Ella Cornell, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Ella Cornell is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at UCSF, where she divides her clinical time between the general medicine and cardiac hospitalist services. She earned her medical degree from Boston University, where her research focused on disparities in access to post-hospital care, particularly among victims of violence.

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She holds a degree in Psychology from the University of Edinburgh and completed her post-baccalaureate premedical training at Columbia University. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at UCSF and served as a Chief Resident at UCSF Parnassus.

Dr. Cornell’s current research focuses on transitions of care for critically ill patients and the allocation of resources to support their care across California. Her interests include access to care for underserved populations, communication of diagnostic uncertainty, health policy, implementation science, and improving care transitions for patients with complex and cardiac conditions.

Awards

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• Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Society, Boston University School of Medicine, 2021
• Eli Shapiro Award (For exceptional competence, medical curiosity, devotion to patients, continual education, and extraordinary compassion), Boston University School of Medicine, 2021
• Michael L. J. Apuzzo Prize (For exemplifying creativity and innovation in schoolwork), Boston University School of Medicine, 2021
• School of General Studies Service Award, Columbia University, 2015
• The Gillian Birrell Memorial Prize (For the best dissertation in the field of Health Psychology), The University of Edinburgh, 2013

Education & Training

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• Internal Medicine Residency University of California, San Francisco 2024
• M.D. Boston University School of Medicine 2021
• Certificate Postbaccalaureate Premedical Science Columbia University 2016
• M.A., First Class with Honors Psychology The University of Edinburgh 2013

Publications (7)

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• Disparities in Rehabilitation Services for Victims of Violence.
  The Journal of surgical research 2025 Janeway MG, Cornell E, Smith SM, Buck AK, Neufeld M, Weinberg J, Talutis SD, Jreige N, Liang V, Munzert T, Dechert T, Sanchez SE, Allee L
• Scaling up a diagnostic pause at the ICU-to-ward transition: an exploration of barriers and facilitators to implementation of the ICU-PAUSE handoff tool.
  Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany) 2023 Cornell EG, Harris E, McCune E, Fukui E, Lyons PG, Rojas JC, Santhosh L
• Diagnostic Safety Across Transitions of Care Throughout the Healthcare System: Current State and a Call to Action
  2023 Santhosh L, Cornell E, Rojas JC, Lyons P
• The Impact of Racial Residential Segregation on Colorectal Cancer Outcomes and Treatment.
  Annals of surgery 2021 Poulson M, Cornell E, Madiedo A, Kenzik K, Allee L, Dechert T, Hall J
• Hepatitis C Antiviral Treatment Decreases All-Cause Complications After Total Joint Arthroplasty Regardless of the Presence of Fibrosis.
  The Journal of arthroplasty 2021 Cornell E, Novikov D, Niu R, Staatz K, Schwarzkopf R, Smith EL
• Coinfection of HIV and hepatitis C increases complication rates after total joint arthroplasty.
  SICOT-J 2020 Fang C, Cornell E, Dicken Q, Freccero D, Mattingly D, Smith EL
• Viewing Exemplars of Melanomas and Benign Mimics of Melanoma Modestly Improves Diagnostic Skills in Comparison with the ABCD Method and Other Image-based Methods for Lay Identification of Melanoma.
  Acta dermato-venereologica 2015 Cornell E, Robertson K, McIntosh RD, Rees JL