Marisha Burden, MD, MBA

Marisha Burden, MD, MBA, is Division Head of Hospital Medicine and Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where she leads a hospital medicine group of more than 250 faculty across three health systems. She earned her medical degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, completed her residency at the University of Colorado, and received her MBA from the University of Colorado Denver Business School. Dr. Burden’s research focuses on administrative harm and evidence-based work design, with an emphasis on scalable, data-driven approaches that strengthen workforce sustainability and improve patient and organizational outcomes. Her leadership and scholarship have been recognized with the 2022 Society of Hospital Medicine Award of Excellence for Clinical Leadership and the 2024 ABIM Foundation John A. Benson Jr. Professionalism Article Prize. A longtime leader in SGIM and ACLGIM, she was named SGIM’s Distinguished Professor of Hospital Medicine in 2024 and was recently elected to the SGIM Council.