HOMETOWN EXCELLENCE
Dr. Jinwah John Hoy has built a reputation of excellence, having served patients in California, Texas, and Washington. Dr. Hoy was born in Seattle in 1970. He was raised here and loves his hometown. As a Washington Scholar, he enrolled at the University of Washington in Seattle through its Honors Program, and received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Cell and Molecular Biology in 1994.
Dr. Hoy went on to medical school at the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine in Cleveland, completing his Doctor of Podiatric Medicine degree from the California College of Podiatric Medicine in San Francisco in 2000. Much of his medical school and residency didactic and clinical training was provided by faculty of Case Western Reserve University, and the prestigious University of California San Francisco/Stanford University Medical Center, respectively.
He completed a hospital-based podiatric medical and surgical residency in San Francisco and San Diego, California in 2002. He worked under some of the finest foot and ankle surgeons of the University of California, San Francisco, and Kaiser Permanente, San Diego. One of his core sites was the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco, which performed the most surgeries for diabetic patients in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Dr. Hoy then joined a large podiatric medicine and surgery group in San Antonio, Texas. His division focused on pediatric and diabetic populations. He worked extensively with diabetic wounds and performed many limb preservation surgical procedures for hospitalized patients with complicated medical histories. He returned to Seattle his hometown in 2004 to purchase a practice established in 1990.
Dr. Hoy has owned and operated the Downtown Foot and Ankle Center since 2005, treating a wide cross section of patients and pathology, with clinical sites spanning from Shoreline to Auburn, Seattle to Bellevue. He has also spent countless hours volunteering to provide much needed health care to indigent and uninsured populations. He is described as thorough and gentle.
Dr. Hoy is a member of the Clinical Faculty of the University of Washington School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, as a Teaching Associate. As a teacher, in addition to his patients, he has imparted skill and knowledge to podiatric surgery resident physicians, family medicine resident physicians, pre-medical students and medical assistant interns. He is therefore loved by his patients, referring doctors and trainees.
Through the rigorous, multi-year process of medical, biomechanical and surgical case submissions, and oral and written examinations, Dr. Hoy has become a Diplomate of both boards recognized by the American Podiatric Medical Association. These certifications are from the American Board of Podiatric Orthopedics and Primary Podiatric Medicine, granted in 2006, and the American Board of Podiatric Surgery, with Board Certification in Foot Surgery, granted in 2007.
Dr. Hoy is a Fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons and American College of Foot and Ankle Orthopedics and Medicine. He is a also member of the American and Washington State Podiatric Medical Associations, and has served on the WSPMA Board of Trustees.
On the administrative side, as Medical Director of the practice, Dr. Hoy is a Certified Outpatient Billing Specialist with the American Institute of Healthcare Compliance, and is in the process of becoming certified by the Professional Association of Health Care Office Management, of which he is a member. He is also a member of the Washington State Medical Group Management Association.
Dr. Hoy’s personal interests include continuing education, travel, current events, geography, culture and international cuisine.
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