Smitha Ganeshan, MD, MBA
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
Smitha Ganeshan, MD MBA is a Hospitalist and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. As a hospitalist, Smitha Ganeshan cares for patients on a variety of inpatient medical services and is focused on improving care delivery, quality, and safety for our patients.
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Dr. Ganeshan also serves as the Medical Director for the Medicine Unit-Based Leadership Team at Parnassus Heights. In this role, she helps oversee clinical care on three inpatient units for hospitalized adult patients. She leads a transdisciplinary team that continuously develops and implements initiatives in quality, safety, patient experience, throughput, and care delivery transformation.
She also serves on the Medical Informatics team and works on Health IT Strategy. She is currently working on efforts to improve physician happiness with the EHR, with a specific focus on improving physician shared ownership. In her informatics role, she also leads digital health research and program evaluations of new digital tools. She has led the evaluation of our online radiology self-scheduling tool as well as an EHR-based tool to maintain wait lists and reschedule appointments when earlier slots become available.
Dr. Ganeshan received her bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Georgia, and her medical degree and business degrees from Harvard University. She completed Internal Medicine Residency at UCSF prior to joining faculty at UCSF, Parnassus Hospital.
Education & Training
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- MBA Management Harvard Business School 06/2019
- MD Medicine Harvard Medical School 06/2019
- BS Biology University of Georgia 05/2014
Publications (12)
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Cardiac RehabilitationDecision MakingMedicareWalk TestPatient Care TeamOutpatientsPalliative CarePatient-Centered CareCapital FinancingMyocardial InfarctionPatient PortalsAppointments and SchedulesPatient Care PlanningTelemedicineElectronic Health Records
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Impact of COVID-19 on Characteristics and Funding of U.S. Healthcare Startups: Retrospective Review.
JMIR formative research 2024 Ganeshan S, Goldstein J, Sohn YJ, Pollack A, Phillips RS, Rotenstein L -
An Electronic Health Record-Based Automated Self-Rescheduling Tool to Improve Patient Access: Retrospective Cohort Study.
Journal of medical Internet research 2024 Ganeshan S, Liu AW, Kroeger A, Anand P, Seefeldt R, Regner A, Vaughn D, Odisho AY, Mourad M -
Impact of an automated peri-procedural digital health intervention on rates of emergency department visits and readmissions.
American journal of surgery 2023 Liu AW, Pierce L, Ganeshan S, Brown W, Judson T, Divakaran D, Bini S, Odisho AY, Mourad M -
Training Physicians in the Digital Health Era: How to Leverage the Residency Elective.
JMIR medical education 2023 Hsiang EY, Ganeshan S, Patel S, Yurkovic A, Parekh A -
Impact of patient portal-based self-scheduling of diagnostic imaging studies on health disparities.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2022 Ganeshan S, Pierce L, Mourad M, Judson TJ, Kohli MD, Odisho AY, Brown W
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An unexpected turn: A 71-year-old man with myocardial infarction.
Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine 2022 Ganeshan S, Kelemen B, Dhaliwal G, Zier L -
Clinical Outcomes and Qualitative Perceptions of In-person, Hybrid, and Virtual Cardiac Rehabilitation.
Journal of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and prevention 2022 Ganeshan S, Jackson H, Grandis DJ, Janke D, Murray ML, Valle V, Beatty AL -
Impact of a resident and student-led video visitation navigation program.
BMC medical education 2022 Yang R, Ganeshan S, Thompson A, McAllister S, Mourad M -
Reimagining the inpatient palliative care consult: lessons from COVID-19.
The American journal of managed care 2021 Ganeshan S, Humphreys J, Judson T -
Medical Communities Go Virtual.
Journal of hospital medicine 2021 Minter DJ, Patel A, Ganeshan S, Nematollahi S -
Enabling patient communication for hospitalised patients during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
BMJ innovations 2021 Ganeshan S, Hsiang E, Peng T, Thomas N, Garcia-Grossman I, Javaherian K, Lyon Z, Vidyarthi A -
Shared care planning: Realizing the promise of team-based person-centered care.
Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2018 Ganeshan S, Gheihman G, Palmor M, Choi S, Wohler D, Rotenstein LS