Beebe welcomes award-winning infectious disease specialist
Beebe Healthcare announced the appointment of Jimmy Chua, MD, to the hospital’s medical staff. He is recognized as an award-winning infectious disease specialist, trained to treat a wide range of complex clinical conditions.
Chua sees patients at the Margaret H. Rollins Lewes Campus and Beebe Medical Group’s Infectious Disease and Travel Medicine office on Savannah Road in Lewes.
Chua treats all forms of surgical infection, along with complicated skin and soft tissue infections, HIV infection, sexually transmitted diseases, pneumonia, endocarditis, osteomyelitis, meningitis, sepsis, viral hepatitis and other infections related to the liver. He also addresses all forms of infection related to viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites.
Chua is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the American Association of the Study of Liver Diseases. His clinical and leadership experience is extensive. In 2001, he founded a medical practice in southeastern Washington state, at which time he launched the annual What’s New in Medicine regional medical education conference for medical practitioners. The Washington Chapter of the ACP repeatedly recognized Chua as a role model and ultimately honored him with its Internist of the Year Award in both 2005 and 2023, citing his excellent clinical skills, dedication to patients, enthusiasm for the practice of medicine and outstanding leadership.
The ACP also presented Chua its laureate award, an honor bestowed upon senior physicians with acknowledged excellence and peer approval in the field of internal medicine. Chua also served as a faculty member at the Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences and at the WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine.
“My motto in practice is to do my best with God’s guidance, to help each patient manage and overcome their medical condition,” said Chua, who was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. “I am grateful for the opportunity to practice medicine at Beebe, which allows me to live in close proximity to my family.”
Chua earned his medical degree from the University of Santo Tomas, recognized as the oldest university in Asia. After practicing in Manila, he relocated to Marshfield, Wis., to pursue internal medicine residency training at the Marshfield Clinic. His clinical training concluded at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, where he completed fellowships in both infectious disease and clinical microbiology. In his free time, Chua enjoys swimming, traveling with his family, taking care of his aquarium, harvesting his vegetable garden, listening to audiobooks and playing chess. He speaks multiple languages including English, Tagalog, Mandarin, Taiwanese and Spanish.
