David Chia, MD, MS

Professor

Dr. David Chia is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School and completed his residency training at the Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program. He subsequently joined the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine. He was the Firm Chief of Waterbury Hospital with the Yale Primary Care Residency Program before becoming the Associate Program Director of Inpatient Education for the Yale-Waterbury Internal Medicine Residency Program.

Dr. Chia is currently an academic hospitalist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, where he is Associate Program Director for Inpatient Affairs for the UCSF Internal Medicine Residency Program and Director of the HPE Pathway. His academic interests include quality improvement, curriculum development, point-of-care ultrasound, and global health.

Education
2019 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
MSc, - Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
BA, - , University of Minnesota
MD, - , University of Minnesota
Residency, - Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Honors and Awards
  • Distinction in Medical Education Award, ZSFG Department of Medicine, 2020
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, UCSF Academy of Medical Educators, 2018
  • Teacher of the Year Award, Yale Waterbury Internal Medicine Residency Program, 2017
  • George Thornton Teacher of the Year Award, Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program, 2015
Publications

  1. Insetta ER, Barish P, Baskin N, Brusca RM, Chia D, Oreper S, Chan S, Kantor MA, Conner SM. NET Rounding: A Standardized Rounding Intervention to Improve Rounding Efficiency and Optimize the Inpatient Experience for Internal Medicine Attendings and Residents. Southern medical journal 2026. PMID: 42067384


  2. Boslett B, Santhosh L, Chia D, Goglin S, Boykin N, Toy J, Berman RA. Innovating to Improve Individualized Training in Internal Medicine Residency: Inpatient Threads and Block 2.0. Journal of general internal medicine 2025. PMID: 41331200


  3. Kaiksow FA, Brendel M, Hubbard CC, Lee T, Chia D, Brooks K, Ruhnke GW, Raffel KE, Goyal A, Kantor MA, Helminski AS, Alday A, Astik GJ, Barish P, Schnipper JL, Auerbach AD. Measuring the association between diagnostic errors and neighborhood disadvantage. Journal of hospital medicine 2024. PMID: 39668396


  4. Brooks KC, Raffel KE, Chia D, Karwa A, Hubbard CC, Auerbach AD, Ranji SR. Stigmatizing Language, Patient Demographics, and Errors in the Diagnostic Process. JAMA internal medicine 2024. PMID: 38619826


  5. Chiang S, Grogan T, Kamounah S, Wei F, Tayob N, Kim JY, Kyun Park J, Akin D, Elashoff DA, Pedersen AML, Song YW, Wong DTW, Chia D. Distinctive profile of monomeric and polymeric anti-SSA/Ro52 immunoglobulin A1 isoforms in saliva of patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome and Sicca. RMD open 2024. PMID: 38599651


  6. Auerbach AD, Lee TM, Hubbard CC, Ranji SR, Raffel K, Valdes G, Boscardin J, Dalal AK, Harris A, Flynn E, Schnipper JL, UPSIDE Research Group. Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Adults Who Died or Were Transferred to Intensive Care. JAMA internal medicine 2024. PMID: 38190122


  7. Batool SM, Yekula A, Khanna P, Hsia T, Gamblin AS, Ekanayake E, Escobedo AK, You DG, Castro CM, Im H, Kilic T, Garlin MA, Skog J, Dinulescu DM, Dudley J, Agrawal N, Cheng J, Abtin F, Aberle DR, Chia D, Elashoff D, Grognan T, Krysan K, Oh SS, Strom C, Tu M, Wei F, Xian RR, Skates SJ, Zhang DY, Trinh T, Watson M, Aft R, Rawal S, Agarwal A, Kesmodel SB, Yang C, Shen C, Hochberg FH, Wong DTW, Patel AA, Papadopoulos N, Bettegowda C, Cote RJ, Srivastava S, Lee H, Carter BS, Balaj L. The Liquid Biopsy Consortium: Challenges and opportunities for early cancer detection and monitoring. Cell reports. Medicine 2023. PMID: 37716353


  8. Lee SF, Shariati S, Caini S, Wong H, Chan AW, Gojsevic M, Ogita M, Ye JC, Chia D, Chao M, Sung K, Kennedy SKF, Rajeswaran T, van den Hurk C, Wolf JR, Chan RJ, Behroozian T, Bonomo P, Chow E. StrataXRT for the prevention of acute radiation dermatitis in breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer 2023. PMID: 37556002


  9. Kamounah S, Tayob N, Chiang S, Wei F, Park JK, Kwon HM, Feng Z, Chia D, Pedersen AML, Song YW, Wong DTW. Immunoassay Detects Salivary Anti-SSA/Ro-52 Autoantibodies in Seronegative Patients with Primary Sjögren's Syndrome. ImmunoHorizons 2023. PMID: 37466644


  10. Auerbach AD, Astik GJ, O'Leary KJ, Barish PN, Kantor MA, Raffel KR, Ranji SR, Mueller SK, Burney SN, Galinsky J, Gershanik EF, Goyal A, Chitneni PR, Rastegar S, Esmaili AM, Fenton C, Virapongse A, Ngov LK, Burden M, Keniston A, Patel H, Gupta AB, Rohde J, Marr R, Greysen SR, Fang M, Shah P, Mao F, Kaiksow F, Sterken D, Choi JJ, Contractor J, Karwa A, Chia D, Lee T, Hubbard CC, Maselli J, Dalal AK, Schnipper JL. Prevalence and Causes of Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Patients Under Investigation for COVID-19. Journal of general internal medicine 2023. PMID: 36952085


  11. Kumar A, Weng I, Graglia S, Lew T, Gandhi K, Lalani F, Chia D, Duanmu Y, Jensen T, Lobo V, Nahn J, Iverson N, Rosenthal M, Gordon AJ, Kugler J. Point-of-Care Ultrasound Predicts Clinical Outcomes in Patients With COVID-19. Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine 2021. PMID: 34468039


  12. Barakat LA, Dunne DW, Tetrault JM, Soares S, Chia D, Ogbuagu OE, Moriarty JP, Huot SJ, Green ML. The Changing Face of HIV Care: Expanding HIV Training in an Internal Medicine Residency Program. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2018. PMID: 29901657


  13. Sani SN, Wistar E, Le L, Chia D, Haber LA. Shining a Light on Overnight Education: Hospitalist and Resident Impressions of the Current State, Barriers, and Methods for Improvement. Cureus 2018. PMID: 30202670


  14. Kaczor-Urbanowicz KE, Kim Y, Li F, Galeev T, Kitchen RR, Gerstein M, Koyano K, Jeong SH, Wang X, Elashoff D, Kang SY, Kim SM, Kim K, Kim S, Chia D, Xiao X, Rozowsky J, Wong DTW. Novel approaches for bioinformatic analysis of salivary RNA sequencing data for development. Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 2018. PMID: 28961734


  15. Madhani K, Aamar A, Chia D. Hepatitis C Screening: The Downstream Dissemination of Evolving Guidelines in a Resident Continuity Clinic. Cureus 2017. PMID: 28924527


  16. Chaiyachati KH, Sofair AN, Schwartz JI, Chia D. Discharge Rounds: Implementation of a Targeted Intervention for Improving Patient Throughput on an Inpatient Medical Teaching Service. Southern medical journal 2016. PMID: 27135731


  17. Ho ME, Quek SI, True LD, Seiler R, Fleischmann A, Bagryanova L, Kim SR, Chia D, Goodglick L, Shimizu Y, Rosser CJ, Gao Y, Liu AY. Bladder cancer cells secrete while normal bladder cells express but do not secrete AGR2. Oncotarget 2016. PMID: 26894971


  18. Hong CS, Graham NA, Gu W, Espindola Camacho C, Mah V, Maresh EL, Alavi M, Bagryanova L, Krotee PAL, Gardner BK, Behbahan IS, Horvath S, Chia D, Mellinghoff IK, Hurvitz SA, Dubinett SM, Critchlow SE, Kurdistani SK, Goodglick L, Braas D, Graeber TG, Christofk HR. MCT1 Modulates Cancer Cell Pyruvate Export and Growth of Tumors that Co-express MCT1 and MCT4. Cell reports 2016. PMID: 26876179


  19. Chia D, Yavari Y, Kirsanov E, Aronin SI, Sadigh M. Adherence to standard of care in the diagnosis and treatment of suspected bacterial meningitis. American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2014. PMID: 25085865


  20. To U, Kim J, Chia D. Lupus flare: an uncommon presentation of disseminated gonorrhea. Case reports in medicine 2014. PMID: 25024709


  21. To U, Kim J, Chia D. Disseminated BCG: Complications of Intravesical Bladder Cancer Treatment. Case reports in medicine 2014. PMID: 25024707


  22. Ershadi A, Weiss E, Verduzco E, Chia D, Sadigh M. Emerging pathogen: a case and review of Raoultella planticola. Infection 2014. PMID: 24902523


  23. Chia D, Moreno JO, Aronin SI, Suarez R, Virata MD, Igwe CA, Quentzel H, Sadigh M. A depiction of imported malaria in Connecticut. IDCases 2014. PMID: 26839773


  24. Peluso MJ, Chia D, Sheen W, Hutchinson C, Barakat L. Infectious mimicry complicates diagnosis in hemophagocytic syndrome caused by anaplastic large-cell lymphoma. Case reports in medicine 2012. PMID: 22761627


  25. Heilig CM, Chia D, El-Sadr WM, Hirsch-Moverman Y, Kenzie WR, Saukkonen J, Villarino ME, Padayatchi N. Justifying research risks in a clinical trial for treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. IRB 2011. PMID: 21932482