Kevin Basiago

Biography

Kevin Basiago, DO, is Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor at UCI School of Medicine and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, both at Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), where he serves as a Pediatric Hospitalist. He received his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific at Western University of Health Sciences and completed his pediatric residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where he served as Chief Resident. He subsequently completed a fellowship in Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Basiago's work focuses on medical education and quality improvement in pediatric hospital medicine. He has led multiple quality improvement projects, including a project examining pediatric fellows' utilization of medical education techniques on rounds and serving as site co-leader for a national project on standardizing intravenous fluid use in hospitalized pediatric patients. He has presented his work at national conferences including the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting and the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Conference. His research has been published in journals including Hospital Pediatrics and Pediatrics, and he authored a case-based chapter on community-acquired pneumonia for a pediatric hospital medicine textbook.

Throughout his training and early career, Basiago has been active in medical education, serving as Curriculum Co-leader for Resident Block Didactics during his chief residency and delivering numerous lectures and workshops on topics ranging from clinical medicine to teaching strategies. He is board certified in both General Pediatrics and Pediatric Hospital Medicine and maintains memberships in the Society of Hospital Medicine, American Academy of Pediatrics, and American Osteopathic Association.

Education

• D.O., College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Western University of Health Sciences, 2018
• B.S. in Biology, Loyola Marymount University, 2014

Distinctions

• APPD Quality Improvement Award, 2021
• Performance Improvement Third Place, Harbor-UCLA Resident/Fellow Research Day, 2021
• San Miguel Association Scholarship in Pediatrics, 2018
• William McLaughlin Memorial Scholarship, 2012
• Arrupe Scholarship, 2010-2014