Heather Balch
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Heather Balch, MD, MS

Languages spoken: English, Spanish

Heather Balch, MD, is a physician at the University of Utah Hospital. As an internal medicine hospitalist, her interests include caring for acutely ill hospitalized adult patients with complex illnesses, quality improvement, and resident education. She is also a pediatric provider in the Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Center.

Dr. Balch received her MD from the University of New Mexico. She completed her residency in the combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Program at the University of Utah. She has been a hospitalist at the University of Utah since July 2015. She is currently a member of the Society of Hospital Medicine, and the American College of Physicians.

Specialties

Board Certification

American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine)
American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics)

Heather Balch, MD, is a physician at the University of Utah Hospital. As an internal medicine hospitalist, her interests include caring for acutely ill hospitalized adult patients with complex illnesses, quality improvement, and resident education. She is also a pediatric provider in the Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Center.

Dr. Balch received her MD from the University of New Mexico. She completed her residency in the combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Program at the University of Utah. She has been a hospitalist at the University of Utah since July 2015. She is currently a member of the Society of Hospital Medicine, and the American College of Physicians.

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Pediatrics -Adjunct Associate Professor
Internal Medicine -Associate Professor (Clinical)
Academic Divisions Cardiology
General Medicine
Board Certification
American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine)
American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics)

Education history

Undergraduate Chemistry, Biology - University of New Mexico B.A., B.S.
Professional Medical Medicine - University of New Mexico School of Medicine M.D.
Residency Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics - University of Utah Hospitals and Primary Children's Hospital Resident
Chief Resident Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics - University of Utah Hospitals and Primary Children's Hospital Chief Resident
Graduate Training Bioinformatics - University of Utah M.S.

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Balch H, Gradick C, Kukhareva PV, Wanner (2022). Association of Mobile Workstations and Rounding-in-Flow with Resident Efficiency: A Controlled Study at an Academic Internal Medicine Department. Journal of general internal medicine, 37(14), 3700-3706.
  2. Kaufman CS,McDonald J,Balch H,Whitehead (2022). Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations: What the Interventional Radiologist Should Know. Seminars in interventional radiology, 39(3), 261-270.