Priya Prasad, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

415-476-4669

Priya A. Prasad, PhD, is a clinical epidemiologist and researcher in the Division of Hospital Medicine and the School of Nursing Center for Physiologic Research whose work focuses on improving the quality of patient care. Her interest lies in leveraging the electronic health record (EHR) to provide efficient feedback and evaluation of quality improvement interventions and to design robust EHR-based research cohorts.

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Priya's current research focuses on utilizing EHR data to explore the timing of identification, changing epidemiology, and outcomes of sepsis, with a particular interest in how to leverage continuous monitor data for improved sepsis surveillance. She is also working with colleagues to optimize the use of continuous monitor data and address alarm and alert fatigue in critical care settings.

Prior to joining DHM and during her PhD studies, Priya was the primary analyst and statistician on a Center for Health Quality and Innovation grant (PI: Nathaniel Gleason), coordinating and analyzing comprehensive clinical and administrative data for all ambulatory care patients at the five UC Health campuses over a 5 year study period. She has been an invited lecturer at the Population Health Division of the San Francisco Department of Public Health and the San Francisco Orthopaedic Residency Program and has served as a UCSF Medical School small group leader in the Evidence Based Medicine curriculum. Before beginning her studies at UCSF, Priya served as a Clinical Epidemiology Research Associate at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where her interests were in antibiotic stewardship, infection control, and hospital-acquired infections in pediatrics.

Awards

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  • Top Peer Reviewer, Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2022
  • Chancellor's Fund Travel Award, UCSF, 2022
  • Top Peer Reviewer, Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2017
  • Top Peer Reviewer, Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2016
  • Mount Zion Campus-based Educational Travel Awards, Mount Zion Health Fund, 2016
  • Graduate Student Travel Award, UCSF Graduate Division, 2015
  • Quality & Safety Innovation Challenge, UCSF, 2014
  • Pediatric Oncology Student Training Program Fellowship, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, 2013

Education & Training

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  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2019
  • PhD Epidemiology & Translational Science University of California San Francisco 2016
  • MPH Epidemiology & Biostatistics University of California Berkeley 2005
  • BS Biology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2003

Interests

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  • Implementation Science
  • Translational Science
  • Epidemiology

Publications (92)

Top publication keywords:
Hospital MortalityOrgan Dysfunction ScoresVenous ThromboembolismSepsisCandidemiaSystemic Inflammatory Response SyndromePractice Patterns, Physicians'ZygomycosisIntensive Care Units, NeonatalEmergency Service, HospitalShock, SepticEarly DiagnosisAnalgesics, OpioidHospitals, PediatricTriage

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