New ZSFG Inpatient Site Director for the UCSF Internal Medicine Residency Program

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce David Chia, MD as the new Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Inpatient Site Director for the UCSF Internal Medicine Residency Program.

David is Assistant Professor in the ZSFG Division of Hospital Medicine where he has served as the Director of Clinical Innovations and Associate Director of the Faculty Inpatient Service. 

In the Site Director position, David will supervise all inpatient housestaff activities at ZSFG, act as a local advocate for housestaff, and be a direct liaison between the housestaff and the residency program faculty. 

David graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School and completed his residency training at the Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program. He subsequently joined the core faculty of the Yale School of Medicine. He was the firm chief of Waterbury Hospital with the Yale Primary Care Residency Program before becoming the Associate Program Director of Inpatient Education for the Yale-Waterbury Internal Medicine Residency Program and medical student site director for University of Connecticut and Quinnipiac University Schools of Medicine. His academic interests include quality improvement, curricular innovation, point-of-care ultrasound, and global health.

I thank Beth Harleman, MD for chairing the search committee and Drs. Carolyn Hendrickson, Matt Hickey, Brad Monash, Jennifer Olenik, Bin An Phan, Vanessa Thompson, Margaret Wheeler and Lisa Winston, as well as Melody McLaughlin, for serving on the search committee.  

Please join me in thanking Larissa Thomas, MD for her service as ZSFG Inpatient Site Director over the past several years and also in congratulating David Chia, MD and supporting his efforts in his new role.

Sincerely,

Neil

Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA
Chief of Medicine, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Constance B. Wofsy Distinguished Professor and Vice-Chair of Medicine, University of California San Francisco
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital