Aaron Baugh, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Aaron Baugh is a pulmonary and critical care physician at UCSF who focuses on improving the care of asthma and COPD for low-income and racial/ethnic minority individuals. His research program emphasizes understanding how social disparities inform differences in lung function and worse outcomes in lung disease. In his free time, he enjoys kayaking and reading history.

Education & Training

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• Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine University of California San Francisco 01/2021
• Internal Medicine University of Toledo College of Medicine 01/2018
• MD Medicine University of Toledo College of Medicine 06/2012
• BS Brain, Behavior, Cognitive Science University of Michigan 06/2008

Publications (45)

Top publication keywords:
SmokersEducation, MedicalCareer ChoiceEducational MeasurementSleep Wake DisordersRacismRespiratory Physiological PhenomenaSpirometryMinority GroupsLungMentorsPulmonary MedicinePulmonary EmphysemaPulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveRespiratory Function Tests

• Poison from the Root: Sociohistorical Perspectives on Tobacco & the Black Community.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2024 Baugh AD, Chesley CF, Pew K
• Response.
  Chest 2024 Baugh A, Adegunsoye A, Connolly M, Croft D, Pew K, McCormack MC, Georas SN
• Lung Structure and Risk of Sleep Apnea in SPIROMICS.
  Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Miami, Fla.) 2024 Koch AL, Shing TL, Namen A, Couper D, Smith B, Barr RG, Bhatt S, Putcha N, Baugh A, Saha AK, Ziedler M, Comellas A, Cooper CB, Barjaktarevic I, Bowler RP, Han MK, Kim V, Paine R, Kanner RE, Krishnan …
• Association of Preoperative Lung Function with Complications after Lobectomy Using Race-Neutral and Race-Specific Normative Equations.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2024 Sheshadri A, Rajaram R, Baugh A, Castro M, Correa AM, Soto F, Daniel CR, Li L, Evans SE, Dickey BF, Vaporciyan AA, Ost DE
• Strategies to Classify Lung Function: It's Not Black and White.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2024 Baugh A, Buhr RG, Bush A, Foreman M, Mannino DM

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• Truth and Consequences: Choosing the Best Interpretative Framework for Spirometry.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2024 Baugh A, McIntosh J
• Disparities in Guideline Concordant Statin Treatment in Individuals With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
  Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Miami, Fla.) 2023 Krishnan JK, Mallya SG, Nahid M, Baugh AD, Han MK, Aronson KI, Goyal P, Pinheiro LC, Banerjee S, Martinez FJ, Safford MM
• African American race is associated with worse sleep quality in heavy smokers.
  Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine 2023 Baugh AD, Acho M, Arhin A, Barjaktarevic I, Couper D, Criner G, Han M, Hansel N, Krishnan J, Malcolm K, Namen A, Peters S, Schotland H, Sowho M, Zeidler M, Woodruff P, Thakur N
• Spirometry in Mixed-Race Civil War Veterans.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2023 Baugh AD, Woodruff P, Shiboski S, Glidden DV, Ortega VE, Thakur N
• Towards a Race-Neutral System of Pulmonary Function Test Results Interpretation.
  Chest 2023 Baugh A, Adegunsoye A, Connolly M, Croft D, Pew K, McCormack MC, Georas SN
• Epidemiology of Sarcoidosis in U.S. Veterans from 2003 to 2019.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2023 Seedahmed MI, Baugh AD, Albirair MT, Luo Y, Chen J, McCulloch CE, Whooley MA, Koth LL, Arjomandi M
• Race, Racism, and Respiratory Health.
  Clinics in chest medicine 2023 Baugh A, Thakur N
• Race and Ethnicity in Pulmonary Function Test Interpretation: An Official American Thoracic Society Statement.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2023 Bhakta NR, Bime C, Kaminsky DA, McCormack MC, Thakur N, Stanojevic S, Baugh AD, Braun L, Lovinsky-Desir S, Adamson R, Witonsky J, Wise RA, Levy SD, Brown R, Forno E, Cohen RT, Johnson M, Balmes J, …
• Discourage Paint-by-Numbers Presentations.
  ATS scholar 2023 Baugh AD, Santhosh L
• Reply by Elmaleh-Sachs et al. to Townsend and Cowl, and to Miller et al.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2022 Elmaleh-Sachs A, Balte P, Oelsner EC, Allen NB, Baugh A, Bertoni AG, Hankinson JL, Pankow JS, Post WS, Schwartz JE, Smith BM, Watson K, Barr RG
• Reply to Townsend and Cowl.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2022 Baugh AD, Thakur N, Woodruff PG
• Against Essentialism in Pulmonary Function Test Interpretation.
  Chest 2022 Moffett AT, Baugh AD
• Risk of COPD exacerbation is increased by poor sleep quality and modified by social adversity.
  Sleep 2022 Baugh A, Buhr RG, Quibrera P, Barjaktarevic I, Barr RG, Bowler R, Han MK, Kaufman JD, Koch AL, Krishnan J, Labaki W, Martinez FJ, Mkorombindo T, Namen A, Ortega V, Paine R, Peters SP, Schotland H, …
• Reconsidering the Utility of Race-Specific Lung Function Prediction Equations.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2022 Baugh AD, Shiboski S, Hansel NN, Ortega V, Barjaktarevic I, Barr RG, Bowler R, Comellas AP, Cooper CB, Couper D, Criner G, Curtis JL, Dransfield M, Ejike C, Han MK, Hoffman E, Krishnan J, Krishnan JA,…
• Race/Ethnicity, Spirometry Reference Equations, and Prediction of Incident Clinical Events: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Lung Study.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2022 Elmaleh-Sachs A, Balte P, Oelsner EC, Allen NB, Baugh A, Bertoni AG, Hankinson JL, Pankow J, Post WS, Schwartz JE, Smith BM, Watson K, Barr RG
• Account for Identity in URM Mentorship.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2022 Baugh A, Frank J
• Separate Experiences Should Be Recognized Separately.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2022 Baugh AD, Seedahmed M
• Beta-blocker use in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A systematic review: A systematic review of βB in COPD.
  Trends in cardiovascular medicine 2021 Ruzieh M, Baugh AD, Al Jebbawi L, Edwards ES, Jia KQ, Dransfield MT, Foy AJ
• How Financial Aid Policy Shortchanges American Healthcare.
  Teaching and learning in medicine 2021 Baugh AD, Baugh RF
• The Role of the Chief Resident in Promoting Health Equity.
  ATS scholar 2021 Baugh A
• Contribution of Individual and Neighborhood Factors to Racial Disparities in Respiratory Outcomes.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2021 Ejike CO, Woo H, Galiatsatos P, Paulin LM, Krishnan JA, Cooper CB, Couper DJ, Kanner RE, Bowler RP, Hoffman EA, Comellas AP, Criner GJ, Barr RG, Martinez FJ, Han MK, Martinez CH, Ortega VE, Parekh TM,…
• Cultural influences and the Objective Structured Clinical Examination.
  International journal of medical education 2021 Baugh RF, Baugh AD
• Communication training is inadequate: the role of deception, non-verbal communication, and cultural proficiency.
  Medical education online 2020 Baugh AD, Vanderbilt AA, Baugh RF
• Higher serum vitamin D levels are associated with decreased odds of obstructive lung disease in the general population: an NHANES analysis (2007-2008 to 2009-2010).
  BMJ open respiratory research 2020 Seedahmed MI, Baugh AD, Kempker JA
• The Long-Term Effectiveness of Empathic Interventions in Medical Education: A Systematic Review.
  Advances in medical education and practice 2020 Baugh RF, Hoogland MA, Baugh AD
• Abstract 14099: Beta-blockers Reduce Mortality in Patients With Heart Failure or Ischemic Heart Disease and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
  Circulation 2020 Mohammed Ruzieh, Aaron Baugh, lama jebbawi, Andrew J Foy
• Assessment of Diversity Outcomes in American Medical School Admissions: Applying the Grutter Legitimacy Principles.
  Sustainability 2020 Aaron Baugh, Reginald F. Baugh
• Diversity Concerns in Advance Care Planning.
  ATS scholar 2020 Baugh AD, Baugh RF
• The Dynamics Of Poverty, Educational Attainment, And The Children Of The Disadvantaged Entering Medical School [Response To Letter].
  Advances in medical education and practice 2019 Baugh AD, Vanderbilt AA, Baugh RF
• The dynamics of poverty, educational attainment, and the children of the disadvantaged entering medical school.
  Advances in medical education and practice 2019 Baugh AD, Vanderbilt AA, Baugh RF
• Paenibacillus polymyxa and Bacillus cereus Concomitant Bacteremia.
  Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice 2019 Aaron Baugh, Hermann Simo, Hadeel Altayib, Michael Ellis, Claudiu Georgescu
• SMOKING STATUS DETERMINATION USING CARBOXYHEMOGLOBIN LEVEL, DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PRE AND POST ACTUAL VALUES AND PRE AND POST PERCENT PREDICTED VALUES OF FEV1.
  CHEST Journal 2018 HERMANN SIMO, AARON BAUGH, MOHAMMAD SAUD KHAN, DIVYA SACHDEV, CHINONSO AGUBOSIM, MOMEN BANIFADEL, WILLIAM BARNETT, ARJAN FLORA
• Levers of change: a review of contemporary interventions to enhance diversity in medical schools in the USA.
  Advances in medical education and practice 2018 Vick AD, Baugh A, Lambert J, Vanderbilt AA, Ingram E, Garcia R, Baugh RF
• Effects of intermittent intravenous saline infusions in patients with medication-refractory postural tachycardia syndrome.
  Journal of interventional cardiac electrophysiology : an international journal of arrhythmias and pacing 2017 Ruzieh M, Baugh A, Dasa O, Parker RL, Perrault JT, Renno A, Karabin BL, Grubb B
• Nephropleural Fistula Effectively Managed with Serial Thoracentesis: A Case Report.
  Journal of endourology case reports 2016 Baugh AD, Youssef E, Hasan SS, Siddiqui NS, Elsamoloty H, Shahrour K, Javaid T
• Lung cancer risk test trial: study design, participant baseline characteristics, bronchoscopy safety, and establishment of a biospecimen repository.
  BMC pulmonary medicine 2016 Crawford EL, Levin A, Safi F, Lu M, Baugh A, Zhang X, Yeo J, Khuder SA, Boulos AM, Nana-Sinkam P, Massion PP, Arenberg DA, Midthun D, Mazzone PJ, Nathan SD, Wainz R, Silvestri G, Tita J, Willey JC
• Synchronous presentation of invasive ductal carcinoma and mantle cell lymphoma: a diagnostic challenge in menopausal patients.
  Journal of surgical case reports 2016 Woo EJ, Baugh AD, Ching K
• Relative value units and payer mix analysis of facial trauma coverage at a level 1 trauma center: is the current model sustainable?
  Surgery 2014 Osman MF, Baugh RF, Baugh AD, Welch MC, Sferra JJ, Williams M
• Craniofacial trauma and double epidural hematomas from horse training.
  International journal of surgery case reports 2013 Baugh AD, Baugh RF, Atallah JN, Gaudin D, Williams M
• Superior laryngeal nerve syndrome and the evaluation of anterior neck pain.
  American journal of otolaryngology 2011 Baugh RF, Baugh A, Bunge F