Dr. Ying-Kei Hui, MD, MAS-PHM, FACP, FHM

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Get to know Hospitalist Dr. Ying-Kei Hui, who serves patients in Indianapolis, Indiana.

A highly trained academic hospitalist/internist, Dr. Hui is in practice at Ascension St. Vincent Indianapolis, and serves as a Physician Advisor at Penn Medicine Princeton Health, and as a Clinical Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Medicine and Marian University. 

Ascension St. Vincent Indianapolis is a full-service hospital with 24/7 emergency care and a Level I trauma center, comprehensive stroke center, transplant center, and burn center. They deliver care for life-threatening injuries and illnesses. Their care teams listen to quickly understand patients’ health needs and deliver care that is right for them. It is a destination for specialty care – including heart and vascular health, orthopedics, stroke care, cardiac rehabilitation and critical care.

Dr. Hui graduated with her medical degree in 2005 and started her medical career training as an intensive care doctor in the Critical Care Unit at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong. After relocating to the United States, she completed her residency at Penn Hospital Medicine in 2012, and was named Chief Resident. Later, Dr. Hui practised as an academic hospitalist at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center in Princeton, where she was elected the Section Chief of Hospitalists. Dr. Hui completed her Master of Science degree in Population Health Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of Hospitalist Medicine. Dr. Hui is Board certified in internal medicine.

Hospital medicine is a medical specialty that exists in some countries as a branch of internal or family medicine, dealing with the care of acutely ill hospitalized patients. The primary focus is caring for hospitalized patients and co-management with other specialties. Hospitalists take an active part in medical care and ensure a safe discharge for the patients they take care of. They are being increasingly involved in administrative roles, given their expertise and collaboration with various teams in the hospital. 

Internal Medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Internists are skilled in the management of patients who have undifferentiated or multi-system disease processes. They care for hospitalized and ambulatory patients and may play a major role in education and research.

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