Logan Pierce, MD

Assistant Professor

Logan Pierce, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine at UCSF. He is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics. He practices clinically as both a Hospitalist and a Proceduralist, and also works with multiple Informatics groups across UCSF to extract and analyze data from the Electronic Health Record to transform care delivery in the health system.
Education
2020 - Clinical Informatics Fellowship, UCSF
2019 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, UCSF
2018 - Internal Medicine Residency, UCLA
MD, 2015 - , Tufts University School of Medicine
BA, 2010 - , Cornell University
Publications

  1. Trang K, Decker HC, Gonzalez A, Pierce L, Shui AM, Melton-Meaux GB, Wick EC. Electronic Surgical Consent Delivery Via Patient Portal to Improve Perioperative Efficiency. JAMA surgery 2024. PMID: 39259530


  2. Decker HC, Shui A, Kanzaria HK, Pierce L, Wick E. Admission and Patients Undergoing Surgery at Risk of Patient-Directed Discharges. JAMA surgery 2024. PMID: 39230931


  4. Colley A, Valderrama A, Tang V, Pierce L, Sudore RL, Wick EC. Health Care Navigators for Perioperative Advance Care Planning. JAMA network open 2024. PMID: 38888926


  5. Decker HC, Silver CM, Graham-Squire D, Pierce L, Kanzaria HK, Wick EC. Association of Homelessness with Before Medically Advised Discharge After Surgery. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2024. PMID: 38871598


  6. Pierce L, Harrison JD, Patel S. Individualized Average Length of Stay: A timelier, provider-level LOS metric. Journal of hospital medicine 2024. PMID: 38528634


  7. Trang K, Pierce L, Wick EC. The Impact of Using Electronic Consents on Documentation of Language-Concordant Surgical Consent for Patients with Limited English Proficiency. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2024. PMID: 38565472


  8. Colley A, Broering J, Lee K, Lin JA, Pierce L, Finlayson E, Sudore RL, Wick EC. "It Gives Me Peace of Mind So I Can Focus on Healing": Views on Advance Care Planning for Older Surgical Patients. Journal of palliative medicine 2024. PMID: 38386513


  9. Pierce L, Judson TJ, Mourad M. Finding the time: Hourly variation in average daily census on a hospital medicine service. Journal of hospital medicine 2023. PMID: 37926952


  10. Lin JA, Colley A, Pierce L, Finlayson E, Sudore RL, WIck EC. Clinician Review of Advanced Care Planning for Older Surgical Patients Requiring Intensive Care. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2023. PMID: 37926671


  11. Decker H, Trang K, Ramirez J, Colley A, Pierce L, Coleman M, Bongiovanni T, Melton GB, Wick E. Large Language Model-Based Chatbot vs Surgeon-Generated Informed Consent Documentation for Common Procedures. JAMA network open 2023. PMID: 37812419


  12. Chugh R, Liu AW, Idomsky Y, Bigazzi O, Maiorano A, Medina E, Pierce L, Odisho A, Mahadevan U. A Digital Health Intervention to Improve the Clinical Care of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients. Applied clinical informatics 2023. PMID: 37586416


  13. Yap A, Wang K, Cornejo J, Chen E, Pierce L, Wick E, Gandhi S. Transition to Reusable Surgical Gowns at a Hospital System. JAMA network open 2023. PMID: 37606928


  14. Liu AW, Pierce L, Ganeshan S, Brown W, Judson T, Divakaran D, Bini S, Odisho AY, Mourad M. Impact of an automated peri-procedural digital health intervention on rates of emergency department visits and readmissions. American journal of surgery 2023. PMID: 37604749


  15. Shah SJ, Hoffman A, Pierce L, Covinsky KE. Development and applicability of a risk assessment tool for hospital-acquired mobility impairment in ambulatory older adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2023. PMID: 37265397


  16. Decker HC, Kanzaria HK, Evans J, Pierce L, Wick EC. Association of Housing Status with Types of Operations and Post-Operative Healthcare Utilization. Annals of surgery 2023. PMID: 37232943


  17. Colley A, Lin J, Pierce L, Johnson C, Bongiovanni T, Finlayson E, Sudore R, Wick EC. Experiences with targeting inpatient advance care planning for emergency general surgery patients: A resident-led quality improvement project. Surgery 2023. PMID: 37183132


  18. Johnson CL, Colley A, Pierce L, Lin JA, Bongiovanni T, Roman S, Sudore RL, Wick E. Disparities in advance care planning rates persist among emergency general surgery patients: Current state and recommendations for improvement. The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2023. PMID: 37218039


  19. Arvisais-Anhalt S, Ravi A, Weia B, Aarts J, Ahmad HB, Araj E, Bauml JA, Benham-Hutchins M, Boyd AD, Brecht-Doscher A, Butler-Henderson K, Butte A, Cardillo AB, Chilukuri N, Cho MK, Cohen JK, Craven CK, Crusco SJ, Dadabhoy F, Dash D, DeBolt C, Elkin PL, Fayanju OA, Fochtmann L, Graham JV, Hanna J, Hersh W, Hoffard MR, Hron J, Huang SS, Jackson BR, Kaplan B, Kelly W, Ko K, Koppel R, Kurapati N, Labbad G, Lee J, Lehmann CU, Leitner S, Liao ZC, Medford RJ, Melnick ER, Muniyappa AN, Murray S, Neinstein A, Nichols-Johnson V, Novak L, Ogan WS, Ozeran L, Pageler N, Pandita D, Perumbeti A, Petersen C, Pierce L, Puttagunta R, Ramaswamy P, Rogers KM, Rosenbloom T, Ryan A, Saleh S, Sarabu C, Schreiber R, Shaw KA, Sim I, Sirintrapun SJ, Solomonides A, Spector JD, Starren JB, Stoffel M, Subbian V, Swanson K, Tomes A, Trang K, Unertl KM, Weon JL, Whooley M, Wiley K, Williamson DF, Winkelstein P, Wong J, Xie J, Yarahuan JKW, Yung N, Zera C, Ratanawongsa N, Sadasivaiah S. Paging the Clinical Informatics Community: Respond STAT to Dobbs v Jackson's Women's Health Organization. Applied clinical informatics 2022. PMID: 36535703


  20. Ganeshan S, Pierce L, Mourad M, Judson TJ, Kohli MD, Odisho AY, Brown W. Impact of patient portal-based self-scheduling of diagnostic imaging studies on health disparities. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2022. PMID: 36063414


  21. Judson TJ, Pierce L, Tutman A, Mourad M, Neinstein AB, Shuler G, Gonzales R, Odisho AY. Utilization patterns and efficiency gains from use of a fully EHR-integrated COVID-19 self-triage and self-scheduling tool: a retrospective analysis. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2022. PMID: 36029243


  22. Colley A, Lin JA, Pierce L, Finlayson E, Sudore RL, Wick E. Missed Opportunities and Health Disparities for Advance Care Planning Before Elective Surgery in Older Adults. JAMA surgery 2022. PMID: 36001323


  24. Shee K, Liu A, Yarbrough C, Branagan L, Pierce L, Odisho AY. Identifying Barriers to Successful Completion of Video Telemedicine Visits in Urology. Urology 2022. PMID: 35981658


  25. Ikoma S, Pierce L, Bell DS, Cheng EM, Drake T, Guo R, Ziman A. Displaying Cost and Completion Time for Reference Laboratory Test Orders-A Randomized Controlled Trial. Applied clinical informatics 2022. PMID: 35580621


  26. Patel S, Pierce L, Jones M, Lai A, Cai M, Sharpe BA, Harrison JD. Using Participatory Design to Engage Physicians in the Development of a Provider-Level Performance Dashboard and Feedback System. "Are Telehealth Visits Feasible for Vulnerable Patients?" 2021. PMID: 35058160


  27. Lin JA, Pierce L, Murray SG, Soleimani H, Wick EC, Sosa JA, Hirose K. Estimation of Surgical Resident Duty Hours and Workload in Real Time Using Electronic Health Record Data. Journal of surgical education 2021. PMID: 34507910


  28. Sarma A, Christenson SA, Byrne A, Mick E, Pisco AO, DeVoe C, Deiss T, Ghale R, Zha BS, Tsitsiklis A, Jauregui A, Moazed F, Detweiler AM, Spottiswoode N, Sinha P, Neff N, Tan M, Serpa PH, Willmore A, Ansel KM, Wilson JG, Leligdowicz A, Siegel ER, Sirota M, DeRisi JL, Matthay MA, COMET Consortium , Hendrickson CM, Kangelaris KN, Krummel MF, Woodruff PG, Erle DJ, Calfee CS, Langelier CR. Tracheal aspirate RNA sequencing identifies distinct immunological features of COVID-19 ARDS. Nature communications 2021. PMID: 34446707


  29. Lin JA, Braun HJ, Schwab ME, Pierce L, Sosa JA, Wick EC. Pandemic Recovery: Persistent Disparities in Access to Elective Surgical Procedures. Annals of surgery 2021. PMID: 33914483


  30. Subash M, Sakumoto M, Bass J, Hong P, Muniyappa A, Pierce L, Purmal C, Ramaswamy P, Sono R, Uptegraft C, Feinstein D, Khanna R. The emerging role of clinical informatics fellows in service learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2021. PMID: 33164076


  31. Combes AJ, Courau T, Kuhn NF, Hu KH, Ray A, Chen WS, Chew NW, Cleary SJ, Kushnoor D, Reeder GC, Shen A, Tsui J, Hiam-Galvez KJ, Muñoz-Sandoval P, Zhu WS, Lee DS, Sun Y, You R, Magnen M, Rodriguez L, Im KW, Serwas NK, Leligdowicz A, Zamecnik CR, Loudermilk RP, Wilson MR, Ye CJ, Fragiadakis GK, Looney MR, Chan V, Ward A, Carrillo S, UCSF COMET Consortium , Matthay M, Erle DJ, Woodruff PG, Langelier C, Kangelaris K, Hendrickson CM, Calfee C, Rao AA, Krummel MF. Global absence and targeting of protective immune states in severe COVID-19. Nature 2021. PMID: 33494096


  32. Wick EC, Pierce L, Conte MC, Sosa JA. Operationalizing the Operating Room: Ensuring Appropriate Surgical Care in the Era of COVID-19. Volume 272 of Issue 2. Annals of surgery 2020. PMID: 32675528


  33. Wick EC, Pierce L, Conte MC, Sosa JA. Operationalizing the Operating Room: Ensuring Appropriate Surgical Care in the Era of COVID-19. Annals of surgery 2020. PMID: 32404674


  34. Lancaster EM, Sosa JA, Sammann A, Pierce L, Shen W, Conte MC, Wick EC. Rapid Response of an Academic Surgical Department to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Patients, Surgeons, and the Community. Volume 230 of Issue 6. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2020. PMID: 32278726


  35. Rosenthal ME, Mediavilla J, Chen L, Sonnenfeld J, Pierce L, Shannon A, Boucher H, Pearlmutter M, Kreiswirth B, Kuo YH, Previl H, Rojtman A. Molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus in post-earthquake northern Haiti. Volume 29. 2014. PMID: 25449249


  36. Pierce L, Shannon A, Sonnenfeld J, Pearlmutter M, Previl H, Forrester JE. Hypertension prevalence and knowledge assessment in rural Haiti. Volume 24 of Issue 2. 2014. PMID: 24804369