Joseph Esherick is the Director of Medicine, a hospitalist and ICU physician at the Ventura County Medical Center in Ventura, California. He is also an Associate Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He was the lead instructor of the Hospitalist Procedures course for the National Procedures Institute between 2004 and 2011. Dr. Esherick was also the Co-Director of the 2015 Society of Hospital Medicine’s Precourse “Medical Procedures for Hospitalists.