Armond M. Esmaili, MD is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and the Assistant Director of the Goldman Medical Service in the Division of Hospital Medicine at UCSF Health. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and divides his time between patient care, medical education, and hospital administration.

Armond joined UCSF’s Division of Hospital Medicine as faculty in 2019. As a hospitalist, he cares for patients on the inpatient wards, supervises teams of resident physicians and medical students, and provides general medical consultation to specialty services at UCSF’s Parnassus Heights and Mission Bay campuses. In his role as the Assistant Director of the Goldman Medical Service, he helps lead and oversee the clinical operations and system improvement efforts of the Division’s direct care hospitalist service. He has scholarly interests and experience in patient safety, transitions of care for hospitalized patients, improving diagnostic reasoning, and health systems leadership.

Armond received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University where he majored in Human Science and earned his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine where he was a Health Justice Scholar. He completed his medical internship and residency in Internal Medicine at UCSF with additional training in quality improvement and health policy in the residency’s Health Systems and Leadership pathway. He then served as UCSF Chief Resident at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.