Kavon Javaherian, MD, MBA
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

His responsibilities span physician staffing and clinical operations, recruitment, shared physician performance oversight, patient safety, and interdisciplinary care redesign. He also serves as Vice Chair of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.

His improvement work focuses on building effective clinical processes across professional and organizational boundaries. Through stakeholder interviews, process mapping, and facilitated discussion, he helps teams identify barriers, clarify responsibilities, and implement sustainable changes. His initiatives include multidisciplinary rounds and discharge planning, transportation coordination, clinical escalation and interfacility transfer pathways, and stronger collaboration among inpatient clinicians, utilization management, and case management.

He previously co-directed the Lotus, a hospitalist-led short-stay rehabilitation unit connecting acute and post-acute care. He developed clinical workflows and an admission-screening dashboard and led the program evaluation as first and corresponding author. The published evaluation reported that facility-wide rehabilitation referral-to-hospital-discharge time, excluding referral holds, decreased from 6.89 to 3.35 days between fiscal years 2023 and 2025. His scholarship also includes electronic health record interventions for sepsis care, admission-workflow improvement, and communication with hospitalized patients.

He teaches UCSF medical students and internal medicine residents and serves as a longitudinal medical student coach in the Bridges Curriculum. His educational interests include clinical reasoning, reflective practice, and helping learners navigate complex care systems. He mentors trainees in quality improvement, implementation, evaluation, and scholarly dissemination, including projects addressing sepsis care and inpatient restfulness. In 2026, he received the UCSF School of Medicine Class of 2026 Excellence in Teaching Award for Clinical Faculty.

• Advancing healthcare technology education and innovation in academia.
  Nature biotechnology 2020 Linderman SW, Appukutty AJ, Russo MV, Shah AP, Javaherian K
• Improving HbA1c with Glucose Self-Monitoring in Diabetic Patients with EpxDiabetes, a Phone Call and Text Message-Based Telemedicine Platform: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
  Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association 2019 Xu R, Xing M, Javaherian K, Peters R, Ross W, Bernal-Mizrachi C
• Examining the Complicated Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms and Cognitive Impairment in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease.
  Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2019 Javaherian K, Newman BM, Weng H, Hassenstab J, Xiong C, Coble D, Fagan AM, Benzinger T, Morris JC
• Abstract 13: Consistent Remote Monitoring of Patients With Heart Failure Using Epxheartfailure: A Telemedicine Tool.
  Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 2018 Soumya Banna, Megan L Landon, Nishkala Shivakumar, Catherine Xu, Kunjan Patel, Eric Sink, Robert Peters, Kavon Javaherian, Melvin Blanchard, Will Ross, Gregory Ewald, Wint Y Aung
• A Novel Patient Engagement Platform Using Accessible Text Messages and Calls (Epharmix): Feasibility Study.
  JMIR formative research 2017 Som A, Patel K, Sink E, Peters RM, Javaherian K, Groenendyk J, An T, Xu Z, Polites GM, Blanchard M, Ross W
• Assessing the Utility of a Novel SMS- and Phone-Based System for Blood Pressure Control in Hypertensive Patients: Feasibility Study.
  JMIR cardio 2017 Peters RM, Shivakumar N, Xu R, Javaherian K, Sink E, Patel K, Brown A, Huynh J, Blanchard M, Ross W, Byrd J
• Improving Glycemic Control With a Standardized Text-Message and Phone-Based Intervention: A Community Implementation.
  JMIR diabetes 2017 Peters RM, Lui M, Patel K, Tian L, Javaherian K, Sink E, Xu R, Xu Z, Aung W, Zhou L, Huynh J, Polites G, Blanchard M, Som A, Ross W, Bernal-Mizrachi C
• Phone-Based Interventions in Adolescent Psychiatry: A Perspective and Proof of Concept Pilot Study With a Focus on Depression and Autism.
  JMIR research protocols 2017 Chen RY, Feltes JR, Tzeng WS, Lu ZY, Pan M, Zhao N, Talkin R, Javaherian K, Glowinski A, Ross W
• EpxMedTracking: Feasibility Evaluation of an SMS-Based Medication Adherence Tracking System in Community Practice.
  JMIR research protocols 2017 Tricarico C, Peters R, Som A, Javaherian K, Ross W
• Catching and counting seizures for patients with epilepsy using an automated telemedicine platform - EpxEpilepsy (P1.247).
  Neurology 2017 Stephanie Zhang, Robert Chen, Kavon Javaherian, Jacob Groenendyk, Michael Pan, Luigi Maccotta
• Disparities between research attention and burden in liver diseases: implications on uneven advances in pharmacological therapies in Europe and the USA.
  BMJ open 2017 Ndugga N, Lightbourne TG, Javaherian K, Cabezas J, Verma N, Barritt AS, Bataller R
• World Food Day: Taking a Bite Out of Hunger at Home and Abroad.
  Missouri medicine 2015 Craft JA, Hayden A, Jain R, Javaherian K