State of the Department of Medicine: UCSF Health Highlights

For internal audiences only.

In his annual Department of Medicine update, Bob Wachter will review the performance of the DOM’s educational, clinical, and research programs over the past year. He will also spotlight the key issues of 2024, including the Dignity Hospitals acquisition, Funds Flow 2.0 at UCSF Health, and new efforts to address the challenge of burnout. 

Speaker
Robert M. Wachter, MD, is professor and chair of the UCSF Department of Medicine. Author of 300 articles and six books, Bob coined the term “hospitalist” in 1996. He is past president of the Society of Hospital Medicine, past chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. In 2015, Modern Healthcare magazine ranked him as the most influential physician-executive in the U.S. In 2020-23, Bob’s tweets on Covid-19 were viewed more than 500 million times by 275,000 followers and served as a trusted source of information on the clinical, public health, and policy issues surrounding the pandemic.

How to Attend
The talk will be hybrid, with both in-person (lunch provided) and Zoom options. It will also be videotaped and available within the UCSF network.

In Person:
N-217 (Nursing Building, enter through 521 Parnassus Avenue)

On Zoom:
https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/93868706312?pwd=ZWpzeHlNYmJzcUp3c1JxRWpyTGF2QT09