointments at Nebraska Medicine, Omaha VA Medical Center, and Nebraska Orthopaedic Hospital. Since 2016, he has been a member of UNMC's Interprofessional Academy of Educators and serves on the editorial board of the Graduate Medical Education Research Journal.

His academic interests encompass graduate medical education, mentoring and coaching, perioperative care, hospital medicine, and value in medicine, with an emphasis on faculty development. Vokoun has contributed to studies on discharge barriers, mask-wearing effects on patient-provider interactions, and peer coaching efficacy. Key publications include "Peer coaching as a faculty development tool: a mixed methods evaluation" (Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 2020), "Prospective Randomized Evaluation of Preoperative Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibition (PREOP-ACEI)" (Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2018), "Medically ready for discharge: A multisite ‘point-in-time’ assessment of hospitalized patients" (Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2023), "Effect of wearing masks in the hospital on patient-provider interaction" (Patient Experience Journal, 2022), and "The effects of an e-learning module on medical trainees rotating on a perioperative medicine clinical service" (MedEdPORTAL, 2023). Through his leadership, he has advanced hospital medicine education and practice at UNMC, contributing to low burnout rates among hospitalists and innovative faculty development initiatives.