Pramita Kuruvilla, MD
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
Pramita Kuruvilla, MD, FAAFP, HEC-C, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF, where she works clinically with the Symptom Management Service at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and the inpatient Palliative Care Service.
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Dr. Kuruvilla earned her medical degree at Yale University School of Medicine and completed a family medicine residency at UCSF-affiliated Contra Costa Regional Medical Center (CCRMC). She completed a leadership fellowship through America's Essentials Hospitals and a clinical fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at UCSF. She is board-certified in Family Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine, and she has earned her Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified Credential.
Prior to joining UCSF, Dr. Kuruvilla worked for many years as an ICU physician and Bioethics consultant, and she has extensive experience caring for patients and families navigating critical illness. Previously, she was the Assistant Medical Director of CCRMC Critical Care Services, Chair of the CCRMC Bioethics Committee, and a volunteer with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in peri-civil war Côte d'Ivoire. She currently serves on the MSF-USA DEI Council.
Dr. Kuruvilla's academic interests include Serious Illness Communication, Medical Education, Bioethics, Global Health, Leadership Development, Narrative Medicine, and Clinician Wellbeing.
Education & Training
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- Teaching Scholars Program University of California, San Francisco 2024
- Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship University of California, San Francisco 2022
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California, San Francisco 2020
- Leadership Fellowship America's Essentials Hospitals 2014
- Chief Resident Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency Program 2007
- MD School of Medicine Yale University 2004
- BA French University of Southern California 1999
- Art History Université de Paris IV, La Sorbonne 1998
Interests
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- Medical Education
- Narrative Medicine
- Bioethics
- Global Health
- Leadership Development
- Justice
- Diversity
- Equity
- Inclusion
- Belonging
- Palliative Medicine
- Clinical Wellbeing
Publications (5)
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When the Boards Fail Us-Structural Bias in Certification Examinations.
JAMA internal medicine 2024 Kuruvilla P -
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Sliding Doors: The Ethics of Patient Preferences for Providers from Different Backgrounds 2023 Kim J, Rewal M, Kuruvilla P -
End of life ethics and the importance of doing the right thing
End of life ethics and the importance of doing the right thing 2012 Pramita Kuruvilla, MD -
A method to quantify and compare clinicians' assessments of patient understanding during counseling of standardized patients
Patient Education and Counseling 2009 Farrell MH, Kuruvilla P, Eskra KL, Christopher SA, Brienza RS -
Assessment of parental understanding by pediatric residents during counseling after newborn genetic screening
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 2008 Farrell MH, Kuruvilla P