Peter Barish, MD

HS Assoc Clinical Professor

Peter Barish is a hospitalist working primarily at the UCSF Parnassus campus. He attends on both teaching and non-teaching services and is interested in medical education of both residents and medical students. His academic interests include medical education, diagnostic reasoning, and diagnostic error.

Education
06/2017 - Internal Medicine, University of Washington
MD, 50/2014 - , Weill Cornell Medical College
BS, 05/2008 - , Haverford College
Publications
  1. Williams CYK, Subramanian CR, Ali SS, Apolinario M, Askin E, Barish P, Cheng M, Deardorff WJ, Donthi N, Ganeshan S, Huang O, Kantor MA, Lai AR, Manchanda A, Moore KA, Muniyappa AN, Nair G, Patel PP, Santhosh L, Schneider S, Torres S, Yukawa M, Hubbard CC, Rosner BI. Physician- and Large Language Model-Generated Hospital Discharge Summaries. JAMA internal medicine 2025. PMID: 40323616


  2. Conner SM, Choi N, Fuller J, Daya S, Barish P, Rennke S, Harrison JD, Narayana S. Trainee Autonomy and Supervision in the Inpatient Clinical Learning Environment. The clinical teacher 2025. PMID: 39710509


  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. Schnipper JL, Raffel KE, Keniston A, Burden M, Glasheen J, Ranji S, Hubbard C, Barish P, Kantor M, Adler-Milstein J, John Boscardin W, Harrison JD, Dalal AK, Lee T, Auerbach A. Achieving diagnostic excellence through prevention and teamwork (ADEPT) study protocol: A multicenter, prospective quality and safety program to improve diagnostic processes in medical inpatients. Journal of hospital medicine 2023. PMID: 37888951


  5. Conner SM, Choi N, Fuller J, Daya S, Barish P, Rennke S, Harrison JD, Narayana S. Trainee Autonomy and Supervision in the Modern Clinical Learning Environment: A Mixed-Methods Study of Faculty and Trainee Perspectives. Research square 2023. PMID: 37333324


  6. 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


  7. Greenberg A, Barish P, Hoffman A. Overuse of Respiratory Viral Panels: A Teachable Moment. JAMA internal medicine 2020. PMID: 32865562


  8. 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


  9. Raffel KE, Kantor MA, Barish P, Esmaili A, Lim H, Xue F, Ranji SR. Prevalence and characterisation of diagnostic error among 7-day all-cause hospital medicine readmissions: a retrospective cohort study. BMJ quality & safety 2020. PMID: 32753409


  10. 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