Abhishek Karwa, DO
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

As an academic hospitalist, I provide high value care directly to adults admitted to San Francisco General Hospital (San Francisco's safety net hospital), supervise medical students and residents, and actively contribute to system improvement processes.

Education & Training

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• Residency Internal Medicine Cleveland Clinic 06/2017
• D.O. Medicine Des Moines University 05/2014
• B.S. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science University of California 08/2008
• A.A. Liberal Arts Santa Monica College 12/2005

Publications (5)

Top publication keywords:
Pericarditis, ConstrictiveAlgorithmsGastroenterologistsNatural Language ProcessingElectronic Health RecordsAnti-Inflammatory AgentsFollow-Up StudiesMass ScreeningColonoscopyEarly Detection of CancerClinical CompetenceSurgeonsColorectal NeoplasmsPractice Guidelines as TopicTraining Support

• Prevalence and Causes of Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Patients Under Investigation for COVID-19.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2023 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, …
• Development of an Automated Algorithm to Generate Guideline-based Recommendations for Follow-up Colonoscopy.
  Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2019 Karwa A, Patell R, Parthasarathy G, Lopez R, McMichael J, Burke CA
• Trainees' knowledge and application of guideline recommendations for colorectal cancer screening and surveillance.
  Cancer treatment and research communications 2019 Patell R, Karwa A, Lopez R, Burke CA
• Poor Knowledge of Colorectal Cancer Screening and Surveillance Guidelines in a National Cohort of Digestive Disease Specialists.
  Digestive diseases and sciences 2018 Patell R, Karwa A, Lopez R, Burke CA
• Quantitative assessment of pericardial delayed hyperenhancement predicts clinical improvement in patients with constrictive pericarditis treated with anti-inflammatory therapy.
  Circulation. Cardiovascular imaging 2015 Cremer PC, Tariq MU, Karwa A, Alraies MC, Benatti R, Schuster A, Agarwal S, Flamm SD, Kwon DH, Klein AL