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

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.

• 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