Nader Najafi, MD, MAS

Associate Professor

Hospital Medicine UCSF Health

Nader Najafi practices medicine on both the teaching and direct care services at UCSF Parnassus. He directs the Department of Medicine’s Data Core, a group of analysts who provide data acquisition and analysis services for research, quality improvement, medical education, and clinical administration. His academic interest is in modeling observational clinical data for the purpose of statistical inference and predictive analytics.

Nader Najafi completed his Internal Medicine residency training and hospital medicine fellowship training at UCSF. He is the former Associate Director of Quality Improvement for the Division of Hospital Medicine.

Education
MAS, 09/2021 - Clinical Research, University of California, San Francisco
Residency, 06/2011 - Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Publications

  1. Krouss M, Israilov S, Alaiev D, Seferi A, Kansara T, Brandeis G, Saladini-Aponte C, Wat M, Talledo J, Tsega S, Chandra K, Zaurova M, Manchego PA, Najafi N, Cho HJ. Tell-a provider about tele: Reducing overuse of telemetry across 10 hospitals in a safety net system. Journal of hospital medicine 2022. PMID: 36567609


  2. Najafi N, Robinson A, Pletcher MJ, Patel S. Effectiveness of an Analytics-Based Intervention for Reducing Sleep Interruption in Hospitalized Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial. TO REMOVE 2021. PMID: 34962506


  3. Zhu Y, Simon GJ, Wick EC, Abe-Jones Y, Najafi N, Sheka A, Tourani R, Skube SJ, Hu Z, Melton GB. Applying Machine Learning Across Sites: External Validation of a Surgical Site Infection Detection Algorithm. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2021. PMID: 33831539


  4. Ge J, Najafi N, Zhao W, Somsouk M, Fang M, Lai JC. A Methodology to Generate Longitudinally Updated Acute-On-Chronic Liver Failure Prognostication Scores From Electronic Health Record Data. Hepatology communications 2021. PMID: 34141990


  5. Iverson NR, Lau CY, Abe-Jones Y, Fang MC, Kangelaris KN, Prasad P, Shah SJ, Najafi N. Evaluation of a novel metric for personalized opioid prescribing after hospitalization. PloS one 2020. PMID: 33382802


  6. Shah SJ, Barish PN, Prasad PA, Kistler A, Neff N, Kamm J, Li LM, Chiu CY, Babik JM, Fang MC, Kangelaris KN, Langelier C, Abe-Jones Y, Alipanah N, Alvarez FN, Botvinnik OB, Castaneda G. Clinical features, diagnostics, and outcomes of patients presenting with acute respiratory illness: A retrospective cohort study of patients with and without COVID-19. EClinicalMedicine 2020. PMID: 32864588


  7. Pletcher MJ, Flaherman V, Najafi N, Patel S, Rushakoff RJ, Hoffman A, Robinson A, Cucina RJ, McCulloch CE, Gonzales R, Auerbach A. Randomized Controlled Trials of Electronic Health Record Interventions: Design, Conduct, and Reporting Considerations. Annals of internal medicine 2020. PMID: 32479183


  8. Shah SJ, Barish PN, Prasad PA, Kistler AL, Neff N, Kamm J, Li LM, Chiu CY, Babick JM, Fang MC, Abe-Jones Y, Alipanah N, Alvarez FN, Botvinnik OB, Davis JM, Castenada GD, Consortium C, Dadasovich RM, Deng X, DeRisi JL, Detweiler AM, Federman S, Haliburton JR, Hao SL, Kerkhoff AD, Kumar R, Malcolm K, Mann SA, Martinez SP, Marya R, Mick E, Mwakibete LL, Najafi N, Peluso MJ, Phelps MS, Pisco AO, Ratnasiri K, Rubio LA, Sellas AB, Sherwood KD, Sheu J, Spottiswoode N, Tan M, Yu G, Kangelaris KN, Langelier C. Clinical features, diagnostics, and outcomes of patients presenting with acute respiratory illness: a comparison of patients with and without COVID-19. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2020. PMID: 32511488


  9. Xu S, Hom J, Balasubramanian S, Schroeder LF, Najafi N, Roy S, Chen JH. Prevalence and Predictability of Low-Yield Inpatient Laboratory Diagnostic Tests. JAMA network open 2019. PMID: 31509205


  10. Najafi N, Cucina R, Khanna R. Effectiveness of a Best Practice Alert to Reduce Telemetry Orders-Reply. JAMA internal medicine 2019. PMID: 31157847


  11. Jacobs ZG, Najafi N, Fang MC, Prasad PA, Abe-Jones Y, Auerbach AD, Patel S. Reducing Unnecessary Treatment of Asymptomatic Elevated Blood Pressure with Intravenous Medications on the General Internal Medicine Wards: A Quality Improvement Initiative. Journal of hospital medicine 2019. PMID: 30811319


  12. Najafi N, Cucina R, Pierre B, Khanna R. Assessment of a Targeted Electronic Health Record Intervention to Reduce Telemetry Duration: A Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA internal medicine 2018. PMID: 30535345


  13. Groningen NV, Prasad PA, Najafi N, Rajkomar A, Khanna RR, Fang MC. Electronic Order Volume as a Meaningful Component in Estimating Patient Complexity and Resident Physician Workload. Journal of hospital medicine 2018. PMID: 30156577


  14. Wang MD, Khanna R, Najafi N. Characterizing the Source of Text in Electronic Health Record Progress Notes. JAMA internal medicine 2017. PMID: 28558106


  15. Najafi N, Harrison JD, Duong J, Greenberg A, Cheng HQ. It All Just Clicks: Development of an Inpatient E-Consult Program. Journal of hospital medicine 2017. PMID: 28459902


  16. Monash B, Najafi N, Mourad M, Rajkomar A, Ranji SR, Fang MC, Glass M, Milev D, Ding Y, Shen A, Sharpe BA, Harrison JD. Standardized Attending Rounds to Improve the Patient Experience: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of hospital medicine 2017. PMID: 28272589


  17. Najafi N, Monash B, Mourad M, Ding Y, Glass M, Burrell GJ, Harrison JD. Improving attending rounds: Qualitative reflections from multidisciplinary providers. Hospital practice (1995) 2015. PMID: 25936415


  18. Najafi N. A call for evidence-based telemetry monitoring: the beep goes on. JAMA internal medicine 2014. PMID: 25243346


  19. Najafi N, Auerbach A. Arch Intern Med Use and Outcomes of Telemetry Monitoring on a Medicine Service 2012. PMID:


  20. Najafi N, Auerbach A. Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) 13th Annual National Meeting Use of Electrocardiographic Telemetry Monitoring on a Medicine Service 2010. PMID:


  21. Sun Y, Liang X, Najafi N, Cass M, Lin L, Cai CL, Chen J, Evans SM. Islet 1 is expressed in distinct cardiovascular lineages, including pacemaker and coronary vascular cells. Developmental biology 2006. PMID: 17258700