Valery Akopov, MD
Associate Program Director
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
Director, Hospital Medicine Service, Emory Crawford Long Hospital

Dr. Akopov received his M.D. from Tbilisi Medical Institute and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Emory University Hospital in 1997. He joined the Division of General Internal Medicine as an academic faculty based at Grady. In 1998 he became part of the newly established Hospital Medicine Unit at Grady Memorial Hospital. In 2003 Dr. Akopov helped to start the new academic Hospital Medicine service at Emory Crawford Long Hospital which he directs at present time. Since its inception Hospital Medicine Service at ECLH grew from eight faculty to twenty-two.

In 2007 Dr. Akopov assumed responsibility of Director of Care Coordination at ECLH overseeing operations of Social Services and Utilization Review Department. While at Emory Dr. Akopov received number of teaching awards including Golden Apple Teaching Awards, Emory Hospital Medicine teaching Award, Overall Excellence in Hospital Medicine Award. Dr. Akopov’s interests include housestaff teaching with the focus on hospital medicine, systems improvement, development and implementation of VTE prophylaxis tools in hospitalized patients.