5. Vanessa Thompson

Vanessa Thompson, MD

Associate Director
Professor of Medicine; Division of General Internal Medicine
[email protected]

Vanessa Thompson, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and a primary care provider at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. She is a clinician-educator with medical education roles as a coach for the School of Medicine and an Associate Program Director for UCSF's Internal Medicine residency. Dr. Thompson is committed to diversity and equity and is a founder of the Women in Leadership Development (WILD) program for the Department of Medicine. She was inducted into the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators in 2020.

Interests: Coaching and mentoring; gender equity in medicine; primary care. Gardening, hiking, and parenting.

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Publications: 

Association of Gender and Race/Ethnicity with Internal Medicine In-Training Examination Performance in Graduate Medical Education.

Journal of general internal medicine

Klein R, Koch J, Snyder ED, Volerman A, Simon W, Jassal SK, Cosco D, Cioletti A, Ufere NN, Burnett-Bowie SM, Palamara K, Schaeffer S, Julian KA, Thompson V

Association Between Resident Race and Ethnicity and Clinical Performance Assessment Scores in Graduate Medical Education.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Klein R, Ufere NN, Schaeffer S, Julian KA, Rao SR, Koch J, Volerman A, Snyder ED, Thompson V, Ganguli I, Burnett-Bowie SM, Palamara K

Strategies for forming effective women's groups.

The clinical teacher

Santhosh L, Harleman E, Venado A, Farrand E, E Gilbreth M, Keenan BP, Thompson VV, Shah RJ

Identifying Entrustable Professional Activities for Internal Medicine Residents in Ambulatory Continuity Practice.

Journal of general internal medicine

Soran C, Laponis R, Summerville S, Thompson V, Eastburn A, O'Sullivan P, Julian KA

The Complex Problem of Women Trainees in Academic Medicine.

Journal of hospital medicine

Keenan B, Santhosh L, Thompson V, Harleman E

The Unbefriended Patient: An Exercise in Ethical Clinical Reasoning.

Journal of general internal medicine

Connor DM, Elkin GD, Lee K, Thompson V, Whelan H

Regional anthropometry changes in antiretroviral-naïve persons initiating a Zidovudine-containing regimen in Mbarara, Uganda.

AIDS research and human retroviruses

Thompson V, Medard B, Taseera K, Chakera AJ, Andia I, Emenyonu N, Hunt PW, Martin J, Scherzer R, Weiser SD, Bangsberg DR, Tien PC

Provider assessment of eligibility for hepatitis C treatment in HIV-infected homeless and marginally housed persons.

AIDS (London, England)

Thompson VV, Ragland KE, Hall CS, Morgan M, Bangsberg DR