Stephen W. Hosea, MD

Dr. Stephen W. Hosea was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He left Louisville to move to Boston for ten years first attending Harvard College, Harvard Medical School and then was a medical intern and resident at Massachusetts General Hospital form 1973-1975.

Following residency, he traveled to Bethesda, Maryland where he was a clinical associate in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases working with Dr. Tony Fauci until Dr. Hosea became a Senior Investigator. He left the NIH to come to Santa Barbara to care for those with Infectious Diseases in 1981 and spent much of next 40 years caring for patients with HIV/AIDS and teaching Internal Medicine to the residents in the Graduate Medical Education.

He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine with the Keck USC School of Medicine, the Director of Clinical Education for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Cottage Health, and the lead attending for the program’s daily Morning Report. Dr. Hosea describes his passion as, “being the best teacher that I can be and I consider the success of every single resident to be my most important motivation”.