Sarah Apgar, MD

Associate Professor

Sarah Apgar is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at UCSF. She received her undergraduate degree in Microbiology from the University of Rochester and medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She completed her residency at the Yale Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program and was a hospitalist attending at Yale-New Haven Hospital prior to joining UCSF in 2015. She is currently the Medical Director of the Goldman Medical Service which is the direct care hospitalist service at the Moffitt-Long Hospital of UCSF.
Education
2018 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
MD, - , Mount Sinai School of Medicine
BS, - Microbiology, University of Rochester
- Residency, Yale University
Publications

  1. Arogyaswamy S, Vukovic N, Keniston A, Apgar S, Bowden K, Kantor MA, Diaz M, McBeth L, Burden M. The Impact of Hospital Capacity Strain: a Qualitative Analysis of Experience and Solutions at 13 Academic Medical Centers. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA). 2021. PMID: 34902096


  2. Kantor MA, Apgar SK, Esmaili AM, Khan A, Monash B, Sharpe BA. The Importance of Emotional Intelligence When Leading in a Time of Crisis. Journal of hospital medicine. 2020. PMID: 32853143


  3. Schoenfeld AR, Apgar S, Dolios G, Wang R, Aaronson SA. BRCA2 is ubiquitinated in vivo and interacts with USP11, a deubiquitinating enzyme that exhibits prosurvival function in the cellular response to DNA damage. Molecular and cellular biology. 2004. PMID: 15314155