Master Clinicians
The Council of Master Clinicians was established to honor members of our faculty distinguished by their commitment to clinical medicine and their superb clinical skills.
For the last 17 years, the UCSF Department of Medicine has honored several of our most esteemed clinical faculty with the title of “Master Clinician.” Master clinicians are distinguished by their commitment to clinical medicine and their superb clinical skills. They are sought out by peers and trainees for their diagnostic reasoning, clinical skills and their desire to acquire and share new knowledge as well as their demonstrated ability to provide compassionate, equitable care to all patients. Essentially, they are the “doctor’s doctor” – someone to whom you would send your own family members.
2023 Master Clinicians:
| Name | Division | Year Inducted |
|---|---|---|
| Nirav Bhakta, MD, PhD | Pulmonary | 2023 |
| Beth Harleman, MD | Hospital Medicine | 2023 |
| Steve Hays, MD | Pulmonary | 2023 |
| Leslie Miya, MD | General Internal Medicine | 2023 |
| Hope Rugo, MD | Hematology/Oncology | 2023 |
| Rebecca Conant, MD | Geriatrics | 2022 |
| Miranda Dunlop, MD | General Internal Medicine | 2022 |
| Donald Grandis, MD | Cardiology | 2022 |
| Mimi Margaretten, MD | Rheumatology | 2022 |
| Michael Nejad, MD | VAMC Emergency Medicine | 2022 |
| Anitha Toke, MD | Nephrology | 2022 |
| Nicole Appelle, MD | General Internal Medicine | 2021 |
| Cameron Ashbaugh, MD | Infectious Diseases | 2021 |
| Soraya Azari, MD | General Internal Medicine | 2021 |
| Kerry Cho, MD | Nephrology | 2021 |
| Lianne Gensler, MD | Rheumatology | 2020 |
| Antonio Gomez, MD | Pulmonary | 2020 |
| Mary Gray, MD | Cardiology | 2020 |
| Lowell Lo, MD | Nephrology | 2020 |
| Judith Wisneski, MD | Cardiology | 2020 |
| Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH | HIV, ID, and Global Medicine | 2019 |
| Tracy Minichiello, MD | Hematology & Oncology | 2019 |
| Don Ng, MD | General Internal Medicine | 2019 |
| Jeffrey Zimmet, MD, PhD | Cardiology | 2019 |
| Jennifer Babik, MD, PhD | Infectious Diseases | 2018 |
| Teresa De Marco, MD | Cardiology | 2018 |
| Jeffrey Golden, MD | Pulmonary | 2018 |
| Marion Peters, MD | Gastroenterology | 2018 |
| Edgar Pierluissi, MD | Clinical Medicine | 2018 |
| Francis Yao, MD | Gastroenterology | 2017 |
| Umesh Masharani, MBBS | Endocrinology and Metabolism | 2017 |
| David Daikh, MD | Rheumatology | 2017 |
| Helen Kao, MD | Geriatrics | 2016 |
| Thierry Jahan, MD | Hematology & Oncology | 2016 |
| Jonathan Graf, MD | Rheumatology | 2016 |
| Elizabeth (Lisa) Murphy, MD, PhD | Endocrinology and Metabolism | 2015 |
| Dolores Shoback, MD | Metabolism/Endocrinology | 2014 |
| Bradley Sharpe, MD | Hospital Medicine | 2014 |
| Paul Nadler, MD | General Internal Medicine | 2014 |
| Bradley Lewis, MD | Hematology/Oncology | 2014 |
| Lisa Winston, MD | Infectious Diseases | 2013 |
| Jonathan Terdiman, MD | Gastroenterology | 2013 |
| Daniel Null, MD | General Internal Medicine | 2013 |
| Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD | Internal Medicine | 2013 |
| Joseph Roll, MD | Health Sciences | 2012 |
| James Brown, MD | Pulmonary | 2012 |
| Harry Lampiris, MD | Infectious Diseases | 2011 |
| John Imboden, Jr, MD | Rheumatology | 2011 |
| Henry "Chip" Chambers, III, MD | Infectious Diseases | 2011 |
| Margaret Wheeler, MD | General Internal Medicine | 2010 |
| Jonathan "Jody" Garber, MD | General Internal Medicine | 2010 |
| Hugo "Quinn" Cheng, MD | Hospital Medicine | 2010 |
| Kenneth McQuaid, MD | Gastroenterology | 2009 |
| Harry Hollander, MD | Infectious Diseases | 2009 |
| Ann Bolger, MD | Cardiology | 2009 |
| Lawrence Tierney, MD | VAMC Medical Service | 2008 |
| Ken Sack, MD | Rheumatology | 2008 |
| Stephen McPhee, MD | General Internal Medicine | 2008 |
| Nora Goldschlager, MD | Cardiology | 2008 |
| Lloyd Damon, MD | Hematology/Oncology | 2008 |
| John Cello, MD | Gastroenterology | 2008 |
| Kenneth Woeber, MD | Endocrinology/Metabolism | 2007 |
| Rudolph Rodriguez, MD | Nephrology | 2007 |
| Richard Jacobs, MD, PhD | Infectious Diseases | 2007 |
| Ken Fye, MD | Rheumatology | 2007 |
| Patricia Cornett, MD | Hematology/Oncology | 2007 |
| Glenn Chertow, MD | Nephrology | 2007 |
| Kanu Chatterjee, MBBS | Cardiology | 2007 |
Thanks to the generosity of a donor, we established an annual Master Clinician Visiting Professorship, who will give the Gurpreet Dhaliwal Lecture in Medicine at Grand Rounds, named of course after our legendary clinician-educator and Master Clinician Gurpreet Dhaliwal. Our latest Gurpreet Dhaliwal Lecture in Medicine took place on March 24, 2022 with Aimee K. Zaas, MD, MHS as our speaker.