Logan Pierce, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Logan Pierce, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine at UCSF. He is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics. He practices clinically as both a Hospitalist and a Proceduralist, and also works with multiple Informatics groups across UCSF to extract and analyze data from the Electronic Health Record to transform care delivery in the health system.

Education & Training

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• Clinical Informatics Fellowship UCSF 2020
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training UCSF 2019
• Internal Medicine Residency UCLA 2018
• MD Tufts University School of Medicine 2015
• BA Cornell University 2010

Interests

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• machine learning
• Data science
• telemedicine
• medical informatics
• Medical Education
• Clinical Informatics
• big data
• data analysis
• data display
• artificial intelligence
• electronic health records (EHR)
• data visualization

Publications (31)

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CensusesHospital MedicineSurgery Department, HospitalPersonnel Staffing and SchedulingInterferonsAdvance Care PlanningMedical Informatics ApplicationsAntibodies, ViralMedicareOperating RoomsPatient PortalsElective Surgical ProceduresInpatientsInfection ControlWorkload

• Individualized Average Length of Stay: A timelier, provider-level LOS metric.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2024 Pierce L, Harrison JD, Patel S
• The Impact of Using Electronic Consents on Documentation of Language-Concordant Surgical Consent for Patients with Limited English Proficiency.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2024 Trang K, Pierce L, Wick EC
• "It Gives Me Peace of Mind So I Can Focus on Healing": Views on Advance Care Planning for Older Surgical Patients.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2024 Colley A, Broering J, Lee K, Lin JA, Pierce L, Finlayson E, Sudore RL, Wick EC
• Finding the time: Hourly variation in average daily census on a hospital medicine service.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2023 Pierce L, Judson TJ, Mourad M
• Clinician Review of Advanced Care Planning for Older Surgical Patients Requiring Intensive Care.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2023 Lin JA, Colley A, Pierce L, Finlayson E, Sudore RL, Wick EC

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• Large Language Model-Based Chatbot vs Surgeon-Generated Informed Consent Documentation for Common Procedures.
  JAMA network open 2023 Decker H, Trang K, Ramirez J, Colley A, Pierce L, Coleman M, Bongiovanni T, Melton GB, Wick E
• A Digital Health Intervention to Improve the Clinical Care of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients.
  Applied clinical informatics 2023 Chugh R, Liu AW, Idomsky Y, Bigazzi O, Maiorano A, Medina E, Pierce L, Odisho AY, Mahadevan U
• Transition to Reusable Surgical Gowns at a Hospital System.
  JAMA network open 2023 Yap A, Wang K, Cornejo J, Chen E, Pierce L, Wick E, Gandhi S
• Impact of an automated peri-procedural digital health intervention on rates of emergency department visits and readmissions.
  American journal of surgery 2023 Liu AW, Pierce L, Ganeshan S, Brown W, Judson T, Divakaran D, Bini S, Odisho AY, Mourad M
• Development and applicability of a risk assessment tool for hospital-acquired mobility impairment in ambulatory older adults.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2023 Shah SJ, Hoffman A, Pierce L, Covinsky KE
• Association of Housing Status With Types of Operations and Postoperative Health Care Utilization.
  Annals of surgery 2023 Decker HC, Kanzaria HK, Evans J, Pierce L, Wick EC
• Experiences with targeting inpatient advance care planning for emergency general surgery patients: A resident-led quality improvement project.
  Surgery 2023 Colley A, Lin J, Pierce L, Johnson C, Bongiovanni T, Finlayson E, Sudore R, Wick EC
• Disparities in advance care planning rates persist among emergency general surgery patients: Current state and recommendations for improvement.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2023 Johnson CL, Colley A, Pierce L, Lin JA, Bongiovanni T, Roman S, Sudore RL, Wick E
• Paging the Clinical Informatics Community: Respond STAT to Dobbs v. Jackson's Women's Health Organization.
  Applied clinical informatics 2022 Arvisais-Anhalt S, Ravi A, Weia B, Aarts J, Ahmad HB, Araj E, Bauml JA, Benham-Hutchins M, Boyd AD, Brecht-Doscher A, Butler-Henderson K, Butte AJ, Cardilo AB, Chilukuri N, Cho MK, Cohen JK, Craven CK…
• Impact of patient portal-based self-scheduling of diagnostic imaging studies on health disparities.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2022 Ganeshan S, Pierce L, Mourad M, Judson TJ, Kohli MD, Odisho AY, Brown W
• Utilization patterns and efficiency gains from use of a fully EHR-integrated COVID-19 self-triage and self-scheduling tool: a retrospective analysis.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2022 Judson TJ, Pierce L, Tutman A, Mourad M, Neinstein AB, Shuler G, Gonzales R, Odisho AY
• Missed Opportunities and Health Disparities for Advance Care Planning Before Elective Surgery in Older Adults.
  JAMA surgery 2022 Colley A, Lin JA, Pierce L, Finlayson E, Sudore RL, Wick E
• Using Electronic Health Record Meta-Data to Identify Variation in Trainee Progress Note Writing Patterns: Opportunity to Enhance Systems-Based Care.
  Journal of surgical education 2022 Trang K, Pierce L, Wick EC, Hirose K
• Identifying Barriers to Successful Completion of Video Telemedicine Visits in Urology.
  Urology 2022 Shee K, Liu AW, Yarbrough C, Branagan L, Pierce L, Odisho AY
• Displaying Cost and Completion Time for Reference Laboratory Test Orders-A Randomized Controlled Trial.
  Applied clinical informatics 2022 Ikoma S, Pierce L, Bell DS, Cheng EM, Drake T, Guo R, Ziman A
• Using Participatory Design to Engage Physicians in the Development of a Provider-Level Performance Dashboard and Feedback System.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2021 Patel S, Pierce L, Jones M, Lai A, Cai M, Sharpe BA, Harrison JD
• Estimation of Surgical Resident Duty Hours and Workload in Real Time Using Electronic Health Record Data.
  Journal of surgical education 2021 Lin JA, Pierce L, Murray SG, Soleimani H, Wick EC, Sosa JA, Hirose K
• Tracheal aspirate RNA sequencing identifies distinct immunological features of COVID-19 ARDS.
  Nature communications 2021 Sarma A, Christenson SA, Byrne A, Mick E, Pisco AO, DeVoe C, Deiss T, Ghale R, Zha BS, Tsitsiklis A, Jauregui A, Moazed F, Detweiler AM, Spottiswoode N, Sinha P, Neff N, Tan M, Serpa PH, Willmore A, …
• Pandemic Recovery: Persistent Disparities in Access to Elective Surgical Procedures.
  Annals of surgery 2021 Lin JA, Braun HJ, Schwab ME, Pierce L, Sosa JA, Wick EC
• The emerging role of clinical informatics fellows in service learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2021 Subash M, Sakumoto M, Bass J, Hong P, Muniyappa A, Pierce L, Purmal C, Ramaswamy P, Sono R, Uptegraft C, Feinstein D, Khanna R
• Global absence and targeting of protective immune states in severe COVID-19.
  Nature 2021 Combes AJ, Courau T, Kuhn NF, Hu KH, Ray A, Chen WS, Chew NW, Cleary SJ, Kushnoor D, Reeder GC, Shen A, Tsui J, Hiam-Galvez KJ, Muñoz-Sandoval P, Zhu WS, Lee DS, Sun Y, You R, Magnen M, Rodriguez L, …
• Operationalizing the Operating Room: Ensuring Appropriate Surgical Care in the Era of COVID-19.
  Annals of surgery 2020 Wick EC, Pierce L, Conte MC, Sosa JA
• Operationalizing the Operating Room: Ensuring Appropriate Surgical Care in the Era of COVID-19.
  Annals of surgery 2020 Wick EC, Pierce L, Conte MC, Sosa JA
• Rapid Response of an Academic Surgical Department to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Patients, Surgeons, and the Community.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2020 Lancaster EM, Sosa JA, Sammann A, Pierce L, Shen W, Conte MC, Wick EC
• Molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus in post-earthquake northern Haiti.
  International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases 2014 Rosenthal ME, Mediavilla J, Chen L, Sonnenfeld J, Pierce L, Shannon A, Boucher H, Pearlmutter M, Kreiswirth B, Kuo YH, Previl H, Rojtman A
• Hypertension prevalence and knowledge assessment in rural Haiti.
  Ethnicity & disease 2014 Pierce L, Shannon A, Sonnenfeld J, Pearlmutter M, Previl H, Forrester JE