Carly Zapata, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

415-514-1966

Dr. Carly Zapata is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Palliative Medicine. She serves as an attending physician on the Palliative Care Consult Service at Parnassus, the Symptom Management Service in the Helen Diller Cancer Center, and the Outpatient Palliative Care Service at Parnassus. She also serves as the director of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at UCSF.

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Dr. Zapata received her undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University and attended medical school at Harvard University, where she also completed a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She did her internal medicine residency at UCSF followed by a year as a Chief Resident at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital before completing her Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship at UCSF. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

Dr. Zapata's academic interests include assessing and addressing the needs of family caregivers of patients with serious illness and health care disparities in palliative care.

Education & Training

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  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
  • Palliative Medicine Fellowship University of California, San Francisco 2017
  • Chief Resident University of California, San Francisco 2016
  • Internal Medicine Residency University of California, San Francisco 2015
  • MD Harvard Medical School 2012
  • MPH Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 2012
  • B.A. Johns Hopkins University 2006

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