Timothy Judson, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Judson leads the population health innovation team, which designs, implements, and evaluates new virtual care models with the goal of improving clinical outcomes at scale. In his role as Medical co-Director of Adult Care Transitions, Dr. Judson sets strategy for programs aimed at providing safe discharge, deceasing readmissions, and improving post-acute care.

Dr. Judson has led the creation of several digital health tools at UCSF, including the COVID-19 Symptom Checker, UCSF’s first self-triage and self-scheduling module. He was also the clinical product lead for the UCSF Employee Health Screener, which was used to conduct over 1 million daily symptom and exposure screens of UCSF employees. He co-leads several programs aimed at improving chronic disease management using remote patient monitoring. He is working to incorporate AI-based risk prediction into population health and transitions efforts.

Dr. Judson received his bachelor's degree in Biology and Community health and his Masters in Public Health from Tufts University, and his medical degree from the Weill Cornell Medical College. He completed Internal Medicine Residency at UCSF, followed by a Chief Residency at UCSF, Parnassus Hospital.

• Finding the time: Hourly variation in average daily census on a hospital medicine service.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2023 Pierce L, Judson TJ, Mourad M
• Association of protective behaviors with SARS-CoV-2 infection: results from a longitudinal cohort study of adults in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  Annals of epidemiology 2023 Judson TJ, Zhang S, Lindan CP, Boothroyd D, Grumbach K, Bollyky JB, Sample HA, Huang B, Desai M, Gonzales R, Maldonado Y, Rutherford G, TrackCOVID Consortium
• 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
• Patient Perceptions of e-Visits: Qualitative Study of Older Adults to Inform Health System Implementation.
  JMIR aging 2023 Judson TJ, Subash M, Harrison JD, Yeager J, Williams AM, Grouse CK, Byron M
• 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
• Utilization patterns and efficiency gains from use of a fully EHR-integrated COVID-19 self-triage and self-scheduling tool: a retrospective analysis.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2022 Judson TJ, Pierce L, Tutman A, Mourad M, Neinstein AB, Shuler G, Gonzales R, Odisho AY
• Patient Experience and Feedback After Using an Electronic Health Record-Integrated COVID-19 Symptom Checker: Survey Study.
  JMIR human factors 2022 Liu AW, Odisho AY, Brown Iii W, Gonzales R, Neinstein AB, Judson TJ
• Race-ethnicity and COVID-19 Vaccination Beliefs and Intentions: A Cross-Sectional Study among the General Population in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  Vaccines 2021 Weng Y, Lu D, Bollyky J, Jain V, Desai M, Lindan C, Boothroyd D, Judson T, Doernberg SB, Holubar M, Sample H, Huang B, Maldonado Y, Rutherford GW, Grumbach K
• Design of a population-based longitudinal cohort study of SARS-CoV-2 incidence and prevalence among adults in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  Annals of epidemiology 2021 Lindan CP, Desai M, Boothroyd D, Judson T, Bollyky J, Sample H, Weng Y, Cheng Y, Dahlen A, Hedlin H, Grumbach K, Henne J, Garcia S, Gonzales R, Craik CS, Rutherford G, Maldonado Y
• Building a Targeted Automatic e-Consult (TACo) Program.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2021 Judson TJ, Mourad M, Wachter RM
• Association of Race/Ethnicity With Likeliness of COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among Health Workers and the General Population in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  JAMA internal medicine 2021 Grumbach K, Judson T, Desai M, Jain V, Lindan C, Doernberg SB, Holubar M
• Reimagining the inpatient palliative care consult: lessons from COVID-19.
  The American journal of managed care 2021 Ganeshan S, Humphreys J, Judson T
• Implementation of a digital chatbot to screen health system employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2020 Judson TJ, Odisho AY, Young JJ, Bigazzi O, Steuer D, Gonzales R, Neinstein AB
• Patient Portal Reminders-Easy but Ineffective.
  JAMA internal medicine 2020 Judson T, Gonzales R
• The Decline of Comprehensiveness and the Path to Restoring It.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2019 Judson TJ, Press MJ, Detsky AS
• Saving without compromising: Teaching trainees to safely provide high value care.
  Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2018 Judson TJ, Press MJ, Detsky AS
• The Troponin Cascade: A Teachable Moment.
  JAMA internal medicine 2017 Judson TJ, Beach LY, Soni K
• Consequences of Influencing Physician Behavior--Reply.
  JAMA 2016 Judson TJ, Volpp KG, Detsky AS
• Minocycline-induced Hyperpigmentation.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2016 Judson T, Mihara K
• Attaining Financial Fluency among Physicians: Start with the Students.
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2015 Judson TJ, Detsky AS, Charney P
• Medical identity theft: prevention and reconciliation initiatives at Massachusetts General Hospital.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2014 Judson T, Haas M, Lagu T
• A piece of my mind. Filling buckets.
  JAMA 2014 Press MJ, Judson TJ, Detsky AS
• Miscount incidents: a novel approach to exploring risk factors for unintentionally retained surgical items.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2013 Judson TJ, Howell MD, Guglielmi C, Canacari E, Sands K
• Encouraging patients to ask questions: how to overcome "white-coat silence".
  JAMA 2013 Judson TJ, Detsky AS, Press MJ
• Feasibility of long-term patient self-reporting of toxicities from home via the Internet during routine chemotherapy.
  Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2013 Judson TJ, Bennett AV, Rogak LJ, Sit L, Barz A, Kris MG, Hudis CA, Scher HI, Sabattini P, Schrag D, Basch E
• Direct binding and regulation of RhoA protein by cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase Iα.
  The Journal of biological chemistry 2012 Kato M, Blanton R, Wang GR, Judson TJ, Abe Y, Myoishi M, Karas RH, Mendelsohn ME