Sylvia C. McKean, MD
Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School
Senior Hospitalist
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Sylvia McKean, MD, is the Medical Director of the BWF Hospitalist Service that cares for inpatients at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and the Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Her academic appointment is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. McKean is a scholar in the Harvard Medical School Academy. She has had leadership roles in the development of new hospitalist programs for Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, a managed care organization in Boston, Massachusetts (1996-1998); Brigham and Women's Hospital, a tertiary care teaching institution (1998-present); and Faulkner Hospital, a community hospital (1999-present). Dr. McKean has a background in nephrology and has worked as a general internist, an emergency medicine physician, and a specialist in vascular medicine and hypertension prior to becoming a hospitalist. In 1996, she implemented an outpatient DVT program with colleagues at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates.
Over the past ten years, Dr. McKean has received more than a dozen awards for leadership, excellence, and teaching, including the prestigious George W. Thorn Award (1997-1998) for outstanding contribution to clinical education from Brigham and Women's Hospital. In 2002, she was appointed "scholar" as a charter member of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) Academy in recognition of excellence in medical education and commitment to improvement and innovation in medical education. Dr. McKean was nominated for Harvard Medical School's 2005 Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching and elected a Fellow of the American College of Physicians in 2005. She received the Society of Hospital Medicine's 2006 Excellence in Teaching Award in recognition of outstanding teaching in hospital medicine.