Edward Cladera, MD, serves as a board-certified hospitalist within Chula Vista's Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group, providing inpatient internal medicine at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center on Medical Center Drive in the 91910 medical corridor. Hospital-based internists direct post-surgical recovery pathways that feed into outpatient rehabilitation, a discharge pipeline that connects to clinics including Sports Performance Physical Therapy - Chula Vista for musculoskeletal reconditioning. A 2007 graduate of Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Cladera completed residency training at the University of Tennessee before joining the Sharp system in 2011, and holds additional admitting privileges at Sharp Memorial Hospital. Inpatient pain-management and post-acute recovery plans under hospitalist direction may incorporate integrative modalities, coordinating discharge referrals with outpatient providers including Perfect Balance Acupuncture in the Eastlake area for acupuncture-based pain protocols. Hospitalist-level case complexity includes ventilator-weaning protocols in step-down units, heparin-drip management for acute venous thromboembolism, and multidisciplinary discharge planning coordinating pharmacy, social work, and home-health transitions per CMS readmission-reduction benchmarks.