Kimberly Indovina, MD

Professional Titles

• Academic Hospitalist Physician
• Associate Professor of Medicine
• Assistant Director, CU Center for Interprofessional Practice & Education

Recognitions

• Star Award, Denver Health Division of Hospital Medicine (2022)
• Fellow in Hospital Medicine, Society of Hospital Medicine (2019)
• Fellow of the American College of Physicians, American College of Physicians (2019)
• Top Doctor, Internal Medicine, 5280 Magazine (2019)
• Outstanding Service Award, Denver Health Division of Hospital Medicine (2014)

Research Interests

Publications

• Cunningham JM, Ferraro K, Durfee J, Indovina KA. Social Determinants of Health Impacting the Experience of Young Adults With Cancer at a Single Community Urban Hospital: A Retrospective Cohort Study. J Patient Exp. 2024;11:23743735241255450. PubMed PMID: 38765223
• Ferraro K, Sharma S, Indovina KA. Providing comfort: Caring for patients who wish to die in their home country. Cleve Clin J Med. 2024 May 1;91(5):270-272. PubMed PMID: 38692694
• Spence J, Indovina KA, Loresto F, Eron K, Bailey FA. Understanding the Relationships Between Health Care Providers' Moral Distress and Patients' Quality of Death. J Palliat Med. 2023 Mar 7. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 36880878
• Cervantes L, Rizzolo K, Indovina KA, Camacho C, Hazel CA, Alamillo X, Chandler M, Chonchol M, Welles CC, Steiner JF, Hasnain-Wynia R. Assessment of a Peer Support Group Intervention for Undocumented Latinx Immigrants With Kidney Failure. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Jun 1;6(6):e2319277. PubMed PMID: 37342039
• Cervantes L, Rizzolo K, Indovina KA, Camacho C, Hazel CA, Alamillo X, Chandler M, Chonchol M, Welles CC, Steiner JF, Hasnain-Wynia R. Assessment of a Peer Support Group Intervention for Undocumented Latinx Immigrants With Kidney Failure. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Jun 1;6(6):e2319277. PubMed PMID: 37342039
• Spence J, Indovina KA, Loresto F, Eron K, Bailey FA. Understanding the Relationships Between Health Care Providers' Moral Distress and Patients' Quality of Death. J Palliat Med. 2023 Jul;26(7):900-906. PubMed PMID: 36880878
• Gundersen E, Indovina KA, Graves K, Thornton S. Palliative Care, Medical Ethics, and Decision-making. In: Torok H, Record J, ed. Spark Edition 3. Society of Hospital Medicine; 2023. https://www.hospitalmedicine.org/professional-development/Spark-Edition3/
• Campisi C, Yates L, Brandenburg S, Nordon-Craft A, Brock T, Estes K, Indovina K, Akerman A, Colarelli M. Stigma and survival: Using an unfolding case study to unpack bias in mental health and substance use. Nexus Summit, September 2023.
• Indovina KA, Robertson N. Improving Familiarity with Palliative Care through Interdisciplinary Clinician Education. Master of Science in Palliative Care Capstone Project. May 2023.
• Cunningham JM, Gillespie E, Indovina KA. Interpretation of the urine drug screen. The Hospitalist. 2022;26(5):13-14.
• Indovina KA, Cunningham J, Munoa A, Scaletta N, Knoeckel J, Taghvaei S. In the literature: Denver Health research reviews. The Hospitalist. 2022;26(4):7-10.
• Nordon-Craft A, Roland R, Basha, E, Fish D, Indovina K. Integrating real time feedback for quality improvement: Learning from the past to improve the future. Lightning Talk. Nexus Summit, August 2022.
• Fosnot L, Jones CD, Keniston A, Burden M, Indovina KA, Patel H. Hospitalists' perspectives on challenging patient encounters and physician well-being: A qualitative study. Patient Educ Couns. 2021 Aug 25. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34511284
• Indovina KA, Keniston A, Manchala V, Burden M. Predictors of a Top-Box Patient Experience: A Retrospective Observational Study of HCAHPS Data at a Safety Net Institution. J Patient Exp. 2021;8:23743735211034342. PubMed PMID: 34377774
• Cunningham JM, Munoa AM, Indovina KA. Opioid-induced adrenal insufficiency for the hospitalist. The Hospitalist. 2021;25(10):21-23.
• SHM Patient Experience Special Interest Group. Communication Tips for 5 Common Conundrums in the COVID-19 Pandemic. 2020. https://www.hospitalmedicine.org/globalassets/practice-management/practice-management-pdf/mem-20-0039-patient-experience-sig---covid-comm-tips-m.pdf
• Nepal S, Keniston A, Indovina KA, Frank MG, Stella SA, Quinzanos-Alonso I, McBeth L, Moore SL, Burden M. What Do Patients Want? A Qualitative Analysis of Patient, Provider, and Administrative Perceptions and Expectations About Patients' Hospital Stays. J Patient Exp. 2020 Dec;7(6):1760-1770. PubMed PMID: 33457641
• Khateeb R, Keniston A, Moore A, Hrach C, Indovina KA, Kneeland P, Rudolph M, Burden M. Perspectives on Patient Experience: A National Survey of Hospitalists. J Patient Exp. 2020 Dec;7(6):1482-1490. PubMed PMID: 33457605
• Nepal S*, Keniston A*, Indovina K, Frank M, Stella S, Quinzanos-Alonso I, McBeth L, Moore S, Burden M. What Do Patients Want? A Qualitative Analysis of Patient, Provider, and Administrative Perceptions and Expectations about Patients’ Hospital Stays. Society of Hospital Medicine National Meeting, April 2020, San Diego, CA.
• Fosnot L, Jones CD, Keniston A, Burden M, Indovina K, Patel H. How difficult patient encounters affect physician resilience: A qualitative study. Society of Hospital Medicine National Meeting, March 2019, National Harbor, MD.
• Society of Hospital Medicine Patient Experience Committee. “SHM patient experience committee survey: Hospitalist perspectives on patient experience”. Society of Hospital Medicine National Meeting, March 2019, National Harbor, MD.
• Echaniz M, Indovina K, Geer B, Nepal S. “Red Eye Rounds – Knowledge in the Cloak of Darkness”. Innovations in Medical Education Conference, February 2019, Los Angeles, CA.
• Gunderson E, Dingfield L, Graves K, Indovina KA, Khateeb R, Ling D. Palliative Care, Medical Ethics, and Decision-making. In: Young AL, ed. Spark Edition 2. Society of Hospital Medicine; 2019. https://www.hospitalmedicine.org/professional-development/hospital-medicine-certification/spark-fphm-study-tool/
• Indovina K, Zheng C, Northcutt N, Munoa M. Red Eye Rounds: Knowledge in the Cloak of Darkness. Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, May 2019, Washington, DC.
• Skinner, A., Munoa, A.M.; Rao, H., Indovina, K.A., Shaffie, R., Scaletta, N., Stella, S.A. In the literature: Physician reviews of HM-centric research. The Hospitalist. 2018;22(4):11-14.
• Indovina, K.A., Keniston, A., Reid, M., Sachs, K., Zheng, C., Tong, A., Hernandez, D., Bui, K., Ali, Z., Nguyen, T., Guirguis, H., Albert, R. K. and Burden, M. Real-time patient experience surveys of hospitalized medical patients. J. Hosp. Med. 2016;11:251–256.
• Indovina KA, Keniston A, Reid M, Sachs K, Zheng C, Tong A, Hernandez D, Bui K, Ali Z, Nguyen T, Guirguis H, Albert RK, Burden M. Real time patient satisfaction of hospitalist physicians. Research poster/abstract (finalist). Society of Hospital Medicine National Meeting, March 2015, National Harbor, MD.
• Novak, J., Parry, L. J., Matthews, J. E., Kerchner, L. J., Indovina, K., Hanley-Yanez, K., Doty, K. D., Debrah, D. O., Shroff, S. G., Conrad, K. P. Evidence for local relaxin ligand-receptor expression and function in arteries. FASEB J. 2006;20:2352-2362.

Professional Memberships

• American College of Physicians, Fellow
• Society of Hospital Medicine, Fellow in Hospital Medicine
• Society of General Internal Medicine, member
• American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, member

Practice Locations

• Denver Health Medical Center

Specialty Information

• Internal Medicine, Board Certification (2012)