Faculty

Division Chief
Robert Wachter, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Associate Chairman, Department of Medicine
Lynne and Marc Benioff Endowed Chair in Hospital Medicine
Chief of Medical Service - UCSF Medical Center
Editor, AHRQ WebM&M and AHRQ Patient Safety Network (PSNet)
Areas of Interest: Organizational change; new models of clinical care; improvement of patient safety and quality

Associate Division Chief
Bradley Sharpe, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Associate Program Director of Residency Training, Department of Medicine
Medical Director, Moffitt-Long Medical Service, CHF and Oncology Hospitalist Services
Areas of Interest: Medical education; community-acquired pneumonia; faculty development in clinical teaching; improvement of quality and safety

DHM Faculty
Anna Abramson, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor

Wendy Anderson, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Palliative care; doctor-patient communication

Andrew Auerbach, MD, MPH
Associate Professor in Residence
Director of Research, Division of Hospital Medicine
Areas of Interest: Assessments of patient outcomes in different systems of care

Hugo Quinn Cheng, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, Medicine Consultation Service, Neurosurgery Comanagement Service
Areas of Interest: Perioperative medicine; comanagement of surgical patients

Ryan Crisel, MD
Clinical Instructor
Areas of Interest: Advanced heart failure, ventricular tachycardia, cardiac critical care, cardiac resynchronization therapy

Russell Cucina, MD, MS
Assistant Clinical Professor
Associate Medical Director of Information Technology, UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Children’s Hospital
Director of Clinical Informatics, Division of Hospital Medicine
Areas of Interest: Health information technology leadership and policy; socio-technical issues in health care; clinical human-computer interaction science; decision support systems; information storage; retrieval methods

Madhavi Dandu, MD, MPH
Assistant Clinical Professor
Associate Director, Pathways to Discovery in Global Health
Areas of Interest: Medical education; global health; health and human rights

Adam Elkin, MD
Clinical Instructor

Margaret Fang, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor in Residence
Areas of Interest: Evaluating the quality, safety, and outcomes associated with anticoagulation therapy

L. Elizabeth Goldman, MD, MCR
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Quality, quality measurement, safety-net facilities

Jeffrey Gotts, MD, PhD
Clinical Instructor

Adrienne Green, MD
Associate Clinical Professor

Neil Gupta, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Quality improvement/transitional care; medical education; global health

Karen Hauer, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director of the Internal Medicine Clerkships
Director of UCSF’s Clinical Performance Examination and the California Consortium for the Assessment of Clinical Competence
Areas of Interest: Clinical skills assessment; career choice; remediation

Meredith Heller, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Palliative care; interdisciplinary teamwork in patient care; patient/physician communication; medical education

Joy Hsu, MD
Clinical Instructor
Areas of Interest: Allergy, immunology, sinusitis, asthma, health disparities

Michael Hwa, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Quality and safety improvement; core quality measures; leveraging technology to improve efficiency of healthcare processes; electronic medical records

Sumana Kesh, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Medical education; transitions in care; women's health

Andy Lai, MD
Clinical Instructor

Cindy Lai, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Site Director, Medicine Clerkships
Director, Intersessions Course for Third-Year Medical Students

Catherine Lau, MD
Clinical Instructor

David Majure, MD
Clinical Instructor

Rupa Marya, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor

Raya Mawad, MD
Clinical Instructor

Lindsay Mazotti, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Co-Director, PISCES Integrated Longitudinal Clerkship
Areas of Interest: Medical education, longitudinal clerkship training, care transitions, student assessment

Michelle Milic, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor

B.J. (Bruce) Miller, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Palliative Care Service
Areas of Interest: Patient and family care; existentialism and medicine; art and medicine; palliative care education

Somnath Mookherjee, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Human factors in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, resident education in systems based practice, evidence based physical examination

Michelle Mourad, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Medical Director, CHF and Oncology Hospitalist Services
Areas of Interest: Improvement of procedure education in residency, implementation and impact of a dedicated hospitalist procedure service on housestaff education and patient safety, reduction of unnecessary testing in hospitalized patients

Elizabeth Adkins Murphy, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Geriatrics inpatient quality and safety; medical education; patient satisfaction; narrative medicine

Heather Nye, MD, PhD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Transitional care; medical education; curriculum development

Steven Pantilat, MD, FACP
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Alan M. Kates and John M. Burnard Endowed Chair in Palliative Care
Director, Palliative Care Leadership Center
Medical Director, Palliative Care Service
Areas of Interest: End-of-life care; palliative care outcomes and quality

Sumant Ranji, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Director of Fellowship, Division of Hospital Medicine
Areas of Interest: Teaching quality improvement and patient safety to residents and students; evidence-based medicine

Stephanie Rennke, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Inpatient care of the geriatric patient; transitions in care; medical education

Niraj Sehgal, MD, MPH
Assistant Clinical Professor
Associate Chair for Quality Improvement & Patient Safety, Department of Medicine
Director of Faculty Development, Division of Hospital Medicine
Areas of Interest: Improving patient safety and quality; developing interdisciplinary teamwork and communication initiatives; leading organizational change; promoting faculty development for academic hospitalists

Van Selby, MD
Clinical Instructor

Sriram Shamasunder, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Global health; social medicine; delivery of care in resource poor setting

Bradley Sharpe, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Associate Program Director of Residency Training, Department of Medicine
Medical Director, Moffitt-Long Medical Service, CRI Hospitalist Service, CHF Hospitalist Service
Areas of Interest: Medical education; community-acquired pneumonia; faculty development in clinical teaching; improving quality and safety

Aparajita Singh, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor

Diane Sliwka, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Medical Director, Procedure Service
Areas of Interest: Simulation; procedures; team training; quality and safety

Elaine Toy, MD
Clinical Instructor

Arpana Vidyarthi, MD
Associate Clinical Professor
Director of Quality and Safety, Division of Hospital Medicine
Areas of Interest: Quality and safety

Robert Wachter, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Associate Chairman, Department of Medicine
Lynne and Marc Benioff Endowed Chair in Hospital Medicine
Chief of Medical Service - UCSF Medical Center
Editor, AHRQ WebM&M and AHRQ Patient Safety Network (PSNet)
Areas of Interest: Organizational change; new models of clinical care; improving patient safety and quality

Heather Whelan, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Medical Director, UCSF at Mt. Zion Medical Center