Alvin Rajkomar, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Alvin Rajkomar, MD is an Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California, at San Francisco (UCSF). After graduating with a degree in Chemistry and Physics at Harvard, he completed medical school at Columbia University, his residency in internal medicine at UCSF, and fellowship in Hospital Medicine at UCSF.

Education & Training

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• Fellowship Hospital Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2014
• Residency Internal Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2013
• Medical Degree College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University 2010

Videos

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• Lecture for the School of Medicine on the Electronic Health Record (youtube.com)

Publications (14)

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Internship and ResidencyHospitalizationInternal MedicineHemoglobinsLength of StayClinical CompetenceHealth EquityHealthcare DisparitiesEducational MeasurementAnemiaRadiography, ThoracicAcademic Medical CentersMachine LearningElectronic Health RecordsPatient Discharge

• Ensuring Fairness in Machine Learning to Advance Health Equity.
  Annals of internal medicine 2018 Rajkomar A, Hardt M, Howell MD, Corrado G, Chin MH
• Electronic Order Volume as a Meaningful Component in Estimating Patient Complexity and Resident Physician Workload.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2018 Groningen NV, Prasad PA, Najafi N, Rajkomar A, Khanna RR, Fang MC
• Next-generation audit and feedback for inpatient quality improvement using electronic health record data: a cluster randomised controlled trial.
  BMJ quality & safety 2018 Patel S, Rajkomar A, Harrison JD, Prasad PA, Valencia V, Ranji SR, Mourad M
• Using Spatial and Temporal Mapping to Identify Nosocomial Disease Transmission of Clostridium difficile.
  JAMA internal medicine 2017 Murray SG, Yim JWL, Croci R, Rajkomar A, Schmajuk G, Khanna R, Cucina RJ
• Caring Wisely: A Program to Support Frontline Clinicians and Staff in Improving Healthcare Delivery and Reducing Costs.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2017 Gonzales R, Moriates C, Lau C, Valencia V, Imershein S, Rajkomar A, Prasad P, Boscardin C, Grady D, Johnston S

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• Association Between a Virtual Glucose Management Service and Glycemic Control in Hospitalized Adult Patients: An Observational Study.
  Annals of internal medicine 2017 Rushakoff RJ, Sullivan MM, MacMaster HW, Shah AD, Rajkomar A, Glidden DV, Kohn MA
• Association Between Surgeon Scorecard Use and Operating Room Costs.
  JAMA surgery 2017 Zygourakis CC, Valencia V, Moriates C, Boscardin CK, Catschegn S, Rajkomar A, Bozic KJ, Soo Hoo K, Goldberg AN, Pitts L, Lawton MT, Dudley RA, Gonzales R
• Standardized Attending Rounds to Improve the Patient Experience: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2017 Monash B, Najafi N, Mourad M, Rajkomar A, Ranji SR, Fang MC, Glass M, Milev D, Ding Y, Shen A, Sharpe BA, Harrison JD
• High-Throughput Classification of Radiographs Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.
  Journal of digital imaging 2017 Rajkomar A, Lingam S, Taylor AG, Blum M, Mongan J
• Using the Electronic Health Record to Identify Educational Gaps for Internal Medicine Interns.
  Journal of graduate medical education 2017 Rajkomar A, Ranji SR, Sharpe B
• Weighting Primary Care Patient Panel Size: A Novel Electronic Health Record-Derived Measure Using Machine Learning.
  JMIR medical informatics 2016 Rajkomar A, Yim JW, Grumbach K, Parekh A
• Using Tablet Computers to Increase Patient Engagement With Electronic Personal Health Records: Protocol For a Prospective, Randomized Interventional Study.
  JMIR research protocols 2016 Greysen SR, Magan Mendoza Y, Rosenthal J, Jacolbia R, Rajkomar A, Lee H, Auerbach A
• Low Diagnostic Utility of Rechecking Hemoglobins Within 24 Hours in Hospitalized Patients.
  The American journal of medicine 2016 Rajkomar A, McCulloch CE, Fang MC
• The association between discharge before noon and length of stay in medical and surgical patients.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2015 Rajkomar A, Valencia V, Novelero M, Mourad M, Auerbach A