Patricia Cornett, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Cornett earned her medical degree at Drexel University College of Medicine. She completed a residency in internal medicine as well as a fellowship in hematology and oncology at the Letterman Army Medical Center.

Cornett belongs to the American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Hematology and Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine. She is the associate chair for education in the UCSF Department of Medicine. She also plays a leadership role in the school's innovative Bridges Curriculum, which seeks to prepare medical students to flourish in the rapidly evolving world of medicine.

• Inappropriate Communication During Internal Medicine Fellowship Recruitment: A Mixed-Methods Analysis.
  The American journal of medicine 2019 Williams CM, Alweis RL, O'Connor AB, Dalal B, Rai D, Abdullah A, Kopelman R, Cornett P, Frank MO, Luther VP, Muchmore EA
• Putting Schemas to the Test: An Exercise in Clinical Reasoning.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2018 Minter DJ, Manesh R, Cornett P, Geha RM
• Severe piperacillin-tazobactam-induced hemolysis in a cystic fibrosis patient.
  Clinical case reports 2017 Kerkhoff AD, Patrick L, Cornett P, Kleinhenz ME, Brondfield S
• Problematic communications during 2016 fellowship recruitment in internal medicine.
  Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives 2017 Cornett PA, Williams C, Alweis RL, McConville J, Frank M, Dalal B, Kopelman RI, Luther VP, O'connor AB, Muchmore EA
• The Team Approach to Advanced Cancer Care-Redefining the Gold Standard.
  JAMA internal medicine 2016 Wang S, Drye BD, Cornett PA
• Does Research Training During Residency Promote Scholarship and Influence Career Choice? A Cross-Sectional Analysis of a 10-Year Cohort of the UCSF-PRIME Internal Medicine Residency Program.
  Teaching and learning in medicine 2016 Kohlwes J, O'Brien B, Stanley M, Grant R, Shunk R, Connor D, Cornett P, Hollander H
• Is Training in a Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Associated with a Career in Primary Care Medicine?
  Journal of general internal medicine 2015 Stanley M, O'Brien B, Julian K, Jain S, Cornett P, Hollander H, Baron RB, Kohlwes RJ
• Screening for Alcohol Misuse; Veterans Speak!
  Journal of general internal medicine 2015 Kohlwes J, Cornett P
• Adoption of a Uniform Start Date for Internal Medicine Fellowships and Other Advanced Training: An AAIM White Paper.
  The American journal of medicine 2015 Barrett JC, Alweis R, Frank M, O'Connor A, McConville JF, Adams ND, Arfons L, Bernard S, Bradley T, Buckley JD, Cohen E, Cornett P, Elkins S, Kopelman R, Luther VP, Petrusky J, McNeill DB, Omar B, …
• Developing entrustable professional activities as the basis for assessment of competence in an internal medicine residency: a feasibility study.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2013 Hauer KE, Soni K, Cornett P, Kohlwes J, Hollander H, Ranji SR, Ten Cate O, Widera E, Calton B, O'Sullivan PS
• Identifying entrustable professional activities in internal medicine training.
  Journal of graduate medical education 2013 Hauer KE, Kohlwes J, Cornett P, Hollander H, Ten Cate O, Ranji SR, Soni K, Iobst W, O'Sullivan P
• Developing educators, investigators, and leaders during internal medicine residency: the area of distinction program.
  Journal of graduate medical education 2011 Kohlwes RJ, Cornett P, Dandu M, Julian K, Vidyarthi A, Minichiello T, Shunk R, Jain S, Harleman E, Ranji S, Sharpe B, O'Sullivan P, Hollander H
• Educating generalists: factors of resident continuity clinic associated with perceived impact on choosing a generalist career.
  Journal of graduate medical education 2011 Laponis R, O'Sullivan PS, Hollander H, Cornett P, Julian K
• Sustaining the pivotal organizational outcome: magnet recognition.
  Journal of nursing management 2011 Parsons ML, Cornett PA
• Using the american board of internal medicine practice improvement modules to teach internal medicine residents practice improvement.
  Journal of graduate medical education 2010 Shunk R, Dulay M, Julian K, Cornett P, Kohlwes J, Tarter L, Hollander H, O'Brien B, O'Sullivan P
• Building organizational capacity for a healthy work environment through role-based professional practice.
  Critical care nursing quarterly 2009 Cornett PA, O'Rourke MW
• Foreword. Healthy workplaces in acute care hospitals.
  Critical care nursing quarterly 2009 Parsons ML, Cornett PA
• Team behavioral norms: a shared vision for a healthy patient care workplace.
  Critical care nursing quarterly 2007 Parsons ML, Clark P, Marshall M, Cornett PA
• Hemolytic anemia.
  American family physician 2004 Dhaliwal G, Cornett PA, Tierney LM
• Efficacy, safety and pharmacokinetics of palonosetron in patients receiving highly emetogenic cisplatin-based chemotherapy: a dose-ranging clinical study.
  Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology 2004 Eisenberg P, MacKintosh FR, Ritch P, Cornett PA, Macciocchi A
• A prospective study of the risk of transfusion-acquired viral infections.
  Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) 1998 Murphy EL, Busch MP, Tong M, Cornett P, Vyas GN
• Empathic learning: an innovative teaching strategy to improve attitudes toward caring for persons with HIV/AIDS.
  The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC 1995 Larson-Presswalla J, Rose MA, Cornett P
• Pseudomembranous colitis leading to toxic megacolon associated with antineoplastic chemotherapy. Report of a case and review of the literature.
  Diseases of the colon and rectum 1992 Velanovich V, LaPorta AJ, Garrett WL, Richards TB, Cornett PA
• Detection of the hemoglobin E mutation using the color complementation assay: application to complex genotyping.
  Blood 1990 Embury SH, Kropp GL, Stanton TS, Warren TC, Cornett PA, Chehab FF