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)

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ProxyResilience, PsychologicalClergyAbortion, TherapeuticReproductive RightsMental CompetencyTerminal CareContinuity of Patient CareWork Schedule ToleranceEye DiseasesInternal MedicinePhysical ExaminationProblem-Based LearningDevelopmental DisabilitiesPhysicians, Women

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