Kareem Hinedi, MD, FACP, SFHM
Hospitalist Medical Director
Kareem Hinedi MD FACP SFHM is the Regional Director for Hospitalist Operations responsible for all the hospitalist programs in Pennsylvania. He is also the Hospitalist Medical Director for the four neighborhood hospitals in Pittsburgh PA.
Dr Hinedi received his medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and the National University of Ireland. He completed his residency at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, OR. After finishing his residency, he worked there as a hospitalist, eventually becoming the medical director of the group. In 2010, he was recruited to help establish the first hospitalist program in the Middle East at Saudi Aramco Medical Services Organization, a healthcare system run by the world’s largest oil company based in Saudi Arabia. This healthcare system later became known as Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare when Saudi Aramco entered into a joint venture with Johns Hopkins. Dr Hinedi was promoted to Chief of the Hospital Medicine Division, helping shape and grow this program into one of the largest and most successful programs in the region. He held an academic appointment at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine until the end of 2019. After completing his contract, he moved back to the United States with his family and joined US Acute Care Solutions in April 2019.
Dr. Hinedi is board certified in Internal Medicine since 2006 and holds a Focused Practice in Hospital Medicine designation since 2016. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Senior Fellow of the Society for Hospital Medicine. He has held full medical licenses in Oregon, Virginia, California, Pennsylvania, Maryland, the US Virgin Islands, Ireland, and Saudi Arabia. He has thirteen peer-reviewed publications, many focused on his work dealing with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in Saudi Arabia. He has been an invited speaker at a number of local, regional, and international conferences with talks focusing on medical topics, quality, patient safety, and accreditation.