Timothy Judson, MD, MPH

Title(s)Associate Professor, Medicine
SchoolSchool of Medicine
Address521 Parnassus Avenue, #001
San Francisco CA 94117
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    Cornell UniversityMD2015Weill Cornell Medical College
    Tufts UniversityMPH2011Tufts University School of Medicine
    University of California, San Francisco, CA2019Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training

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    Timothy Judson, MD, MPH

    Dr. Timothy Judson serves as the interim Chief Population Health Officer for UCSF Health. Dr. Judson is a hospital medicine and urgent care physician, clinical informaticist, and accomplished health system leader in population health and digital health. He is also the Chief Clinical & Innovation Officer at UCSF-affiliated Canopy Health, where he oversees quality and value of care for over 40,000 Canopy Health members. He previously served as Medical Director of Care Delivery Transformation in the Office of Population Health, and Medical co-Director of Adult Care Transitions for UCSF Health. In these capacities, he has been instrumental in developing the infrastructure for robust population health programs and safe patient discharges. Dr. Judson has played a pivotal role in advancing digital health at UCSF, leading the development and implementation of several prominent digital health tools, including the patient-facing COVID-19 Symptom Checker, and the employee-facing COVID Daily Health Screener.

    Dr. Judson received his medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College and his master’s degree in public health from the Tufts University School of Medicine. He joined UCSF for internal medicine residency and was chief resident at Parnassus. Dr. Judson is passionate about rigorously studying and evaluating population health and digital health programs and has authored over 30 peer-reviewed articles in JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, BMJ, JAMIA, JGIM, JHM, and others.

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    1. Addressing Inpatient Hyponatremia Through Targeted Automatic E-consults: A Pilot Randomized Trial. J Gen Intern Med. 2025 May; 40(7):1576-1583. Judson TJ, Lo L, Demko JE, Mourad M, Liu KD, Wachter RM, Lopez I, Tummalapalli SL. PMID: 39438379; PMCID: PMC12052722.
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    2. Accuracy of Patient-Collected Vital Signs. Telemed J E Health. 2024 Nov; 30(11):2747-2751. Metlay JP, Gonzales R, Judson TJ, Chang Y, Margolin J, Oza S, Parry BA, Tagerman MD, Hayden E. PMID: 39149809.
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    3. Hospitalists outside the hospital: Preparing for new settings of care delivery. J Hosp Med. 2024 Jun; 19(6):535-538. Judson TJ, Longhurst CA, Horman SF. PMID: 38439179.
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    4. Finding the time: Hourly variation in average daily census on a hospital medicine service. J Hosp Med. 2024 02; 19(2):108-111. Pierce L, Judson TJ, Mourad M. PMID: 37926952.
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    5. Association of protective behaviors with SARS-CoV-2 infection: results from a longitudinal cohort study of adults in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ann Epidemiol. 2023 10; 86:1-7. Judson TJ, Zhang S, Lindan CP, Boothroyd D, Grumbach K, Bollyky JB, Sample HA, Huang B, Desai M, Gonzales R, Maldonado Y, Rutherford G, TrackCOVID Consortium. PMID: 37524216.
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    6. Impact of an automated peri-procedural digital health intervention on rates of emergency department visits and readmissions. Am J Surg. 2023 11; 226(5):598-602. Liu AW, Pierce L, Ganeshan S, Brown W, Judson T, Divakaran D, Bini S, Odisho AY, Mourad M. PMID: 37604749.
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    7. Patient Perceptions of e-Visits: Qualitative Study of Older Adults to Inform Health System Implementation. JMIR Aging. 2023 May 26; 6:e45641. Judson TJ, Subash M, Harrison JD, Yeager J, Williams AM, Grouse CK, Byron M. PMID: 37234031; PMCID: PMC10257108.
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    8. Impact of patient portal-based self-scheduling of diagnostic imaging studies on health disparities. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2022 11 14; 29(12):2096-2100. Ganeshan S, Pierce L, Mourad M, Judson TJ, Kohli MD, Odisho AY, Brown W. PMID: 36063414; PMCID: PMC9667186.
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    9. Utilization patterns and efficiency gains from use of a fully EHR-integrated COVID-19 self-triage and self-scheduling tool: a retrospective analysis. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2022 11 14; 29(12):2066-2074. Judson TJ, Pierce L, Tutman A, Mourad M, Neinstein AB, Shuler G, Gonzales R, Odisho AY. PMID: 36029243; PMCID: PMC9667153.
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    10. Patient Experience and Feedback After Using an Electronic Health Record-Integrated COVID-19 Symptom Checker: Survey Study. JMIR Hum Factors. 2022 Sep 13; 9(3):e40064. Liu AW, Odisho AY, Brown Iii W, Gonzales R, Neinstein AB, Judson TJ. PMID: 35960593; PMCID: PMC9472505.
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    11. Race-ethnicity and COVID-19 Vaccination Beliefs and Intentions: A Cross-Sectional Study among the General Population in the San Francisco Bay Area. Vaccines (Basel). 2021 Nov 29; 9(12). Weng Y, Lu D, Bollyky J, Jain V, Desai M, Lindan C, Boothroyd D, Judson T, Doernberg SB, Holubar M, Sample H, Huang B, Maldonado Y, Rutherford GW, Grumbach K. PMID: 34960152; PMCID: PMC8705240.
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    12. Design of a population-based longitudinal cohort study of SARS-CoV-2 incidence and prevalence among adults in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ann Epidemiol. 2022 03; 67:81-100. Lindan CP, Desai M, Boothroyd D, Judson T, Bollyky J, Sample H, Weng Y, Cheng Y, Dahlen A, Hedlin H, Grumbach K, Henne J, Garcia S, Gonzales R, Craik CS, Rutherford G, Maldonado Y. PMID: 34800659; PMCID: PMC8596645.
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    13. Building a Targeted Automatic e-Consult (TACo) Program. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2022 Feb; 48(2):114-119. Judson TJ, Mourad M, Wachter RM. PMID: 34933816.
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    14. Association of Race/Ethnicity With Likeliness of COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among Health Workers and the General Population in the San Francisco Bay Area. JAMA Intern Med. 2021 07 01; 181(7):1008-1011. Grumbach K, Judson T, Desai M, Jain V, Lindan C, Doernberg SB, Holubar M. PMID: 33783471; PMCID: PMC8010643.
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    15. Reimagining the inpatient palliative care consult: lessons from COVID-19. Am J Manag Care. 2021 07 01; 27(7):e215-e217. Ganeshan S, Humphreys J, Judson T. PMID: 34314120.
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    16. Patient Portal Reminders-Easy but Ineffective. JAMA Intern Med. 2020 07 01; 180(7):971-972. Judson T, Gonzales R. PMID: 32421140.
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    17. Implementation of a digital chatbot to screen health system employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2020 07 01; 27(9):1450-1455. Judson TJ, Odisho AY, Young JJ, Bigazzi O, Steuer D, Gonzales R, Neinstein AB. PMID: 32531066; PMCID: PMC7313990.
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    18. Rapid design and implementation of an integrated patient self-triage and self-scheduling tool for COVID-19. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2020 06 01; 27(6):860-866. Judson TJ, Odisho AY, Neinstein AB, Chao J, Williams A, Miller C, Moriarty T, Gleason N, Intinarelli G, Gonzales R. PMID: 32267928; PMCID: PMC7184478.
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    19. The Decline of Comprehensiveness and the Path to Restoring It. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 05; 35(5):1582-1583. Judson TJ, Press MJ, Detsky AS. PMID: 31650400; PMCID: PMC7210327.
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    20. Reimagining Specialty Consultation in the Digital Age: The Potential Role of Targeted Automatic Electronic Consultations. JAMA. 2019 Aug 06; 322(5):399-400. Wachter RM, Judson TJ, Mourad M. PMID: 31246233.
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    21. Evaluation of technologies approved for supplemental payments in the United States. BMJ. 2019 06 17; 365:l2190. Judson TJ, Dhruva SS, Redberg RF. PMID: 31209124; PMCID: PMC6890455.
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    22. Saving without compromising: Teaching trainees to safely provide high value care. Healthc (Amst). 2019 Mar; 7(1):4-6. Judson TJ, Press MJ, Detsky AS. PMID: 29891443.
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    23. The Troponin Cascade: A Teachable Moment. JAMA Intern Med. 2017 08 01; 177(8):1193-1194. Judson TJ, Beach LY, Soni K. PMID: 28558102.
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    24. Consequences of Influencing Physician Behavior--Reply. JAMA. 2016 Jun 07; 315(21):2351. Judson TJ, Volpp KG, Detsky AS. PMID: 27272596.
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    25. Minocycline-induced Hyperpigmentation. J Gen Intern Med. 2017 01; 32(1):133. Judson T, Mihara K. PMID: 27173498; PMCID: PMC5215144.
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    26. Harnessing the Right Combination of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation to Change Physician Behavior. JAMA. 2015 Dec 01; 314(21):2233-4. Judson TJ, Volpp KG, Detsky AS. PMID: 26624821.
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    27. Attaining Financial Fluency among Physicians: Start with the Students. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2015 Nov; 26(4):1401-6. Judson TJ, Detsky AS, Charney P. PMID: 26548687.
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    28. Medical identity theft: prevention and reconciliation initiatives at Massachusetts General Hospital. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2014 Jul; 40(7):291-5. Judson T, Haas M, Lagu T. PMID: 25130011.
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    29. A piece of my mind. Filling buckets. JAMA. 2014 May 14; 311(18):1859-60. Press MJ, Judson TJ, Detsky AS. PMID: 24825639.
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    30. Miscount incidents: a novel approach to exploring risk factors for unintentionally retained surgical items. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2013 Oct; 39(10):468-74. Judson TJ, Howell MD, Guglielmi C, Canacari E, Sands K. PMID: 24195200.
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    31. Encouraging patients to ask questions: how to overcome "white-coat silence". JAMA. 2013 Jun 12; 309(22):2325-6. Judson TJ, Detsky AS, Press MJ. PMID: 23757079.
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    32. Feasibility of long-term patient self-reporting of toxicities from home via the Internet during routine chemotherapy. J Clin Oncol. 2013 Jul 10; 31(20):2580-5. Judson TJ, Bennett AV, Rogak LJ, Sit L, Barz A, Kris MG, Hudis CA, Scher HI, Sabattini P, Schrag D, Basch E. PMID: 23733753; PMCID: PMC3699724.
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    33. Direct binding and regulation of RhoA protein by cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase Iα. J Biol Chem. 2012 Nov 30; 287(49):41342-51. Kato M, Blanton R, Wang GR, Judson TJ, Abe Y, Myoishi M, Karas RH, Mendelsohn ME. PMID: 23066013; PMCID: PMC3510832.
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