Jay Varughese, MD

Jay Varughese, MD, is a board-certified internal medicine physician who specializes in caring for hospitalized patients. As a hospitalist, Dr. Varughese is assigned to patients at the time of admission and provides care only during their hospital stay. He does not see patients at outpatient clinics and is not available for appointments. Upon a patient's discharge, Dr. Varughese communicates with their regular physician to ensure quality care.

As a professor in the Department of Medicine, Dr. Ramos instructs medical students, residents and fellows.

Prior to joining UC San Diego Health, Dr. Varughese conducted research at the Comprehensive Hemophilia Treatment Center,Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in New Jersey. His interests included arteriovenous (AV) fistula thrombosis and thrombophilia/renal allograft loss and epidural anesthesia/von Willebrand disease.

He completed a fellowship in hematology/oncology at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, N.J., where he also completed his residency in internal medicine. He earned his medical degree at Ross University, School of Medicine in North Brunswick, N.J. He is board certified in internal medicine.