Karthik Rohatgi, MD
CLINICAL FELLOW
Medicine
School of Medicine

Karthik Rohatgi is a fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program and primary care physician in the UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine. His research focuses on optimizing referrals and interventions to address health-related social needs, especially food insecurity. His other main interest is improving access to healthcare for incarcerated populations.

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His work involves a variety of partners, including the Food as Medicine Collaborative, Project Open Hand, and San Francisco Jail Health Services.

Awards

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• Gary Vernon Ralph, MD, Memorial “Humanism in Medicine” Award, Yale Primary Care, 2025
• Marcella Nunez Smith, MD, Award for Achievements in Anti-Racism in Medicine, Yale Primary Care, 2025
• Global Health Scholar, Yale University, 2024
• Gold Humanism Honor Society, 2021
• Phi Beta Kappa, 2018
• United States Presidential Scholar, 2014

Education & Training

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• Lean Champion UCSF 05/2026
• Residency Yale New Haven Hospital 2025
• M.D. Washington University School of Medicine 2022
• B.A. Mathematics Washington University in St. Louis 2018

Publications (7)

Top publication keywords:
Rural PopulationMissouriMedication AdherenceNorovirusInternetLung NeoplasmsSmokingHealth ExpendituresHealthcare DisparitiesMass ScreeningUrban PopulationIllinoisDisease OutbreaksEarly Detection of CancerChronic Disease

• A framework for integrating health-related social needs education into electronic health record clinical pathways.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2026 Rohatgi KW, Nadkarni S, Shah N, Hart L, Heacock D, Gupta S
• Improving Food Security in the Context of a Stagnating Federal Minimum Wage.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2026 Rohatgi KW, Seligman HK, Habib AR
• Utilizing Internet Search Trends and Wastewater Surveillance to Identify Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Communities.
  Environmental science & technology 2025 Zulli A, Zhang Z, Ruedaflores M, Sahly J, Angel D, Rohatgi K, Malik W, Hao R, Shepherd J, Peccia J
• Medication Adherence and Characteristics of Patients Who Spend Less on Basic Needs to Afford Medications.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2021 Rohatgi KW, Humble S, McQueen A, Hunleth JM, Chang SH, Herrick CJ, James AS
• Urban-Rural Disparities in Access to Low-Dose Computed Tomography Lung Cancer Screening in Missouri and Illinois.
  Preventing chronic disease 2020 Rohatgi KW, Marx CM, Lewis-Thames MW, Liu J, Colditz GA, James AS
• A stepped-wedge randomized trial protocol of a community intervention for increasing lung screening through engaging primary care providers (I-STEP).
  Contemporary clinical trials 2020 Salazar AS, Sekhon S, Rohatgi KW, Nuako A, Liu J, Harriss C, Brennan E, LaBeau D, Abdalla I, Schulze C, Muenks J, Overlot D, Higgins JA, Jones LS, Swick C, Goings S, Badiu J, Walker J, Colditz GA, …
• Relationships between consumption of ultra-processed foods, gestational weight gain and neonatal outcomes in a sample of US pregnant women.
  PeerJ 2017 Rohatgi KW, Tinius RA, Cade WT, Steele EM, Cahill AG, Parra DC