Bhavika Kaul, MD, MAS
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Kaul is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. She specializes in the care of patients with advanced lung disease. She is an attending physician in the UCSF Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) clinic, the Parnassus medical intensive care unit (ICU), and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs pulmonary consult service.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES Dr. Kaul's scholarship focuses on using health services and implementation science research methods to inform innovative clinical care delivery redesign. She has a particular interest in improving access to pulmonary fibrosis care for vulnerable populations with a focus on early ILD diagnosis and subspecialty engagement. Her current research involves using "big data" generated from clinical encounters to better understand the epidemiology of pulmonary fibrosis among U.S. Veterans, define current barriers and facilitators to care, and develop novel informatics approaches to improve timely access to subspecialty care with the long term goal of improving clinical outcomes for patients with advanced lung disease.

• Disparities in Antifibrotic Medication Utilization Among Veterans With Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.
  Chest 2023 Kaul B, Lee JS, Petersen LA, McCulloch C, Rosas IO, Bandi VD, Zhang N, DeDent AM, Collard HR, Whooley MA
• Wellness and Coping of Physicians Who Worked in ICUs During the Pandemic: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional North American Survey.
  Critical care medicine 2022 Burns KEA, Moss M, Lorens E, Jose EKA, Martin CM, Viglianti EM, Fox-Robichaud A, Mathews KS, Akgun K, Jain S, Gershengorn H, Mehta S, Han JE, Martin GS, Liebler JM, Stapleton RD, Trachuk P, Vranas KC,…
• Reply: Possible Alternate Explanation for Cases of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2022 Kaul B, Lee JS, Collard HR, Whooley MA
• Proteomic biomarkers of progressive fibrosing interstitial lung disease: a multicentre cohort analysis.
  The Lancet. Respiratory medicine 2022 Bowman WS, Newton CA, Linderholm AL, Neely ML, Pugashetti JV, Kaul B, Vo V, Echt GA, Leon W, Shah RJ, Huang Y, Garcia CK, Wolters PJ, Oldham JM
• Variability in Global Prevalence of Interstitial Lung Disease.
  Frontiers in medicine 2021 Kaul B, Cottin V, Collard HR, Valenzuela C
• Does Community Outsourcing Improve Timeliness of Care for Veterans With Obstructive Sleep Apnea?
  Medical care 2021 Kaul B, Hynes DM, Hickok A, Smith C, Niederhausen M, Totten AM, Whooley MA, Sarmiento K
• Leveraging Telehealth to improve access to care: a qualitative evaluation of Veterans' experience with the VA TeleSleep program.
  BMC health services research 2021 Nicosia FM, Kaul B, Totten AM, Silvestrini MC, Williams K, Whooley MA, Sarmiento KF
• I-PASS Illness Severity Identifies Patients at Risk for Overnight Clinical Deterioration.
  Journal of graduate medical education 2020 Shah C, Sanber K, Jacobson R, Kaul B, Tuthill S, Hemmige V, Guy E, Greenberg S
• Implementation Strategies for Frontline Healthcare Professionals: People, Process Mapping, and Problem Solving.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Lu AD, Kaul B, Reichert J, Kilbourne AM, Sarmiento KF, Whooley MA
• Effects of Computer-Based Documentation Procedures on Health Care Workload Assessment and Resource Allocation: An Example From VA Sleep Medicine Programs.
  Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS 2020 Sarmiento KF, Boudreau EA, Smith CJ, Kaul B, Johnson N, Folmer RL
• Prevalence and management of sleep disorders in the Veterans Health Administration.
  Sleep medicine reviews 2020 Folmer RL, Smith CJ, Boudreau EA, Hickok AW, Totten AM, Kaul B, Stepnowsky CJ, Whooley MA, Sarmiento KF
• Variability in triage practices for critically ill cancer patients: A randomized controlled trial.
  Journal of critical care 2019 Rathi NK, Haque SA, Morales F, Kaul B, Ramirez R, Ovu S, Feng L, Dong W, Price KJ, Ugarte S, Raimondi N, Quintero A, Cardenas YR, Nates JL, LACCTIN and ONCCC-R-NET groups
• Physical Activity Disparities Between US-born and Immigrant Children by Maternal Region of Origin.
  Journal of immigrant and minority health 2016 Kimbro RT, Kaul B
• A Lack of Consensus on Appropriate Sanctions for Lapses in Medical Professionalism: An Observational Cohort Study
  Med Ed Publish 2015 Kaul B, Teal CR, Greenberg SB
• 5, 4, 3, 2, 1: embryologic variants of pentalogy of Cantrell.
  The Journal of surgical research 2015 Kaul B, Sheikh F, Zamora IJ, Mehollin-Ray AR, Cassady CI, Ayres NA, Cass DL, Olutoye OO
• A rare cause of widened mediastinum.
  The Journal of emergency medicine 2010 Pillow MT, Kaul B
• Identification of markers that distinguish monocyte-derived fibrocytes from monocytes, macrophages, and fibroblasts.
  PloS one 2009 Pilling D, Fan T, Huang D, Kaul B, Gomer RH