Timothy Judson, MD, MPH

Associate Professor

Timothy Judson, MD MPH is a hospital medicine and urgent care physician, clinical informaticist and Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. As Medical Director of Care Delivery Transformation. Dr. Judson leads the population health innovation team, which designs, implements, and evaluates new virtual care models with the goal of improving clinical outcomes at scale. In his role as Medical co-Director of Adult Care Transitions, Dr. Judson sets strategy for programs aimed at providing safe discharge, deceasing readmissions, and improving post-acute care.

Dr. Judson has led the creation of several digital health tools at UCSF, including the COVID-19 Symptom Checker, UCSF’s first self-triage and self-scheduling module. He was also the clinical product lead for the UCSF Employee Health Screener, which was used to conduct over 1 million daily symptom and exposure screens of UCSF employees. He co-leads several programs aimed at improving chronic disease management using remote patient monitoring. He is working to incorporate AI-based risk prediction into population health and transitions efforts.

Dr. Judson received his bachelor's degree in Biology and Community health and his Masters in Public Health from Tufts University, and his medical degree from the Weill Cornell Medical College. He completed Internal Medicine Residency at UCSF, followed by a Chief Residency at UCSF, Parnassus Hospital.
Education
2019 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
MD, 2015 - Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
MPH, 2011 - Tufts University School of Medicine, Tufts University
Honors and Awards
  • Caring Wisely, UCSF, 2023-2024
  • Overall Winner, Clinical Vignettes Competition, Society of Hospital Medicine, 2018
  • Feil Prize in Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, 2015
  • Reader Prize in Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College, 2015
  • Delta Omega Honors Society in Public Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, 2011
Publications
  1. Judson TJ, Lo L, Demko JE, Mourad M, Liu KD, Wachter RM, Lopez I, Tummalapalli SL. Addressing Inpatient Hyponatremia Through Targeted Automatic E-consults: A Pilot Randomized Trial. Journal of general internal medicine 2024. PMID: 39438379


  2. Metlay JP, Gonzales R, Judson TJ, Chang Y, Margolin J, Oza S, Parry BA, Tagerman MD, Hayden E. Accuracy of Patient-Collected Vital Signs. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association 2024. PMID: 39149809


  3. Judson TJ, Longhurst CA, Horman SF. Hospitalists outside the hospital: Preparing for new settings of care delivery. Journal of hospital medicine 2024. PMID: 38439179


  4. 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


  5. Judson TJ, Zhang S, Lindan CP, Boothroyd D, Grumbach K, Bollyky JB, Sample HA, Huang B, Desai M, Gonzales R, Maldonado Y, Rutherford G, TrackCOVID Consortium. Association of protective behaviors with SARS-CoV-2 infection: results from a longitudinal cohort study of adults in the San Francisco Bay Area. Annals of epidemiology 2023. PMID: 37524216


  6. 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


  7. Judson TJ, Subash M, Harrison JD, Yeager J, Williams AM, Grouse CK, Byron M. Patient Perceptions of e-Visits: Qualitative Study of Older Adults to Inform Health System Implementation. JMIR aging 2023. PMID: 37234031


  8. 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


  9. 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


  10. Liu AW, Odisho AY, Brown Iii W, Gonzales R, Neinstein AB, Judson TJ. Patient Experience and Feedback After Using an Electronic Health Record-Integrated COVID-19 Symptom Checker: Survey Study. JMIR human factors 2022. PMID: 35960593


  11. Weng Y, Lu D, Bollyky J, Jain V, Desai M, Lindan C, Boothroyd D, Judson T, Doernberg SB, Holubar M, Sample H, Huang B, Maldonado Y, Rutherford GW, Grumbach K. Race-ethnicity and COVID-19 Vaccination Beliefs and Intentions: A Cross-Sectional Study among the General Population in the San Francisco Bay Area. "Are Telehealth Visits Feasible for Vulnerable Patients?" 2021. PMID: 34960152


  12. Lindan CP, Desai M, Boothroyd D, Judson T, Bollyky J, Sample H, Weng Y, Cheng Y, Dahlen A, Hedlin H, Grumbach K, Henne J, Garcia S, Gonzales R, Craik CS, Maldonado Y, Rutherford G. Design of a population-based longitudinal cohort study of SARS-CoV-2 incidence and prevalence among adults in the San Francisco Bay Area. "Are Telehealth Visits Feasible for Vulnerable Patients?" 2021. PMID: 34800659


  13. Judson TJ, Mourad M, Wachter RM. Building a Targeted Automatic e-Consult (TACo) Program. "Are Telehealth Visits Feasible for Vulnerable Patients?" 2021. PMID: 34933816


  14. Grumbach K, Judson T, Desai M, Jain V, Lindan C, Doernberg SB, Holubar M. Association of Race/Ethnicity With Likeliness of COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among Health Workers and the General Population in the San Francisco Bay Area. JAMA internal medicine 2021. PMID: 33783471


  15. Ganeshan S, Humphreys J, Judson T. Reimagining the inpatient palliative care consult: lessons from COVID-19. The American journal of managed care 2021. PMID: 34314120


  16. Judson TJ, Odisho AY, Young JJ, Bigazzi O, Steuer D, Gonzales R, Neinstein AB. Case Report: Implementation of a Digital Chatbot to Screen Health System Employees during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2020. PMID: 32531066


  17. Judson T, Gonzales R. Patient Portal Reminders-Easy but Ineffective. JAMA internal medicine 2020. PMID: 32421140


  18. Judson TJ, Odisho AY, Neinstein AB, Chao J, Williams A, Miller C, Moriarty T, Gleason N, Intinarelli G, Gonzales R. Rapid Design and Implementation of an Integrated Patient Self-Triage and Self-Scheduling Tool for COVID-19. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2020. PMID: 32267928


  19. Judson TJ, Press MJ, Detsky AS. The Decline of Comprehensiveness and the Path to Restoring It. Journal of general internal medicine 2019. PMID: 31650400


  20. Judson TJ, Dhruva SS, Redberg RF. Evaluation of technologies approved for supplemental payments in the United States. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2019. PMID: 31209124


  21. Judson TJ, Press MJ, Detsky AS. Saving without compromising: Teaching trainees to safely provide high value care. Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2018. PMID: 29891443


  22. Judson TJ, Beach LY, Soni K. The Troponin Cascade: A Teachable Moment. JAMA internal medicine 2017. PMID: 28558102


  23. Judson TJ, Volpp KG, Detsky AS. Consequences of Influencing Physician Behavior--Reply. JAMA 2016. PMID: 27272596


  24. Judson T, Mihara K. Minocycline-induced Hyperpigmentation. Journal of general internal medicine 2016. PMID: 27173498


  25. Judson TJ, Detsky AS, Charney P. Attaining Financial Fluency among Physicians: Start with the Students. Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2015. PMID: 26548687


  26. Judson T, Haas M, Lagu T. Medical identity theft: prevention and reconciliation initiatives at Massachusetts General Hospital. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2014. PMID: 25130011


  27. Press MJ, Judson TJ, Detsky AS. A piece of my mind. Filling buckets. JAMA 2014. PMID: 24825639


  28. Judson TJ, Howell MD, Guglielmi C, Canacari E, Sands K. Miscount incidents: a novel approach to exploring risk factors for unintentionally retained surgical items. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2013. PMID: 24195200


  29. Judson TJ, Detsky AS, Press MJ. Encouraging patients to ask questions: how to overcome "white-coat silence". JAMA 2013. PMID: 23757079


  30. Judson TJ, Bennett AV, Rogak LJ, Sit L, Barz A, Kris MG, Hudis CA, Scher HI, Sabattini P, Schrag D, Basch E. Feasibility of long-term patient self-reporting of toxicities from home via the Internet during routine chemotherapy. Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2013. PMID: 23733753


  31. Kato M, Blanton R, Wang GR, Judson TJ, Abe Y, Myoishi M, Karas RH, Mendelsohn ME. Direct binding and regulation of RhoA protein by cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase Ia. The Journal of biological chemistry 2012. PMID: 23066013