MAY KIM-TENSER
NEUROLOGY
Division Chief, Neurocritical Care/Stroke; Associate Chair, Neurology, Keck Hospital of USC; Medical Director, Neurosciences ICU at Keck Hospital of USC; Medical Director, Neurocritical Care Consult Service at USC Arcadia Hospital
Keck Medicine of USC
May Kim-Tenser, MD, MHA, FAHA created a financial business model to separate the Neurology service line at Keck Hospital to a Neurocritical Care ICU service and a Neurology floors/consult service in 2020. She is driven, highly motivated and always seeking ways to improve workflow, the quality of care her team provides to patients, and to grow programs strategically looking into the future. She became the division chief for neurocritical care/stroke in January of 2023 and helped create a physician compensation incentivization model for the division which is being piloted at this time. She is growing the Neurocritical Care program at Arcadia Hospital which USC recently acquired.
