Theodore Peng, MD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Theodore Peng, MD is an Assistant Clinical Professor and Hospitalist in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. He serves as the Associate Director of the Cardiac Hospitalist Service and is co-leading the development of a Lab Stewardship Program at UCSF with the support of a UCSF Caring Wisely grant.

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He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and divides his time between patient care, hospital operations, quality improvement work, and medical education for both resident physicians and medical students.

Theodore received his AB in Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology from Harvard College and his MD from UCSF. He completed his medical internship and residency in Internal Medicine and his fellowship in Academic Hospital Medicine at UCSF before joining faculty in 2023. He is currently an MBA candidate at the University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business.

Education & Training

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• MBA Health Management Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley 2025
• Fellowship Academic Hospital Medicine UC San Francisco 2023
• Internship/Residency Internal Medicine UC San Francisco 2022
• MD UC San Francisco 2019
• AB Harvard College 2013

Interests

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• Healthcare Economics
• Quality Improvement
• Hospital Strategy
• Delivery System Re-Design
• Improvement Science
• Value Based Healthcare
• Hospital Operations

Publications (8)

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• Assessing the contribution of hospital medicine patients to the tertiary quaternary care mission of an academic medical center.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2023 Peng T, Green A, Mourad M
• Commotio Cordis in 2023.
  Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) 2023 Peng T, Derry LT, Yogeswaran V, Goldschlager NF
• Unmasked by Fever: Diagnosing Brugada Syndrome After Ventricular Fibrillation Arrest
  AIM Clinical Cases 2023 Peng T, Yogeswaran V, Dowland T, Goldschlager NF.
• VITT following Ad26.COV2.S vaccination presenting without radiographically demonstrable thrombosis.
  Blood advances 2021 Kennedy VE, Wong CC, Hong JM, Peng T, Brondfield S, Reilly LM, Cornett P, Leavitt AD
• 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
• A Comparison of Patient-Reported Outcomes Related to Telephone Follow-Up Visits and Conventional Office Visits in Medical Specialty Practices.
  Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association 2020 Peng T, Gleason N, Gonzales R
• Thoughts From the Trauma Bay.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2019 Peng T
• Pathways disrupted in human ALS motor neurons identified through genetic correction of mutant SOD1.
  Cell stem cell 2014 Kiskinis E, Sandoe J, Williams LA, Boulting GL, Moccia R, Wainger BJ, Han S, Peng T, Thams S, Mikkilineni S, Mellin C, Merkle FT, Davis-Dusenbery BN, Ziller M, Oakley D, Ichida J, Di Costanzo S, …