Dr. Holly Hauser measures her professional success by her patients.

“My greatest professional accomplishment really is on such a small scale that it is hard to verbalize,” Hauser says. “It is in times of sadness, being able to talk with someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer. Serving on boards is not as important as what I do day-to-day. The interaction with patients is the reason I do what I do.”

Taking patient care to the ultimate level, Hauser is a volunteer physician several times a year at St. Leo’s Medical Clinic. Operating out of a church in Eden Gardens, the clinic provides medical care to the working poor. She also went to Houston with a Scripps medical team to treat ill and injured evacuees from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Married to her high school sweetheart, mother to two young boys and a staff physician in family medicine at Scripps Clinic Carmel Valley, her daily role in life changes constantly. From getting the children ready for school to seeing patients at the hospital to serving on medical boards, Hauser manages to fit in sets on the tennis court and backgammon tournaments with her family.

She has been a staff physician with Scripps Clinic in San Diego since 1998. She serves on the board of Scripps Clinic and is a member of the California Academy of Family Physicians and the American Academy of Family Physicians.

“Sometimes it is overwhelming,” she says of her life, “to keep a practice going and care for the kids.” It wouldn’t be possible without the ability to job share, something Scripps allows its employees to do.