Armond Esmaili, MD

Title(s)Associate Professor, Medicine
SchoolSchool of Medicine
Phone415-476-1528
ORCID ORCID Icon0000-0002-4331-2165 Additional info
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    University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco VA Medical CenterChief Residency2019Internal Medicine
    University of Calfornia, San FranciscoResidency2018Internal Medicine
    University of California, San FranciscoInternship2016Internal Medicine
    Georgetown University School of MedicineM.D.2015
    Georgetown UniversityB.Sc.2011Human Science
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    UCSF Health2023 Exceptional Physician Award Winner
    UCSF Health, Center for Healthcare Value2022Caring Wisely Project Award Winner
    UCSF Health2022Hospital Medicine Peer Mentoring Award
    UCSF Health2022Exceptional Physician Award, Honorable Mention
    UCSF Health, Center for Healthcare Value2020Research & Policy Award Winner
    UCSF Health2020Exceptional Physician Award, Honorable Mention
    Georgetown University School of Medicine2014Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
    Georgetown University School of Medicine2014Gold Humanism Honor Society
    Georgetown University2012Rhodes Scholarship National Finalist
    Georgetown University2011Valedictorian and Summa Cum Laude
    Georgetown University2009Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society

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    Armond M. Esmaili, MD is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine (DHM). He is the Director of Quality and Safety for the Department of Neurological Surgery. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and divides his time between patient care, hospital operations leadership, quality improvement work, and medical education.

    As a hospitalist, Armond directly cares for patients on the inpatient wards and also supervises teams of resident physicians and medical students. He also cares for patients at UCSF's affiliated skilled nursing facility (the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living) for the Division of Geriatrics. As the Director of Quality and Safety for Neurological Surgery, he leads and oversees the Department's enterprise that continuously improves the quality, safety, and value of care for patients with neurosurgical disorders. He also serves on the system-wide Quality, Safety and Experience Committee (QSEC), reporting directly to UCSF Health's governing board. He has scholarly interests and experience in patient safety, care transitions for hospitalized patients, care delivery innovation, patient communication, and health systems leadership.

    Armond received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University where he majored in Human Science, graduated as Valedictorian, and was a Rhodes Scholarship national finalist. He 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. Armond joined UCSF’s Division of Hospital Medicine as faculty in 2019.
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    Assessing the Impact of 'Physically-Distanced' Care in the Hospital on Healthcare Value for Hospitalized, Acute Care-Level Patients with COVID-19
    The Center for Healthcare Value (CHV), UCSF Oct 1, 2020 - Jun 30, 2021
    Role: Project Lead
    Description: This project aims to assess the impact of 'physically-distanced' care on healthcare value for hospitalized, acute care-level patients with COVID-19. We will quantitively measure changes in health care value (quality and safety, patient and provider experience, cost) for COVID-19 patients associated with physically-distanced care. We hope our analysis will inform policies regarding the care of COVID-19 patients (e.g. in-person consultation, imaging/procedure availability) and guide best-practices for inpatient telemedicine.

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    1. Timing of antibiotic treatment identifies distinct clinical presentations among patients presenting with suspected septic shock. J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open. 2024 Apr; 5(2):e13149. Prasad PA, Esmaili AM, Oreper S, Beagle AJ, Hubbard C, Raffel KE, Abe-Jones Y, Fang MC, Liu KD, Matthay MA, Kangelaris KN. PMID: 38596320; PMCID: PMC11002635.
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    2. Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Adults Who Died or Were Transferred to Intensive Care. JAMA Intern Med. 2024 02 01; 184(2):164-173. Auerbach AD, Lee TM, Hubbard CC, Ranji SR, Raffel K, Valdes G, Boscardin J, Dalal AK, Harris A, Flynn E, Schnipper JL, UPSIDE Research Group. PMID: 38190122; PMCID: PMC10775080.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 4     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    3. Prevalence and Causes of Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Patients Under Investigation for COVID-19. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 06; 38(8):1902-1910. Auerbach AD, Astik GJ, O'Leary KJ, Barish PN, Kantor MA, Raffel KR, Ranji SR, Mueller SK, Burney SN, Galinsky J, Gershanik EF, Goyal A, Chitneni PR, Rastegar S, Esmaili AM, Fenton C, Virapongse A, Ngov LK, Burden M, Keniston A, Patel H, Gupta AB, Rohde J, Marr R, Greysen SR, Fang M, Shah P, Mao F, Kaiksow F, Sterken D, Choi JJ, Contractor J, Karwa A, Chia D, Lee T, Hubbard CC, Maselli J, Dalal AK, Schnipper JL. PMID: 36952085; PMCID: PMC10035474.
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    4. Tracheal aspirate RNA sequencing identifies distinct immunological features of COVID-19 ARDS. Nat Commun. 2021 08 26; 12(1):5152. Sarma A, Christenson SA, Byrne A, Mick E, Pisco AO, DeVoe C, Deiss T, Ghale R, Zha BS, Tsitsiklis A, Jauregui A, Moazed F, Detweiler AM, Spottiswoode N, Sinha P, Neff N, Tan M, Serpa PH, Willmore A, Ansel KM, Wilson JG, Leligdowicz A, Siegel ER, Sirota M, DeRisi JL, Matthay MA, COMET Consortium, Hendrickson CM, Kangelaris KN, Krummel MF, Woodruff PG, Erle DJ, Calfee CS, Langelier CR. PMID: 34446707; PMCID: PMC8390461.
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    5. Discharge Practices for COVID-19 Patients: Rapid Review of Published Guidance and Synthesis of Documents and Practices at 22 US Academic Medical Centers. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 06; 36(6):1715-1721. Greysen SR, Auerbach AD, Mitchell MD, Goldstein JN, Weiss R, Esmaili A, Kuye I, Manjarrez E, Bann M, Schnipper JL, HOMERuN collaborative working group. PMID: 33835314; PMCID: PMC8034037.
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    6. The Importance of Emotional Intelligence When Leading in a Time of Crisis. J Hosp Med. 2020 09; 15(9):568-569. Kantor MA, Apgar SK, Esmaili AM, Khan A, Monash B, Sharpe BA. PMID: 32853143.
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    7. Prevalence and characterisation of diagnostic error among 7-day all-cause hospital medicine readmissions: a retrospective cohort study. BMJ Qual Saf. 2020 12; 29(12):971-979. Raffel KE, Kantor MA, Barish P, Esmaili A, Lim H, Xue F, Ranji SR. PMID: 32753409.
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    8. Collaborative Delirium Prevention in the Age of COVID-19. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 05; 68(5):947-949. LaHue SC, James TC, Newman JC, Esmaili AM, Ormseth CH, Ely EW. PMID: 32277467; PMCID: PMC7262233.
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    9. Understanding the Singapore COVID-19 Experience: Implications for Hospital Medicine. J Hosp Med. 2020 05; 15(5):281-283. Vidyarthi AR, Bagdasarian N, Esmaili AM, Archuleta S, Monash B, Sehgal NL, Green A, Lim A. PMID: 32379029.
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    10. in: Taylor AJ (ed.), Learning cardiac auscultation: from essentials to expert clinical interpretation. Aortic sclerosis. 2015. Esmaili AM, Christian RA, Pfaff AC. View Publication.
    11. Regulation of the ATM-activator protein Aven by CRM1-dependent nuclear export. Cell Cycle. 2010 Oct 01; 9(19):3913-20. Esmaili AM, Johnson EL, Thaivalappil SS, Kuhn HM, Kornbluth S, Irusta PM. PMID: 20935510.
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