Christopher Peabody, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Emergency Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Christopher (Toff) Peabody is the Founder and Director of the UCSF Acute Care Innovation Center, an initiative of the UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine. The Center operationalizes design and engineering principles to improve the acute care system in San Francisco.

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The Center has several active focus areas and projects, including optimizing teamwork and care coordination, implementing social medicine resources, and streamlining workflows in light of the boarding crisis. Their landmark project, E*Drive, an open-access clinical information hub, received national recognition for making local clinical guidelines accessible to emergency clinicians at the bedside.

Dr. Peabody serves as the Director of Quality and Performance Improvement at the San Francisco General Hospital Emergency Department, San Francisco’s public hospital and Level-1 Trauma Center. In this role, he leverages his formal training in quality improvement and patient safety to fulfill the SFGH mission of providing high-quality acute, unscheduled care to the citizens of San Francisco.

Outside of his leadership roles at UCSF, Dr. Peabody also serves as a senior advisor to the Emergency Medicine Innovation Collaborative (EMIC), a national nonprofit group democratizing innovations in acute care. He is a practicing emergency physician at San Francisco General Hospital and has applied his innovative approach to both medical student and resident education.

Awards

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• Innovative Change in Practice Management Award, American College of Emergency Physicians, 2023
• Excellence in Teaching Award, UCSF Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, 2020
• Outstanding Coach -- 2017-18 Bridges Curriculum -- Foundations 1 and 2 Teaching Awards, UCSF School of Medicine, 2018
• Excellence in Teaching Award, UCSF Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, 2016

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California, San Francisco 2017
• Emergency Medicine Residency Los Angeles County + University of Southern California 2014
• MD University of California, San Francisco 2010
• MPH Health Policy and Management Harvard School of Public Health 2009
• BA Political Science / Molecular Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley 2004

Interests

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• Emergency Department Teamwork
• Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
• Medical Student Coaching
• Acute Care Innovations
• Physician Mentorship

Websites

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• EM Innovation Collaborative (eminnovationcollaborative.org)
• E*Drive (Clinical Information Hub) (edrive.ucsf.edu)
• Acute Care Innovation Center (acutecare.ucsf.edu)

Publications (23)

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Pre-Exposure ProphylaxisParacentesisAppendicitisHemoptysisDecision Support Systems, ClinicalClinical Decision-MakingAntimicrobial StewardshipTranexamic AcidEmergency Service, HospitalCatheterization, Central VenousPandemicsFeasibility StudiesQualitative ResearchBurnout, ProfessionalInhalation

• Feasibility of Emergency Department-Initiated HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis.
  The western journal of emergency medicine 2024 Bisom-Rapp E, Patel K, Jaradeh K, Hayirli TC, Peabody CR
• Quality improvement in the era of boarding and burnout: A postpandemic blueprint.
  Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open 2024 Schwartz H, Huen W, Kanzaria HK, Peabody CR
• The Utility of Dot Phrases and SmartPhrases in Improving Physician Documentation of Interpreter Use.
  The western journal of emergency medicine 2024 Jaradeh K, Hsiang E, Singh MK, Peabody CR, Straube S
• Compass for antibiotic stewardship: using a digital tool to improve guideline adherence and drive clinician behaviour for appendicitis treatment in the emergency department.
  Emergency medicine journal : EMJ 2023 Vu MT, Schwartz H, Straube S, Pondicherry N, Emanuels D, Dhanoa J, Bains J, Singh M, Stark N, Peabody C
• Centralization and democratization: Managing crisis communication in health care delivery.
  Health care management review 2023 Hayirli TC, Stark N, Hardy J, Peabody CR, Kerrissey MJ

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• Designing and developing a digital equity dashboard for the emergency department.
  Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open 2023 Yi S, Burke C, Reilly A, Straube S, Graterol J, Peabody CR
• Designing clinical guidelines that improve access and satisfaction in the emergency department.
  Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open 2023 Pondicherry N, Schwartz H, Stark N, Dhanoa J, Emanuels D, Singh M, Peabody CR
• Discharge Navigator: Implementation and Cross-Sectional Evaluation of a Digital Decision Tool for Social Resources upon Emergency Department Discharge.
  The western journal of emergency medicine 2022 Grade M, Stark N, Emanuels D, Lu A, Doshi J, Leung S, Peabody C
• Team and leadership factors and their relationship to burnout in emergency medicine during COVID-19: A 3-wave cross-sectional study.
  Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open 2022 Bhanja A, Hayirli T, Stark N, Hardy J, Peabody CR, Kerrissey M
• How psychological safety and feeling heard relate to burnout and adaptation amid uncertainty.
  Health care management review 2022 Kerrissey MJ, Hayirli TC, Bhanja A, Stark N, Hardy J, Peabody CR
• Unprecedented Training: Experience of Residents During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2022 Stark N, Hayirli T, Bhanja A, Kerrissey M, Hardy J, Peabody CR
• Masked and distanced: a qualitative study of how personal protective equipment and distancing affect teamwork in emergency care.
  International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care 2021 Hayirli TC, Stark N, Bhanja A, Hardy J, Peabody CR, Kerrissey MJ
• Building Back Better: Applying Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic to Expand Critical Information Access.
  The Journal of emergency medicine 2021 Schwartz HEM, Stark NR, Sowa CS, Singh MK, Peabody CR
• Developing Virtual Reality Trauma Training Experiences Using 360-Degree Video: Tutorial.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2020 Patel D, Hawkins J, Chehab LZ, Martin-Tuite P, Feler J, Tan A, Alpers BS, Pink S, Wang J, Freise J, Kim P, Peabody C, Bowditch J, Williams ER, Sammann A
• Streamlining Care in Crisis: Rapid Creation and Implementation of a Digital Support Tool for COVID-19.
  The western journal of emergency medicine 2020 Stark N, Kerrissey M, Grade M, Berrean B, Peabody C
• Predicting Emergency Department "Bouncebacks": A Retrospective Cohort Analysis.
  The western journal of emergency medicine 2019 Montoy JCC, Tamayo-Sarver J, Miller GA, Baer AE, Peabody CR
• Hemoptysis? Try Inhaled Tranexamic Acid.
  The Journal of emergency medicine 2018 Komura S, Rodriguez RM, Peabody CR
• A Toddler with Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum.
  Clinical practice and cases in emergency medicine 2017 Chow JL, Green-Hopkins I, Peabody CR
• Deep Needle Procedures: Improving Safety With Ultrasound Visualization.
  Journal of patient safety 2017 Peabody CR, Mandavia D
• Ultrasound diagnosis of urethral calculi.
  The western journal of emergency medicine 2012 Peabody C, Mailhot T, Perera P
• Disaster mobile health technology: lessons from Haiti.
  Prehospital and disaster medicine 2012 Callaway DW, Peabody CR, Hoffman A, Cote E, Moulton S, Baez AA, Nathanson L
• Type II protein secretion and its relationship to bacterial type IV pili and archaeal flagella.
  Microbiology (Reading, England) 2003 Peabody CR, Chung YJ, Yen MR, Vidal-Ingigliardi D, Pugsley AP, Saier MH
• Protein-translocating outer membrane porins of Gram-negative bacteria.
  Biochimica et biophysica acta 2002 Yen MR, Peabody CR, Partovi SM, Zhai Y, Tseng YH, Saier MH