Mary Whooley, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

mary.whooley@ucsf.edu 415-221-4810

Mary Whooley MD FACP FAHA FACC FAMIA is a primary care physician, clinical informatician, health systems researcher, Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Director of the Center for Healthcare Improvement and Medical Effectiveness (CHIME) at the San Francisco VA and UCSF.

Her work focuses on leveraging clinical informatics to accelerate the adoption of evidence-based practices that improve the quality of healthcare delivered in the U.S. Veterans Health Administration's national learning health system. At the San Francisco VA, Dr. Whooley serves as Director of the VA Measurement Science QUERI, Principal Investigator (PI) of the >20-year Heart and Soul Study, Site PI for the Million Veterans Program, and Site Director for the UCSF Clinical Informatics Fellowship. At UCSF, Dr. Whooley directs the Clinical Research Informatics Postdoctoral (CRISP) fellowship and leads the Research Education Core for UCSF’s Leaning Health System Embedded Scientist Training and Research Center. Her previous work focused on screening for depression (1996-2000), understanding the links between depression and cardiovascular disease (2001-11), and disseminating home-based cardiac rehab (2012-22). She has coauthored over 300 publications and received numerous research mentoring awards.

Awards

  • Daniel Deykin Outstanding Mentor Award, Veterans Health Administration Office of Research and Development Health Systems Research, 2023
  • Harold S. Luft Award for Mentoring in Health Services and Health Policy Research, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF, 2020
  • Michael L. Pollock Established Investigator Award, American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, 2019
  • Research Professor Award, Academy of Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, 2018
  • Stephen B. Hulley Award for Excellence in Teaching, UCSF Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, 2015
  • Elected to Membership, Association of American Physicians (AAP), 2014
  • Elected to Fellowship, American College of Cardiology (ACC), 2011
  • Elected to Membership, American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), 2011
  • Elected to Fellowship, American Heart Association (AHA), 2009
  • Outstanding Mentor of the Year, SF Bay Area Clinical Research Symposium, 2009
  • Herbert Weiner Early Career Award, American Psychosomatic Society, 2006
  • Resident Research Mentorship Award, UCSF Department of Medicine, 2006
  • Advanced Career Development Award, VA Health Services Research & Development, 2004
  • Hellman Award for Early Career Faculty, University of California, San Francisco, 2002
  • Beeson Faculty Scholars Award, American Federation for Aging Research, 2001
  • Physician Faculty Scholars Award, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2001
  • Career Development Award, VA Health Services Research & Development, 1998
  • Young Investigator Award, American Society Bone & Mineral Research, 1997
  • Keith Johnson Award, UCSF Department of Medicine, 1993
  • Krevans Award for Clinical Excellence, UCSF Department of Medicine, 1992
  • Elected to Membership, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, 1991

Education & Training

  • Training Certification Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion University of California, San Francisco 2020
  • Board Certification Clinical Informatics American Board of Preventive Medicine 2016
  • Training Certification Implementation Science University of California, San Francisco 2013
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship Health Services Research University of California, San Francisco 1998
  • Chief Residency Internal Medicine University of California, San Francisco 1996
  • Internship and Residency Internal Medicine University of California, San Francisco 1995
  • Doctor of Medicine Medicine Boston University School of Medicine 1991
  • Bachelor of Arts Psychology Yale University 1987

Interests

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  • Program Evaluation
  • Clinical Informatics
  • Cardiac Rehabilitation
  • Cardiovascular Outcomes Research
  • Implementation Science

Websites

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Grants and Projects

Publications (338)

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Exercise TestHeart FailureMyocardial InfarctionC-Reactive ProteinCardiac RehabilitationMyocardial IschemiaCoronary Artery DiseaseHome Care ServicesUnited States Department of Veterans AffairsDepressionNatriuretic Peptide, BrainCardiovascular DiseasesVeteransVeterans HealthCoronary Disease