Hedieh Matinrad, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Hedieh Matinrad is a palliative care physician and faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco, where she treats patients with serious illness in the inpatient setting, and teaches future palliative care physicians.

Together with the other members of the transdisciplinary inpatient palliative care team, she helps maximize patients' quality of life through symptom management, advance care planning, and emotional and psychosocial support. She also serves as the associate program director of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at UCSF.

Dr. Matinrad received her medical degree from UC San Diego. She served as Chief Resident at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, following completion of residency in Internal Medicine with pathway in Social/Global Medicine. She completed fellowship at UCSF as member of Global Palliative Education pathway, and stayed on as faculty after.

Dr. Matinrad’s interests include exposure to palliative care in premedical and medical students, global palliative care, expanding immigrant Farsi-speaking community awareness and knowledge around palliative care and advanced care planning.

Awards

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  • Medical Student Teaching Award, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center IM Residency, 2020
  • Third year resident of the year, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center IM Residency, 2020
  • Johnson and Johnson Global Health Scholar, 2019
  • Intern of the Year, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center IM Residency, 2018

Education & Training

  • Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship University of California, San Francisco 2022
  • Chief Resident Santa Clara Valley Medical Center 2021
  • Internal Medicine Residency Santa Clara Valley Medical Center 2018
  • MD University of California, San Diego School of Medicine 2017
  • BS Physiology and Neuroscience University of California, San Diego 2013

Websites

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Publications (3)

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