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Christopher Moriates is a Clinical Instructor in the Division of Hospital Medicine. He received his Medical Degree from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

During residency training he co-designed and implemented a successful cost awareness curriculum for Internal Medicine residents, which has been highlighted in multiple publications including the New England Journal of Medicine. He is currently the Co-Chair of the UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine’s High-Value Care committee and a member of the UCSF Center for Healthcare Value. He actively participates on the American College of Physicians’ (ACP) national High-Value, Cost-Conscious Care Curriculum committee. He is currently writing a book, with Dr. Vineet Arora (University of Chicago) and Dr. Neel Shah (Harvard), for Lange/McGraw-Hill entitled “Understanding Value-Based Healthcare.”

He also is an Associate Editor for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Patient Safety Network (psnet.ahrq.gov).

Clinically, Chris is an attending physician on the teaching and non-teaching medicine services, the hospitalist procedures and quality improvement service, and the medicine consultation service.