Faculty

Division Chief
Robert Wachter, MD
Professor of 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 Medicine
Associate Program Director, UCSF Internal Medicine Residency
Medical Director, Moffitt-Long Medical Service
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
Areas of Interest: HIV infection rates in San Francisco general population; pain management in opiate-dependent patients; barriers to care in non-English speaking patient populations; prevention and early recognition of C. difficile infection

Anupam Aditi, MD
Clinical Instructor

Wendy Anderson, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Hospital medicine; palliative care; physician-patient communication; physician-family communication; qualitative research methods

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

Vinona Bhatia
Assistant Clinical Professor

Faye Chan, MD, MPH
Clinical Instructor
Areas of Interest: Global public health; health and human rights; quality improvement in health care delivery

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

Russell Cucina, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine
Medical Director of Information Technology, UCSF Medical Center
Program Director, Clinical and Translational Informatics Graduate Program
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

Yile Ding, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Medical education; curriculum development; hospital medicine; patient hand-off; evidence-based medicine; quality improvement

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

Natalie Galanina, MD
Clinical Instructor

Marcia Glass, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Medical education; tropical medicine; palliative care; health care equality; and simulation training

Matthew Gonzales, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Associate Director, Palliative Care Service
Areas of Interest: Palliative Care; interdisciplinary teamwork; palliative care quality analyses

Adrienne Green, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine

Ryan Greysen, MD, MHS, MA
Assistant Clinical Professor

Dawn Gross, MD, PhD
Non-Academic Physician
Areas of Interest: Hospice and Palliative Care; Hematology/ Bone Marrow Transplantation;
Immunology/Autoimmunity/Graft Versus Host Disease/T cell Biology; Medical Writing /Self-Care and End-of-Life-Care

Michael Hwa, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Quality improvement and patient safety; core measures performance; performance feedback; physician dashboards; leveraging technology to improve communication and collaboration; electronic medical records

Manisha Israni, MD
Clinical Instructor
Areas of Interest: Transitional Care for adolescents and young adults with chronic conditions; serving the underserved; medical education; patient satisfaction

Kirsten Kangelaris, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Genetics; functional genomics; genetics of inflammatory biomarkers; biomarkers of inflammation; gene expression; prognosis in acute lung injury; hospital medicine; risk prediction

Sneha Thakkar Kapur, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Health information technology; Decision support systems

Jesse Keller, MD
Clinical Instructor

Raman Khanna, MD, MAS
Assistant Clinical Professor

Andrew Lai, MD, MPH
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Global and public health; HIV and infectious diseases; critical care medicine; procedures; rapid response teams; cost-effectiveness; patient safety and quality

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

Catherine Lau, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Medical Director, Nighttime Hospitalist Service
Areas of Interest: Patient quality and safety; patient satisfaction; improving inpatient communication; medical education of hospital procedures; care transitions; preoperative medical management

Phuoc Le, MD, MPH, DTM&H
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Global health medical education; patient safety; quality improvement in health care delivery; health disparities

Steven Ludwin, MD
Clinical Instructor

Colleen Lynch, MD
Clinical Instructor

David Majure, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor

Oliver Medzihradsky, MD, MPH, MSc
Assistant Clinical Professor
Dual adult and pediatric academic hospital medicine; global public health with a focus on HIV/AIDS; transition of subspecialty care from pediatric to adult systems; adult and pediatric palliative care in high- and low-resource settings

Bradley Monash, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Assistant Chief of Moffitt-Long Medical Service
Areas of Interest: Medical education; curriculum development; models of clinical care; systems improvement

Christopher Moriates, MD
Clinical Instructor
Areas of Interest: High-value healthcare; cost awareness; medical education; patient safety; quality improvement; procedural education; biomarkers

Michelle Mourad, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Director of Quality and Safety
Areas of Interest: Procedure education and simulation; procedure competency assessment; electronic medical records/electronic discharge materials; quality improvement around care transitions

Elizabeth Adkins Murphy, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Director of Nighttime Hospitalist Service
Director of Congestive Heart Failure Hospitalist Service
Director of Oncology Hospitalist Service
Areas of Interest: Geriatrics inpatient quality and safety; medical education; patient satisfaction; narrative medicine

Nader Najafi, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Area of Interest: Medical education; high-fidelity simulation; telemetry monitoring; bedside ultrasound

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

Ami Parekh, MD, JD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Developing and implementing new models of care delivery; improving the value of health care; national and state health care policy development and implementation

David Pham, MD
Clinical Instructor

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

Sanjay Reddy, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor

Tom Reid, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor

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

Sujatha Sankaran, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor

Niraj Sehgal, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Chair for Quality & Safety, Department of Medicine
Areas of Interest: Quality improvement & patient safety; leadership development and change management; multidisciplinary teamwork and communication; faculty development in QI and leadership

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 Medicine
Associate Program Director of Residency Training, Department of Medicine
Medical Director, Moffitt-Long Medical Service
Areas of Interest: Medical education; community-acquired pneumonia; faculty development in clinical teaching; improving quality and safety

Marwa Shoeb, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Areas of Interest: Global health; medical education; transitions of care

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

James Troy, MD
Clinical Instructor

Aylin Ulku, MD, PhD
Assistant Clinical Professor

Robert Wachter, MD
Professor of 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

Rebecca Wylie, MD, MS
Clinical Instructor

Lucas Zier, MD, MS
Clinical Instructor