Diana Hansen, MD
Critical Care Surgeon | Critical Care Medicine
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Dr. Diana Hansen is a critical care physician practicing in Visalia, CA. Dr. Hansen specializes in the needs of critically ill patients. Critical care physicians are experts in treating physiologic responses to tissue injury from trauma, burns, infections, acute inflammation, operation and more. They are also trained to know how such injuries interact with other diseases that a patient may have. As a critical care physician, Dr. Hansen has a broad knowledge base and full understanding of the biology of the critically ill patient and the patients organ system functions.
Education and Training
Saba University School of Medicine in the Caribbean Medical Degree 2008
Board Certification
American Board of Internal Medicine
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Get to know Critical Care Medicine Specialist Dr. Diana Hansen, who serves patients in Visalia, California.
A board-certified internist & critical care medicine specialist, Dr. Hansen works within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Cardiovascular Intensive Care unit (CVICU) at Kaweah Health Medical Center located in Visalia, California.
Kaweah Health Medical Center offers comprehensive health services including cardiac, vascular, colorectal, and general surgery, neurosurgery, oncology, mental health services, orthopedic surgery, adult and neonatal intensive care and pediatrics, and more. The ICUs at Kaweah Health care for patients that need a higher level of care due to complex medical conditions like neurologic injury, trauma, septic shock, respiratory failure and/or complex surgery.
Dr. Hansen graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor of Science in Physiology and Minor in English Literature in 2000. She furthered her education with her Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of British Columbia and her Specialty Certificate in Forensic Science: Biological Science from the British Columbia Institute of Technology in 2002. She then went on to earn her medical degree from Saba University School of Medicine in the Caribbean in 2008.
Dr. Hansen started her residency in internal medicine/pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in 2008 but transition to adult internal medicine alone. She worked briefly as a Hospitalist until commencing her fellowship in critical care medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University in 2014.
Board-certified in internal medicine and critical care medicine, Dr. Hansen is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). Intensive care medicine, also called critical care medicine, is the specialization for medical doctors who provide care to people who are in an intensive care unit (ICU) due to complex, life threatening illness.
Dr. Hansen has been practicing intensive care medicine since 2014 in Washington, Oregon and California. She has provided compassionate care to thousands of patients and their families at the most life-determining moments of their lives. She prides herself on the highest level of hands-on care allowing her patients the best possible chance of clinical recovery.
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