Dr. Clay Angel currently serves as the medical site director for Kaiser Permanent’s hospital medicine program expansion in Santa Cruz county, CA. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Hospital Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine and has been with Kaiser Permanente since 2006 after completing IM residency in Chicago.

In 2009, Dr. Angel started and co-led a multidisciplinary team, based in the medical surgical setting, which has worked to improve, manage and ultimately prevent delirium in fragile elderly inpatients. This work has continued to grow and develop and has led to implementation of a standardized, regional approach to delirium management across all of Northern California KP’s 21 hospitals.

His interest in implementation science and national best practices around delirium management in the hospital setting led to continued and increasing involvement in the American Delirium Society, which he has been a board member since 2016, and is now serving in the role of president through June 2022.