Susan Wlodarczyk, MD
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Wlodarczyk has been a clinician-educator in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the San Francisco VA Medical Center since 2015. She works on a variety of clinical services providing direct patient care for hospitalized veterans admitted to the medical service (common conditions include pneumonia, complications of heart failure, chest pain, sepsis, and COPD). She also teaches and supervises medical students and internal medicine residents while attending on the inpatient medicine wards.

Dr. Wlodarczyk is the director of the SFVA Medicine Consult Service and Surgical Co-Management Service that jointly manages hospitalized patients on the Orthopedic surgery, Neurosurgery and Podiatry services (including heart failure, pulmonary complications, acute kidney injury, post-operative delirium, glycemic control, infections and individual pain management strategies). She has expertise in applying evidence-based practice standards for older adults to provide ‘Age-Friendly’ care to improve outcomes after surgery.

She also leads the Preoperative Medical Optimization Clinic, a multidisciplinary outpatient clinic that provides a comprehensive evaluation for patients considering surgery who have complex medical conditions and optimizes their medical issues prior to surgery.

Dr. Wlodarczyk is a medical educator and serves as the Internal Medicine Residency Site Director for inpatient services at the San Francisco VA. She was previously a course director in the UCSF School of Medicine, serves as an advisor in the Internal Medicine Residency Program and as a Clinical Microsystems Clerkship preceptor in the UCSF School of Medicine. Dr. Wlodarczyk’s academic interests include curricular development, learner assessment and teaching learning theory to medical students.