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Smitha Ganeshan, MD, MBA
| Title(s)Assistant Professor, MedicineSchoolSchool of MedicineAddress521 Parnassus Avenue, #5322San Francisco CA 94117PronounsShe/Her/HersvCardDownload vCard |
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Biography
| Harvard Medical School, Boston | MD | 06/2019 | Medicine |
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| Harvard Business School, Boston | MBA | 06/2019 | Management |
| University of Georgia, Athens | BS | 05/2014 | Biology |
Overview
Smitha Ganeshan, MD, MBA is a hospitalist and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Divisions of Hospital Medicine and Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation at the University of California, San Francisco. As a hospitalist, she cares for patients across a range of inpatient medical services and is focused on improving care delivery, quality, and safety.
Dr. Ganeshan serves as the Medical Director for AI Programs at UCSF, where she oversees the health system’s clinical AI portfolio. In this role, she partners closely with the Chief AI Officer to define vision and strategy, evaluate and implement AI solutions, and cultivate key external partnerships. She works with cross-functional teams in IT, data science, informatics, and operations to deploy AI tools that drive value at scale while supporting safety, equity, and clinician experience.
She also serves as Strategy Lead for Informatics, leading efforts to improve physician satisfaction with the electronic health record (EHR). Her current work includes redesigning UCSF Health IT processes for prioritizing and completing user-generated enhancement requests to create a more transparent, user-centered experience. Her research focuses on the implementation and impact of AI tools on clinical outcomes, clinician experience, and health equity.
Previously, Dr. Ganeshan held roles in Digital Innovation and served as Medical Director for the Medicine Unit-Based Leadership Team across inpatient medicine units at Parnassus.
Dr. Ganeshan received her bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Georgia and her medical and business degrees from Harvard University. She completed her Internal Medicine residency at UCSF before joining the faculty at UCSF’s Parnassus campus.
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- Physician- and Large Language Model-Generated Hospital Discharge Summaries. JAMA Intern Med. 2025 Jul 01; 185(7):818-825. Williams CYK, Subramanian CR, Ali SS, Apolinario M, Askin E, Barish P, Cheng M, Deardorff WJ, Donthi N, Ganeshan S, Huang O, Kantor MA, Lai AR, Manchanda A, Moore KA, Muniyappa AN, Nair G, Patel PP, Santhosh L, Schneider S, Torres S, Yukawa M, Hubbard CC, Rosner BI. PMID: 40323616; PMCID: PMC12053800.
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Translation:Humans - Impact of COVID-19 on Characteristics and Funding of U.S. Healthcare Startups: Retrospective Review. JMIR Form Res. 2024 08 27; 8:e56327. Ganeshan S, Goldstein J, Sohn YJ, Pollack A, Phillips RS, Rotenstein L. PMID: 39190909; PMCID: PMC11387907.
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Translation:PHPublic Health - An Electronic Health Record-Based Automated Self-Rescheduling Tool to Improve Patient Access: Retrospective Cohort Study. J Med Internet Res. 2024 03 19; 26:e52071. Ganeshan S, Liu AW, Kroeger A, Anand P, Seefeldt R, Regner A, Vaughn D, Odisho AY, Mourad M. PMID: 38502159; PMCID: PMC10988365.
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Translation:Humans - 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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Translation:Humans - Training Physicians in the Digital Health Era: How to Leverage the Residency Elective. JMIR Med Educ. 2023 Jul 14; 9:e46752. Hsiang EY, Ganeshan S, Patel S, Yurkovic A, Parekh A. PMID: 37450323; PMCID: PMC10383775.
View in: PubMed Mentions: 4 Fields: - 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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Translation:Humans - An unexpected turn: A 71-year-old man with myocardial infarction. Cleve Clin J Med. 2022 07 01; 89(7):401-407. Ganeshan S, Kelemen B, Dhaliwal G, Zier L. PMID: 35777842.
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Translation:Humans - Clinical Outcomes and Qualitative Perceptions of In-person, Hybrid, and Virtual Cardiac Rehabilitation. J Cardiopulm Rehabil Prev. 2022 09 01; 42(5):338-346. Ganeshan S, Jackson H, Grandis DJ, Janke D, Murray ML, Valle V, Beatty AL. PMID: 35420563.
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Translation:Humans - Impact of a resident and student-led video visitation navigation program. BMC Med Educ. 2022 Feb 19; 22(1):110. Yang R, Ganeshan S, Thompson A, McAllister S, Mourad M. PMID: 35183182; PMCID: PMC8857532.
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Translation:HumansCellsPHPublic Health - 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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Translation:Humans - Medical Communities Go Virtual. J Hosp Med. 2021 06; 16(6):378-380. Minter DJ, Patel A, Ganeshan S, Nematollahi S. PMID: 33147130.
View in: PubMed Mentions: 3 Fields: - Enabling patient communication for hospitalised patients during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. BMJ Innov. 2021 Apr; 7(2):316-320. Ganeshan S, Hsiang E, Peng T, Thomas N, Garcia-Grossman I, Javaherian K, Lyon Z, Vidyarthi A. PMID: 34192018.
View in: PubMed Mentions: 3 - Shared care planning: Realizing the promise of team-based person-centered care. Healthc (Amst). 2018 Jun; 6(2):110-111. Ganeshan S, Gheihman G, Palmor M, Choi S, Wohler D, Rotenstein LS. PMID: 29602743.
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Translation:Humans - The Effect of Price Information on the Ordering of Images and Procedures. Pediatrics. 2017 Feb; 139(2). Chien AT, Ganeshan S, Schuster MA, Lehmann LS, Hatfield LA, Koplan KE, Petty CR, Sinaiko AD, Sequist TD, Rosenthal MB. PMID: 28087684.
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| 2022 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2 |
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