Lawrence Tierney, MD
Professor Emeritus
Medicine
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
• Residency School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco

Websites

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• Posts on X LarryTierney (X.com)

Publications (33)

Top publication keywords:
BotulismImmunoglobulin Light-chain AmyloidosisHematologic DiseasesHeart MurmursChillsPhysical ExaminationClostridium botulinum type AHeart AuscultationOphthalmoplegiaFoodRenal ArteryWhipple DiseaseBlood ViscosityLymphohistiocytosis, HemophagocyticEponyms

• Diagnostic accuracy of self-reported food consumption and shaking chills in predicting bacteremia in outpatients: A prospective, multicenter observational study.
  PloS one 2025 Komatsu T, Inoue K, Someya Y, Hirano H, Saitoh F, Aoki M, Inui A, Tierney LM, Mishima K, Mizuno K, Takami H, Nomura T, Sugita M
• Babesiosis-Associated Warm Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2019 Santos MA, Tierney LM, Manesh R
• Blood Is Thicker: Hyperviscosity Syndrome.
  The American journal of medicine 2018 Geha RM, Tierney LM
• A Simple Algorithm for Predicting Bacteremia Using Food Consumption and Shaking Chills: A Prospective Observational Study.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2017 Komatsu T, Takahashi E, Mishima K, Toyoda T, Saitoh F, Yasuda A, Matsuoka J, Sugita M, Branch J, Aoki M, Tierney L, Inoue K
• Factoring in the missing link.
  American journal of hematology 2016 Sethi N, Sedighi Manesh R, Sperling A, Bresler SC, Connell NT, Tierney LM

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• A Physician With Thigh Pain.
  Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS 2016 Manesh RS, Rogers SE, Loring Z, Stewart E, Dhaliwal G, Tierney LM
• Reduction of Behavioral Psychological Symptoms of Dementia by Multimodal Comprehensive Care for Vulnerable Geriatric Patients in an Acute Care Hospital: A Case Series.
  Case reports in medicine 2016 Honda M, Ito M, Ishikawa S, Takebayashi Y, Tierney L
• Once Upon a Time in American Medicine.
  The American journal of medicine 2015 Tierney LM
• Diagnostic Utility of Food Terminology: Culinary Clues for the Astute Diagnostician.
  The American journal of medicine 2015 Mark NM, Lessing JN, Buckley SA, Tierney LM
• Split decision.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2014 Giridhar KV, Dhaliwal G, Tierney L
• A piece of my mind. Remarkably wise.
  JAMA 2013 Olson AP, Tierney LM
• Predicting bacteremia based on nurse-assessed food consumption at the time of blood culture.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2012 Komatsu T, Onda T, Murayama G, Yamanouchi M, Inukai M, Sakai A, Kikuta M, Branch J, Aoki M, Tierney LM, Inoue K
• Clinical problem-solving. The eyes have it.
  The New England journal of medicine 2012 Vasa M, Baudendistel TE, Ohikhuare CE, Grace EM, Yan W, Josephson SA, Tierney LM
• Against all odds.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2011 Minemura N, Dhaliwal G, Tierney LM
• Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 10-2011. A woman with fever, confusion, liver failure, anemia, and thrombocytopenia.
  The New England journal of medicine 2011 Tierney LM, Thabet A, Nishino H
• Mapping out the diagnosis.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2011 Hadano Y, Dhaliwal G, Saint S, Tierney LM, Sakemi H
• Name that murmur--eponyms for the astute auscultician.
  The New England journal of medicine 2010 Ma I, Tierney LM
• Perspective: Uses and misuses of thresholds in diagnostic decision making.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2010 Warner JL, Najarian RM, Tierney LM
• Clinical problem-solving. A hard diagnosis.
  The New England journal of medicine 2009 Margaretten ME, Tierney LM, Dhaliwal G
• One hundred years later.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2008 Baudendistel TE, Afshar N, Tierney LM
• Paraneoplastic leukemoid reaction as marker for transitional cell carcinoma recurrence.
  Urology 2008 Dukes JW, Tierney LM
• A midlife crisis.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2006 Reilly Lukela J, Mangrulkar RS, Tierney LM, DelValle J, Saint S
• Images in clinical medicine. Koplik's spots.
  The New England journal of medicine 2006 Tierney LM, Wang KC
• Confronting the brutal facts in health care.
  The American journal of medicine 2005 Henderson MC, Meyers FJ, Ibrahim T, Tierney LM
• Hemolytic anemia.
  American family physician 2004 Dhaliwal G, Cornett PA, Tierney LM
• STUDENTJAMA. Medical education in modern China.
  JAMA 2004 Reynolds TA, Tierney LM
• Clinical problem-solving. Occam's razor versus Saint's Triad.
  The New England journal of medicine 2004 Hilliard AA, Weinberger SE, Tierney LM, Midthun DE, Saint S
• Clinical problem-solving. A gut feeling.
  The New England journal of medicine 2003 Haberer J, Trivedi NN, Kohlwes J, Tierney L
• Thrombolytic therapy in patients with submassive pulmonary embolism.
  The New England journal of medicine 2003 Gunn NA, Tierney LM
• What is the role of the clinical "pearl"?
  The American journal of medicine 2002 Mangrulkar RS, Saint S, Chu S, Tierney LM
• Clinical problem-solving. Diagnosis still in question.
  The New England journal of medicine 2002 Jha AK, Collard HR, Tierney LM
• Clinical problem-solving. One foot away.
  The New England journal of medicine 2002 Haberer JE, Ix JH, Tierney LM
• Improving oral presentation skills with a clinical reasoning curriculum: a prospective controlled study.
  The American journal of medicine 2002 Wiese J, Varosy P, Tierney L