Tracy Minichiello, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine. She completed her undergraduate work at University of Vermont, her medical school training at University of Massachusetts, and her residency and chief residency at Yale New Haven Hospital. She was a hospitalist fellow at UCSF from 1999-2001. Dr. Minichiello is the Associate Director of the UCSF Categorical Internal Medicine Program. In this position she has an active role in curriculum design, resident mentoring and program development. She is the founder and Director of the UCSF Global Health Program, a clinical elective program designed to increase cross-cultural competence, exposure to health care in resource poor environment and to foster interest and commitment to international health. There are programs currently running in Kampala Uganda, Beijing China and Cuernavaca, Mexico. Dr. Minichiello's clinical and research interest is in thrombosis and hypercoaguability. She is the director of UCSF Anticoagulation Clinic and the Director of the Inpatient Comprehensive Hemostasis and Thrombosis Service (CHAS). Along with the other CHAS team members she has played a key role in quality improvement projects to decrease hospital-associated deep venous thrombosis and increase the safety of anticoagulation in hospitalized and ambulatory patients. She has developed a number of guidelines and education tools for this purpose. Dr. Minichiello has a continuity clinic in the Hematology department where she sees patients with complex thrombotic and hypercoaguable conditions. Dr. Minichiello is an Associate Editor for AHRQ's Web M & M, a case-based patient safety journal on the web. She develops the spotlight modules and the companion CME programs. CV | Hospital Medicine Faculty