Message from the Chief

Welcome to the Division of Hospital Medicine at UCSF Health! With more than 160 faculty and 30 staff, we are the largest division in the UCSF Department of Medicine and oversee more than 10 different inpatient clinical services across 4 hospitals in San Francisco. Our division’s legacy is remarkable: the term “hospitalist” was developed at UCSF and UCSF played a leading role in establishing what academic hospital medicine is today. We launched many innovative training and faculty development programs, including the first hospital medicine fellowship and the first global health hospitalist fellowship. We have been leaders in research, publishing more than 1,600 papers in the peer-reviewed literature and co-founding the HOMERuN hospital medicine research network. Most importantly are the countless patient lives we have improved through our compassionate, patient-centered, and high-quality care.

Our strength is our people. We seek to create a vibrant community of passionate, mission-driven, creative individuals who support each other and are committed to their work and their patients. We are continuously finding ways to grow and support our faculty, staff, and trainees. Over the past 2 decades, our division has developed deep infrastructure to enhance our academic mission and develop our people, and we have served as the launching pad for many exceptional leaders in healthcare.

I cannot imagine a greater group of people to work with. We welcome you to explore what our division has to offer.