UCSF Health Parnassus Medicine Teaching Service

Adeena Khan, MD
Medical Director of
Moffitt-Long Medical Service

Molly Kantor, MD
Associate Medical Director of Moffitt-Long Medical Service

The UCSF Health Parnassus Medicine Teaching Service is the hospital's oldest medicine service. Along with the Goldman Medical Service, the Teaching Service cares for a large and diverse patient population and serves both the San Francisco community and as a referral center for hospitals throughout Northern California.  The UCSF Health Parnassus Medicine Teaching Service has a unique history in the field of hospital medicine as the "birthplace" of hospital medicine and the nation's first academic hospitalist program (further detail, including the origin of the term "hospitalist" described here: NEJM 1996, JAMA 1998, Am J Med 1999).  

The team structure on the UCSF Health Parnassus Medicine Teaching Service includes an attending (supervising) physician, senior resident, two interns, and third- and fourth-year medical students as well as other rotating learners. Almost all of the supervising physicians are hospitalists within the Division of Hospital Medicine. The service is dedicated to excellence in clinical quality, patient safety, health equity, and education of residents and students. Hospitalists work closely with care coordination, nursing, pharmacy, and consulting services and teams to provide exceptional patient care.

Questions about the UCSF Health Parnassus Medicine Teaching Service can be directed to Adeena Khan, Medical Director of the UCSF Wards Teaching Service, at [email protected] and Molly Kantor, Assistant Medical Director of the UCSF Wards Teaching Service, at [email protected].