Selina Chen, MD, MPH, DipABLM, ABPM-CI specializes in Internal Medicine–Pediatrics, clinical informatics, and lifestyle medicine with over 20 years of experience as a hospitalist across Hawaiʻi’s major health systems, including Hawaiʻi Pacific Health, Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women & Children, Straub Benioff Medical Center, and Shriners Children’s Hawaiʻi, USA. She has served in key leadership roles as Director of the Nursery at Kapiʻolani and Chief of Pediatrics at Shriners alongside extensive service as both a pediatric and internal medicine hospitalist. Dr. Chen is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, where she integrates clinical informatics, lifestyle medicine, and narrative medicine into medical education and hospital-based care. Her work bridges data-driven systems with human-centered care, with a focus on improving outcomes across the inpatient continuum. She serves on national committees, including Epic’s Pediatric Hospitalist Steering Board, and previously completed her term on the Epic Cosmos Governing Council. She is also a Culinary Medicine and Agriculture Ambassador for the Food as Medicine Interest Group of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and serves as Hawaiʻi’s State Representative for the Christian Medical & Dental Association. Originally from Singapore, Dr. Chen now calls Hawaiʻi home, where she embraces the ʻāina (land) as a mahiʻai (farmer), enjoys exploring as a foodie, and carries the spirit of aloha in her clinical practice, teaching, and community work when not traveling. www.makanprayaloha.com

Title: Bridging the Bed and Clinic Gap: Where Primary Care Meets the Hospital

Objectives:

• Identify key pieces of outpatient information that meaningfully change inpatient decision‑making.

• Determine strategies to close gaps around pre‑admission status, medication accuracy, and goals of care.

• Apply practical tools and workflows to integrate “the real life behind the chart” into hospital care, improving safety, continuity, and patient‑centered outcomes.