Education

  • University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas - MD

  • Tulane University Affiliated Hospitals, New Orleans, Louisiana - Residency and Chief Residency in Internal Medicine

  • University of Wisconsin - Professional MBA

Professional Activities

Dr. Paul Durick is a faculty member in the Division of Hospital Medicine within the Department of Medicine. Dr. Durick is active in UW Health inpatient services and currently serves as Lead Utilization Management Physician. He chairs the UW Health Clinical Policy Committee and co-chairs the Clinical Knowledge Management Council. He has served as physician champion for the Inpatient Throughput Optimization Committee and as physician lead for the Expected Discharge Date Optimization and Progression to Discharge Huddle Optimization projects. He has also led the Geographic Hospitalist Medicine Cohorting project, a system designed to preferentially match patients to provider teams based on unit location.

Prior to joining UW Health, Dr. Durick worked as a hospitalist and held medical director roles at Emory University Hospital, Emory University Orthopedics and Spine Hospital, and also worked at Sibley Memorial Hospital within the Johns Hopkins Community Physicians network. He also served as Lead Medical Investigator on a HRSA-funded grant supporting the development and implementation of Accountable Care Units across the Emory Healthcare system.

Clinical Specialties

Dr. Durick's clinical specialty is hospital medicine, with special interests in utilization management, inpatient throughput, and the operational systems that support patient-centered care delivery.

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