Sarah Summerville, MD

HS Associate Clinical Prof

Sarah has been a clinician-educator in the Division of General Internal Medicine since 2013. She provides primary care in the General Internal Medicine clinic at Mt. Zion to a diverse patient population. She also provided urgent care services at the Screening and Acute Care clinic at UCSF. She worked closely with the General Internal Medicine clinic at 1545 Divisadero as a physician champion to help gain recognition as NCQA Level III Patient-Centered Medical Home. Since 2019, she has served as the medical director in the GIM clinic. In 2020, she was tasked with starting the new Respiratory Screening Clinic at UCSF on the Mt. Zion campus and served as the inaugural medical director of that clinic.

Her teaching responsibilities includes working with internal medicine residents and medical students in the internal medicine continuity and attending on the internal medicine inpatient service. She has coordinated the ambulatory curriculum for internal medicine residents at the Mt. Zion campus for a number of years and also serves as a faculty editor of the UCSF Outpatient Medicine Handbook. She has also worked with early medical students as a Foundation of Patient Care preceptor and served as a longitudinal PISCES preceptor to 3rd year medical students. She aims to help residents and medical students become effective communicators.