Andrew Lai, MD, MPH
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

He has previously worked on the Bone Marrow Transplant and Neurosurgery Co-Management services, as well as was one of the inaugural hospitalists to work at St. Mary's Medical Center (as part of the St. Mary's-UCSF Joint Clinical programs established in 2018).

For ten years, Andy previously directed the Hospitalist Procedure Service, Division's Case Review Committee, and procedures/quality improvement rotation for internal medicine interns. He also previously directed the "Use of Ultrasound and Enhancing Confidence in Performing Bedside Procedures" session at the annual UCSF Hospitalist Mini-College CME course, as well as co-directed the Quality Improvement/Patient Safety elective for 4th year medical students for many years.

He is a member of the Division's Quality Improvement Committee and Unit-Based Leadership Team, as well as participates in many task forces. He was part of the 2018-19 Caring Wisely-awarded project team to improve IV albumin stewardship at UCSF. He frequently interviews faculty/fellowship candidates and has been a RAD (Resident Advising and Development) advisor for numerous internal medicine residents.

During medical school, Andy provided clinical care and worked on HIV-related projects in Madras, India and Eldoret, Kenya. He has provided volunteer clinical care in Port-au-Prince with Project Medishare for Haiti, as well as was part of the UCSF team of physicians and nurses who volunteered to assist colleagues at New York-Presbyterian hospitals in April/May 2020 during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• A Covid-19 Patient with Complement-Mediated Coagulopathy and Severe Thrombosis.
  Pathobiology : journal of immunopathology, molecular and cellular biology 2020 Showers CR, Nuovo GJ, Lakhanpal A, Siegel CH, Aizer J, Elreda L, Halevi A, Lai AR, Erkan D, Magro CM
• Association Between Methamphetamine Use and Psychiatric Hospitalization, Chemical Restraint, and Emergency Department Length of Stay.
  Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine 2020 Murphy CE, Wang RC, Coralic Z, Lai AR, Raven M
• SEVERE INSULIN RESISTANCE WITH DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS AFTER BRENTUXIMAB TREATMENT.
  AACE clinical case reports 2020 Chiang JM, Lai AR, Anderson M, Rushakoff RJ
• A Terminal Event. Reply.
  The New England journal of medicine 2019 Lai AR, Gensler LS, McQuaid K
• Expanding the View: Implications of the SHM Position Statement on Ultrasound Use in Vascular Access.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2019 Anstey JE, Lai AR
• A Terminal Event.
  The New England journal of medicine 2019 Lai AR, Sheu L, Gensler LS, McQuaid K, Dhaliwal G
• Geriatric 'Crohn-ic' Abdominal Pain: An Unusual Presentation of a Common Disease.
  The American journal of medicine 2019 Narasimmaraj P, Lim HC, Beck KR, Lai AR
• Sole-Searing Pain: Classic Kaposi's Sarcoma.
  The American journal of medicine 2017 Minter DJ, Kotwani P, Kohn LL, Maurer T, Lai AR
• Mimicker of hereditary angioedema: Idiopathic systemic capillary leak syndrome successfully treated with intravenous immunoglobulin.
  Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology 2017 Wan XC, Lai A, Kompala T, Ten R
• Safe and Effective Bedside Thoracentesis: A Review of the Evidence for Practicing Clinicians.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2017 Schildhouse R, Lai A, Barsuk JH, Mourad M, Chopra V
• Is Excessive Resource Utilization an Adverse Event?
  JAMA 2017 Zapata JA, Lai AR, Moriates C
• Can lessons from systems-based mastery learning for thoracentesis be translated to hospitalists?
  Journal of hospital medicine 2016 Jensen T, Lai A, Mourad M
• The value in the evidence: teaching residents to "choose wisely".
  JAMA internal medicine 2013 Moriates C, Soni K, Lai A, Ranji S
• Severe H1N1-Associated acute respiratory distress syndrome: A case series.
  The American journal of medicine 2010 Lai AR, Keet K, Yong CM, Diaz JV
• Spectrum of adverse events after generic HAART in southern Indian HIV-infected patients.
  AIDS patient care and STDs 2008 Kumarasamy N, Venkatesh KK, Cecelia AJ, Devaleenal B, Lai AR, Saghayam S, Balakrishnan P, Yepthomi T, Poongulali S, Flanigan TP, Solomon S, Mayer KH
• Antiretroviral medication considerations for individuals coinfected with HIV and hepatitis C virus.
  AIDS patient care and STDs 2006 Lai AR, Tashima KT, Taylor LE
• Neuroprotective strategies in Parkinson's disease: protection against progressive nigral damage induced by free radicals.
  Neurotoxicity research 2000 Chiueh CC, Andoh T, Lai AR, Lai E, Krishna G