Timothy Judson, MD, MPH

Associate Professor

Timothy Judson, MD, MPH

Dr. Timothy Judson serves as the interim Chief Population Health Officer for UCSF Health. Dr. Judson is a hospital medicine and urgent care physician, clinical informaticist, and accomplished health system leader in population health and digital health. He is also the Chief Clinical & Innovation Officer at UCSF-affiliated Canopy Health, where he oversees quality and value of care for over 40,000 Canopy Health members. He previously served as Medical Director of Care Delivery Transformation in the Office of Population Health, and Medical co-Director of Adult Care Transitions for UCSF Health. In these capacities, he has been instrumental in developing the infrastructure for robust population health programs and safe patient discharges. Dr. Judson has played a pivotal role in advancing digital health at UCSF, leading the development and implementation of several prominent digital health tools, including the patient-facing COVID-19 Symptom Checker, and the employee-facing COVID Daily Health Screener.

Dr. Judson received his medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College and his master’s degree in public health from the Tufts University School of Medicine. He joined UCSF for internal medicine residency and was chief resident at Parnassus. Dr. Judson is passionate about rigorously studying and evaluating population health and digital health programs and has authored over 30 peer-reviewed articles in JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, BMJ, JAMIA, JGIM, JHM, and others.
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. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA). 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. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA). 2021. PMID: 34800659


  13. Judson TJ, Mourad M, Wachter RM. Building a Targeted Automatic e-Consult (TACo) Program. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA). 2021. PMID: 34933816


  14. 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


  15. 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


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


  17. 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


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


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


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


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


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


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


  24. 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


  25. 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


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


  27. 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


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


  29. 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


  30. 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