Charles Hobson

Charles Hobson, MD is board certified in general surgery and in critical care medicine, and since finishing his fellowship his practice has been exclusively critical care. Dr. Hobson completed his MD at the University of Virginia, an MHA at the University of Washington and a PhD in health services research at the University of Florida. He trained in surgery at the University of Virginia and in critical care at the University of Florida. He spent 10 years in the surgical ICU at the Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center in Gainesville Fl, and in 2018 began working in the ICUs at HCA Florida North Florida Hospital. In 2020 he was named as the ICU Medical Director and Chief of Critical Care Medicine, and in 2022 he was named Physician of the Year at North Florida Hospital. In 2023 he accepted the position of Chief Medical Officer at HCA Florida Lake City Hospital, a 113 bed hospital that serves rural North Central Florida and South Georgia.

Dr. Hobson’s research interests are in alternative payment methodologies, using clinical and administrative health data to better assess the costs and outcomes of health services. He helped build the Episode Grouper for Medicare for CMS and the joint Brandeis University / American College of Surgeons advanced Alternative Payment Methodology proposal that was approved for development by CMS.

Dr. Hobson practiced family medicine in rural Washington State and emergency medicine in rural Virginia, served as medical director for a 2000 inmate maximum-security prison, and established and ran the Emergency Medicine Program for the International Medical Corps in Zenica, Republic of Bosnia and Hercegovina during the war there. He loves cooking with his wife, bodysurfing and snowboarding with his two sons, and loud electric guitars.