John Nelson, MD, FACP, is one of the founders of the hospitalist movement and has been a practicing hospitalist since 1988. He is a hospitalist and the hospitalist program’s medical director at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, Washington. Since 1994, he has been working with institutions around the United States to start new hospitalist practices or to improve existing ones. He is the founder of Nelson/Flores Associates, a consulting firm that provides guidance for hospitalist practices. Dr. Nelson serves as faculty for the Hospitalist Practice Management Course sponsored by the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM). He, along with Dr. Winthrop Whitcomb, cofounded SHM and has served as its past president.