Dr. Cucina's interests are in medical informatics and information technology, clinical education, and academic inpatient internal medicine. Dr. Cucina's research is in clinical human-computer interaction science with an emphasis on human factors and patient safety, decision support systems and automated clinical inference, sociotechnical aspects of clinical information systems, information storage and retrieval methods, and knowledge representation and management. Dr. Cucina current serves as Informatics Consultant to WebM&M, a case-based online patient safety journal, and Patient Safety Network, an online clearinghouse for patient safety resources, both produced under contract for the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He has previously collaborated on knowledge management projects with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and on information storage and retrieval projects at Stanford Medical Informatics and with a number of medical publishing houses. Dr. Cucina attends regularly on the inpatient Medicine Service, on the Medical Consultation Service, and in the Screening and Acute Care Clinic, all at UCSF Medical Center. Operationally, Dr. Cucina works with UCSF Medical Center's information services department on the enterprise clinical information systems, and was previously the physician lead for Stanford Hospital & Clinic's computerized provider order entry and multidisciplinary electronic documentation projects. He consults for a number of clinical software and technology vendors, community hospitals, and academic centers regionally and nationally. Dr. Cucina was resident and chief resident in Internal Medicine at Stanford University, holds a Master's degree in biomedical informatics from Stanford University, and an M.D. degree from the University of California, Davis. CV | Hospital Medicine Faculty