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Josue Zapata, MD, MBA
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Biography
| New York University | B.A. | College of Arts and Sciences |
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| Harvard Medical School | M.D. | |
| Harvard Business School | M.B.A. | |
| University of California, San Francisco | Residency | Internal Medicine |
| University of California, San Francisco | Chief Residency | Internal Medicine |
| University of California | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training | |
| City College of San Francisco | Certificate | Latin American/Latino/a Studies |
| New York University | 2003 | Presidential Honors Scholar |
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| Harvard Medical School | 2009 | Linnane Scholarship for Academic Achievement |
| Harvard Medical School | 2010 | Aesculapian Club |
| UCSF Dept. of Medicine | 2014 | Chief Resident |
| UCSF | 2016 | Cooke Award for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning |
| UCSF | 2018 | Excellence in Teaching Award, Academy of Medical Educators |
| UCSF School of Medicine | 2019 | Excellence in Teaching Award for Clinical Faculty c/o 2019 |
| UCSF School of Medicine | 2020 | Maxine Papadakis Award for Faculty Professionalism and Respect |
| UCSF | 2020 | Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators |
Overview
Josué Zapata is the Deputy Chief of the Medical Service at the San Francisco VA Health Care System, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, and the Assistant Chair for Leadership Development for the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Josué received his BA from New York University, where he was a Presidential Honors Scholar. He subsequently earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He completed his residency training in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and also served as Chief Resident.
Josué specializes in Hospital Medicine at the San Francisco VA where he also leads the Peer Review Committee and is a member of the Medical Executive Committee. Prior to his current roles, Dr. Zapata served as the Associate Chief of Staff for Quality, Safety, and Value at the SFVAHCS, spent nine years as a medical student coach at UCSF, and was an executive board member of the Bay Area Chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine.
Josué's scholarly interests include developing leaders in academic medicine, quality and value improvement, medical education and professional development of trainees, and supporting diversity in healthcare. He is excited about improving the practice of medicine and optimizing patient outcomes through leadership training, healthcare administration, and systems improvement.
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- Reducing hospital admission delay times using a structured, systematic, multi-disciplinary approach. J Hosp Med. 2025 Jul; 20(7):795-799. Baskin N, Javaherian K, Zapata J, Litwin R, Wray CM. PMID: 40235141.
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Translation:Humans - Leadership & professional development: Strategies to disagree productively: Persuasive DISNT. J Hosp Med. 2025 Mar; 20(3):271-272. Zapata J, Raffel K. PMID: 39526548.
View in: PubMed Mentions: Fields: - Fracture Blisters. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 08; 37(11):2866. Zapata J, Price E, Wlodarczyk S. PMID: 35419743; PMCID: PMC9411323.
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Translation:Humans - Bridging medical education goals and health system outcomes: An instrumental case study of pre-clerkship students' improvement projects. Perspect Med Educ. 2022 08; 11(4):179-186. O'Brien BC, Zapata J, Chang A, Pierluissi E. PMID: 35394613; PMCID: PMC9391531.
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Translation:Humans - Leadership & Professional Development: Make the Most of Your Oranges. J Hosp Med. 2020 01; 15(1):46. Zapata J, Chou C. PMID: 31869301.
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Translation:Humans - 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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Translation:Humans - Uremic Frost. Mayo Clin Proc. 2018 10; 93(10):1535. Wlodarczyk S, Zapata JA. PMID: 30286839.
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Translation:Humans - Atypical Pressure Ulcer as Cellulitis Mimic. J Gen Intern Med. 2018 10; 33(10):1816. Le NB, Zapata J. PMID: 29992424; PMCID: PMC6153246.
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Translation:Humans - Is Excessive Resource Utilization an Adverse Event? JAMA. 2017 Feb 28; 317(8):849-850. Zapata JA, Lai AR, Moriates C. PMID: 28245327.
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Translation:Humans - Partial Codes-A Symptom of a Larger Problem. JAMA Intern Med. 2016 08 01; 176(8):1058-9. Zapata JA, Widera E. PMID: 27295527.
View in: PubMed Mentions: 1 Fields: - The High-Value Care Considerations of Inpatient versus Outpatient Testing. AMA J Ethics. 2015 Nov 01; 17(11):1022-7. Zapata JA, Moriates C. PMID: 26595242.
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Translation:Humans - Risk factors for tuberculin skin test conversion among HIV-infected patients in New York City. Int J Infect Dis. 2012 Jul; 16(7):e518-21. Doshi S, Chen TF, Zapata J, Holzman RS, Zapata LC, Aberg JA, Sivapalasingam S. PMID: 22542005; PMCID: PMC3378789.
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| 2012 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 |
| 2018 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2024 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 |
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