Smitha Ganeshan, MD, MBA

Assistant Professor

Smitha Ganeshan, MD MBA is a Hospitalist and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. As a hospitalist, Smitha Ganeshan cares for patients on a variety of inpatient medical services and is focused on improving care delivery, quality, and safety for our patients.

Dr. Ganeshan also serves as the Medical Director for the Medicine Unit-Based Leadership Team at Parnassus Heights. In this role, she helps oversee clinical care on three inpatient units for hospitalized adult patients. She leads a transdisciplinary team that continuously develops and implements initiatives in quality, safety, patient experience, throughput, and care delivery transformation.

She also serves on the Medical Informatics team and works on Health IT Strategy. She is currently working on efforts to improve physician happiness with the EHR, with a specific focus on improving physician shared ownership. In her informatics role, she also leads digital health research and program evaluations of new digital tools. She has led the evaluation of our online radiology self-scheduling tool as well as an EHR-based tool to maintain wait lists and reschedule appointments when earlier slots become available.

Dr. Ganeshan received her bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Georgia, and her medical degree and business degrees from Harvard University. She completed Internal Medicine Residency at UCSF prior to joining faculty at UCSF, Parnassus Hospital.