Sarah Alba-Nguyen, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Clinically, Sarah works as a hospitalist where she attends on the Medicine Teaching Service, Goldman Medicine Service, and both Parnassus and Mission Bay Medicine Consult Services. In her graduate medical education roles, Sarah has led a robust efforts in the residency program to enhance the recruitment, retention, and mentorship of trainees from diverse backgrounds. She is passionate about equity and inclusion in medicine, and conducts seminars for trainees and faculty on topics of unconscious bias, microaggressions, stereotype threat, and mentoring across differences. In 2018, Sarah joined Dr. Alicia Fernandez as a core faculty members in the UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence (LCOE). Within the LCOE, Sarah co-leads academic career development and mentorship programs for Latinx and UIM medical student and residents at UCSF.

• Association of Gender and Race/Ethnicity with Internal Medicine In-Training Examination Performance in Graduate Medical Education.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2022 Klein R, Koch J, Snyder ED, Volerman A, Simon W, Jassal SK, Cosco D, Cioletti A, Ufere NN, Burnett-Bowie SM, Palamara K, Schaeffer S, Julian KA, Thompson V
• Association Between Resident Race and Ethnicity and Clinical Performance Assessment Scores in Graduate Medical Education.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2022 Klein R, Ufere NN, Schaeffer S, Julian KA, Rao SR, Koch J, Volerman A, Snyder ED, Thompson V, Ganguli I, Burnett-Bowie SM, Palamara K
• Avoiding the Virtual Pitfall: Identifying and Mitigating Biases in Graduate Medical Education Videoconference Interviews.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2021 Marbin J, Hutchinson YV, Schaeffer S
• Resident Physician Experiences With and Responses to Biased Patients.
  JAMA network open 2020 de Bourmont SS, Burra A, Nouri SS, El-Farra N, Mohottige D, Sloan C, Schaeffer S, Friedman J, Fernandez A
• Association of Gender With Learner Assessment in Graduate Medical Education.
  JAMA network open 2020 Klein R, Ufere NN, Rao SR, Koch J, Volerman A, Snyder ED, Schaeffer S, Thompson V, Warner AS, Julian KA, Palamara K, Gender Equity in Medicine workgroup
• Gender Bias in Resident Assessment in Graduate Medical Education: Review of the Literature.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2019 Klein R, Julian KA, Snyder ED, Koch J, Ufere NN, Volerman A, Vandenberg AE, Schaeffer S, Palamara K, From the Gender Equity in Medicine (GEM) workgroup
• Reasons for HCV non-treatment in underserved African Americans: implications for treatment with new therapeutics.
  Annals of hepatology 2015 Schaeffer S, Khalili M
• Demographics of carotid atherosclerotic plaque features imaged by computed tomography.
  Journal of neuroradiology = Journal de neuroradiologie 2013 Chien JD, Furtado A, Cheng SC, Lam J, Schaeffer S, Chun K, Wintermark M
• Introduction to the medical professions through an innovative medical student-run pipeline program.
  Journal of the National Medical Association 2011 Nair N, Marciscano AE, Vivar KL, Schaeffer S, LaMont E, Francois F
• Carotid atherosclerosis does not predict coronary, vertebral, or aortic atherosclerosis in patients with acute stroke symptoms.
  Stroke 2010 Adraktas DD, Brasic N, Furtado AD, Cheng SC, Ordovas K, Chun K, Chien JD, Schaeffer S, Wintermark M
• The triple rule-out for acute ischemic stroke: imaging the brain, carotid arteries, aorta, and heart.
  AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2010 Furtado AD, Adraktas DD, Brasic N, Cheng SC, Ordovas K, Smith WS, Lewin MR, Chun K, Chien JD, Schaeffer S, Wintermark M
• Perfusion CT Imaging Follows Clinical Severity in Left Hemispheric Strokes.
  European neurology 2008 Furtado AD, Smith WS, Koroshetz W, Dillon WP, Furie KL, Lev MH, Vittinghoff E, Schaeffer S, Biagini T, Hazarika O, Wintermark M
• High-resolution CT imaging of carotid artery atherosclerotic plaques.
  AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2008 Wintermark M, Jawadi SS, Rapp JH, Tihan T, Tong E, Glidden DV, Abedin S, Schaeffer S, Acevedo-Bolton G, Boudignon B, Orwoll B, Pan X, Saloner D
• Perfusion-CT assessment of the cerebrovascular reserve: a revisit to the acetazolamide challenges.
  Journal of neuroradiology = Journal de neuroradiologie 2008 Smith LM, Elkins JS, Dillon WP, Schaeffer S, Wintermark M
• Semi-automated computer assessment of the degree of carotid artery stenosis compares favorably to visual evaluation.
  Journal of the neurological sciences 2008 Wintermark M, Glastonbury C, Tong E, Lau BC, Schaeffer S, Chien JD, Haar PJ, Saloner D