Jimmy D. Chua, MD

At Beebe Healthcare
Jimmy Chua, MD, is an award-winning infectious disease specialist on Beebe Healthcare’s medical staff. He treats all forms of surgical infection, along with complicated skin and soft tissue infections, HIV infection, sexually transmitted diseases, pneumonia, endocarditis, osteomyelitis, meningitis, sepsis, viral hepatitis, and other infections related to the liver. Dr. Chua also addresses all forms of infection related to viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites.

Education, Training, and Credentialing
Dr. Chua earned his medical degree from the University of Santo Tomas, recognized as the oldest university in Asia. After practicing in Manila, he relocated to Marshfield, Wisconsin, to pursue internal medicine residency training at the Marshfield Clinic. His clinical training concluded at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, where he completed fellowships in both infectious disease and clinical microbiology. Dr. Chua is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the American Association of the Study of Liver Diseases.

Earlier Work Experiences
In 2001, Dr. Chua founded his medical practice in southeastern Washington, at which time he launched the annual “What’s New in Medicine” regional medical education conference for medical practitioners. The Washington Chapter of the ACP repeatedly recognized Dr. Chua as a role model and ultimately honored him with their Internist of the Year Award in both 2005 and 2023. They cited his excellent clinical skills, dedication to patients, enthusiasm for the practice of medicine, and outstanding leadership. Additionally, the ACP conferred Dr. Chua its Laureate Award, an honor presented to senior physicians with acknowledged excellence and peer approval in the field of internal medicine. He has authored multiple scientific publications, covering topics from device related infections, side effects of antibiotics, and common and unusual infections. Dr. Chua also served as a faculty member at the Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences and at the WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine.

Personal Notes
Dr. Chua was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. His motto in practice is to do his best with God’s guidance, to help each patient manage and overcome their medical condition. He is grateful for the opportunity to practice at Beebe, which allows him to live in close proximity to his family. In his free time, Dr. Chua enjoys swimming, traveling with his family, taking care of his aquarium, harvesting his vegetable garden, listening to audiobooks, and playing chess. He speaks multiple languages including English, Tagalog, Mandarin, Taiwanese, and Spanish.