Departments & Divisions
Ankur Segon, MD, MPH, M.Ed, FACP, SFHM
Division Chief of Hospital Medicine
Professor/Clinical
Dr. Ankur Segon is a published, board-certified Hospitalist who joined UT Health San Antonio as a Professor/Clinical and the Division Chief of Hospital Medicine in June 2021. Dr. Segon earned his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) from the University College of Medical Sciences of Delhi University in India before going on to complete his Internal Medicine residency at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, IL in 2008. He also holds a Master of Public Health (Epidemiology) from the University of Massachusetts, earned in 2010, and a Master of Education in Medical Education from the University of Cincinnati which was earned in 2022.
Dr. Segon is the recipient of several honors including St. Francis Hospital's "Student Teaching Award" (2008), Froedtert Hospital's "Patient Organization Excellence Team (POET) Award" (2010, 2013) and "Extra-Miler" (2011) designation for exceptional commitment to teamwork, the Medical College of Wisconsin's "Outstanding Medical Student Teaching Award" (2012) and "Faculty Vitality Award" (2014), the Society of General Internal Medicine's Midwest Region "Clinician Educator of the Year Award" (2013), "Faculty Development Committee Professional Development Award" (2014), and listed as "Best Doctor" by Best Doctors from 2016 to 2018. He was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) in November 2012 and a Senior Fellow of Hospital Medicine (SFHM) by the Society of Hospital Medicine in November 2019 and is also a member of the Society of General Internal Medicine and the Clerkship Directors of Internal Medicine.
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Professional Background
Education
- 2022 - Master of Education - Medical Education - University of Cincinnati
- 2010 - Master of Public Health - Epidemiology - University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- 2002 - Doctor of Medicine - University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi University
Training
- 2019 - Leadership Academy - University of Wisconsin Lubar School of Business and Medical College of Wisconsin
- 2019 - Medical Education - National Board of Medical Examiners Invitational Conference for Educators
- 2016 - Ultrasound Guide Course - National Procedure Institute
- 2015 - Advanced Training - Process Improvement - Intermountain Institute
- 2015 - Certificate - RAC
- 2015 - Certificate - Quality Improvement and Patient Safety - Medical College of Wisconsin
- 2010 - Faculty Development, Curriculum Developement, Transitions of Care, STEP Collaborative - Medical College of Wisconsin
- 2008 - Residency - Internal Medicine - St. Francis Hospital
Appointments
- 06/2021 - Present - Professor/Clinical and Division Chief of Hospital Medicine - UT Health San Antonio
- 01/2020 - 06/2021 - Associate Professor - Medical College of Wisconsin Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
- 07/2017 - 06/2021 - Co-Director, Continuous Professional Development - Medical College of Wisconsin
- 07/2014 - 06/2021 - Associate Professor- Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine - Medical College of Wisconsin
- 05/2017 - 06/2021 - Director of Faculty Development and Education - Medical College of Wisconsin
- 07/2015 - 06/2021 - Director, Hospital Medicine Fellowship Program - Medical College of Wisconsin
- 07/2017 - 06/2018 - Leader, Division of General Internal Medicine - Medical College of Wisconsin
- 07/2017 - 06/2018 - Leader, Division of General Internal Medicine - QI Affinity Group
- 10/2012 - 06/2018 - Director, Hospital Medicine Elective for MS4s - Medical College of Wisconsin
- 07/2011 - 06/2018 - Director, Medicine Sub-Internship - Medical College of Wisconsin
- 07/2008 - 06/2014 - Assistant Professor- Deparment of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine - Medical College of Wisconsin
- 12/2010 - 05/2011 - Co-Director, Preparing for Internship (PFI) Course - Medical College of Wisconsin
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Instruction & Training
- 09/2022, Mock Interview Program, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
- 09/2022, MS4 Noon Report, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
- 09/2021, Mock Interview Program, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
- 07/2018 - 06/2021, Foundations of Medicine Course, Medical College of Wisconsin
- 07/2018 - 06/2021, Quality Improvement in Medical Education, Medical College of Wisconsin
- 07/2017 - 06/2021, Transitioning to Clerkship Course, Medical College of Wisconsin
- 07/2017 - 06/2021, Winter Intersession, Medical College of Wisconsin
- 07/2017 - 06/2021, Continuous Professional Development Course, Medical College of Wisconsin
- 07/2016 - 06/2021, Professionalism Intersession, Medical College of Wisconsin
- 01/2016 - 06/2021, M2 Oral Case Presentation, Medical College of Wisconsin
- 07/2012 - 06/2021, Bench to Bedside Course, Medical College of Wisconsin
- 06/2011 - 06/2021, Social Media Project- Medicine Clerkship, Medical College of Wisconsin
- 06/2008 - 06/2021, Team Based Teaching Sessions, Medical College of Wisconsin
- 03/2020, Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP), Medical College of Wisconsin
- 06/2008 - 07/2018, Bedside Teaching Sessions, M3/M4 Students, Medical College of Wisconsin
- 06/2008 - 07/2018, Teaching Clinical Reasoning Skills, M3 Students, Medical College of Wisconsin
- 06/2011 - 07/2018, Senior Medical Student Report Sessions, Medical College of Wisconsin
- 05/2013 - 07/2018, M4 Preparing for Internship Course, Medical College of Wisconsin
- 03/2018, Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP), Medical College of Wisconsin
- 01/2013, ACP M1 Networking Reception, American College of Physicians
- 08/2012, M2-M4 Advising Panel, American College of Physicians Student Council
- 06/2012, Presentation Skills, Transition to Clerkship, Medical College of Wisconsin
- 05/2012, M4 Preparing for Internship, Medical College of Wisconsin
- 06/2010, M3 Intersession on Care Transitions, Medical College of Wisconsin
- 05/2010, ACP M1 Networking Reception, American College of Physicians
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Research & Grants
Grants
Peer Review- Active
Title: Utility of Predictive Systems in Diagnostic Errors
Source: HOMERUN National Network Out of UCSF
Role: Site Co-Lead
Dates: October 2019 - October 2020
Direct funds: $5,000
Title: Utility of Procalcitonin in Rapidly and Accurately Diagnosing Urinary Tract Infection in Elderly Patients Admitted with Delirium and Presumed Urinary Tract Infection
Source: Clinical and Translational Science Institute Start Up Award
Role: Co-investigator
Dates: October 2019-October 2020
Direct funds: $2,500
Peer Review- Prior
Title: Competency-Based Assessment and Feedback: A Faculty Development Resource
Source: Learning Resources Fund, Medical College of Wisconsin
Role: Co-Investigator
Dates: July 2014-June 2017
Direct Funds: $9,980
Title: Using Virtual Patients to Teach Key Cross Cover Skills to 4th Year Students
Source: Alliance in Internal Medicine
Role: Principal Investigator
Dates: April 2015-April 2016
Direct Funds: $2,500
Title: Does Dynamic Feedback Improve Physician Communication in the Inpatient Setting? A Randomized, Controlled Study
Source: 2013 Integrating Research into Clinical Practice: Innovations in Healthcare Delivery Grant
Role: Principal Investigator
Dates: July 2013-July 2015
Direct Funds: $12,500
Comments: Selected as grant recipient by Clinical and Translational Science Institute via a competitive process. Project will evaluate improvement, if any, in physician-patient communication by providing physicians with dynamic, web-based patient satisfaction scores.
Title: Creation of a Virtual Team Room: Using Social Media to Enhance Medical Student Exposure to Abnormal Physical Examination Findings in a Clinical Clerkship
Source: Learning Resources Fund, Medical College of Wisconsin
Role: Co-Investigator
Dates: April 2012-October 2014
Direct Funds: $14,800
Title: Teaching and Evaluating Communiation Skills with Telephone OSCEs in the General Internal Medicine Acting Internship
Source: Learning Resource Fund, Medical College of Wisconsin
Role: Principal Investigator
Dates: July 2012-July 2014
Direct Funds: $5,000
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Service
School
UTHSCSA
07/2022-Present: Invited Member, Selection Committee for GI Chair
01/2022-Present: Invited Member, Selection Committee for Radiology Chair
09/2021-Present: Invited Member, Clinical Practice Committee
Medical College of Wisconsin
08/2020-06/2021: Invited Member, Curriculum Exploration Committee
07/2017-06/2021: Member, Directors of Medical Education Committee
07/2017-06/2021: Member, Clerkship Directors Committee
09/2016-06/2021: Member, M4 Course Directors Committee
07/2015-06/2021: Chair, Fellowship Mentoring Committee
12/2012-06/2021: Member, M4 Subgroup Discovery curriculum
07/2012-06/2021: Member, M3-M4 Group Discovery curriculum
08/2011-06/2021: Member, Sub-committee on restructuring hospitalist ward schedule
07/2011-06/2021: Member, Sub-committee on addressing late admissions to hospitalist teams
05/2019-06/2020: Member, Search Committee- Primary Care Section Chief
07/2018-06/2019: Chair, Advanced Clinical Courses Committee
10/2013-07/2015: Member, Hospitatlist/APP Operations Committee
07/2013-07/2015: Member, Faculty IT Committee
06/2011-06/2014: Member, IT Committee- Medical College of Wisconsin
06/2010-12/2010: Member, Website Redesign Committee- Medical College of Wisconsin
Institutional
University Hospital
09/2022-Present: AES Evaluation and Writing Committee
Froedtert Hospital
03/2018-06/2021: Member, Care Management Group
07/2015-06/2021: Member, Utilizatino Review Committee
03/2018-04/2020: Member, Journey to Excellence (JOE) Group
03/2018-04/2020: Member, Inpatient Leadership Group
01/2014-07/2015: Member, Radiology Process Improvement Committee
06/2011-07/2015: Member, Anticoagulation Committee
06/2009-03/2010: Member, Sickle Cell Readmission Committee
Service to the Profession
09/2017-06/2021: Reviewer, Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) of Southeastern Wisconsin Traditional Pilot Award
06/2010-06/2014: Editor, www.usmleworld.com, online medical education resource. Ongoing creation and editing of board questions (USMLE Step 1-3 and internal medicine boards) for usmleword.com
01/2009-06/2014: Chief Editor (medical content), www.educus.com, online medical education resource. Reviewed 200+ medical topics over a four year span
National
2023-Present: Invited Member, Advisory Board, Vikramshila Education
2022-Present: Invited Reviewer, Joint Commission Journal on Quality & Patient Safety
2022-Present: Letter Writer for Promotion, Academicy Internal Medicine's Promtion Support for Women in Medicine (PSWIM) Group
2022-Present: Reviewer, Cureus Medical Publishing
2020-Present: Innovation Grant Committee Member and Reviewer, Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine
2020-Present: Reviewer, The Generalists in Medical Education
2019-Present: Site Representative, Hospital Medicine Reengineering Network (HOMERuN)
2018-Present: Invited Peer Reviewer, Aquifer cases
2018-Present: Member, Innovations Committee, Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine
2017-Present: Member, AAIM Innovation Grant Subcommittee
2016-Present: Member, Alliance of Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) Research Committee
2016-Present: Member, AAIM Medical Education Research Subcommittee
2014-Present: Reviewer, American Journal of Medicine
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Publications
- Discharge When Medically Ready
- The Impact of Dynamic Real-Time Feedback on Patient Satisfaction Scores
- Prevalence of fatigue among postgraduate trainees in the United States and Japan
- The Impact of Hospitalist Switch Day on Length of Stay
- Two-Year Experience of 14 French Pigtail Catheters Placed by Procedure-Focused Hospitalists
- Location Matters: Type of Hospital Unit Can Influence Medicine Patients' Satisfaction with Physician Communication
- Creating a culture of quality: our experience with providing feedback to frontline hospitalists
- Self-reflection as a Tool to Increase Hospitalist Participation in Readmission Quality Improvement
- A Qualitative Exploration to Understand Hospitalists' Attitude Toward the Patient Experience Scoring System
- Effect of a rapid response team on patient outcomes in a community-based teaching hospital
- Differences in length of stay by teaching team status in an academic medical center in the Midwestern United States
- Teaching Students to Care (Coordinate): A Randomized Controlled Trial
- Effect of a Performance Feedback Dashboard on Hospitalist Laboratory Test Utilization
- Increasing and sustaining discharges by noon – a multi-year process improvement project
- Breaking barriers, building faculty: A qualitative analysis to exploring faculty development in academic hospital medicine
- Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Adults Who Died or Were Transferred to Intensive Care
- The Impact of Asking Medical Students What They Want to Learn on Student Participation in Lectures
Garg S, Mirza YR, Girotra M, Kumar V, Yoselevtiz S, Segon A, Dutta SK. Epidemiology of Clostridium Difficile Associated Disease (CDAD): A Paradigm Shift from Hospital-Acquired Infection to Long-Term Care Facility Based Infection. Dig Dis Sci. 2013 Oct 24
Guddati AK, Kumar N, Segon A, Joy PS, Marak CP, Kumar G. Identifying Oncological Emergencies. Med Oncol. 2013 Sept 30 (3):669
Mccarthy J, Klumb J, Segon Y, Paudel H, Segon A. “Using a Virtual Game to Improve 4th Year Medical Students’ Knowledge of Managing Cross Cover Situations.” Poster presentation, Alliance of Academic Internal Medicine national meeting, 2023. Oral plenary presentation, Alliance of Academic Internal Medicine National Meeting, 2023
Badawy J, Davis C, Schmit D, Gelfond J, Segon A. “Internal Medicine New Faculty Bootcamp.” Poster presentation, National Meeting, Society of Hospital Medicine 2023 National abstract competition winner and oral presentation, national meeting, American College of Physicians, 2023
Ryan Bailey, Segon A, Patrick Palacios, Nelson Tuazon, Greg Bowling, “Geographic Localization by A Hospitalist Team at An Academic Hospital.”, Poster presentation, national meeting, Society of Hospital medicine 2023
Greg Bowling, Ronald Estrella, Saket Kottewar, Segon A, “Leveraging Technology: A Virtual Twist on Care Coordination Rounds.”, Poster presentation, national meeting, Society of Hospital Medicine 2023
Jack Badawy, Segon A “Let’s Talk Electrolytes.” Poster presentation, national meeting, Society of Hospital Medicine 2023
Segon Y, Segon A, “Our Experience with Teaching Perioperative Medicine.” Poster presentation national meeting Perioperative Medicine Summit, 2022
Segon Y, Liljestrom T, Segon A, “Faculty Development Program for Academic Hospitalists.” Poster presentation national meeting Society of Hospital Medicine, 2022. Faculty development program for Academic Hospitalists - SHM Abstracts | Society of Hospital Medicine
Voigt L, Hilgeman B, Segon A, “Multidisciplinary Bedside Huddles Reduce Readmissions in High-Risk Patients.” Poster presentation national meeting Society of Hospital Medicine, 2022. Multidisciplinary bedside huddles reduce readmissions in high risk patients - SHM Abstracts | Society of Hospital Medicine
Segon A, Klumb J. “Designing a Module for Analyzing Common Diagnostic Laboratory Tests During the COVID19 Pandemic.” Poster presentation national meeting Society of Hospital Medicine, 2022. Designing a module for analyzing common diagnostic laboratory tests during the COVID19 Pandemic - SHM Abstracts | Society of Hospital Medicine
McCormick C, Ahluwalia S, Segon A. “Effect on Laboratory Test Utilization by Hospitalists Following Implementation of a Performance Feedback System.” Poster presentation national meeting Society of Hospital Medicine, 2022. Effect on laboratory test utilization by hospitalists following implementation of performance feedback system - SHM Abstracts | Society of Hospital Medicine
Sundararajan S, Soma D, Ishizawar D, Joyce D, Lohr N, Segon A, Gaglianello N, “Persistence Of Malnutrition During Mechanical Circulatory Support Remains Associated With Mortality." ePoster presentation at the HFSA Virtual Annual Scientific Meeting 2020. Virtual Competition. Abstract 166. September, 2020. 1 Sundararajan S, Soma D, Ishizawar D, Joyce D, Lohr N, Segon A, Gaglianello N. Persistence of Malnutrition During Mechanical Circulatory Support Remains Associated with Mortality. J Card Fail. 2020;26(10):S143. doi:10.1016/j.cardfail.2020.09.414
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Clinical
Board Certifications
- 2008 - American Board of Internal Medicine