Arpana R. Vidyarthi, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.  She is also the Director of Quality for the Inpatient General Medicine Service at UCSF Medical Center and the Director of Patient Safety and Quality Programs for the Dean’s Office of Graduate Medical Education.  In this role, she designs programs for residencies across disciplines on safety and quality issues to improve patient care delivered by residents. She is also the Associate Director of Curricular Development for the Integrated Nurse Leadership Program, a Betty and Gordon Moore Foundation program that brings together nurses and healthcare executives developing leadership skills to implement quality and safety initiatives in their hospitals. Dr. Vidyarthi completed her undergraduate degree from Macalester College and obtained her medical degree from the University of Minnesota. She completed residency and chief residency at Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in Cambridge Massachusetts, and a Hospital Medicine Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Vidyarthi joined the faculty at UCSF in 2003 as an Academic Hospitalist.   Dr. Vidyarthi is an alumnus of the Macy Program for Leaders in Healthcare Education and is currently a fellow in the California Healthcare Foundation Leadership Program. Dr. Vidyarthi’s research interests lie at the intersection of system change, patient care, and education. Specifically, she studies the impacts of duty hour reduction, handoffs, and leadership and management training. She is currently the Principal Investigator for numerous projects and has authored several articles addressing these issues. Recent Publications of Interest: Vidyarthi, A, Auerbach A Is 80 the Cost of Saving Lives? J Gen Intern Med 2005;20: 969-970. Vidyarthi A, Katz P, Wall S, Auerbach A, Wachter R. Educational Impact of Duty Hour Reduction; Academic Medicine, 2006;81(1):76-81. Vidyarthi, A. Fumbled Handoff: Missed Communication Between Teams, discussant. Web M&M (www.webmm.ahrq.gov), March 2004                 Vidyarthi A, Ranji S. In the Literature. The Hospitalist: quarterly newsletter of the National Association of Inpatient Physicians. March 2003. CV | Hospital Medicine Faculty