Brad Sharpe, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
Brad Sharpe received his bachelor degree in chemistry from Stanford University and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at UCSF. He currently is an Professor of Clinical Medicine and is a clinician-educator in the Division of Hospital Medicine at UCSF Health.
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Brad has had multiple leadership roles at UCSF. Most recently, he served as the Division Chief for the Division of Hospital Medicine at UCSF Health, leading a group with more than 100 faculty and 25 staff. Previously, Brad served as the Associate Program Director for Inpatient Affairs for the UCSF Internal Medicine Residency. Starting in July 2021, Brad now focuses mainly on clinical care and teaching. He has a passion for teaching students, housestaff, and faculty and lectures on topics including community-acquired pneumonia, clinical problem solving, and updates in the medical literature.
Brad also graduated from the Stanford Faculty Development Clinical Teaching Program and gives lectures and seminars to housestaff and faculty on clinical teaching skills.
In addition, Brad has had multiple national roles in academic hospital medicine. He served on multiple committees for the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), including the Academic Committee; he served on the Board of Directors for the Society of Hospital Medicine for six years. He is the former co-chair of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Academic Hospitalist Taskforce. He is also a co-director of the Academic Hospitalist Academy, an annual 4-day “boot camp” for junior academic hospitalists.
Brad lives in San Francisco with his spouse (who is also a physician) and their two children, ages 11 and 8. On weekends, he might be found exercising or having a picnic with his family.
Awards
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- Harry Hollander Award for Clinical Reasoning Teaching, UCSF Internal Medicine Residency, 2022
- Harry Hollander Award for Clinical Reasoning Teaching, UCSF Internal Medicine Residency, 2022
- Distinguished Professor of Hospital Medicine, Society of General Internal Medicine National Meeting, 2019
- Outstanding Housestaff Teaching Award, UCSF Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2017
- National Meeting Best Research Abstract Award (co-author), Society of Hospital Medicine, 2015
- National Award for Excellence in Teaching, Society of Hospital Medicine, 2014
- Elected a Member of the Council of Master Clinicians, UCSF, 2014
- Outstanding Medical School Lecture, UCSF Class of 2015, 2012
- Inducted into the UCSF AOA, University of California San Francisco, 2012
- Best Pre-course for the SGIM 33rd Annual Meeting, Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), 2010
- Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine (SFHM), Society of Hospital Medicine, 2010
- Elected to the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators, UCSF, 2010
- Oustanding Medical School Lecture, UCSF Class of 2013, 2010
- ACP Top 10 Hospitalist Nationally, American College of Physicians (ACP), 2009
- Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP), American College of Physicians (ACP), 2009
- Academy of Medical Educators Excellence in Teaching Award, UCSF, 2009
- Distinction in Teaching Award, Most Outstanding Teacher in the first 5 years on faculty, UCSF, 2008
- Best Clinical Vignette, SGIM 30th Annual Meeting, Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), 2007
- Best Workshop Award, SGIM 30th Annual Meeting, Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), 2007
- UCSF Internal Medicine Residency Housestaff Teaching Award, UCSF, 2006
- Outstanding Medical School Lecture, UCSF Class of 2010, 2006
- Excellence in Medical Student Teaching, UCSF Class of 2005, 2005
- Excellence in Small Group Instruction, Medical School, UCSF Class of 2007, 2005
Education & Training
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
- M.D. School of Medicine Harvard University 1999
- Residency Internal Medicine University of California, San Francisco
Interests
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- big data
- natural language processing
- machine learning
- artificial intelligence
- clinical informatics
- health information interoperability
- electronic health records (EHR)
- data science
- data analysis
- clinical decision support
Websites
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- Clinical Profile at UCSF Medical Center (ucsfhealth.org)
Publications (60)
Top publication keywords:
Faculty, MedicalMyositisHypercalcemiaInternship and ResidencyInternal MedicineClinical CompetenceEmotional IntelligenceMyasthenia GravisDocumentationAcademic Medical CentersHospitalistsPneumoniaThymomaThymus NeoplasmsHospital Medicine
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Faculty Development in Academic Hospital Medicine: a Scoping Review.
Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Misky GJ, Sharpe B, Weaver AC, Niranjan-Azadi A, Gupta A, Rennke S, Ludwin S, Piper C, Sun VK, Brotman DJ, Frank M -
Giant cell myositis associated with metastatic thymoma and granulomatous hypercalcaemia.
BMJ case reports 2022 Jimenez JC, Lucas CG, LaHue SC, Sharpe BA -
Characteristics, satisfiers, development needs, and barriers to success for early-career academic hospitalists.
BMC medical education 2022 Kulkarni SA, Fang MC, Glasheen JJ, Parekh V, Sharpe BA -
Using Participatory Design to Engage Physicians in the Development of a Provider-Level Performance Dashboard and Feedback System.
Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2021 Patel S, Pierce L, Jones M, Lai A, Cai M, Sharpe BA, Harrison JD -
Sunset Rounds: a Framework for Post-death Care in the Hospital.
Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Salazar JW, Sharpe B, Raffel K
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Using Peer Feedback to Promote Clinical Excellence in Hospital Medicine.
Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Rosenthal MA, Sharpe BA, Haber LA -
The Importance of Emotional Intelligence When Leading in a Time of Crisis.
Journal of hospital medicine 2020 Kantor MA, Apgar SK, Esmaili AM, Khan A, Monash B, Sharpe BA -
Management of Pneumonia Syndromes in the Hospital: Make Pneumonia Your Best Friend.
The Medical clinics of North America 2020 Kanal A, Sharpe BA, Abelson J -
Hospital Medicine Update: High-Impact Literature from March 2018 to April 2019.
Journal of hospital medicine 2019 Donovan AK, Burger A, Moriates C, Sharpe BA, Herzke C -
Update in Hospital Medicine: Practical Lessons from Current Literature.
Journal of hospital medicine 2019 Cooper CM, Donovan AK, Sharpe BA, Slawski B, Burger A -
Tissue Isn't the Issue.
Journal of hospital medicine 2018 Santhosh L, Koth L, Baudendistel TE, Sharpe B, Monash B -
Training Residents in Hospital Medicine: The Hospitalist Elective National Survey.
Journal of hospital medicine 2018 Ludwin S, Harrison JD, Ranji S, Sharpe BA, Kneeland P -
Update in Hospital Medicine: Practical Lessons from the Literature.
Journal of hospital medicine 2018 Burger A, Miller C, Sharpe BA, Thompson RE -
A Prescription for Note Bloat: An Effective Progress Note Template.
Journal of hospital medicine 2018 Kahn D, Stewart E, Duncan M, Lee E, Simon W, Lee C, Friedman J, Mosher H, Harris K, Bell J, Sharpe B, El-Farra N -
When the Script Doesn't Fit: An Exercise in Clinical Reasoning.
Journal of general internal medicine 2017 Wheeler DJ, Cascino T, Sharpe BA, Connor DM -
Forging Ahead.
Journal of hospital medicine 2017 Anklesaria Z, Hunt D, Shah M, Sharpe B, Monash B -
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 -
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 -
Features of successful academic hospitalist programs: Insights from the SCHOLAR (SuCcessful HOspitaLists in academics and research) project.
Journal of hospital medicine 2016 Seymann GB, Southern W, Burger A, Brotman DJ, Chakraborti C, Harrison R, Parekh V, Sharpe BA, Pile J, Hunt D, Leykum LK -
Breakdown.
Journal of hospital medicine 2016 Zhu JM, Hamel D, Dhaliwal G, Glass M, Sharpe B, Kim B, Monash B -
Internal medicine progress note writing attitudes and practices in an electronic health record.
Journal of hospital medicine 2015 Stewart E, Kahn D, Lee E, Simon W, Duncan M, Mosher H, Harris K, Bell J, El-Farra N, Sharpe B -
A coat with a clue.
Journal of hospital medicine 2015 Ebinger J, Sedighi Manesh R, Dhaliwal G, Sharpe B, Monash B -
Saying no to drugs.
Perspectives on medical education 2015 Thangavel A, Sharpe B -
2013 Literature Update in Hospital Medicine.
Hospital Medicine Clinics 2014 Leonard S. Feldman, William Southern, Bradley A. Sharpe, Romsai Tony Boonyasai, Alexander R. Carbo -
Literature Update in Hospital Medicine.
Hospital Medicine Clinics 2014 William Southern, Bradley A. Sharpe, Romsai Tony Boonyasai -
Internal medicine rounding practices and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education core competencies.
Journal of hospital medicine 2014 Shoeb M, Khanna R, Fang M, Sharpe B, Finn K, Ranji S, Monash B -
Faculty development for hospitalists: structured peer observation of teaching.
Journal of hospital medicine 2014 Mookherjee S, Monash B, Wentworth KL, Sharpe BA -
Update in hospital palliative care.
Journal of hospital medicine 2013 Anderson WG, Flint LA, Horton JR, Johnson K, Mourad M, Sharpe BA -
Expectations for student oral case presentations: Do internal medicine and pediatric course directors see eye to eye?.
Journal of Communications In Healthcare 2013 Eric H Green, Linda Lewin, Linda V DeCherrie, Steven J Durning, Mark J Fagan, Bradley Sharpe, Warren Hershman -
Documenting quality improvement and patient safety efforts: the quality portfolio. A statement from the academic hospitalist taskforce.
Journal of general internal medicine 2013 Taylor BB, Parekh V, Estrada CA, Schleyer A, Sharpe B -
Development and implementation of a balanced scorecard in an academic hospitalist group.
Journal of hospital medicine 2013 Hwa M, Sharpe BA, Wachter RM -
Survey of overnight academic hospitalist supervision of trainees.
Journal of hospital medicine 2012 Farnan JM, Burger A, Boonyasai RT, Boonayasai RT, Leykum L, Harrison R, Machulsky J, Parekh V, Sharpe BA, Schleyer AM, Arora VM, SGIM Housestaff Oversight Subcommittee -
Effects of increased overnight supervision on resident education, decision-making, and autonomy.
Journal of hospital medicine 2012 Haber LA, Lau CY, Sharpe BA, Arora VM, Farnan JM, Ranji SR -
Putting a critical pathway into practice: the devil is in the implementation details.
Archives of internal medicine 2012 Sharpe BA -
The hand that feeds you.
Journal of hospital medicine 2012 Ganguli I, Pierce C, Sharpe B, Hansra N, Hollander H -
Developing educators, investigators, and leaders during internal medicine residency: the area of distinction program.
Journal of graduate medical education 2011 Kohlwes RJ, Cornett P, Dandu M, Julian K, Vidyarthi A, Minichiello T, Shunk R, Jain S, Harleman E, Ranji S, Sharpe B, O'Sullivan P, Hollander H -
Mentorship, productivity, and promotion among academic hospitalists.
Journal of general internal medicine 2011 Reid MB, Misky GJ, Harrison RA, Sharpe B, Auerbach A, Glasheen JJ -
Update in hospital medicine for the general internist 2010-2011.
Journal of general internal medicine 2011 Boonyasai RT, Steinberg DI, Schleyer AM, Mourad MM, Harte BJ, Sharpe BA -
Tried and true: a survey of successfully promoted academic hospitalists.
Journal of hospital medicine 2011 Leykum LK, Parekh VI, Sharpe B, Boonyasai RT, Centor RM -
Career satisfaction and burnout in academic hospital medicine.
Archives of internal medicine 2011 Glasheen JJ, Misky GJ, Reid MB, Harrison RA, Sharpe B, Auerbach A -
Critical conversations: a call for a nonprocedural "time out".
Journal of hospital medicine 2011 Sehgal NL, Fox M, Sharpe BA, Vidyarthi AR, Blegen M, Wachter RM -
Erratum: Investing in the future: Building an academic hospitalist faculty development program.
Journal of Hospital Medicine 2011 Niraj L. Sehgal, Bradley A. Sharpe, Andrew A. Auerbach, Robert M. Wachter -
Investing in the future: building an academic hospitalist faculty development program.
Journal of hospital medicine 2011 Sehgal NL, Sharpe BA, Auerbach AA, Wachter RM -
Survey of US academic hospitalist leaders about mentorship and academic activities in hospitalist groups.
Journal of hospital medicine 2011 Harrison R, Hunter AJ, Sharpe B, Auerbach AD -
The oral case presentation: what internal medicine clinician-teachers expect from clinical clerks.
Teaching and learning in medicine 2011 Green EH, DeCherrie L, Fagan MJ, Sharpe BA, Hershman W -
The FDA extended warning for intravenous haloperidol and torsades de pointes: how should institutions respond?
Journal of hospital medicine 2010 Meyer-Massetti C, Cheng CM, Sharpe BA, Meier CR, Guglielmo BJ -
The HCAP gap: differences between self-reported practice patterns and published guidelines for health care-associated pneumonia.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2009 Seymann GB, Di Francesco L, Sharpe B, Rohde J, Fedullo P, Schneir A, Fee C, Chan KM, Fatehi P, Dam TT -
Twelve tips for presenting a clinical problem solving exercise.
Medical teacher 2009 Dhaliwal G, Sharpe BA -
Guideline-recommended antibiotics in community-acquired pneumonia: not perfect, but good.
Archives of internal medicine 2009 Sharpe BA -
Expectations for oral case presentations for clinical clerks: opinions of internal medicine clerkship directors.
Journal of general internal medicine 2009 Green EH, Durning SJ, DeCherrie L, Fagan MJ, Sharpe B, Hershman W -
A multidisciplinary teamwork training program: the Triad for Optimal Patient Safety (TOPS) experience.
Journal of general internal medicine 2008 Sehgal NL, Fox M, Vidyarthi AR, Sharpe BA, Gearhart S, Bookwalter T, Barker J, Alldredge BK, Blegen MA, Wachter RM, Triad for Optimal Patient Safety Project -
Stranded in San Francisco.
Lancet (London, England) 2008 Dey N, Nazif TM, Sharpe B -
Strategies for success: A PDSA analysis of three QI initiatives in critical care.
Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2008 Lipshutz AK, Fee C, Schell H, Campbell L, Taylor J, Sharpe BA, Nguyen J, Gropper MA -
When is a scarlet letter really a red badge of courage?: the paradox of percentage of pneumonia patients receiving antibiotics within 4 hours in accordance with JCAHO and CMS core measures.
Annals of emergency medicine 2007 Fee C, Weber EJ, Sharpe BA, Quon T -
Cause of death in alcoholic hepatitis.
Journal of hospital medicine 2007 Coffin PO, Sharpe BA -
Community-acquired pneumonia: a practical approach to management for the hospitalist.
Journal of hospital medicine 2006 Sharpe BA, Flanders SA -
JCAHO/CMS core measures for community-acquired pneumonia.
Annals of emergency medicine 2006 Fee C, Weber E, Sharpe BA, Nguy M, Quon T, Bookwalter T -
Perceptions of physician shortages.
JAMA 2004 Sharpe BA -
Point of maximal impulse and heart failure.
The American journal of medicine 2002 Sharpe BA -
Causes and severity of ischemic stroke in patients with internal carotid artery stenosis.
JAMA 2000 Barnett HJ, Gunton RW, Eliasziw M, Fleming L, Sharpe B, Gates P, Meldrum H