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Timothy Judson, MD, MPH

Associate Professor

Timothy Judson, MD, MPH

Dr. Timothy Judson is interim chief population health officer at UCSF Health. In this role, he leads value-based care strategy and, with the VP of Population Health, jointly oversees clinical and quality initiatives for 100,000+ lives in accountable care relationships. He also serves as chief clinical and innovation officer at UCSF-affiliated Canopy Health, where he oversees healthcare quality and value for over 20,000 members.

A practicing hospitalist and urgent care physician, Judson brings extensive expertise in care redesign, population health, and digital health innovation. He previously held several leadership roles including medical director of care delivery transformation and medical co-director of adult care transitions, where he developed infrastructure for robust population health programs and safe patient discharges. Judson is board certified in Clinical Informatics and has played a pivotal role in advancing digital health and virtual care at UCSF.

Judson earned his medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College and his master's degree in public health from Tufts University. He completed his internal medicine residency at UCSF, followed by a chief resident year at Parnassus.

Dr. Judson is passionate about rigorously studying and evaluating population health and digital health programs and has authored 35+ peer-reviewed articles in JAMA, Health Affairs Forefront, JAMA Internal Medicine, BMJ, JAMIA, JGIM, JHM, and others.
Education
2019 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
MD, - Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
MPH, - 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. Metlay JP, Gonzales R, Judson TJ, Borczuk P, Dutta S, Liu SW, White BA, Chang Y, Oza S, Parry BA, Tagerman MD, Hayden EM. Agreement Between Telehealth and In-Person Evaluations of Patients with Acute Respiratory Infections. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association. 2025. PMID: 41218821


  2. Ndon SU, Liu AW, Judson TJ, Ling PM. COVID-19 symptoms associated with smoking and vaping tobacco and cannabis: A cross-sectional analysis. Preventive medicine reports. 2025. PMID: 41278618


  3. 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


  4. 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


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


  6. 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


  7. 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


  8. 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


  9. 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


  10. 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


  11. 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


  12. 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


  13. 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


  14. 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


  15. 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


  16. . 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


  17. 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


  18. 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


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


  20. 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


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


  22. Wachter RM, Judson TJ, Mourad M. Reimagining Specialty Consultation in the Digital Age: The Potential Role of Targeted Automatic Electronic Consultations. JAMA. 2019. PMID: 31246233


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


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


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


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


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


  28. Judson TJ, Volpp KG, Detsky AS. Harnessing the Right Combination of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation to Change Physician Behavior. JAMA. 2015. PMID: 26624821


  29. 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


  30. 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


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


  32. 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


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


  34. 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


  35. 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


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