Teva Brender, MD
HS Clinical Instructor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Teva Brender is a Hospitalist at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and Clinical Instructor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He went to medical school at Oregon Health & Science University and completed his internal medicine internship and residency at UCSF. His clinical and research interests are in critical and palliative care, artificial intelligence, and narrative medicine.

Education & Training

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• Internal Medicine Internship and Residency University of California, San Francisco 06/2025
• MD Medicine Oregon Health & Science University 06/2022
• BS Human Biology University of Southern California 06/2017

Interests

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• narrative medicine
• pulmonary and critical care
• natural language processing
• palliative care
• artificial intelligence
• hospital medicine
• serious illness communication

Publications (21)

Top publication keywords:
Restraint, PhysicalTerminal CareRacismIntensive Care UnitsMetaphorMemory DisordersPatient AdvocacyCritical IllnessArtificial IntelligenceOrganizational CultureHealth EquityAttitude of Health PersonnelMedicineMoralsSchools, Medical

• The Man Who Lives in the Cardboard Box.
  The New England journal of medicine 2025 Brender TD
• Clinical Notes as Narratives: Implications for Large Language Models in Healthcare.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2024 Brender TD, Celi LA, Cobert JM
• Can Artificial Intelligence Speak for Incapacitated Patients at the End of Life?
  JAMA internal medicine 2024 Brender TD, Smith AK, Block BL
• Medicine in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Hey Chatbot, Write Me an H&P.
  JAMA internal medicine 2023 Brender TD
• Patient Race and Preferred Language Influence the Use of Physical Restraints on Nonintubated Intensive Care Unit Patients.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2025 McGowan SK, Gershengorn HB, Sudler A, Espejo E, Boscardin J, Li L, Smith AK, Ashana DC, Raghunathan K, Kim S, Brender T, Vossler K, Han M, Cobert J

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• Male Physicians' Mortality Advantage and the "Crisis of Boys and Men".
  JAMA internal medicine 2025 Brender TD, Dzeng EW
• Illuminating Potential Harms of the Physiologic Futility Standard.
  The American journal of bioethics : AJOB 2025 Axelrod JK, Weiss Goitiandia S, Batten JN, Brender TD, Dzeng E
• Electronic Sepsis Screening Among Hospital Ward Patients.
  JAMA 2025 Brender TD, Auerbach AD
• Clinicians' Perceptions About Institutional Factors in Moral Distress Related to Potentially Nonbeneficial Treatments.
  JAMA network open 2025 Brender TD, Axelrod JK, Weiss Goitiandia S, Batten JN, Dzeng EW
• Lexical associations can characterize clinical documentation trends related to palliative care and metastatic cancer.
  Scientific reports 2025 Yang HY, Raghunathan K, Widera E, Pantilat SZ, Brender T, Heintz TA, Espejo E, Boscardin J, Mills H, Lee A, Berchuck J, Cobert J
• Should Artificial Intelligence Provide Input in End-of-Life Decision-Making?-Reply.
  JAMA internal medicine 2025 Brender TD, Smith AK, Block BL
• Recognizing the Systemic Root Causes of Moral Distress.
  The American journal of bioethics : AJOB 2024 Weiss Goitiandia S, Axelrod JK, Brender TD, Batten JN, Dzeng EW
• Unclear Trajectory and Uncertain Benefit: Creating a Lexicon for Clinical Uncertainty in Patients with Critical or Advanced Illness Using a Delphi Consensus Process.
  Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making 2024 McGowan SK, Corrales-Martinez MJ, Brender T, Smith AK, Kim S, Harrison KL, Mills H, Lee A, Bamman D, Cobert J
• Placement.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024 Brender TD, Tran AA
• "My Mom Is a Fighter": A Qualitative Analysis of the Use of Combat Metaphors in ICU Clinician Notes.
  Chest 2024 Kim S, Mills H, Brender T, McGowan S, Widera E, Chapman AC, Harrison KL, Lee S, Smith AK, Bamman D, Gologorskaya O, Cobert J
• "Fighting the Ventilator": Abandoning Exclusionary Violence Metaphors in the Intensive Care Unit.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2023 Kim S, McGowan S, Brender T, Bamman D, Cobert J
• Chatbot Confabulations Are Not Hallucinations-Reply.
  JAMA internal medicine 2023 Brender TD
• The House Call.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Md TDB
• Advocacy: Transforming Our Understanding of Physicianship.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2022 Brender TD
• Prevalence and Characteristics of Advocacy Curricula in U.S. Medical Schools.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2021 Brender TD, Plinke W, Arora VM, Zhu JM
• Unusual presentation of pelizaeus-merzbacher disease: female patient with deletion of the proteolipid protein 1 gene.
  Case reports in genetics 2015 Brender T, Wallerstein D, Sum J, Wallerstein R