Sirisha Narayana, MD

Associate Professor

Sirisha Narayana cares for patients on the inpatient medicine direct care and teaching services at Moffitt-Long Hospital. Her academic interests rest in complex medical decision-making and uncertainty, ethics, and medical education. She is the Academy of Medical Educators Endowed Chair in Excellence in Foundational Teaching. She is the Director of the Diagnostic Reasoning block in the School of Medicine and the Associate Director of the Acting Internship in Medicine. She mentors medical students in these roles and residents in her role as a RAD advisor.

Dr Narayana is also the Chair of the UCSF Ethics Committee. She co-directs the Division of Hospital Medicine's Women's Council which aims to improve gender equity in medicine.
Education
2018 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California, San Francisco
Chief Resident/Clinician Teacher Fellow, 2014 - Medicine, University of Washington, VA Puget Sound
Residency, 2013 - Medicine, University of Washington
M.D., 2010 - , Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
B.S., 2005 - Biological Sciences, Stanford University
Honors and Awards
  • Haile T Debas Academy of Medical Educators induction, UCSF, 2018
  • Outstanding Resident Teaching Award, UCSF Dept of Ob/Gyn, 2018
  • Outstanding Resident Teaching Award, UCSF Dept of Ob/Gyn, 2017
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, UCSF Academy of Medical Educators, 2016
  • Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award, UCSF School of Medicine, Class of 2016, 2016
  • Herbert S. Waxman Clinical Scholar, American College of Physicians, 2014
  • Resident Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Washington, School of Medicine, 2012
Publications

  1. Conner SM, Choi N, Fuller J, Daya S, Barish P, Rennke S, Harrison JD, Narayana S. Trainee Autonomy and Supervision in the Inpatient Clinical Learning Environment. The clinical teacher 2025. PMID: 39710509


  2. Minter DJ, Frank AK, Pierce L, Schwartz B, Narayana S. Response to: 'A confidentiality conundrum: Case tracking for medical education'. Medical teacher 2025. PMID: 39797639


  3. Minter DJ, Frank AK, Pierce L, Schwartz B, Narayana S. Response to: 'Is the practice of case-tracking a substitute for traditional feedback?' Medical teacher 2025. PMID: 39797629


  5. Daniel J Minter, Annabel K Frank, Brian S Schwartz, Sirisha Narayana. 772. Learning from our patients: An exploratory study to inform the development of a case tracking dashboard for subspecialty fellows. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2023. PMID:


  6. Conner SM, Choi N, Fuller J, Daya S, Barish P, Rennke S, Harrison JD, Narayana S. Trainee Autonomy and Supervision in the Modern Clinical Learning Environment: A Mixed-Methods Study of Faculty and Trainee Perspectives. Research square 2023. PMID: 37333324


  7. Connor DM, Narayana S, Dhaliwal G. A clinical reasoning curriculum for medical students: an interim analysis. "Are Telehealth Visits Feasible for Vulnerable Patients?" 2022. PMID: 34904425


  8. Narayana S, Gaw SL, Aldrich JM, Guterman EL. Revisiting the Role of Health Care Proxies in Reproductive Choice. Obstetrics and gynecology 2020. PMID: 33278283


  9. Narayana S, Roy B, Merriam S, Yecies E, Lee RS, Mitchell JL, Gottlieb AS. Minding the Gap: Organizational Strategies to Promote Gender Equity in Academic Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of general internal medicine 2020. PMID: 33021718


  10. Mummaneni PV, Burke JF, Chan AK, Sosa JA, Lobo EP, Mummaneni VP, Antrum S, Berven SH, Conte MS, Doernberg SB, Goldberg AN, Hess CP, Hetts SW, Josephson SA, Kohi MP, Ma CB, Mahadevan VS, Molinaro AM, Murr AH, Narayana S, Roberts JP, Stoller ML, Theodosopoulos PV, Vail TP, Wienholz S, Gropper MA, Green A, Berger MS. Consensus-based perioperative protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of neurosurgery. Spine 2020. PMID: 33007752


  11. Lim H, Raffel KE, Harrison JD, Kohlwes RJ, Dhaliwal G, Narayana S. Decisions in the Dark: An Educational Intervention to Promote Reflection and Feedback on Night Float Rotations. Journal of general internal medicine 2020. PMID: 32875511


  12. Narayana S, Synder E. "SGIM in Alabama: Making Our Mark In Controversy" Society of General Internal Medicine Forum 2019. PMID:


  13. Ludwin S, Narayana S. In the Hospital: Laura Shea. Journal of hospital medicine 2019. PMID: 30794137


  14. Ana Marija Sola, Alejandro Perez, Sirisha Narayana, Teri Rose, David O'Riordan, Giovanni Elia. Development and Implementation of a Patient-Centered Tool for the Assessment of an In-Patient Palliative Care Team (QI739). Journal of pain and symptom management 2019. PMID:


  15. Ludwin SM, Narayana S. Denah Joseph: "In the Hospital". Journal of hospital medicine 2018. PMID: 29505623


  16. Ludwin SM, Narayana S. In the Hospital: Series Introduction. Journal of hospital medicine 2018. PMID: 29505622


  17. Narayana S, Rajkomar A, Harrison JD, Valencia V, Dhaliwal G, Ranji SR. What Happened to My Patient? An Educational Intervention to Facilitate Postdischarge Patient Follow-Up. Journal of graduate medical education 2017. PMID: 29075385


  18. Narayana S, McGee S. Bedside Diagnosis of the 'Red Eye': A Systematic Review. The American journal of medicine 2015. PMID: 26169885


  19. Narayana S, Wong CJ. Office-based screening of common psychiatric conditions. The Psychiatric clinics of North America 2014. PMID: 25725566


  20. Narayana S, Wong CJ. Office-based screening of common psychiatric conditions. The Medical clinics of North America 2014. PMID: 25134868


  21. Ho PP, Kanter JL, Johnson AM, Srinagesh HK, Chang EJ, Purdy TM, van Haren K, Wikoff WR, Kind T, Khademi M, Matloff LY, Narayana S, Hur EM, Lindstrom TM, He Z, Fiehn O, Olsson T, Han X, Han MH, Steinman L, Robinson WH. Identification of naturally occurring fatty acids of the myelin sheath that resolve neuroinflammation. Science translational medicine 2012. PMID: 22674551


  22. Jennifer Kanter, Amanda Johnson, Peggy Ho, Eun Mi Hur, Sirisha Narayana, Lawrence Steinman, William Robinson. OR.67. Microarray Identified Lipids Modulate Autoimmune Demyelinating Disease. Clinical Immunology 2006. PMID:


  23. Kanter JL, Narayana S, Ho PP, Catz I, Warren KG, Sobel RA, Steinman L, Robinson WH. Lipid microarrays identify key mediators of autoimmune brain inflammation. Nature medicine 2005. PMID: 16341241