Med-Peds Intensivist and Hospitalist
Hawaii Permanente Medical Group
Philip A. Verhoef, MD, PhD, FACP, FAAP, ATSF is a med-peds intensivist, caring for patients in both the adult and pediatric critical care units at Kaiser Permanente Hawaii and Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children. In addition, he is an associate clinical professor of Medicine at the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii and associate program director for the Kaiser Permanente Hawaii Internal Medicine Residency Program.
Dr. Verhoef graduated from the MSTP program at Case Western Reserve University with a PhD in pharmacology studying interleukin-1 beta processing and secretion from macrophages. He completed residency training in internal medicine and pediatrics at UCLA and subspecialty MICU and PICU fellowship training at the University of Chicago.
As a T32-supported fellow and postdoctoral researcher, he studied the development and function of innate lymphocytes, and as a junior faculty member at the University of Chicago, he was supported by several NIH awards to study the host response to infection using mouse models, patient samples and big data analysis of electronic health records. Since relocating to Hawaii in 2019, he has moved further into the big data space, combining analysis of immune responses with clinical data to further refine our understanding of subphenotypes in sepsis and COVID-19. His research has been published in JAMA, Intensive Care Medicine, Nature, Critical Care Medicine, the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, JACI and PNAS, among others.
Beyond his research, he is an active clinician and educator, with an interest in undergraduate and graduate competency-based clinical medical education. He loves spending time with his family, standup paddle surfing, and singing with the Oahu Choral Society and Hawaii Symphony Orchestra.