Denise Connor, MD

Education
ACH Faculty Member, 2024 - Faculty in Training Program (focus: facilitating/communicating/leading for change to promote 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. 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


  2. 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


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


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


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


  6. 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


  8. 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


  9. 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


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


  11. 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


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


  13. 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


  14. 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


  15. 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


  16. 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


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


  18. 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


  19. 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


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