Lekshmi Santhosh * UCSF Profiles

Lekshmi Santhosh, MD

Title(s)	Assistant Professor, Medicine
School	School of Medicine
Phone	415-476-0630
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Biography

Education and Training

Yale University, New Haven, CT	BA	2007	Psychology/Behavioral Neuroscience
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA	MD	2011	Medicine
University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA	MAEd	2019	Education
University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA		2014	Internal Medicine Residency
University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA		2015	Chief Residency
University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA		2018	Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship

Awards and Honors

CHEST/ACCP	2018		CHEST/ACCP Early Career Professional Development Scholarship Award
UCSF	2018		UCSF School of Medicine Pathways to Discovery 2017-2018 Long-Term Mentor Award
UCSF	2016 -	2017	Best Clinical Fellow Award, Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine (2-time winner)
Association of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Program Directors	2017		Research in Medical Education Award
Western Group on Educational Affairs (WGEA/AAMC)	2017		Best Oral Research Presentation Award
UCSF	2016		UCSF Excellence and Innovation in Graduate Medical Education Award
UCSF	2016		Teaching Excellence Award for Cherished House Staff (T.E.A.C.H.) Winner
Yale University	2007		Edward A. Bouchet Fellowship for Undergraduate Research

Overview

CLINICAL ACTIVITIES
Lekshmi Santhosh specializes in pulmonary and critical care medicine with a focus on medical education. She attends in the Medical ICU, the Neuro ICU, and on the Internal Medicine teaching wards, and has clinic in the Pulmonary Outpatient Faculty Practice at UCSF-Parnassus.

EDUCATIONAL & RESEARCH PURSUITS
She serves as the Associate Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship. She recently obtained her Master's in Health Professions Education from UC-Berkeley. She gives clinical lectures to students, residents and fellows as well as interprofessional team members. Her primary interests in medical educational research are related to ICU transitions of care, women in leadership development, clinical reasoning, and subspecialty education career choice.

Interests

medical education, subspecialty education, clinical teaching, transitions of care, leadership development, women in medicine, palliative care in critical care, clinical reasoning, general pulmonary medicine, critical care education

Research

Research Activities and Funding

Improving ICU-to-Ward Patient Safety Through Design Thinking & Documentation Evaluation
APCCMPD, CHEST, and ATS Jul 1, 2019 - Jul 1, 2020
Role: Principal Investigator
Role Description: This grant builds on our work published in BMJ Quality & Safety looking in-depth at structured communication at the time of the ICU-to-ward transition of care.

Evaluation of the Expansion of ICU Responsibilities in an Open ICU System and Its Implications on Patient Care & Education
Nina Ireland Program in Lung Health Jul 1, 2019 - Jul 1, 2020
Role: Principal Investigator
Role Description: This project explores the educational and patient care implications of a change in responsibilities between ICU & hospitalist teams.

Women In Leadership Development (WILD) Series: A Longitudinal GME-Wide Program for Women Trainee Leadership Development
UCSF Academy of Medical Educators Innovations Grant for Medical EducationJul 1, 2018 - Jul 1, 2019
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Role Description: This grant enables the expansion of our previous 1-day WILD symposium into a longitudinal curriculum for residents and fellows across UCSF GME. Through a mixture of innovative hands-on workshop material, women trainees will obtain concrete leadership skills on a variety of topics, including negotiation, microaggressions, work-life integration, allyship, CV optimization, and more.

IPASS-ICU: A Structured Communication Framework for ICU Transitions of Care
UCSF Academy of Medical Educators Innovations Grant for Medical EducationJul 1, 2017 - Jul 1, 2018
Role: Principal Investigator
Role Description: In this project, I collaborated with colleagues at Washington University of St. Louis and University of Chicago to further explore the structure, process, and outcomes of ICU-ward transitions of care across multiple sites. We used both quantitative and qualitative methods to further explore this topic.

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Publications

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Zejnullahu K, Santhosh L, Mourad M, Connor DM. Off Trail, On Track: an Exercise in Clinical Reasoning. J Gen Intern Med. 2019 Jul 03. PMID: 31270781.

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Santhosh L, Abdoler E, Babik JM. Strategies to build a clinician-educator career. Clin Teach. 2019 Mar 11. PMID: 30859740.

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Santhosh L, Chou CL, Connor DM. Diagnostic uncertainty: from education to communication. Diagnosis (Berl). 2019 Mar 09. PMID: 30851157.

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Keenan B, Santhosh L, Thompson V, Harleman E. The Complex Problem of Women Trainees in Academic Medicine. J Hosp Med. 2019 Mar; 14(3):186-188. PMID: 30811328.

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Jamil S, Carlos WG, Leard L, Wang A, Santhosh L, Balmes J, Seam N, Dela Cruz CS. Wildfires Disaster Guidance: Tips for Staying Healthy during Wildfires. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2019 Jan 15; 199(2):P3-P4. PMID: 30644780.

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Santhosh L, Lyons PG, Rojas JC, Ciesielski TM, Beach S, Farnan JM, Arora V. Characterising ICU-ward handoffs at three academic medical centres: process and perceptions. BMJ Qual Saf. 2019 Jan 12. PMID: 30636201.

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Zapata CB, Santhosh L. We May Not "Have It All," But We Can Make It Better through Structural Changes. J Hosp Med. 2018 Dec; 13(12):877-878. PMID: 30496331.

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Santhosh L, Raffel K, Ranji SR. Diving Into Diagnostic Uncertainty: Strategies to Mitigate Cognitive Load: In Reference to: "Focused Ethnography of Diagnosis in Academic Medical Centers". J Hosp Med. 2018 Nov; 13(11):804. PMID: 30484782.

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Santhosh L, Brown W, Ferreira J, Niroula A, Carlos WG. Practical Tips for ICU Bedside Teaching. Chest. 2018 Oct; 154(4):760-765. PMID: 30290929.

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Santhosh L, Koth L, Baudendistel TE, Sharpe B, Monash B. Tissue Isn't the Issue. J Hosp Med. 2018 07 01; 13(7):500-504. PMID: 29694457.

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Santhosh L, Babik J, Looney MR, Hollander H. Whither the Pulmonary Ward Attending? Preserving Subspecialty Exposure in United States Internal Medicine Residency Training. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2017 Apr; 14(4):565-568. PMID: 28362539.

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Santhosh L, Jain S, Brady A, Sharp M, Carlos WG. Intensive Care Unit Educators: A Multicenter Evaluation of Behaviors Residents Value in Attending Physicians. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2017 Apr; 14(4):513-516. PMID: 28287827.

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Santhosh L, Meriwether M, Saucedo C, Reyes R, Cheng C, Clark B, Tipperman D, Schroeder SA. From the sidelines to the frontline: how the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration embraced smoking cessation. Am J Public Health. 2014 May; 104(5):796-802. PMID: 24625143; PMCID: PMC3987593.

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Santhosh L, Estok KM, Vogel RS, Tamagnan GD, Baldwin RM, Mitsis EM, Macavoy MG, Staley JK, van Dyck CH. Regional distribution and behavioral correlates of 5-HT(2A) receptors in Alzheimer's disease with [(18)F]deuteroaltanserin and PET. Psychiatry Res. 2009 Sep 30; 173(3):212-7. PMID: 19682865.

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Klein AP, Kovac I, Sorant AJ, Baffoe-Bonnie A, Doan BQ, Ibay G, Lockwood E, Mandal D, Santhosh L, Weissbecker K, Woo J, Zambelli-Weiner A, Zhang J, Naiman DQ, Malley J, Bailey-Wilson JE. Importance sampling method of correction for multiple testing in affected sib-pair linkage analysis. BMC Genet. 2003 Dec 31; 4 Suppl 1:S73. PMID: 14975141; PMCID: PMC1866512.

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