Denise Davis, MD

Education
2017 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
Faculty Development Training, 2010 - , American Academy on Communication in Healthcare
Residency, 1989 - Internal Medicine, Kaiser Foundation Hospital San Francisco
Internship, 1982 - internal medicine, Kansas University Medical Center
BA/MD, 1981 - School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City six year combined BA/MD program
Honors and Awards
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, Academy on Communication in Healthcare, 2021
  • Family and Community Medicine Excellence in Student Teaching Award, UCSF, 2021
  • Family and Community Medicine Excellence in Student Teaching Award, UCSF, 2020
  • Martlin Luther King Leadership Award, UCSF, 2018
  • Gold Headed Cane Society, UCSF, 2017
  • VA Superstar Award, San Francisco VA, 2014
  • Academy of Medical Educators Excellence in Teaching Award, UCSF, 2013
  • Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2013
  • Consumer Checkbook Top Doctor, 2008
  • Extraordinaire Award, African American Museum and Library, Oakland, CA, 2007
  • Henry J. Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching, UCSF, 2005
Publications

  1. Moore KA, Ureste P, Davis DL, Boscardin C, Thomas LR. Peer Support Ambassadors: A Program to Advance a Supportive and Inclusive Clinical Learning Environment. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2024. PMID: 39265093


  2. Perez-Urbano I, Jowhar ZM, Williams JC, Collins SA, Davis D, Boscardin CK, Cowell T, Benton E, Hauer KE. Student, Staff and Faculty Experience with a Medical School Racial and Sociopolitical Trauma Protocol: A Mixed Methods Study. Teaching and learning in medicine 2024. PMID: 38847650


  3. Greenberg AL, Cevallos JR, Ojute FM, Davis DL, Greene WR, Lebares CC. The General Surgery Residency Experience: A Multicenter Study of Differences in Wellbeing by Race/Ethnicity. Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches 2022. PMID: 37601153


  4. Afolabi T, Borowsky HM, Cordero DM, Paul DW, Said JT, Sandoval RS, Davis D, Ölveczky D, Chatterjee A. Student-Led Efforts to Advance Anti-Racist Medical Education. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2021. PMID: 33711839


  5. Davis DLF, Tran-Taylor D, Imbert E, Wong JO, Chou CL. Start the Way You Want to Finish: An Intensive Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Orientation Curriculum in Undergraduate Medical Education. Journal of medical education and curricular development 2021. PMID: 33796793


  6. Davis DL. Dare to Look. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2020. PMID: 32675792


  7. Cordero DM, Davis DL. Communication for Equity in the Service of Patient Experience: Health Justice and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Patient Experience 2020. PMID: 32821779


  8. Rubinelli S, Myers K, Rosenbaum M, Davis D. Implications of the current COVID-19 pandemic for communication in healthcare. Patient education and counseling 2020. PMID: 32451002


  9. Davis DLF, Chou CL. The Bearable Lightness of Uncertainty. Journal of general internal medicine 2019. PMID: 31512186


  10. Wheeler DJ, Zapata J, Davis D, Chou C. Twelve tips for responding to microaggressions and overt discrimination: When the patient offends the learner. Medical teacher 2018. PMID: 30277121


  11. Denise L. Davis. Communication Rx Culture and Diversity Chapter 14 2017. PMID:


  12. Calvin Chou, Adina Kalet. Remediation in Medical Education Chapter 15 "Feedback in Remediation" 2013. PMID:


  13. Bergstrom AR, Nur F, Davis DL. Consider the personhood of women who experienced genital cutting. Mayo Clinic proceedings 2013. PMID: 24079688


  14. Denise L. Davis. Simple But Not Always Easy: Improving Doctor -Patient Communication Journal of Communication In Healthcare 2010. PMID: