Sajan Patel, MD

Associate Professor

Director of Quality Improvement, Division of Hospital Medicine
Education
2023 - Lean Champion, UCSF Health
2020 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, UCSF Health
2016 - Academic Hospital Medicine Fellowship, UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine
Residency, 2014 - Internal Medicine, UCLA Medical Center
MD, 2011 - , NYU School of Medicine
Undergraduate, 2006 - Molecular and Cell Biology; Psychology, UC Berkeley
Honors and Awards
  • Alpha Omega Alpha, NYU School of Medicine, 2011
  • Graduated with Honors, UC Berkeley, 2006
  • Phi Beta Kappa, UC Berkeley, 2006
Publications

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


  2. Najafi N, Robinson A, Pletcher MJ, Patel S. Effectiveness of an Analytics-Based Intervention for Reducing Sleep Interruption in Hospitalized Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial. "Are Telehealth Visits Feasible for Vulnerable Patients?" 2021. PMID: 34962506


  3. 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


  4. Pletcher MJ, Flaherman V, Najafi N, Patel S, Rushakoff RJ, Hoffman A, Robinson A, Cucina RJ, McCulloch CE, Gonzales R, Auerbach A. Randomized Controlled Trials of Electronic Health Record Interventions: Design, Conduct, and Reporting Considerations. Annals of internal medicine 2020. PMID: 32479183


  6. Jacobs ZG, Najafi N, Fang MC, Prasad PA, Abe-Jones Y, Auerbach AD, Patel S. Reducing Unnecessary Treatment of Asymptomatic Elevated Blood Pressure with Intravenous Medications on the General Internal Medicine Wards: A Quality Improvement Initiative. Journal of hospital medicine 2019. PMID: 30811319


  7. Patel S, Rajkomar A, Harrison JD, Prasad PA, Valencia V, Ranji SR, Mourad M. Next-generation audit and feedback for inpatient quality improvement using electronic health record data: a cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ quality & safety 2018. PMID: 29507124


  8. Maraj B, Huang A, Patel S. Acute Colitis in a Patient with Streptococcus pyogenes Bacteremia. The American journal of medicine 2017. PMID: 29024623


  9. Patel S, De Silva S, Dowling E. Physicians are often incorrect about the telemetry status of their patients. Journal of hospital medicine 2017. PMID: 28125829