Cynthia Fenton, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Cynthia Fenton is a physician-hospitalist with advanced training in caring for patients with Thrombosis related conditions in Non-Malignant Hematology. She provides direct care for hospitalized patients, teaches medical students and residents on the Hospital Medicine wards, and provides care and consultation for patients with Thrombotic conditions in the Non-Malignant Hematology clinic.

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Dr. Fenton also works in informatics and collaborates with colleagues across UCSF Health on projects that require data extraction from the EHR, cleaning, analysis and visualization to answer key questions and provide insights to improve clinical care of patients.

Education & Training

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• Thrombosis and Anticoagulation Training Program University of California 6/2023
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2019
• Chief Resident, Internal Medicine University of California 6/30/93
• Internal Medicine Residency University of California 6/30/92
• MD Medicine University of California 6/30/89
• BS Computer Science / Mathematics University of California 6/30/85

Publications (13)

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AnalgesicsLiver TransplantationArterial PressureTeaching MaterialsAcute Kidney InjuryClinical ClerkshipDiagnostic ErrorsIntensive Care UnitsAcute-On-Chronic Liver FailureLiver CirrhosisCritical CarePatient Acceptance of Health CareWaiting ListsPainHypertension, Portal

• Differences in Healthcare and Palliative Care Utilization at the End of Life: a Comparison Study Between Lung Cancer, COPD, and IPF.
  Chest 2024 Suen AO, Bischoff K, Iyer AS, Radhakrishnan K, Fenton C, Singer JP, Sudore RL, Kotwal A, Farrand E
• The type, duration, and severity of pretransplant kidney injury predict prolonged kidney dysfunction after liver transplantation.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2024 Dixon W, Feng S, Roll GR, Tavakol M, Fenton C, Cullaro G
• The burden of significant pain in the cirrhosis population: Risk factors, analgesic use, and impact on health care utilization and clinical outcomes.
  Hepatology communications 2024 Rubin JB, Loeb R, Fenton C, Huang CY, Keyhani S, Seal KH, Lai JC
• Outpatient mean arterial pressure: A potentially modifiable risk for acute kidney injury and death among patients with cirrhosis.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2024 Cullaro G, Chiou SH, Fenton C, Ge J, McCulloch CE, Rubin J, Shui AM, Yao F, Lai JC
• The association between mean arterial pressure and acute kidney injury reversal among patients with decompensated cirrhosis.
  Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2024 Cullaro G, Allegretti AS, Fenton C, Ge J, Patidar KR, Rubin J, Sharma A, Lai JC

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• Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Adults Who Died or Were Transferred to Intensive Care.
  JAMA internal medicine 2024 Auerbach AD, Lee TM, Hubbard CC, Ranji SR, Raffel K, Valdes G, Boscardin J, Dalal AK, Harris A, Flynn E, Schnipper JL, UPSIDE Research Group
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease and the Risk of Anal Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions and Anal Cancer in Men Who Have Sex With Men.
  Inflammatory bowel diseases 2023 Field J, Fenton C, Zhang L, Brickman C, Mahadevan U
• Nonselective beta-blockers may lead to stage 2 acute kidney injury and waitlist mortality in child class C cirrhosis.
  Hepatology communications 2023 Lai M, Fenton C, Ge J, Rubin J, Lai JC, Cullaro G
• Predicting post-liver transplant outcomes in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure using Expert-Augmented Machine Learning.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2023 Ge J, Digitale JC, Fenton C, McCulloch CE, Lai JC, Pletcher MJ, Gennatas ED
• Prevalence and Causes of Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Patients Under Investigation for COVID-19.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Auerbach AD, Astik GJ, O'Leary KJ, Barish PN, Kantor MA, Raffel KR, Ranji SR, Mueller SK, Burney SN, Galinsky J, Gershanik EF, Goyal A, Chitneni PR, Rastegar S, Esmaili AM, Fenton C, Virapongse A, …
• A strategy to standardize the learning of core clerkship objectives.
  Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice 2003 Hauer KE, Teherani A, Wiese J, Fenton CL
• Intersessions: covering the bases in the clinical year.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2002 Fenton C, Loeser H, Cooke M
• A retreat for first-year medicine fellows.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2002 Johnston B, Fenton C, Jain S