George Su, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Clinical Fellowship University of California, San Francisco

Grants and Projects

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• Pulmonary Specialist-Health Coach Consult (PuSHCon) model to improve access to specialist consultation and receipt of recommended evidence-based care for vulnerable patients with COPD and asthma, NIH, 2019-2023
• The Role of Integrins AlphaVBeta3 and AlphaVBeta5 in Acute Lung Injury, NIH, 2007-2012
• The Role of TGF-Beta in Acute Lung Injury, NIH, 2002-1900

Publications (30)

Top publication keywords:
TechnologyDelayed DiagnosisCapillary PermeabilityHealth EducationSafety-net ProvidersHealth BehaviorBlood-Air BarrierEndothelium, VascularSepsisAntibodiesPulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveIntegrin alphaVbeta3Receptors, VitronectinSelf-ManagementMentoring

• Innovation in public delivery systems: How one safety net hospital implemented new heart monitoring technology.
  Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024 Knox M, Huang B, Willard-Grace R, Su G
• Pulmonary Specialist-Supported Health Coaching Delivered by Lay Personnel Improves Receipt of Quality Care for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
  Journal of patient-centered research and reviews 2023 Willard-Grace R, Hessler D, Huang B, DeVore D, Chirinos C, Wolf J, Low D, Garvey C, Donesky D, Tsao S, Thom DH, Su G
• System-Level Factors Associated With Telephone and Video Visit Use: Survey of Safety-Net Clinicians During the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  JMIR formative research 2022 Sharma AE, Khoong EC, Sierra M, Rivadeneira NA, Nijagal MA, Su G, Lyles CR, DeFries T, Tuot DS, Sarkar U
• Satisfaction can co-exist with hesitation: qualitative analysis of acceptability of telemedicine among multi-lingual patients in a safety-net healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  BMC health services research 2022 Nguyen MT, Garcia F, Juarez J, Zeng B, Khoong EC, Nijagal MA, Sarkar U, Su G, Lyles CR
• Implementation and Impact of the Pulmonary Specialist Health Coach Consultation Model to Improve Care for Patients with COPD.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2021 Tsao S, Willard-Grace R, Wolf J, Chirinos C, De Vore D, Huang B, Su G, Thom DH

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• Clinician experience with telemedicine at a safety-net hospital network during COVID-19: a cross-sectional survey.
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2021 Sharma AE, Khoong EC, Nijagal MA, Lyles CR, Su G, DeFries T, Sarkar U, Tuot D
• Informatics response to address the COVID-19 pandemic in a safety net healthcare system.
  JAMIA open 2021 Sadasivaiah S, Shaffer E, Enanoria W, Su G, Goldman S, Scarafia J, Lee T, Yu A, Goldman LE, Ratanawongsa N
• Patient interest in and barriers to telemedicine video visits in a multilingual urban safety-net system.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2021 Khoong EC, Butler BA, Mesina O, Su G, DeFries TB, Nijagal M, Lyles CR
• "She Showed Me How to Help Myself": A Qualitative Study of Health Coaching for Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2021 Willard-Grace R, Masaki S, Joseph R, DeVore D, Huang B, Su G, Thom DH
• Pilot of Brief Health Coaching Intervention to Improve Adherence to Positive Airway Pressure Therapy.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2020 Willard-Grace R, Wolf J, Huang B, Lewis E, Su G
• Lay Health Coaching to Increase Appropriate Inhaler Use in COPD: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
  Annals of family medicine 2020 Willard-Grace R, Chirinos C, Wolf J, DeVore D, Huang B, Hessler D, Tsao S, Su G, Thom DH
• Follow-up of incidental pulmonary nodules and association with mortality in a safety-net cohort.
  Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany) 2019 Lee JS, Lisker S, Vittinghoff E, Cherian R, McCoy DB, Rybkin A, Su G, Sarkar U
• Reducing Delays to Diagnosis in Ambulatory Care Settings: A Macrocognition Perspective
  Applied Ergonomics 82 (2020) 2019 Patterson ES, Su G, Sarkar U.
• Reducing delays to diagnosis in ambulatory care settings: A macrocognition perspective.
  Applied ergonomics 2019 Patterson ES, Su G, Sarkar U
• Impact of teledermatology on the accessibility and efficiency of dermatology care in an urban safety-net hospital: A pre-post analysis.
  Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 2019 Zakaria A, Maurer T, Su G, Amerson E
• Correction to: Health coaching to improve self-management and quality of life for low income patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
  BMC pulmonary medicine 2019 Huang B, Willard-Grace R, De Vore D, Wolf J, Chirinos C, Tsao S, Hessler D, Su G, Thom DH
• Clinical Practice Guideline Summary for Clinicians: The Role of Weight Management in the Treatment of Adult Obstructive Sleep Apnea.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2019 Billings ME, Krishnan V, Su G, Donovan LM, Patel SR, Hudgel DW, Ahasic AM, Wilson KC, Thomson CC
• Strategies for recruitment and retention of underrepresented populations with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for a clinical trial.
  BMC medical research methodology 2019 Huang B, De Vore D, Chirinos C, Wolf J, Low D, Willard-Grace R, Tsao S, Garvey C, Donesky D, Su G, Thom DH
• Randomized Controlled Trial of Health Coaching for Vulnerable Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2018 Thom DH, Willard-Grace R, Tsao S, Hessler D, Huang B, DeVore D, Chirinos C, Wolf J, Donesky D, Garvey C, Su G
• Implementation science for ambulatory care safety: a novel method to develop context-sensitive interventions to reduce quality gaps in monitoring high-risk patients.
  Implementation science : IS 2017 McDonald KM, Su G, Lisker S, Patterson ES, Sarkar U
• Health coaching to improve self-management and quality of life for low income patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
  BMC pulmonary medicine 2017 Huang B, Willard-Grace R, De Vore D, Wolf J, Chirinos C, Tsao S, Hessler D, Su G, Thom DH
• Characterizing a Naturalistic Decision Making Phenomenon: Loss of System Resilience Associated with Implementation of New Technology.
  Journal of cognitive engineering and decision making 2016 Patterson ES, Militello LG, Su G, Sarkar U
• Unexpected Role for Adaptive αβTh17 Cells in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
  Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2015 Li JT, Melton AC, Su G, Hamm DE, LaFemina M, Howard J, Fang X, Bhat S, Huynh KM, O'Kane CM, Ingram RJ, Muir RR, McAuley DF, Matthay MA, Sheppard D
• Effective treatment of mouse sepsis with an inhibitory antibody targeting integrin αvβ5.
  Critical care medicine 2013 Su G, Atakilit A, Li JT, Wu N, Luong J, Chen R, Bhattacharya M, Sheppard D
• Absence of integrin αvβ3 enhances vascular leak in mice by inhibiting endothelial cortical actin formation.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2012 Su G, Atakilit A, Li JT, Wu N, Bhattacharya M, Zhu J, Shieh JE, Li E, Chen R, Sun S, Su CP, Sheppard D
• Role of small GTPases and alphavbeta5 integrin in Pseudomonas aeruginosa-induced increase in lung endothelial permeability.
  American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology 2008 Ganter MT, Roux J, Su G, Lynch SV, Deutschman CS, Weiss YG, Christiaans SC, Myazawa B, Kipnis E, Wiener-Kronish JP, Howard M, Pittet JF
• Interleukin-1beta causes acute lung injury via alphavbeta5 and alphavbeta6 integrin-dependent mechanisms.
  Circulation research 2008 Ganter MT, Roux J, Miyazawa B, Howard M, Frank JA, Su G, Sheppard D, Violette SM, Weinreb PH, Horan GS, Matthay MA, Pittet JF
• Integrin alphavbeta5 regulates lung vascular permeability and pulmonary endothelial barrier function.
  American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology 2006 Su G, Hodnett M, Wu N, Atakilit A, Kosinski C, Godzich M, Huang XZ, Kim JK, Frank JA, Matthay MA, Sheppard D, Pittet JF
• Ligation of protease-activated receptor 1 enhances alpha(v)beta6 integrin-dependent TGF-beta activation and promotes acute lung injury.
  The Journal of clinical investigation 2006 Jenkins RG, Su X, Su G, Scotton CJ, Camerer E, Laurent GJ, Davis GE, Chambers RC, Matthay MA, Sheppard D
• Transforming growth factor-beta1 decreases expression of the epithelial sodium channel alphaENaC and alveolar epithelial vectorial sodium and fluid transport via an ERK1/2-dependent mechanism.
  The Journal of biological chemistry 2003 Frank J, Roux J, Kawakatsu H, Su G, Dagenais A, Berthiaume Y, Howard M, Canessa CM, Fang X, Sheppard D, Matthay MA, Pittet JF