Michelle Mourad is Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine and a Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. As a respected leader and educator, her work is focused on improving care for hospitalized patients and strengthening systems across the care continuum.

Clinically, Dr. Mourad attends on both the Medicine Teaching Service and the Goldman Service. Her interests in quality improvement and operations are broad and encompass the areas of transitions in care, throughput, patient and provider satisfaction, reducing costs of care, and using informatics to improve care delivery.

In her role as Vice Chair, Dr. Mourad is responsible for overseeing performance improvement and clinical strategy in all these areas across the continuum of care. In addition to her improvement work, Michelle has published extensively in the areas of quality, safety, and value.

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.