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Michelle Mourad is Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine and an Associate Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. She divides her time between clinical, quality improvement and administrative roles.

Clinically, Michelle attends on both on the Medicine Teaching Service and on the Hospitalist Procedure Service, a hospitalist-based rotation for interns to gain mastery of procedure skills and knowledge. Administratively she serves as the Medical Director for Transitions in Care for UCSF Health and the Director Quality and Value Improvement Research for the Division of Hospital Medicine. As Director of Quality and Value Research for the Division, Michelle is responsible for implementing and evaluating innovative programs to improve the quality and value of care including areas such as patient satisfaction, patient sleep, resource utilization, and discharge safety. In her role as Director of Transitions in Care, she is responsible for improving the quality of patient transitions across the health system and reducing readmissions. Michelle is also co-Chair of the Medical Records Committee and Medical Director of Clinical Documentation Integrity, working to improve the quality and accuracy of documentation and coding.

Michelle received her BA in Chemistry from Williams College, and her MD from New York University. She completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at UCSF and completed fellowship in Hospital Medicine at UCSF prior to starting as faculty in 2009. She is the recipient of the Medicine Housestaff Teaching Award for excellence in teaching and mentoring and the Medical Student Excellence in Teaching Award.