Marcia Glass, MD

Clinical Professor

Marcia Glass originally joined the faculty of UCSF in August of 2012. She received a BA from
The University of Chicago in 1998 and an MD from Georgetown University in 2003. After completing a residency in internal medicine at Tulane University, she joined the Tulane faculty in 2006. Later that year, she worked in Liberia with Doctors without Borders. She returned to Liberia in 2009 to work as a hospitalist for the Liberian government. In 2010, she worked in Uganda as a fellow with the Yale/Stanford Johnson and Johnson Global Health Scholars Program. In 2011, she volunteered again with Doctors without Borders in Colombia and also worked in Ghana with the Sidharte program through Columbia University. She returned to Tulane from 2017-2024 and founded the first palliative care fellowship in the state of Louisiana. She was Vice Chair of the Tulane General Medical Faculty from 2021-2022. During her return to Tulane, she worked in India as a Fulbright scholar, volunteered in Navajo Nation during the pandemic, and performed medical forensic interviews in Spanish, English, and French to help imprisoned asylum seekers in Louisiana. Her most recent global-health work has been an ongoing palliative care collaboration in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Marcia has testified in front of Louisiana State Legislature twice in support of the rights of imprisoned people and those suffering from substance use disorders. In 2021, she was appointed to a commission to study the Louisiana Department of Safety and Corrections processes for medical parole. And, In 2022, she testified against Angola Prison in Louisiana.

Marcia has presented in multiple SGIM and SSGIM conferences and served as a peer advisor during the New Orleans 2008 SSGIM meeting. She was also the faculty sponsor for the Tulane Medical Student Outreach Clinic at Ozanam Inn from 2010-2012 and a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Physicians for Human Rights, Amnesty International, and Doctors without Borders. At Tulane Medical School, she served on the Institutional Review Board from 2009-2012 and the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee from 2007-2012. She was a faculty advisor for internal medicine residents through the Concierge Mentoring Service from 2010-2012 and ran a procedure training course for medicine residents at Tulane's simulation center from 2010-2012.

Dr. Glass has received numerous teaching awards, including the Tulane Medicine Best Inpatient Attending Award, the Tulane C. Thorpe Ray Internal Medicine Educator Award, the UCSF Core Clerkship Teaching Award, and the UCSF Pathways to Discovery Mentor Award. She received a Champion of Change Award from Links, Inc. and was a Tulane Studio in the Woods scholarship recipient in 2018. In 2021, one of her pieces won first place in the prose and poetry section of the annual HCA Art Contest. In 2023, she won the Tulane SOM Women in Medicine award.

Her continued medical education includes the Stanford Faculty Development Program, the Harvard University Medical Detectives Course, MD Anderson Intensive Board Review in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, and the MDI Physiology on the Fly course organized by Harvard Beth Israel faculty.

Her grant-supported research has produced several peer-reviewed articles, along with multiple national and international presentations. Her research awards include the 2015 SHM Best Research Poster, the 2014 California-Hawaii SGIM Outstanding Research Abstract, and 2nd place in the 2011 AMSA Annual Convention in the Community Development and Service Category. Her work has been published in Annals of Internal Medicine, The Lancet, NEJM, and The Washington Post. She co-edited and published the Oxford Field Manuel for Palliative Care in Humanitarian Crises in 2019, which won a first-place award in the 2021 British Medical Association Medical Book Awards. Her most recent book, The Oxford Guide to Psychedelics in Palliative Care, will be out in late 2024.

Certification:
-Board certification in internal medicine (2006)
-Board certification in palliative medicine (2012)
-Certification as UCSF bilingual physician (2014)
-Board certification in addiction medicine (2022)
-Certification in MDMA-assisted therapy (2024)