Cynthia Fenton, MD

Title(s)Professor, Medicine
SchoolSchool of Medicine
PronounsShe/Her/Hers
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    University of California, Los AngelesBS6/30/85Computer Science / Mathematics
    University of California, San DiegoMD6/30/89Medicine
    University of California, San Francisco6/30/92Internal Medicine Residency
    University of California, San Francisco6/30/93Chief Resident, Internal Medicine
    University of California, San Francisco, CA2019Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training
    University of California, San Francisco6/2023Thrombosis and Anticoagulation Training Program

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    Dr. Cynthia Fenton is a physician-hospitalist with advanced training in caring for patients with Thrombosis related conditions in Non-Malignant Hematology. She provides direct care for hospitalized patients, teaches medical students and residents on the Hospital Medicine wards, and provides care and consultation for patients with Thrombotic conditions in the Non-Malignant Hematology clinic. Dr. Fenton also works in informatics and collaborates with colleagues across UCSF Health on projects that require data extraction from the EHR, cleaning, analysis and visualization to answer key questions and provide insights to improve clinical care of patients.

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    1. Physical function as assessed by the Liver Frailty Index remains stable over time in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma treated with locoregional therapies. Clin Transl Gastroenterol. 2025 May 06. Hu MD, Chiou SH, Delk M, Fenton C, Lai JC, Li M. PMID: 40326682.
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    2. Cannabis and liver transplant in the era of legalization: Effects of pretransplant cannabis use on postoperative opioid use and transplant outcomes. Liver Transpl. 2025 Feb 21. Runge A, Loeb B, Shui AM, Fenton C, Lai J, Rubin J. PMID: 39976576.
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    3. The Effect of Low-Dose Aspirin on Disease Activity in Pregnant Individuals With Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Am J Gastroenterol. 2025 Jan 07. Memel Z, Yu A, Fenton C, Wen T, Irani RA, Zhang L, Mahadevan U. PMID: 39773571.
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    4. Clinical Sentiment Analysis by Large Language Models Enhances the Prediction of Hepatorenal Syndrome in Decompensated Cirrhosis. medRxiv. 2024 Nov 13. Lai M, Fenton C, Rubin J, Huang CY, Pletcher M, Lai JC, Cullaro G, Ge J. PMID: 39606343; PMCID: PMC11601740.
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    5. Inflammatory Bowel Disease and the Risk of Anal Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions and Anal Cancer in Men Who Have Sex With Men. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2024 10 03; 30(10):1796-1800. Field J, Fenton C, Zhang L, Brickman C, Mahadevan U. PMID: 37951596.
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    6. Differences in Health Care and Palliative Care Use at the End of Life: A Comparison Study Among Lung Cancer, COPD, and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Chest. 2024 Dec; 166(6):1487-1496. Suen AO, Bischoff K, Iyer AS, Radhakrishnan K, Fenton C, Singer JP, Sudore RL, Kotwal A, Farrand E. PMID: 39186972; PMCID: PMC11745200.
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    7. The type, duration, and severity of pretransplant kidney injury predict prolonged kidney dysfunction after liver transplantation. Liver Transpl. 2024 Nov 01; 30(11):1159-1168. Dixon W, Feng S, Roll GR, Tavakol M, Fenton C, Cullaro G. PMID: 38982612.
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    8. The burden of significant pain in the cirrhosis population: Risk factors, analgesic use, and impact on health care utilization and clinical outcomes. Hepatol Commun. 2024 06 01; 8(6). Rubin JB, Loeb R, Fenton C, Huang CY, Keyhani S, Seal KH, Lai JC. PMID: 38780295; PMCID: PMC11124725.
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    9. Outpatient mean arterial pressure: A potentially modifiable risk for acute kidney injury and death among patients with cirrhosis. Liver Transpl. 2024 Jul 01; 30(7):679-688. Cullaro G, Chiou SH, Fenton C, Ge J, McCulloch CE, Rubin J, Shui AM, Yao F, Lai JC. PMID: 38535488; PMCID: PMC11792088.
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    10. The association between mean arterial pressure and acute kidney injury reversal among patients with decompensated cirrhosis. Hepatology. 2025 Jan 01; 81(1):126-135. Cullaro G, Allegretti AS, Fenton C, Ge J, Patidar KR, Rubin J, Sharma A, Lai JC. PMID: 38537129; PMCID: PMC11427603.
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    11. 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.
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    12. Nonselective beta-blockers may lead to stage 2 acute kidney injury and waitlist mortality in child class C cirrhosis. Hepatol Commun. 2023 10 01; 7(10). Lai M, Fenton C, Ge J, Rubin J, Lai JC, Cullaro G. PMID: 37756037; PMCID: PMC10531476.
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    13. Predicting post-liver transplant outcomes in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure using Expert-Augmented Machine Learning. Am J Transplant. 2023 12; 23(12):1908-1921. Ge J, Digitale JC, Fenton C, McCulloch CE, Lai JC, Pletcher MJ, Gennatas ED. PMID: 37652176; PMCID: PMC11018271.
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    14. 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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    15. Relation of statin nonadherence and treatment intensification. Am J Cardiol. 2012 Nov 15; 110(10):1459-63. Pittman DG, Fenton C, Chen W, Haffner S, Pendergrass M. PMID: 22877424.
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    16. Exenatide and sitagliptin are not associated with increased risk of acute renal failure: a retrospective claims analysis. Diabetes Obes Metab. 2012 Jul; 14(7):596-600. Pendergrass M, Fenton C, Haffner SM, Chen W. PMID: 22268550.
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    17. A strategy to standardize the learning of core clerkship objectives. Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. 2003; 8(3):213-21. Hauer KE, Teherani A, Wiese J, Fenton CL. PMID: 14574046.
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    18. Intersessions: covering the bases in the clinical year. Acad Med. 2002 Nov; 77(11):1159. Fenton C, Loeser H, Cooke M. PMID: 12431936.
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    19. A retreat for first-year medicine fellows. Acad Med. 2002 May; 77(5):466-7. Johnston B, Fenton C, Jain S. PMID: 12010726.
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