Rachel Bystritsky, MD
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Rachel Bystritsky is an infectious disease specialist who sees patients at the UCSF Medical Center. She received her MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2012 and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center where she went on to be a chief resident.

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She completed Infectious Disease Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, where she has remained on faculty. Her clinical activities include seeing outpatients at the UCSF Infectious Disease Clinics and attending on the inpatient infectious diseases consult services at Parnassus, Mission Bay and Mount Zion. She serves as the Medical Director of the UCSF Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Program.

Education & Training

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• Internal Medicine Columbia University Medical Center 06/2015
• MD Mount Sinai School of Medicine 05/2012

Interests

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• Infection Control
• Antimicrobial Stewardship

Publications (9)

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Fasciitis, NecrotizingAnti-Bacterial AgentsMeningitis, ViralAcyclovirDrug HypersensitivityAnti-Infective AgentsSoft Tissue InfectionsAntimicrobial StewardshipTinea PedisErysipelasMeningitis, BacterialCellulitisErythemaStreptococcusEncephalitis

• Inter-rater reliability assessment of antibiotic prescription quality by infectious diseases physicians, fellows, and pharmacists.
  Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE 2023 Bystritsky R, Gruenberg K, Abdoler E, Hilts-Horeczko A, Doernberg SB
• Impact of an Inpatient Allergy Guideline on β-Lactam and Alternative Antibiotic Use.
  The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice 2023 Otani IM, Tang M, Wang L, Anstey KM, Hilts-Horeczko A, Li F, Le VP, Lee M, Bystritsky R, Mulliken JS, Wattier RL, Blumenthal KG, Doernberg SB
• Infectious Meningitis and Encephalitis.
  Neurologic clinics 2022 Bystritsky RJ, Chow FC
• Cellulitis.
  Infectious disease clinics of North America 2021 Bystritsky RJ
• Machine learning for the prediction of antimicrobial stewardship intervention in hospitalized patients receiving broad-spectrum agents.
  Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2020 Bystritsky RJ, Beltran A, Young AT, Wong A, Hu X, Doernberg SB

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• Antimicrobial Stewardship Training for Infectious Diseases Fellows: Program Directors Identify a Curriculum Need.
  Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2018 Luther VP, Shnekendorf R, Abbo LM, Advani S, Armstrong WS, Barsoumian AE, Beeler CB, Bystritsky R, Cherabuddi K, Cohen S, Hamilton KW, Ince D, Justo JA, Logan A, Lynch JB, Nori P, Ohl CA, Patel PK, …
• Cellulitis and Soft Tissue Infections (Japanese Version).
  Annals of internal medicine 2018 Bystritsky R, Chambers H
• Cellulitis and Soft Tissue Infections.
  Annals of internal medicine 2018 Bystritsky R, Chambers H
• Molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates obtained from the Rikers Island Jail System from 2009 to 2013.
  Journal of clinical microbiology 2014 Tanner J, Lin Y, Kornblum J, Herzig CT, Bystritsky R, Uhlemann AC, Lowy FD