Heidi Wald, MD, MSPH, joined the Divisions of Health Care Policy Research and General Internal Medicine at the University of Colorado at Denver as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in January of 2007. She also serves as the Director of Research for the University of Colorado Hospitalist Group and the Co-Director of the Acute Care for Elders Service. Dr. Wald's academic interests focus on the quality of care of the geriatric patient in the hospital setting. Her recent work has examined process-outcome relationships in postoperative care for this population. She has published in the areas of postoperative infections, hospital safety, sentinel event reporting and root cause analysis.

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Dr. Wald was a founding member and director of the Hospitalist Group at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and she completed her residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Wald subsequently completed both a geriatrics fellowship and a NRSA Primary Care Research Fellowship at the University of Colorado at Denver.