Colin Purmal, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Colin Purmal is a current staff physician at SFVA and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF. Colin received his medical degree from UT Southwestern where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha as a junior for academic achievement. Colin completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Clinical Informatics at UCSF. His academic interests are health data interoperability, health data analytics, and telehealth.

Education & Training

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• Clinical Informatics UCSF Clinical Informatics Fellowship 07/2022
• Internal Medicine UCSF Internal Medicine Residency 06/2020
• M.D. Doctor of Medicine University of Texas, Southwestern 05/2016
• B.S. Microbiology University of Texas 12/2010

Websites

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Publications (6)

Top publication keywords:
Substrate SpecificityAcetatesMedical InformaticsPyruvic AcidPyruvate Dehydrogenase (Lipoamide)MyocardiumHealth FairsEducation, Medical, GraduateTelemedicineBicarbonatesPanicumPropionatesMedical Informatics ApplicationsUnited States Department of Veterans AffairsAcetyl Coenzyme A

• Opportunities to Address Specialty Care Deserts and the Digital Divide through the Veterans Health Administration's Telehealth Hub-and-Spoke Cardiology Clinic: Retrospective Cohort Study.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2024 Tisdale RL, Purmal C, Kalwani N, Sandhu A, Heidenreich P, Zulman D, Hussain T
• The emerging role of clinical informatics fellows in service learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2021 Subash M, Sakumoto M, Bass J, Hong P, Muniyappa A, Pierce L, Purmal C, Ramaswamy P, Sono R, Uptegraft C, Feinstein D, Khanna R
• Community health fair with follow-up.
  Medical education 2015 Squiers JJ, Purmal C, Silver M, Gimpel N
• Propionate stimulates pyruvate oxidation in the presence of acetate.
  American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 2014 Purmal C, Kucejova B, Sherry AD, Burgess SC, Malloy CR, Merritt ME
• A population genetic transect of Panicum hallii (Poaceae).
  American journal of botany 2013 Lowry DB, Purmal CT, Juenger TE
• Microsatellite markers for the native Texas perennial grass, Panicum hallii (Poaceae).
  American journal of botany 2012 Lowry DB, Purmal CT, Meyer E, Juenger TE