Heather Nye, MD, PhD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
Heather E. Nye, MD PhD, is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Associate Chief of Medicine at San Francisco VA Health Care System (SFVAHCS), and Director of the SFVAHCS Consult/Co-Management Service & Veterans Integrated Perioperative (VIP) Clinic.
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She received her MD PhD from Yale University and completed a combined residency program in medicine and pediatrics at the Harvard Combined Program. She has practiced as a hospitalist at UCSF and SFVAHCS since 2003.
Dr. Nye’s clinical role caring for hospitalized patients on orthopedics, neurosurgery, and podiatry deepened her perioperative interest—and led to numerous local quality initiatives, educational programs for medicine & orthopedic residents, and collaboration among specialty services to address gaps in care for older adults undergoing surgery. Dr. Nye created the interdisciplinary VIP Clinic in 2017 for medically complex, frail, and geriatric surgical patients with an eye to whole-patient care in the perioperative period.
Dr. Nye is recognized as a national expert in hospital and perioperative medicine, giving numerous talks annually, is an active member of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) and the Society of Perioperative Assessment & Quality Improvement (SPAQI). She served as the 2022 Course Director for the SHM Annual Conference and delivered the 2023 SHM Plenary Updates in Hospital Medicine. She is deeply passionate about care of Veterans and as SFVA Associate Chief of Medicine spends considerable time in Medical Center initiatives around operations, patient flow, quality, physician wellness, and strategic growth.
Education & Training
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- Internal Medicine Residency Brigham & Women's Hospital 2003
- Pediatrics MGH/Boston Children's Hospital 2003
- MD Yale School of Medicine 05/1998
- PhD Pharmacology Yale School of Medicine 08/1995
- AB Chemistry Duke 1991
Publications (10)
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A 54-Year-Old Man With Pancytopenia.
JAMA 2019 Saxena K, Vu K, Nye HE -
A technology-enhanced medical note-writing workshop.
Medical education 2012 Ciccarone D, Yu T, Nye H, Chang A -
Postdischarge follow-up visits for medical and pharmacy students on an inpatient medicine clerkship.
Journal of hospital medicine 2008 Lai CJ, Nye HE, Bookwalter T, Kwan A, Hauer KE -
Region-specific induction of deltaFosB by repeated administration of typical versus atypical antipsychotic drugs.
Synapse (New York, N.Y.) 1999 Atkins JB, Chlan-Fourney J, Nye HE, Hiroi N, Carlezon WA, Nestler EJ -
(S)-(-)-HA-966, a gamma-hydroxybutyrate-like agent, prevents enhanced mesocorticolimbic dopamine metabolism and behavioral correlates of restraint stress, conditioned fear and cocaine sensitization.
The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics 1997 Morrow BA, Lee EJ, Taylor JR, Elsworth JD, Nye HE, Roth RH
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Induction of chronic Fos-related antigens in rat brain by chronic morphine administration.
Molecular pharmacology 1996 Nye HE, Nestler EJ -
Pharmacological studies of the regulation of chronic FOS-related antigen induction by cocaine in the striatum and nucleus accumbens.
The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics 1995 Nye HE, Hope BT, Kelz MB, Iadarola M, Nestler EJ -
Regulation of delta FosB and FosB-like proteins by electroconvulsive seizure and cocaine treatments.
Molecular pharmacology 1995 Chen J, Nye HE, Kelz MB, Hiroi N, Nakabeppu Y, Hope BT, Nestler EJ -
Induction of a long-lasting AP-1 complex composed of altered Fos-like proteins in brain by chronic cocaine and other chronic treatments.
Neuron 1994 Hope BT, Nye HE, Kelz MB, Self DW, Iadarola MJ, Nakabeppu Y, Duman RS, Nestler EJ -
Developmental shift from local to central control of norepinephrine release in the cardiac-sympathetic axis: effects of cocaine and related drugs.
The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics 1991 Nye HE, Seidler FJ, Slotkin TA