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 14 years, the UCSF Department of Medicine has honored 3-4 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 you would send family members to.

2021 Master Clinicians:

Name	Division	Year Inducted
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 recently established an annual Master Clinician Visiting Professorship, who will give the Gurpreet Dhaliwal Lecture in Medicine every fall at Grand rounds, named of course after our legendary clinician-educator and Master Clinician Dr. Gurpreet Dhaliwal. Our inaugural Gurpreet Dhaliwal Lecture in Medicine took place on September 26, 2019 at Parnassus with Kimberly Manning, MD as our first speaker.