Education
ACH Faculty Member, 2024 - Faculty in Training Program (focus: facilitating/leading for change to promote health equity), Academy of Communication in Healthcare (ACH)
2021 - Relationship-Centered Communication Facilitators Program, Academy of Communication in Healthcare
2017 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
Teaching Scholars Program, 2016 - Academy of Medical Educators, University of California, San Francisco
Inpatient Chief Resident, 2011 - San Francisco VA Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco
2010 - Health Equities: Academics & Advocacy Training Program, University of California, San Francisco
2010 - Internal Medicine Residency, University of California, San Francisco
MD, 2007 - School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Honors and Awards
  • Gold-Headed Cane Endowed Teaching Chair in Internal Medicine, UCSF, Academy of Medical Educators and Department of Medicine, 2019-2024
  • Cooke Award for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, UCSF, Academy of Medical Educators, 2018
  • David E. Rogers Junior Faculty Education Award for workshop “Teaching Clinical Reasoning", Society of General Internal Medicine, 2016
  • Accepted into Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, UCSF, Academy of Medical Educators, 2016
  • Calvin Chou Award for Education, UCSF, PRIME Program, 2014
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, UCSF, Academy of Medical Educators, 2012
Websites
Publications

  1. Gonzalez CM, Deno ML, Ark TK, Helft M, Connor DM, Kalet AL, Burgess DJ, Samuel MT, Fisher MR, Durning SJ. Pilot investigation into the influence of racial implicit bias on physician clinical reasoning. Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany) 2026. PMID: 41579348


  2. Connor DM, Gonzalez CM, Lypson ML. Advancing Diagnostic Excellence through Medical Education in Diagnostic Equity. Reply. The New England journal of medicine 2026. PMID: 41534059


  3. Teherani A, Connor DM, DeCourcey S, Hauer KE. Centering Equity: A Paradigm Shift for Program Evaluation and Education Continuous Quality Improvement in Medical Education. Teaching and learning in medicine 2025. PMID: 41433146


  4. Connor DM, Lypson ML, Gonzalez CM. Advancing Diagnostic Excellence through Medical Education in Diagnostic Equity. The New England journal of medicine 2025. PMID: 40991902


  5. Ezenwugo S, Culver J, Iacopetti CL, Connor DM. Integrating asynchronous trauma-informed care into preclinical education. Medical education 2025. PMID: 40626387


  6. Kulkarni SA, Dhaliwal G, Teherani A, Connor DM. Clerkship Students' Use of Clinical Reasoning Concepts After a Pre-clinical Reasoning Course. Journal of general internal medicine 2025. PMID: 39747771


  7. Connor DM, Fernandez A, Alba-Nguyen S, Collins S, Teherani A. Academic Leadership Academy Summer Program: Clerkship Transition Preparation for Underrepresented in Medicine Medical Students. Teaching and learning in medicine 2023. PMID: 37886897


  8. Connor DM, Dhaliwal G. Moving upstream to address diagnostic disparities. BMJ quality & safety 2023. PMID: 37414556


  9. Singh H, Connor DM, Dhaliwal G. Five strategies for clinicians to advance diagnostic excellence. TO REMOVE 2022. PMID: 35172968


  10. Connor DM, Narayana S, Dhaliwal G. A clinical reasoning curriculum for medical students: an interim analysis. TO REMOVE 2022. PMID: 34904425


  11. Chou CL, Connor DM, Santhosh L. Emphasizing Empathy in Communicating About Uncertainty by Using a Dialogic Approach. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2021. PMID: 34183477


  13. Connor DM, Durning SJ, Rencic JJ. Clinical Reasoning as a Core Competency. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2019. PMID: 31577583


  14. Zejnullahu K, Santhosh L, Mourad M, Connor DM. Off Trail, On Track: an Exercise in Clinical Reasoning. Journal of general internal medicine 2019. PMID: 31270781


  15. Santhosh L, Chou CL, Connor DM. Diagnostic uncertainty: from education to communication. Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany) 2019. PMID: 30851157


  16. Subramanian A, Connor DM, Berger G, Lessing JN, Mehta N, Manesh R, Kohlwes J. A Curriculum for Diagnostic Reasoning: JGIM's Exercises in Clinical Reasoning. Journal of general internal medicine 2018. PMID: 30334181


  17. Wang EY, Patrick L, Connor DM. Blind Obedience and an Unnecessary Workup for Hypoglycemia: A Teachable Moment. JAMA internal medicine 2018. PMID: 29181533


  18. Wheeler DJ, Cascino T, Sharpe BA, Connor DM. When the Script Doesn't Fit: An Exercise in Clinical Reasoning. Journal of general internal medicine 2017. PMID: 28337688


  19. Connor DM, Conlon PJ, O'Brien BC, Chou CL. Improving clerkship preparedness: a hospital medicine elective for pre-clerkship students. Medical education online 2017. PMID: 28395598


  20. Blount RJ, Tran MC, Everett CK, Cattamanchi A, Metcalfe JZ, Connor D, Miller CR, Grinsdale J, Higashi J, Nahid P. Tuberculosis progression rates in U.S. Immigrants following screening with interferon-gamma release assays. BMC public health 2016. PMID: 27558397


  21. Kohlwes J, O'Brien B, Stanley M, Grant R, Shunk R, Connor D, Cornett P, Hollander H. Does Research Training During Residency Promote Scholarship and Influence Career Choice? A Cross-Sectional Analysis of a 10-Year Cohort of the UCSF-PRIME Internal Medicine Residency Program. Volume 28 of Issue 3. Teaching and learning in medicine 2016. PMID: 27143394


  22. Connor DM, Elkin GD, Lee K, Thompson V, Whelan H. The Unbefriended Patient: An Exercise in Ethical Clinical Reasoning. Journal of general internal medicine 2015. PMID: 26438516


  23. Connor DM, Dhaliwal G. When less is more for the struggling clinical reasoner. Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany) 2015. PMID: 29540031


  24. Connor DM, Binkley S, Fishman NO, Gasink LB, Linkin D, Lautenbach E. Impact of automatic orders to discontinue vancomycin therapy on vancomycin use in an antimicrobial stewardship program. Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2007. PMID: 17994524


  25. Drake CT, De Oliveira AX, Harris JA, Connor DM, Winkler CW, Aicher SA. Kappa opioid receptors in the rostral ventromedial medulla of male and female rats. The Journal of comparative neurology 2007. PMID: 17120286


  26. Williams H, Connor DM, Hill JW. Testosterone decreases the potential for song plasticity in adult male zebra finches. Hormones and behavior 2003. PMID: 14644634