Jessica Eng, MD, MS
Associate Clinical Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
Jessica Eng, MD, MS, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). A graduate of Harvard College and the Boston University School of Medicine, she completed her internal medicine residency and geriatric fellowship at Boston Medical Center. She is a graduate of the VA Quality Scholars program.
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She is a board certified geriatrician and internist.
Dr. Eng’s main research and education interests are the development and implementation of healthcare teams that apply geriatric principles to adults with complex serious illnesses. She is particularly interested in using primary care panel management of complex adults, interprofessional team care, and home-based care to improve patient-centered outcomes.
She currently serves as the Medical Director of On Lok, a Bay Area health care organization dedicated to serving the spectrum of care needed by older adults. She serves as core faculty for the National VA Quality Scholars program and mentor to medical students, fellows and early career faculty on quality improvement projects and implementation research.
Awards
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- Federal Employee of the Year, San Francisco Federal Board, 2019
- Teacher of the Year, UCSF Geriatrics Fellowship, 2017
- Excellence in Teaching Award, Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, 2015
- Faculty Scholar, Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine, John A. Hartford Foundation, 2014-2015
- Education Innovations Award, Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, 2014
- Quality and Safety Symposium Winner, UCSF Department of Medicine, 2013
- Boston University Clinical Research Training (CREST) Program Fellow, Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute, 2011-2012
- Hartford Fellow, Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine, John A. Hartford Foundation, 2011-2012
Education & Training
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2019
- Fellowship Teaching Scholars Program University of California, San Francisco 2016
- Fellowship Quality Scholars San Francisco VA Medical Center 2014
- Certificate Implementation Science University of California, San Francisco 2014
- Fellowship Geriatrics Boston Medical Center 2012
- MS Epidemiology School of Public Health Boston University 2012
- Residency Internal Medicine Boston Medical Center 2010
- MD School of Medicine Boston University 2007
- A.B. Chemistry Harvard College 2001
Websites
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- @@JessicaEngMD on Twitter (twitter.com)
Publications (16)
Top publication keywords:
Physicians, Primary CareAttitude of Health PersonnelContinuity of Patient CareMedicineCerebral Amyloid AngiopathyTelephoneMedical ErrorsAttitude to HealthPatient DischargeHospitalistsPatient ReadmissionMedication Therapy ManagementWalkingHospitalizationNurses, Community Health
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Patient selection strategies in an intensive primary care program.
Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2022 Hulen E, Laliberte AZ, Katz ML, Giannitrapani KF, Chang ET, Stockdale SE, Eng JA, Jimenez E, Edwards ST -
How an Interdisciplinary Care Team Reduces Prolonged Admissions Among Older Patients with Complex Needs
NEJM Catalyst 2021 Lam K, Price EL, Garg M, Baskin N, Dunchak M, Hooper S, Fabiny A, Eng JA -
What Is the Return on Investment of Caring for Complex High-need, High-cost Patients?
Journal of general internal medicine 2021 Chang ET, Asch SM, Eng J, Gutierrez F, Denietolis A, Atkins D -
Value of Interprofessional Education: The VA Quality Scholars Program.
Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality 2021 Godwin KM, Narayanan A, Arredondo K, Miltner RS, Bowen ME, Gilman S, Shirks A, Eng JA, Naik AD, Hysong SJ -
Implementing evidence-based interventions to prevent readmissions in the real world.
Journal of general internal medicine 2018 Ewigman NL, Vella L, Eng JA
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What are the key elements for implementing intensive primary care? A multisite Veterans Health Administration case study.
Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2017 Chang ET, Raja PV, Stockdale SE, Katz ML, Zulman DM, Eng JA, Hedrick KH, Jackson JL, Pathak N, Watts B, Patton C, Schectman G, Asch SM -
Capsule commentary on Jones et al., "Connecting the Dots": a Qualitative Study of Home Health Nurse Perspectives on Coordinating Care for Recently-Discharged Patients.
Journal of general internal medicine 2017 Eng JA -
Implementation of an Interdisciplinary, Team-Based Complex Care Support Health Care Model at an Academic Medical Center: Impact on Health Care Utilization and Quality of Life.
PloS one 2016 Ritchie C, Andersen R, Eng J, Garrigues SK, Intinarelli G, Kao H, Kawahara S, Patel K, Sapiro L, Thibault A, Tunick E, Barnes DE -
Predicting 5- and 10-year survival in older women with early-stage breast cancer: self-rated health and walking ability.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2015 Eng JA, Clough-Gorr K, Cabral HJ, Silliman RA -
Elucidating Reasons for Resident Underutilization of Electronic Adverse Event Reporting.
American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2015 Hatoun J, Suen W, Liu C, Shea S, Patts G, Weinberg J, Eng J -
Changing chronic medications in hospitalized patients--bridging the inpatient-outpatient divide.
Journal of hospital medicine 2014 Eng JA, Steinman MA -
Patient attitudes about specialty follow-up care by telephone.
The American journal of managed care 2014 Eng JA, Hunter CJ, Handley MA, Boscardin CK, Gonzales R, Ackerman SL -
F-18 FDG PET/CT imaging of endogenous Cushing syndrome.
Clinical nuclear medicine 2011 Jackson TA, Choong KW, Eng JA, McAneny D, Subramaniam RM, Knapp PE -
White matter lesions, cognition, and recurrent hemorrhage in lobar intracerebral hemorrhage.
Neurology 2004 Smith EE, Gurol ME, Eng JA, Engel CR, Nguyen TN, Rosand J, Greenberg SM -
Hemorrhage burden predicts recurrent intracerebral hemorrhage after lobar hemorrhage.
Stroke 2004 Greenberg SM, Eng JA, Ning M, Smith EE, Rosand J -
Clinical manifestations of cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related inflammation.
Annals of neurology 2004 Eng JA, Frosch MP, Choi K, Rebeck GW, Greenberg SM