Sumant Ranji, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
Dr. Sumant Ranji is a Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. He completed his Internal Medicine residency training at the University of Chicago, and served as Chief Medical Resident at Cook County Hospital in Chicago.
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He joined UCSF in 2002 as a fellow in hospital medicine and clinical research, and subsequently joined the faculty of the Division of Hospital Medicine, initially at UCSF Health and subsequently at San Francisco General Hospital, where he has worked since 2016.
Dr. Ranji's academic interests are in patient safety, quality improvement, and medical education. He has published widely on patient safety, with a particular focus on diagnostic errors and improving the safety of transitions in care. He is an an Associate Editor of BMJ Quality and Safety and is a co-investigator on AHRQ-funded diagnostic error research projects. He is a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators and remains active in teaching medical students and residents, as well as mentoring students, residents, and faculty interested in careers in health care systems improvement. His clinical responsibilities include attending on the ward and medical consult services at San Francisco General Hospital.
Dr. Ranji has held multiple leadership roles in the Department of Medicine. He served as the Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital from 2016-2023, leading the division's activities in the clinical care of hospitalized patients - including planning and leading the hospital medicine service's response to the COVID-19 pandemic - and being responsible for the mentorship and development of the division's 50 faculty and staff. Under his leadership, the division focused on improving care for vulnerable and marginalized patients by implementing innovative clinical services, leading educational and quality improvement programs, and conducting impactful research. Previously, Dr. Ranji served as associate program director for the UCSF Internal Medicine residency from 2007-2016, directing educational programs in systems improvement and developing experiential learning approaches to engage residents in improving the quality of care for hospitalized patients.
Awards
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- Senior Fellow in Hospital Medicine, Society of Hospital Medicine, 2023
- John F. Murray, MD Award for Excellence in Internal Medicine, ZSFG Department of Medicine, 2020
- Excellence and Innovation in Graduate Medical Education, UCSF, 2016
- Academy of Medical Educators, UCSF, 2015
- Fellow of the American College of Physicians, 2010
- Floyd C. Rector Housestaff Teaching Award, UCSF, 2009
Education & Training
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- Chief Medical Resident Internal Medicine Cook County Hospital 2002
- Internship and Residency Internal Medicine University of Chicago Hospitals 2001
- M.D. School of Medicine University of Illinois at Chicago 1998
Interests
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- patient safety
- medical education
- health equity
- quality improvement
Websites
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- ZSFG Division of Hospital Medicine (zsfghospitalmedicine.ucsf.edu)
Publications (70)
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AccreditationHospitalistsEducation, Medical, GraduateProblem-Based LearningQuality ImprovementInternship and ResidencyHospitalsPatient DischargeMedical Staff, HospitalInternal MedicineDivingPrescription Drug DiversionHospital Rapid Response TeamPatient HandoffPatient Safety
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Diagnostic disparities and strategies for enhancing diagnostic equity in hospital medicine.
Journal of hospital medicine 2024 Raffel KE, Gershanik EF, Ranji SR -
Stigmatizing Language, Patient Demographics, and Errors in the Diagnostic Process.
JAMA internal medicine 2024 Brooks KC, Raffel KE, Chia D, Karwa A, Hubbard CC, Auerbach AD, Ranji SR -
Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Adults Who Died or Were Transferred to Intensive Care.
JAMA internal medicine 2024 Auerbach AD, Lee TM, Hubbard CC, Ranji SR, Raffel K, Valdes G, Boscardin J, Dalal AK, Harris A, Flynn E, Schnipper JL, UPSIDE Research Group -
Achieving diagnostic excellence through prevention and teamwork (ADEPT) study protocol: A multicenter, prospective quality and safety program to improve diagnostic processes in medical inpatients.
Journal of hospital medicine 2023 Schnipper JL, Raffel KE, Keniston A, Burden M, Glasheen J, Ranji S, Hubbard C, Barish P, Kantor M, Adler-Milstein J, John Boscardin W, Harrison JD, Dalal AK, Lee T, Auerbach A -
Identifying and classifying diagnostic errors in acute care across hospitals: Early lessons from the Utility of Predictive Systems in Diagnostic Errors (UPSIDE) study.
Journal of hospital medicine 2023 Dalal AK, Schnipper JL, Raffel K, Ranji S, Lee T, Auerbach A
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Prevalence and Causes of Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Patients Under Investigation for COVID-19.
Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Auerbach AD, Astik GJ, O'Leary KJ, Barish PN, Kantor MA, Raffel KR, Ranji SR, Mueller SK, Burney SN, Galinsky J, Gershanik EF, Goyal A, Chitneni PR, Rastegar S, Esmaili AM, Fenton C, Virapongse A, … -
Characterizing patients hospitalized without an acute care indication: A retrospective cohort study.
Journal of hospital medicine 2023 Rosenthal MA, Ranji SR, Kanzaria HK, Ortiz GM, Chase J, Chodos AH, Nguyen OK, Rodriguez EG, Makam AN -
Maximizing impact of faculty development through purposeful design: Lessons from a quality and safety education academy.
Journal of hospital medicine 2022 Oyler JL, Myers JS, Ranji SR, Shah BJ, Franks-Snedecor R, Stucky Fisher E, Tad-Y D, Warm E, Greenwald JL, Tess A -
Research to improve diagnosis: time to study the real world.
BMJ quality & safety 2022 Ranji SR, Thomas EJ -
Time to ACT: launching an Addiction Care Team (ACT) in an urban safety-net health system.
BMJ open quality 2021 Martin M, Snyder HR, Coffa D, Steiger S, Clement JP, Ranji SR, Azari S, Nguyen OK, Lum PJ -
448. Disproportionate Burden of COVID-19 on Latinx Residents among Hospitalized Patients at San Francisco’s Public Health Hospital.
Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2020 Vivek Jain, Lillian B Brown, Carina Marquez, Luis Rubio, Natasha Spottiswoode, Bethlehem Churnet, Katherine Brooks, Mengyu Zhou, Timothy Muldoon, Carolyn Hendrickson, Adithya Cattamanchi, Antonio … -
Prevalence and characterisation of diagnostic error among 7-day all-cause hospital medicine readmissions: a retrospective cohort study.
BMJ quality & safety 2020 Raffel KE, Kantor MA, Barish P, Esmaili A, Lim H, Xue F, Ranji SR -
What Gets Measured Gets (Micro)managed.
JAMA 2020 Ranji SR -
Acute Care for Patients Who Are Incarcerated: A Review.
JAMA internal medicine 2019 Haber LA, Erickson HP, Ranji SR, Ortiz GM, Pratt LA -
Jump-Starting Faculty Development in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Education: A Team-Based Approach.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2019 van Schaik SM, Chang A, Fogh S, Haehn M, Lyndon A, O'Brien B, O'Sullivan P, Ranji S, Rosenbluth G, Sehgal N, Tabas J, Baron RB -
Who Will Guard the Guardians? Preventing Drug Diversion in Hospitals.
Journal of hospital medicine 2019 Ranji S -
Diving Into Diagnostic Uncertainty: Strategies to Mitigate Cognitive Load: In Reference to: "Focused Ethnography of Diagnosis in Academic Medical Centers".
Journal of hospital medicine 2018 Santhosh L, Raffel K, Ranji SR -
A Discharge Time-Out: A Case Study on Physician-Nurse Discharge Communication and the Challenge of Sustainability in Resident-Led Quality Improvement.
American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2018 Raffel KE, Gupta N, Vercammen-Grandjean C, Hohman J, Ranji S, Pierluissi E, Mourad M -
Training Residents in Hospital Medicine: The Hospitalist Elective National Survey.
Journal of hospital medicine 2018 Ludwin S, Harrison JD, Ranji S, Sharpe BA, Kneeland P -
Next-generation audit and feedback for inpatient quality improvement using electronic health record data: a cluster randomised controlled trial.
BMJ quality & safety 2018 Patel S, Rajkomar A, Harrison JD, Prasad PA, Valencia V, Ranji SR, Mourad M -
A Comparison of Laboratory Testing in Teaching vs Nonteaching Hospitals for 2 Common Medical Conditions.
JAMA internal medicine 2018 Valencia V, Arora VM, Ranji SR, Meza C, Moriates C -
Using an online quiz-based reinforcement system to teach healthcare quality and patient safety and care transitions at the University of California.
International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care 2017 Shaikh U, Afsar-Manesh N, Amin AN, Clay B, Ranji SR -
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 -
Development of a Multi-Domain Assessment Tool for Quality Improvement Projects.
Journal of graduate medical education 2017 Rosenbluth G, Burman NJ, Ranji SR, Boscardin CK -
Standardized Attending Rounds to Improve the Patient Experience: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.
Journal of hospital medicine 2017 Monash B, Najafi N, Mourad M, Rajkomar A, Ranji SR, Fang MC, Glass M, Milev D, Ding Y, Shen A, Sharpe BA, Harrison JD -
Exploring Physician Perspectives of Residency Holdover Handoffs: A Qualitative Study to Understand an Increasingly Important Type of Handoff.
Journal of general internal medicine 2017 Duong JA, Jensen TP, Morduchowicz S, Mourad M, Harrison JD, Ranji SR -
Using the Electronic Health Record to Identify Educational Gaps for Internal Medicine Interns.
Journal of graduate medical education 2017 Rajkomar A, Ranji SR, Sharpe B -
Does it matter how much physician trainees work anymore?
BMJ quality & safety 2016 Fletcher KE, Ranji SR -
Quality improvement, quality measurement and medical education: a brewing culture clash?
BMJ quality & safety 2015 Margolius D, Ranji SR -
We need to talk: Primary care provider communication at discharge in the era of a shared electronic medical record.
Journal of hospital medicine 2015 Sheu L, Fung K, Mourad M, Ranji S, Wu E -
The effect of a rapid response team on resident perceptions of education and autonomy.
Journal of hospital medicine 2015 Butcher BW, Quist CE, Harrison JD, Ranji SR -
Transitional care strategies from hospital to home: a review for the neurohospitalist.
The Neurohospitalist 2015 Rennke S, Ranji SR -
A piece of my mind. What gets measured gets (micro)managed.
JAMA 2014 Ranji SR -
Computerised provider order entry combined with clinical decision support systems to improve medication safety: a narrative review.
BMJ quality & safety 2014 Ranji SR, Rennke S, Wachter RM -
Neurohospitalists and patient safety: lessons learned in 2013.
The Neurohospitalist 2014 Ranji SR, Moriates C -
The successes and challenges of hospital to home transitions.
Journal of hospital medicine 2014 Solan LG, Ranji SR, Shah SS -
Internal medicine rounding practices and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education core competencies.
Journal of hospital medicine 2014 Shoeb M, Khanna R, Fang M, Sharpe B, Finn K, Ranji S, Monash B -
An advanced quality improvement and patient safety elective.
The clinical teacher 2013 Mookherjee S, Ranji S, Neeman N, Sehgal N -
Developing entrustable professional activities as the basis for assessment of competence in an internal medicine residency: a feasibility study.
Journal of general internal medicine 2013 Hauer KE, Soni K, Cornett P, Kohlwes J, Hollander H, Ranji SR, Ten Cate O, Widera E, Calton B, O'Sullivan PS -
Physical examination education in graduate medical education--a systematic review of the literature.
Journal of general internal medicine 2013 Mookherjee S, Pheatt L, Ranji SR, Chou CL -
The Housestaff Incentive Program: improving the timeliness and quality of discharge summaries by engaging residents in quality improvement.
BMJ quality & safety 2013 Bischoff K, Goel A, Hollander H, Ranji SR, Mourad M -
The effect of a resident-led quality improvement project on improving communication between hospital-based and outpatient physicians.
American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2013 Kalanithi L, Coffey CE, Mourad M, Vidyarthi AR, Hollander H, Ranji SR -
Hospital-initiated transitional care interventions as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review.
Annals of internal medicine 2013 Rennke S, Nguyen OK, Shoeb MH, Magan Y, Wachter RM, Ranji SR -
Identifying entrustable professional activities in internal medicine training.
Journal of graduate medical education 2013 Hauer KE, Kohlwes J, Cornett P, Hollander H, Ten Cate O, Ranji SR, Soni K, Iobst W, O'Sullivan P -
Making health care safer II: an updated critical analysis of the evidence for patient safety practices.
Evidence report/technology assessment 2013 Shekelle PG, Wachter RM, Pronovost PJ, Schoelles K, McDonald KM, Dy SM, Shojania K, Reston J, Berger Z, Johnsen B, Larkin JW, Lucas S, Martinez K, Motala A, Newberry SJ, Noble M, Pfoh E, Ranji SR, … -
The value in the evidence: teaching residents to "choose wisely".
JAMA internal medicine 2013 Moriates C, Soni K, Lai A, Ranji S -
A Resident-Led Quality Improvement Program for Increasing Documentation of Advance Care Planning Discussions (FR407-C).
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2013 Joshua Lakin, Elizabeth Le, Harry Hollander, Michelle Mourad, Sumant Ranji, Krishan Soni, Wendy Anderson -
Effects of increased overnight supervision on resident education, decision-making, and autonomy.
Journal of hospital medicine 2012 Haber LA, Lau CY, Sharpe BA, Arora VM, Farnan JM, Ranji SR -
A randomized controlled trial of the impact of a teaching procedure service on the training of internal medicine residents.
Journal of graduate medical education 2012 Mourad M, Ranji S, Sliwka D -
Perspective: engaging trainees in performance improvement projects: the Quality and Safety Innovation Challenge.
American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2012 Neeman N, Ranji SR, Sehgal NL -
Impact of the “July Effect” on Patient Outcomes.
Annals of Internal Medicine 2012 John Q. Young, Andrew D. Auerbach, Sumant R. Ranji -
Developing educators, investigators, and leaders during internal medicine residency: the area of distinction program.
Journal of graduate medical education 2011 Kohlwes RJ, Cornett P, Dandu M, Julian K, Vidyarthi A, Minichiello T, Shunk R, Jain S, Harleman E, Ranji S, Sharpe B, O'Sullivan P, Hollander H -
"July effect": impact of the academic year-end changeover on patient outcomes: a systematic review.
Annals of internal medicine 2011 Young JQ, Ranji SR, Wachter RM, Lee CM, Niehaus B, Auerbach AD -
Shifting indirect patient care duties to after hours in the era of work hours restrictions.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2011 Mourad M, Vidyarthi AR, Hollander H, Ranji SR -
Potential unintended consequences due to Medicare's "no pay for errors" rule? A randomized controlled trial of an educational intervention with internal medicine residents.
Journal of general internal medicine 2010 Mookherjee S, Vidyarthi AR, Ranji SR, Maselli J, Wachter RM, Baron RB -
Effect of hospitalist attending physicians on trainee educational experiences: a systematic review.
Journal of hospital medicine 2009 Natarajan P, Ranji SR, Auerbach AD, Hauer KE -
Rapid response systems in adult academic medical centers.
Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2009 Wood KA, Ranji SR, Ide B, Dracup K -
Development of a Web-Based Patient Safety Resource: AHRQ Patient Safety Network (PSNet)
Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches (Vol. 3: Performance and Tools) 2008 Sehgal NL, Ranji SR, Shojania KG, Cucina RJ, Hartman EE, Zipperer L, Wachter RM -
Interventions to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescribing: a systematic review and quantitative analysis.
Medical care 2008 Ranji SR, Steinman MA, Shojania KG, Gonzales R -
Implementing patient safety interventions in your hospital: what to try and what to avoid.
The Medical clinics of North America 2008 Ranji SR, Shojania KG -
Effects of rapid response systems on clinical outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Journal of hospital medicine 2007 Ranji SR, Auerbach AD, Hurd CJ, O'Rourke K, Shojania KG -
Opiates and Acute Abdominal Pain—Reply.
JAMA 2007 Sumant R. Ranji, L. Elizabeth Goldman, David L. Simel, Kaveh G. Shojania -
Quality Improvement Strategies for Type 2 Diabetes—Reply.
JAMA 2006 Kaveh G. Shojania, Sumant R. Ranji, Kathryn M. McDonald, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Robert J. Rushakoff, Douglas K. Owens -
Do opiates affect the clinical evaluation of patients with acute abdominal pain?
JAMA 2006 Ranji SR, Goldman LE, Simel DL, Shojania KG -
Effects of quality improvement strategies for type 2 diabetes on glycemic control: a meta-regression analysis.
JAMA 2006 Shojania KG, Ranji SR, McDonald KM, Grimshaw JM, Sundaram V, Rushakoff RJ, Owens DK -
Improving antibiotic selection: a systematic review and quantitative analysis of quality improvement strategies.
Medical care 2006 Steinman MA, Ranji SR, Shojania KG, Gonzales R -
Impact of reliance on CT pulmonary angiography on diagnosis of pulmonary embolism: a Bayesian analysis.
Journal of hospital medicine 2006 Ranji SR, Shojania KG, Trowbridge RL, Auerbach AD -
Hospital medicine fellowships: works in progress.
The American journal of medicine 2006 Ranji SR, Rosenman DJ, Amin AN, Kripalani S -
Suspected pulmonary embolism.
The New England journal of medicine 2004 Ranji SR, Shojania KG -
Schistosoma mansoni gene GP22 encodes the tegumental antigen sm25: (1) antibodies to a predicted B-cell epitope of Sm25 cross-react with other candidate vaccine worm antigens; (2) characterization of a recombinant product containing tandem-repeats of this peptide as a vaccine.
Parasite immunology 2000 Petzke MM, Suri PK, Bungiro R, Goldberg M, Taylor SF, Ranji S, Taylor H, McCray JW, Knopf PM