Denise Davis, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
My clinical responsibilities include seeing patients at the San Francisco VA Medical Center ambulatory care clinic. I serve as an Associate Director of the Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education at the San Francisco VA where I teach workshops on topics ranging from basic communication skills to mentoring trainees across racial and ethnic differences.
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My local and national education practice includes teaching and coaching students, trainees and physicians in communication skills that increase quality, safety and improve patient experience. I also serve as Specialist for minority students at the UCSF School of Medicine and as a member of the Academy on Communication in Healthcare Diversity Committee.
Awards
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- Excellence in Teaching Award, Academy on Communication in Healthcare, 2021
- Family and Community Medicine Excellence in Student Teaching Award, UCSF, 2021
- Family and Community Medicine Excellence in Student Teaching Award, UCSF, 2020
- Martlin Luther King Leadership Award, UCSF, 2018
- Gold Headed Cane Society, UCSF, 2017
- VA Superstar Award, San Francisco VA, 2014
- Academy of Medical Educators Excellence in Teaching Award, UCSF, 2013
- Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2013
- Consumer Checkbook Top Doctor, 2008
- Extraordinaire Award, African American Museum and Library, Oakland, CA, 2007
- Henry J. Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching, UCSF, 2005
Education & Training
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2017
- Faculty Development Training American Academy on Communication in Healthcare 2010
- Residency Internal Medicine Kaiser Foundation Hospital San Francisco 1989
- Internship internal medicine Kansas University Medical Center 1982
- BA/MD School of Medicine University of Missouri-Kansas City six year combined BA/MD program 1981
Interests
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- Clinician-patient communication
- medical education
- patient centered care
- partnering with resistant learners
- mentoring and coaching
- feedback
- remediation
- team building and group facilitation
- empathy in the clinical setting
- faculty development
- skillful negotiation of cultural differences
- race and relationships in health care
- professionalism
Publications (12)
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CoronavirusPrimary Health CareSexismSocial MedicineCommunicationPandemicsCareer ChoiceUncertaintyProfessional-Family RelationsCircumcision, FemaleDelivery of Health CarePrejudiceStudents, MedicalPhysician-Patient RelationsResearch
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The General Surgery Residency Experience: A Multicenter Study of Differences in Wellbeing by Race/Ethnicity.
Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches 2022 Greenberg AL, Cevallos JR, Ojute FM, Davis DL, Greene WR, Lebares CC -
Student-Led Efforts to Advance Anti-Racist Medical Education.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2021 Afolabi T, Borowsky HM, Cordero DM, Paul DW, Said JT, Sandoval RS, Davis D, Ölveczky D, Chatterjee A -
Start the Way You Want to Finish: An Intensive Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Orientation Curriculum in Undergraduate Medical Education.
Journal of medical education and curricular development 2021 Davis DLF, Tran-Taylor D, Imbert E, Wong JO, Chou CL -
Dare to Look.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2020 Davis DL -
Communication for Equity in the Service of Patient Experience: Health Justice and the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Journal of patient experience 2020 Cordero DM, Davis DL
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Implications of the current COVID-19 pandemic for communication in healthcare.
Patient education and counseling 2020 Rubinelli S, Myers K, Rosenbaum M, Davis D -
The Bearable Lightness of Uncertainty.
Journal of general internal medicine 2019 Davis DLF, Chou CL -
Twelve tips for responding to microaggressions and overt discrimination: When the patient offends the learner.
Medical teacher 2018 Wheeler DJ, Zapata J, Davis D, Chou C -
Communication Rx
Culture and Diversity Chapter 14 2017 Denise L. Davis -
Remediation in Medical Education
Chapter 15 "Feedback in Remediation" 2013 Calvin Chou, Adina Kalet -
Consider the personhood of women who experienced genital cutting.
Mayo Clinic proceedings 2013 Bergstrom AR, Nur F, Davis DL -
Simple But Not Always Easy: Improving Doctor -Patient Communication
Journal of Communication In Healthcare 2010 Denise L. Davis