Sirisha Narayana, MD
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
sirisha.narayana@ucsf.edu 415-476-7471
Sirisha Narayana cares for patients on the inpatient medicine direct care and teaching services at Moffitt-Long Hospital. Her academic interests rest in complex medical decision-making and uncertainty, ethics, and medical education. She is the Academy of Medical Educators Endowed Chair in Excellence in Foundational Teaching.
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She is the Director of the Diagnostic Reasoning block in the School of Medicine and the Associate Director of the Acting Internship in Medicine. She mentors medical students in these roles and residents in her role as a RAD advisor.
Dr Narayana is also the Chair of the UCSF Ethics Committee. She co-directs the Division of Hospital Medicine's Women's Council which aims to improve gender equity in medicine.
Awards
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- Haile T Debas Academy of Medical Educators induction, UCSF, 2018
- Outstanding Resident Teaching Award, UCSF Dept of Ob/Gyn, 2018
- Outstanding Resident Teaching Award, UCSF Dept of Ob/Gyn, 2017
- Excellence in Teaching Award, UCSF Academy of Medical Educators, 2016
- Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award, UCSF School of Medicine, Class of 2016, 2016
- Herbert S. Waxman Clinical Scholar, American College of Physicians, 2014
- Resident Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Washington, School of Medicine, 2012
Education & Training
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California, San Francisco 2018
- Chief Resident/Clinician Teacher Fellow Medicine University of Washington, VA Puget Sound 2014
- Residency Medicine University of Washington 2013
- M.D. Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine 2010
- B.S. Biological Sciences Stanford University 2005
Interests
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- Medical decision-making and clinical reasoning
- medical ethics
- end-of-life care
- medical education and curriculum development
- bedside physical exam
Publications (20)
Top publication keywords:
ProxyResilience, PsychologicalClergyAbortion, TherapeuticReproductive RightsMental CompetencyTerminal CareContinuity of Patient CareWork Schedule ToleranceEye DiseasesInternal MedicinePhysical ExaminationProblem-Based LearningDevelopmental DisabilitiesPhysicians, Women
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Learning from our patients: An exploratory study to inform the development of a case tracking dashboard for internal medicine subspecialty fellows.
Medical teacher 2024 Minter DJ, Frank AK, Pierce L, Schwartz BS, Narayana S -
772. Learning from our patients: An exploratory study to inform the development of a case tracking dashboard for subspecialty fellows.
Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2023 Daniel J Minter, Annabel K Frank, Brian S Schwartz, Sirisha Narayana -
Trainee Autonomy and Supervision in the Modern Clinical Learning Environment: A Mixed-Methods Study of Faculty and Trainee Perspectives.
Research square 2023 Conner SM, Choi N, Fuller J, Daya S, Barish P, Rennke S, Harrison JD, Narayana S -
A clinical reasoning curriculum for medical students: an interim analysis.
Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany) 2021 Connor DM, Narayana S, Dhaliwal G -
Revisiting the Role of Health Care Proxies in Reproductive Choice.
Obstetrics and gynecology 2021 Narayana S, Gaw SL, Aldrich JM, Guterman EL
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Minding the Gap: Organizational Strategies to Promote Gender Equity in Academic Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Narayana S, Roy B, Merriam S, Yecies E, Lee RS, Mitchell JL, Gottlieb AS, , on behalf of the Society of General Internal Medicine’s Women and Medicine Commission -
Consensus-based perioperative protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Journal of neurosurgery. Spine 2020 Mummaneni PV, Burke JF, Chan AK, Sosa JA, Lobo EP, Mummaneni VP, Antrum S, Berven SH, Conte MS, Doernberg SB, Goldberg AN, Hess CP, Hetts SW, Josephson SA, Kohi MP, Ma CB, Mahadevan VS, Molinaro AM, … -
Decisions in the Dark: An Educational Intervention to Promote Reflection and Feedback on Night Float Rotations.
Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Lim H, Raffel KE, Harrison JD, Kohlwes RJ, Dhaliwal G, Narayana S -
"SGIM in Alabama: Making Our Mark In Controversy"
Society of General Internal Medicine Forum 2019 Narayana S, Synder E -
In the Hospital: Laura Shea.
Journal of hospital medicine 2019 Ludwin S, Narayana S -
Development and Implementation of a Patient-Centered Tool for the Assessment of an In-Patient Palliative Care Team (QI739).
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2019 Ana Marija Sola, Alejandro Perez, Sirisha Narayana, Teri Rose, David O'Riordan, Giovanni Elia -
Denah Joseph: "In the Hospital".
Journal of hospital medicine 2018 Ludwin SM, Narayana S -
In the Hospital: Series Introduction.
Journal of hospital medicine 2018 Ludwin SM, Narayana S -
What Happened to My Patient? An Educational Intervention to Facilitate Postdischarge Patient Follow-Up.
Journal of graduate medical education 2017 Narayana S, Rajkomar A, Harrison JD, Valencia V, Dhaliwal G, Ranji SR -
Bedside Diagnosis of the 'Red Eye': A Systematic Review.
The American journal of medicine 2015 Narayana S, McGee S -
Office-based screening of common psychiatric conditions.
The Psychiatric clinics of North America 2014 Narayana S, Wong CJ -
Office-based screening of common psychiatric conditions.
The Medical clinics of North America 2014 Narayana S, Wong CJ -
Identification of naturally occurring fatty acids of the myelin sheath that resolve neuroinflammation.
Science translational medicine 2012 Ho PP, Kanter JL, Johnson AM, Srinagesh HK, Chang EJ, Purdy TM, van Haren K, Wikoff WR, Kind T, Khademi M, Matloff LY, Narayana S, Hur EM, Lindstrom TM, He Z, Fiehn O, Olsson T, Han X, Han MH, … -
OR.67. Microarray Identified Lipids Modulate Autoimmune Demyelinating Disease.
Clinical Immunology 2006 Jennifer Kanter, Amanda Johnson, Peggy Ho, Eun Mi Hur, Sirisha Narayana, Lawrence Steinman, William Robinson -
Lipid microarrays identify key mediators of autoimmune brain inflammation.
Nature medicine 2005 Kanter JL, Narayana S, Ho PP, Catz I, Warren KG, Sobel RA, Steinman L, Robinson WH