Sarah French, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Sarah French is a rheumatologist who specializes in caring for patients with complex systemic rheumatic diseases, including lupus and scleroderma. She serves as co-director of the UCSF Scleroderma Clinic.

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One focus of French's research is scleroderma's effects on the heart and lungs; another is improving care for patients with osteoporosis.

French earned her medical degree at UCSF. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and returned to UCSF to complete a fellowship in rheumatology, serving as chief fellow.

Education & Training

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• Fellowship Rheumatology University of California, San Francisco 06/2020
• Residency Internal Medicine Stanford University 06/2017
• M.D. School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco 06/2014

Publications (8)

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NeuroblastomaSkin UlcerArthralgiaStem Cell TransplantationRituximabBone Density Conservation AgentsLung Diseases, Interstitial3-IodobenzylguanidineAutoantibodiesOsteoporotic FracturesQuality ImprovementInterferon-Induced Helicase, IFIH1OsteoporosisDermatomyositisAbsorptiometry, Photon

• Clinical and biological heterogeneity of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults following SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case series.
  Frontiers in medicine 2023 Barth KE, Spottiswoode N, Hurabielle C, Subbaraj L, COMET Consortium, Calfee CS, Matthay MA, French S, Connolly A, Hewitt SM, Vannella KM, Barnett C, Langelier CR, Patterson S
• A 21-Year-Old Woman With Joint Pain and Skin Ulceration.
  Arthritis care & research 2021 French S, Lang UE, Margaretten M
• Peripheral blood leucocyte telomere length is associated with progression of interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosis.
  Thorax 2021 Liu S, Chung MP, Ley B, French S, Elicker BM, Fiorentino DF, Chung LS, Boin F, Wolters PJ
• Quality Measures and Quality Improvement Initiatives in Osteoporosis-an Update.
  Current osteoporosis reports 2019 French S, Choden S, Schmajuk G
• Non-invasive right ventricular load adaptability indices in patients with scleroderma-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension.
  Pulmonary circulation 2018 French S, Amsallem M, Ouazani N, Li S, Kudelko K, Zamanian RT, Haddad F, Chung L
• 131I-MIBG followed by consolidation with busulfan, melphalan and autologous stem cell transplantation for refractory neuroblastoma.
  Pediatric blood & cancer 2012 French S, DuBois SG, Horn B, Granger M, Hawkins R, Pass A, Plummer E, Matthay K
• An iron homeostasis regulatory circuit with reciprocal roles in Candida albicans commensalism and pathogenesis.
  Cell host & microbe 2011 Chen C, Pande K, French SD, Tuch BB, Noble SM
• Systematic screens of a Candida albicans homozygous deletion library decouple morphogenetic switching and pathogenicity.
  Nature genetics 2010 Noble SM, French S, Kohn LA, Chen V, Johnson AD