Nardine Riegels, MD
Volunteer Associate Clinical Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr Nardine Saad Riegels earned her undergraduate degree from UCLA and went on to complete medical school and an internal medicine residency at UCSF. She then joined The Permanente Medical Group at Kaiser Permanente, East Bay. She has served both as a primary care physician in DAFM from 2010-2015, and as a hospitalist in the Department of Hospital Medicine since 2016.

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Throughout her career, she has nurtured a passion for medical education, leading to numerous teaching awards and leadership roles including Director of the UCSF-Kaiser Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (KLIC), Quality Improvement Director for GME, and Program Director of the KP Northern California Patient Safety Fellowship.

Since 2019, Dr Saad Riegels has served as the KP East Bay Director of Medical Education (DME), overseeing all KP East Bay Medical Student, Residency, and Fellowship programs, including partnerships with UCSF medical student, residency and fellowship programs. This includes the UCSF-KLIC program, UCSF School of Medicine block clerskhips and sub-internships, UCSF-East Bay Surgery Residency, San Francisco UCSF/St Mary's Orthopedics Residency Program, KP-UCSF Urogynecology Fellowship program and numerous other GME rotations in various specialties.

In addition to her local impact, Dr Saad Riegels has collaborated on regional and national medical education programs. She is a co-PI in a grant from the AMA Change MedEd initiative, highlighting her commitment to advancing medical education in national forums. She is a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators and the KP East Bay Academy of Medical Educators.

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2017
• Residency Internal Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2010
• MD School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2007
• BS Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics University of California, Los Angeles 2002

Interests

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• Systems Citizenship
• Graduate Medical Education
• Practice Based Learning and Improvement
• Systems Based Practice

Publications (6)

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Clinical CompetenceProfessionalismHospitalsPhysician's RoleInternship and ResidencyCommunicationGeneral PractitionersQuality ImprovementCurriculumPatient-Centered CareGeneral PracticePhysician-Patient RelationsEducation, Medical, GraduateHealth EquityPatient Satisfaction

• System Citizenship: Re-Envisioning the Physician Role as Part of the Sixth Wave of Professionalism.
  The American journal of medicine 2023 Gonzalo JD, DeWaters AL, Thompson B, Mazotti L, Riegels N, Cooney R, Reilly JB, Wolpaw T, Wolpaw DR
• Quality and Health Equity Dashboards for Internal Medicine Residents: Interactive Displays to Promote Systems-Based Practice and Practice-Based Learning and Improvement.
  The Permanente journal 2023 Riegels NS, Mazotti LA
• Twelve Tips for Students in Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships.
  MedEdPublish (2016) 2019 Pepper J, Riegels NS, Ziv TA, Mazotti L
• Listening Beyond Auscultating: A Quality Initiative to Improve Communication Scores in the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Care Practitioners and Systems Survey.
  The Permanente journal 2018 Riegels NS, Asher E, Cartwright JR, Chow JL, Lee ED, Nordstrom M, Schneider AN, Schwarz MD, Zarin-Pass M, Mazotti LA
• Perspective: Creating the next generation of general internists: a call for medical education reform.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2011 Julian K, Riegels NS, Baron RB
• Poncelet A and Hirsh D. Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (LICs): Principles, outcomes, practical tools and future directions
  Systems based practice within the longitudinal integrated clerkship. Riegels NS, Suri A, Weil H.