About Juliet Ugarte Hopkins, MD, ACPA-C
Juliet B. Ugarte Hopkins is Past President of the American College of Physician Advisors (ACPA) and Chief Medical Officer for Phoenix Medical Management, Inc. She began her career as the first physician advisor for case management, utilization management, and clinical documentation at a three-hospital health system outside of Milwaukee where she created, cultivated, and optimized the role during her nine-year tenure. Clinically, Dr. Ugarte Hopkins practiced as a pediatric hospitalist for a decade in a near-tertiary care hospital in northern Illinois where she was also medical director of pediatric hospital medicine and vice chair of pediatrics before transitioning into the physician advisor role in Wisconsin. She is a regular guest on the MedLearn Media webcasts Monitor Monday and Talk Ten Tuesday, a national speaker presenting at conferences hosted by ACPA, the Case Management Society of America (CMSA), the American Case Management Association (ACMA), and the Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialists (ACDIS), and a frequent author of articles involving topics related to the physician advisor scope of work and ongoing education.
