Faculty
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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
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


