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

Under his leadership, the Center has developed nationally recognized initiatives such as E*Drive, an award-winning clinical information hub, and has advanced projects in digital health, equity dashboards, and human-centered workflow redesign.

At Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG), Dr. Peabody serves as the Associate Chief Medical Officer for Performance Excellence, where he helps lead the hospital’s Kaizen Promotion Office in driving system-wide improvement through Lean management. In this role, he partners with executive and frontline leaders to align operational excellence with equity, safety, and patient experience goals across the institution. He previously served as the Director of Quality and Performance Improvement for the ZSFG Emergency Department, where he built and led innovative quality programs including the Equity and Operations Dashboard and the Case Review Committee.

Dr. Peabody is also the Fellowship Director of the UCSF Emergency Medicine Innovation Fellowship and Site Director for the UCSF Clinical Microsystems Clerkship at ZSFG, where he mentors the next generation of clinician-innovators. His teaching and mentorship have been recognized with multiple UCSF awards, including the Excellence in Mentoring Award and the Outstanding Coach Award.

Nationally, Dr. Peabody advises the Emergency Medicine Innovation Collaborative (EMIC), contributes to the ACEP Quality and Patient Safety Committee, and has been recognized with awards from the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Medical Association, and the Academy of Management. He is a practicing emergency physician at ZSFG, where his work is anchored in advancing safe, equitable, and innovative care for San Francisco’s most vulnerable patients.

• 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
• 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
• Multi-disciplinary service learning: a medico-legal collaboration.
  Medical education 2008 Peabody C, Block A, Jain S
• 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