Eva Chittenden, M.D. is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine. After graduating from Yale College and Harvard Medical School, she did her internal medicine residency at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital.  Before coming to UCSF, she worked for the Indian Health Service on the Navajo Reservation and at Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland.  At UCSF, she has become certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.  Dr. Chittenden is the Assistant Director of the UCSF Palliative Care Service.  She coordinates educational activities for the service, including sought-after palliative care electives for medical students and residents.  With Dr. Pantilat, she directs the UCSF palliative medicine fellowship. In addition, she co-directs Foundations of Patient Care, the longitudinal clinical skills course for first and second year medical students, and directs the two-week Transitional Clerkship for rising third year medical students. Her chief academic interests are palliative care education and professionalism and she is currently completing a two-year Medical Education Research Fellowship, sponsored by the UCSF Office of Medical Education. In recognition of her web-based palliative care communication curriculum, she won the 2007 UCSF Academy of Medical Educators’ Cooke Award for Outstanding Curriculum Development Project.  Her current work includes evaluating this curriculum with third year medical students and assessing the impact of the new Transitional Clerkship.  She is an active member of a UC-wide palliative care curriculum project.  Other activities include lecturing on palliative care topics and mentoring hospital-based palliative care teams from around the country as part of the UCSF Palliative Care Leadership Center.  CV | Hospital Medicine Faculty