Evan Coates, MD

Evan Coates, MD, has been named to the new executive leadership position of chief of Hospital Care at Virginia Mason.

Dr. Coates will provide physician leadership for clinical care throughout the 336-bed acute care hospital and have oversight responsibility for emergency medicine, intensive care medicine, hospital medicine, neuro-hospitalists and neonatal medicine.

In collaboration with administrative and clinical partners, he will also have responsibility for clinical program growth and innovation, clinical research and educational activities. In addition, he will lead and support process improvement efforts in the hospital, including improvements to clinical care delivery, access to care, clinical quality, care standardization and guideline development.

Dr. Coates joined the Virginia Mason medical staff in 2006. He has served as medical director of the Medical Telemetry Unit, section head of Hospital Medicine and section head of the neuro-hospitalist team.

He received a Doctor of Medicine degree in 2003 from the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, and completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Washington in 2006. He also completed an internship in clinical pastoral education at the University of California, Los Angeles.