Lucas Zier, MD
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California, San Francisco 2022
• M.D. Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2009
• M.S. Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2007

Publications (23)

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Patient ReadmissionPhysician's RoleMedical FutilityProfessional-Family RelationsWithholding TreatmentCritical IllnessMineralocorticoid Receptor AntagonistsDecision MakingInterview, PsychologicalForamen Ovale, PatentTrustCritical CareHeart FailureMyocardial InfarctionProxy

• Predictors of All-Cause Thirty-Day Readmissions in Patients with Heart Failure at an Urban Safety Net Hospital: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health.
  American Journal of Medicine Open 2023 Alexandra B Steverson, Paul J Marano, Caren Chen, Yifei Ma, Rachel J Stern, Jean Feng, Efstathios D Gennatas, James D Marks, Matthew S Durstenfeld, Jonathan D Davis, Priscilla Y Hsue, Lucas S Zier
• Coronary Assessment in Heart Failure within a Safety-Net Setting: Disparities and Outcomes.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023 Durstenfeld MS, Thakkar A, Ma Y, Zier LS, Davis JD, Hsue PY
• Echocardiographic estimation of pulmonary vascular resistance in advanced lung disease.
  Pulmonary circulation 2023 DesJardin JT, Svetlichnaya Y, Kolaitis NA, Hays SR, Kukreja J, Schiller NB, Zier LS, Singer JP, De Marco T
• Heparin Does Not Regulate Circulating Human PCSK9 (Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin-Kexin Type 9) in a General Population-Brief Report.
  Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology 2022 Xia VQ, Ong CM, Zier LS, MacGregor JS, Wu AHB, Chorba JS
• Abstract 11069: Evaluation for Ischemic Cardiomyopathy After Heart Failure Diagnosis is Associated With Reduced Mortality in a Safety-Net Setting.
  Circulation 2022 Matthew S Durstenfeld, Anjali Thakkar, Yifei Ma, Lucas Zier, Jonathan D Davis, Priscilla Hsue

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• Effect of a Novel, Evidence-Based, Standardized Discharge Checklist on 30-Day All-Cause Readmissions in Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure in an Urban Safety Net Hospital.
  The American journal of cardiology 2022 Marano PJ, Steverson AB, Chen C, Ma Y, Stern RJ, Davis J, Hsue PY, Zier LS
• An unexpected turn: A 71-year-old man with myocardial infarction.
  Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine 2022 Ganeshan S, Kelemen B, Dhaliwal G, Zier L
• Hearts and Minds: an Exercise in Clinical Reasoning.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2021 Mayfield JJ, McKee KY, Zier LS, Kohlwes RJ
• Pregnancy-Associated Chest Pain: A Case of Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection.
  Case reports in cardiology 2021 Yogeswaran V, Ramakrishna S, MacGregor JS, Zier L, Goldschlager N
• Abstract 13880: A Novel, Evidence-based, Standardized Discharge Checklist Reduces Thirty Day Heart Failure Readmissions in an Urban Safety Net Hospital.
  Circulation 2020 Paul J Marano, Alexandra B Steverson, Caren Chen, Yifei Ma, Rachel J Stern, Jonathan Davis, Priscilla Hsue, Lucas S Zier
• Abstract 16520: Predictors of Thirty Day Readmission in a Vulnerable and Underserved Urban Heart Failure Population.
  Circulation 2020 Alexandra B Steverson, Paul Marano, Caren Chen, Yifei Ma, Rachel Stern, Jonathan D Davis, Priscilla Hsue, Lucas S Zier
• Noninvasive estimation of pulmonary vascular resistance improves portopulmonary hypertension screening in liver transplant candidates.
  Clinical transplantation 2019 DesJardin JT, Manicardi M, Svetlichnaya Y, Kolaitis NA, Papolos AI, Selby VN, Zier LS, Klein L, Aras MA, Yao FY, Roberts JP, De Marco T
• Successful Use of Pulmonary Vasodilators in Acute Chest Syndrome Complicated by Persistent Right Ventricular Failure.
  Case reports in cardiology 2019 DesJardin JT, Zier LS
• Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in the evaluation of liver disease in adults who have had the Fontan operation.
  Archives of cardiovascular diseases 2017 Agarwal A, Cunnington C, Sabanayagam A, Zier L, McCulloch CE, Harris IS, Foster E, Atkinson D, Bryan A, Jenkins P, Dua J, Parker MJ, Karunaratne D, Moore JA, Meadows J, Clarke B, Hoschtitzky JA, …
• PREVALENCE AND PREDICTORS OF ATRIAL TACHYARRHYTHMIAS IN ADULT FONTAN PATIENTS.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2017 Anushree Agarwal, Aarthi Sabanayagam, Ahmed Kheiwa, Colin Cunnington, Ian Harris, Edward Gerstenfeld, Charles McCulloch, Elyse Foster, Zian Tseng, Lucas Zier, Petra Jenkins, Jaspal Dua, Devinda …
• PREVALENCE OF ELEVATED BODY MASS INDEX AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH CLINICAL FEATURES IN ADULT FONTAN PATIENTS.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2017 Anushree Agarwal, Aarthi Sabanayagam, Ahmed Kheiwa, Colin Cunnington, Lucas Zier, Charles McCulloch, Ian Harris, Elyse Foster, Dougal Atkinson, Angela Bryan, Petra Jenkins, Jaspal Dua, Michael Parker,…
• TRANSCATHETER CLOSURE OF RESIDUAL LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE LEAKS FOLLOWING LARIAT DEVICE CLOSURE.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2017 Sunil P. Singh, Lucas Zier, Nitish Badhwar, Randall Lee, Vaikom Mahadevan
• To close or not to close: contemporary indications for patent foramen ovale closure.
  Expert review of cardiovascular therapy 2016 Zier LS, Sievert H, Mahadevan VS
• Abstract 17289: A Baffling Heart: a 30 Year-old Man with Biventricular Heart Failure and Severe Pulmonary Hypertension.
  Circulation 2014 Lucas S Zier, Christopher Barnett, Elyse Foster
• Surrogate decision makers' interpretation of prognostic information: a mixed-methods study.
  Annals of internal medicine 2012 Zier LS, Sottile PD, Hong SY, Weissfield LA, White DB
• Resolving Conflicts With Surrogate Decision Makers: Response.
  CHEST Journal 2010 Lucas Zier, Douglas White
• Surrogate decision makers' responses to physicians' predictions of medical futility.
  Chest 2009 Zier LS, Burack JH, Micco G, Chipman AK, Frank JA, White DB
• Doubt and belief in physicians' ability to prognosticate during critical illness: the perspective of surrogate decision makers.
  Critical care medicine 2008 Zier LS, Burack JH, Micco G, Chipman AK, Frank JA, Luce JM, White DB