Denise Davis • UCSF Profiles

Denise Davis, MD

Title(s)	Professor, Medicine
School	School of Medicine
Address	3333 California Street, #Medical San Francisco CA 94118
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Biography

Education and Training

University of Missouri-Kansas City six year combined BA/MD program	BA/MD	1981	School of Medicine
Kansas University Medical Center	Internship	1982	internal medicine
Kaiser Foundation Hospital San Francisco	Residency	1989	Internal Medicine
American Academy on Communication in Healthcare	Faculty Development Training	2010
University of California, San Francisco, CA		2017	Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training

Awards and Honors

UCSF	2021	Family and Community Medicine Excellence in Student Teaching Award
Academy on Communication in Healthcare	2021	Excellence in Teaching Award
UCSF	2020	Family and Community Medicine Excellence in Student Teaching Award
UCSF	2018	Martlin Luther King Leadership Award
UCSF	2017	Gold Headed Cane Society
San Francisco VA	2014	VA Superstar Award
UCSF	2013	Academy of Medical Educators Excellence in Teaching Award
University of Missouri-Kansas City	2013	Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society
	2008	Consumer Checkbook Top Doctor
African American Museum and Library, Oakland, CA	2007	Extraordinaire Award
UCSF	2005	Henry J. Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching

Overview

I serve as an Associate Director for Faculty Development in the Center of Excellence in Primary Care Education at the San Francisco VA where I teach workshops on health professions education including feedback conversations, mentoring, establishing a positive learning climate, clinical and teamwork communication.

My local and national education practice includes teaching and coaching health professions students, trainees, clinicians and educators in communication skills that increase quality, safety and improve patient experience. Additionally, I facilitate many team and departmental retreats that are interactive, engaging and community building.

Major presentations include:
"Navigating the Storm: Anger in Clinical Encounters"
"Being Seen, Heard and Respected in Dental Education"
"Culture Change: Feedback"
"Feedback and Professional Identity Formation"
"Reimaging Communication as a Procedure in Orthopedic Surgery"

Interests

Clinician-patient communication, feedback, professionalism, remediation, mentoring and coaching, patient centered care, medical education, faculty development, partnering with resistant learners, team building and group facilitation, skillful negotiation of cultural differences, empathy in the clinical setting, race and relationships in health care

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Peer Support Ambassadors: A Program to Advance a Supportive and Inclusive Clinical Learning Environment. Acad Med. 2024 Sep 12. Moore KA, Ureste P, Davis DL, Boscardin C, Thomas LR. PMID: 39265093.

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Edu Education
Student, Staff and Faculty Experience with a Medical School Racial and Sociopolitical Trauma Protocol: A Mixed Methods Study. Teach Learn Med. 2024 Jun 07; 1-13. Perez-Urbano I, Jowhar ZM, Williams JC, Collins SA, Davis D, Boscardin CK, Cowell T, Benton E, Hauer KE. PMID: 38847650.

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Med Medical Informatics Med Medicine (General)
The General Surgery Residency Experience: A Multicenter Study of Differences in Wellbeing by Race/Ethnicity. Ann Surg Open. 2022 Sep; 3(3):e187. Greenberg AL, Cevallos JR, Ojute FM, Davis DL, Greene WR, Lebares CC. PMID: 37601153; PMCID: PMC10431302.

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Student-Led Efforts to Advance Anti-Racist Medical Education. Acad Med. 2021 06 01; 96(6):802-807. Afolabi T, Borowsky HM, Cordero DM, Paul DW, Said JT, Sandoval RS, Davis D, Ölveczky D, Chatterjee A. PMID: 33711839.

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Edu Education
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Start the Way You Want to Finish: An Intensive Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Orientation Curriculum in Undergraduate Medical Education. J Med Educ Curric Dev. 2021 Jan-Dec; 8:23821205211000352. Davis DLF, Tran-Taylor D, Imbert E, Wong JO, Chou CL. PMID: 33796793; PMCID: PMC7975489.

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Dare to Look. Acad Med. 2020 10; 95(10):1491. Davis DL. PMID: 32675792.

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Edu Education
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Communication for Equity in the Service of Patient Experience: Health Justice and the COVID-19 Pandemic. J Patient Exp. 2020 Jun; 7(3):279-281. Cordero DM, Davis DL. PMID: 32821779; PMCID: PMC7410125.

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Implications of the current COVID-19 pandemic for communication in healthcare. Patient Educ Couns. 2020 06; 103(6):1067-1069. Rubinelli S, Myers K, Rosenbaum M, Davis D. PMID: 32451002; PMCID: PMC7243771.

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Nur Nursing
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The Bearable Lightness of Uncertainty. J Gen Intern Med. 2019 11; 34(11):2293-2294. Davis DLF, Chou CL. PMID: 31512186; PMCID: PMC6848632.

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Int Internal Medicine
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Twelve tips for responding to microaggressions and overt discrimination: When the patient offends the learner. Med Teach. 2019 10; 41(10):1112-1117. Wheeler DJ, Zapata J, Davis D, Chou C. PMID: 30277121.

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Edu Education
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Communication Rx. Culture and Diversity Chapter 14. 2017; 149-158. Denise L. Davis. .
Remediation in Medical Education. Chapter 15 "Feedback in Remediation". 2013. Calvin Chou, Adina Kalet.
Consider the personhood of women who experienced genital cutting. Mayo Clin Proc. 2013 Oct; 88(10):1180. Bergstrom AR, Nur F, Davis DL. PMID: 24079688.

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Med Medicine (General)
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Simple But Not Always Easy: Improving Doctor -Patient Communication. Journal of Communication In Healthcare. 2010; 3(December):240-245. Denise L. Davis. .