David Sears, MD
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Sears now provides primary care for people with HIV at the 360 Positive Care Center at UCSF, infectious diseases consultations at UCSF, and inpatient care on the internal medicine wards at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

Dr. Sears is the Director of Healthcare Quality for Amend at UCSF, where he focuses on evaluations of healthcare quality in California state prisons, with the aim of improving healthcare outcomes for residents of correctional facilities. Dr. Sears also runs educational programs and leads quality improvement efforts in the 360 Positive Care Center at UCSF and serves as the Director of 4th Year Medical Student Electives for the Department of Medicine. Additionally, he supports the development of HIV medical education curricula in partnership with health professions schools across sub-Saharan Africa and Jamaica.

• Evaluating the impact of a multicountry interprofessional training programme to improve HIV knowledge and clinical confidence among healthcare workers in sub-Saharan Africa: a cohort study.
  BMJ open 2022 Kiguli-Malwadde E, Forster M, Martin S, Chilemba E, Couper I, Motlhatlhedi K, Celentano J, Haruzivishe C, Sears D, Budak JZ, Khanyola JN, Von Zinkernagel D, Molwantwa M, Semitala F, de Villiers M, …
• Modeling scenarios for mitigating outbreaks in congregate settings.
  PLoS computational biology 2022 Blumberg S, Lu P, Kwan AT, Hoover CM, Lloyd-Smith JO, Sears D, Bertozzi SM, Worden L
• Respiratory pandemic preparedness learnings from the June 2020 COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin California State Prison.
  International journal of prisoner health 2022 Kwan A, Sklar R, Cameron DB, Schell RC, Bertozzi SM, McCoy SI, Williams B, Sears DA
• Human Immunodeficiency Virus Training Pathways in Residency: A National Survey of Curricula and Outcomes.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2021 Budak JZ, Sears DA, Wood BR, Spach DH, Armstrong WS, Dhanireddy S, Teherani A, Schwartz BS
• Brief Report: Heplisav-B Seroprotection in People With HIV: A Single-Center Experience.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2021 Schnittman SR, Zepf R, Cocohoba J, Sears D
• Occupational Health: A Key to the Control of COVID-19 in Correctional Facilities.
  Annals of internal medicine 2020 Sears D, Ahalt C, Augustine D, Williams B
• Medical Isolation and Solitary Confinement: Balancing Health and Humanity in US Jails and Prisons During COVID-19.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Cloud DH, Ahalt C, Augustine D, Sears D, Williams B
• Health Affairs Blog
  Correctional Facilities In The Shadow Of COVID-19: Unique Challenges And Proposed Solutions 2020 Williams B, Ahalt C, Cloud D, Augustine D, Rorvig L, Sears D
• Undiagnosed and Untreated HIV Infection Among Persons Who Inject Drugs: Results of Three National HIV Behavioral Surveillance Surveys, San Francisco, 2009-2015.
  AIDS and behavior 2019 Kim N, Welty S, Reza T, Sears D, McFarland W, Raymond HF
• Candida auris: An emerging multidrug-resistant pathogen.
  International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases 2017 Sears D, Schwartz BS
• A novel case of lymphangiomatosis in HIV.
  Experimental and molecular pathology 2017 Spier AB, Kurtz J, Sears D
• Anti-malarial prescription practices among children admitted to six public hospitals in Uganda from 2011 to 2013.
  Malaria journal 2015 Sserwanga A, Sears D, Kapella BK, Kigozi R, Rubahika D, Staedke SG, Kamya M, Yoon SS, Chang MA, Dorsey G, Mpimbaza A
• Admission Risk Score to Predict Inpatient Pediatric Mortality at Four Public Hospitals in Uganda.
  PloS one 2015 Mpimbaza A, Sears D, Sserwanga A, Kigozi R, Rubahika D, Nadler A, Yeka A, Dorsey G
• Quality of inpatient pediatric case management for four leading causes of child mortality at six government-run Ugandan hospitals.
  PloS one 2015 Sears D, Mpimbaza A, Kigozi R, Sserwanga A, Chang MA, Kapella BK, Yoon S, Kamya MR, Dorsey G, Ruel T
• Encyclopedia of AIDS; Hope TJ, Stevenson M, Richman D, editors
  NRTIs 2015 Sears D, Daar ES
• Anti-malarial prescription practices among outpatients with laboratory-confirmed malaria in the setting of a health facility-based sentinel site surveillance system in Uganda.
  Malaria journal 2013 Sears D, Kigozi R, Mpimbaza A, Kakeeto S, Sserwanga A, Staedke SG, Chang M, Kapella BK, Rubahika D, Kamya MR, Dorsey G
• Internet-enabled thyroid hormone abuse.
  Annals of internal medicine 2009 Neuberg GW, Stephenson KE, Sears DA, McConnell RJ
• Sexual risk behaviour among HIV-positive patients at an urban clinic in Santiago, Dominican Republic.
  AIDS care 2008 Sears D, Cabrera-Rodriguez C, Ortiz-Mejia F, Anderson B, Stein M
• Perspectives from Brown medical students and a medical resident. The Warren Alpert medical school in the Dominican Republic.
  Medicine and health, Rhode Island 2007 Sears D