Matt Pantell, MD, MS
Associate Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

415-476-5001

Dr. Pantell worked at the Health Policy Center of the Urban Institute before attending the UC Berkeley - UCSF Joint Medical Program for medical school, where he earned an MD and a Master's in Health and Medical Sciences focusing on social epidemiology. He then completed his residency in pediatrics and was Chief Resident at the University of California, San Francisco.

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He was also a fellow in the Clinical Research Training Program at the NIH, where his work focused on biomarkers of social adversity.

Currently he is an Assistant Professor at UCSF, where his research is conducted with the UCSF Center for Health and Community, the UCSF Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network, and the UCSF Preterm Birth Initiative. Broadly, his research focuses on social determinants of health and social needs. More specifically, his research focuses on implementing social needs screening in clinical settings, the utility of incorporating social information into clinical decision making, addressing social needs in clinical settings, data mining and the analysis of large datasets, and biological manifestations of the social determinants of health.

Clinically, Dr. Pantell works is as a pediatric hospitalist at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital - Mission Bay and Washington Hospital in Fremont. He also works as an pediatric urgent care physician and runs the Tattoo Removal Clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

Education & Training

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  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2017
  • Chief Resident Pediatrics University of California, San Francisco 06/2017
  • Residency Pediatrics University of California, San Francisco 06/2016
  • MD Medicine University of California, San Francisco 05/2013
  • Clinical Research Training Program National Institutes of Health 07/2011
  • MS Health and Medical Sciences University of California, Berkeley 04/2010

Interests

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  • Information technology
  • Learning health systems
  • Informatics
  • Health disparities
  • Childhood adversity
  • Preterm birth
  • Social isolation
  • Recursive partitioning analysis
  • Telomeres
  • Tattoo removal
  • Pediatric hospital medicine
  • Social determinants of health
  • Social needs
  • Adverse childhood experiences

Publications (76)

Top publication keywords:
DocumentationHospitalizationSocial IsolationHealth Services Needs and DemandElectronic Health RecordsInfant, PrematurePatient ReadmissionChild HealthPremature BirthArthritis, JuvenilePrescription Drug Monitoring ProgramsInformaticsSocial Determinants of HealthPatient CareMedicaid

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