Robert Gallo, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

His research has been published in leading medical journals such as JAMA Internal Medicine, Nature Medicine, and Diabetes Care, and featured in national media publications such as the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Before joining UCSF, he completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Stanford University and a Medical Informatics Research Fellowship at VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University.

• A typology of physician input approaches to using AI chatbots for clinical decision-making: a mixed methods study.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2025 Siden R, Kerman H, Gallo RJ, Cool JA, Hom J, Goh E, Ahuja N, Heidenreich P, Shieh L, Yang D, Chen JH, Rodman A, Holdsworth LM
• Trends and Disparities in Rates of Hypoglycemia Among Hospitalized Patients With Type 2 Diabetes.
  Diabetes care 2025 Heidenreich PA, Lin S, Gallo RJ, Sahay A, Burkhardt M, Glassman P, Fang D, Moore V
• From Tool to Teammate: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Clinician-AI Collaborative Workflows for Diagnosis.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2025 Everett SS, Bunning BJ, Jain P, Lopez I, Agarwal A, Desai M, Gallo R, Goh E, Kadiyala VB, Kanjee Z, Koshy JM, Olson A, Rodman A, Schulman K, Strong E, Chen JH, Horvitz E
• Physician clinical decision modification and bias assessment in a randomized controlled trial of AI assistance.
  Communications medicine 2025 Goh E, Bunning B, Khoong EC, Gallo RJ, Milstein A, Centola D, Chen JH
• Clinical entity augmented retrieval for clinical information extraction.
  NPJ digital medicine 2025 Lopez I, Swaminathan A, Vedula K, Narayanan S, Nateghi Haredasht F, Ma SP, Liang AS, Tate S, Maddali M, Gallo RJ, Shah NH, Chen JH
• Large language model uncertainty proxies: discrimination and calibration for medical diagnosis and treatment.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2025 Savage T, Wang J, Gallo R, Boukil A, Patel V, Safavi-Naini SAA, Soroush A, Chen JH
• Clinical Evaluations of Early Warning Scores-Reply.
  JAMA internal medicine 2024 Gallo RJ, Geldsetzer P, Li RC
• Large Language Model Influence on Management Reasoning: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2024 Goh E, Gallo R, Strong E, Weng Y, Kerman H, Freed J, Cool JA, Kanjee Z, Lane KP, Parsons AS, Ahuja N, Horvitz E, Yang D, Milstein A, Olson APJ, Hom J, Chen JH, Rodman A
• Measuring Equity in Readmission as an Assessment of Hospital Performance.
  JAMA 2024 Gallo RJ, Santiago C
• Affiliation Bias in Peer Review of Abstracts.
  JAMA 2024 Gallo RJ, Savage T, Chen JH
• Influence of a Large Language Model on Diagnostic Reasoning: A Randomized Clinical Vignette Study.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2024 Goh E, Gallo R, Hom J, Strong E, Weng Y, Kerman H, Cool J, Kanjee Z, Parsons AS, Ahuja N, Horvitz E, Yang D, Milstein A, Olson APJ, Rodman A, Chen JH
• Diagnostic reasoning prompts reveal the potential for large language model interpretability in medicine.
  NPJ digital medicine 2024 Savage T, Nayak A, Gallo R, Rangan E, Chen JH
• Things We Do for No Reason™: Routine early PEG tube placement for dysphagia after acute stroke.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2024 Gallo RJ, Wang JE, Madill ES
• ChatGPT Influence on Medical Decision-Making, Bias, and Equity: A Randomized Study of Clinicians Evaluating Clinical Vignettes.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023 Goh E, Bunning B, Khoong E, Gallo R, Milstein A, Centola D, Chen JH
• K Grant Funding to Internal Medicine Specialties.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Gallo RJ, Asch SM, Chan DC
• Administrative Coding Versus Laboratory Diagnosis of Inpatient Hypoglycemia.
  Diabetes care 2023 Gallo RJ, Fang DZ, Heidenreich PA
• Addition of Coronary Artery Calcium Scores to Primary Prevention Risk Estimation Models-Primum Non Nocere.
  JAMA internal medicine 2022 Gallo RJ, Brown DL