Education
Certificate, - Latin American/Latino/a Studies, City College of San Francisco
M.B.A., - , Harvard Business School
M.D., - , Harvard Medical School
B.A., - College of Arts and Sciences, New York University
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
Chief Residency, - Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Residency, - Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Honors and Awards
  • Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, UCSF, 2020
  • Maxine Papadakis Award for Faculty Professionalism and Respect, UCSF School of Medicine, 2020
  • Excellence in Teaching Award for Clinical Faculty c/o 2019, UCSF School of Medicine, 2019
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, Academy of Medical Educators, UCSF, 2018
  • Cooke Award for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, UCSF, 2016
  • Chief Resident, UCSF Dept. of Medicine, 2014
  • Aesculapian Club, Harvard Medical School, 2010
  • Linnane Scholarship for Academic Achievement, Harvard Medical School, 2009
  • Presidential Honors Scholar, New York University, 2003
Publications

  1. Baskin N, Javaherian K, Zapata J, Litwin R, Wray CM. Reducing hospital admission delay times using a structured, systematic, multi-disciplinary approach. Journal of hospital medicine 2025. PMID: 40235141


  2. Zapata J, Raffel K. Leadership & professional development: Strategies to disagree productively: Persuasive DISNT. Journal of hospital medicine 2024. PMID: 39526548


  3. Zapata J, Price E, Wlodarczyk S. Fracture Blisters. TO REMOVE 2022. PMID: 35419743


  5. Zapata J, Chou C. Leadership & Professional Development: Make the Most of Your Oranges. Journal of hospital medicine 2020. PMID: 31869301


  6. 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


  7. Wlodarczyk S, Zapata JA. Uremic Frost. Mayo Clinic proceedings 2018. PMID: 30286839


  8. Le NB, Zapata J. Atypical Pressure Ulcer as Cellulitis Mimic. Journal of general internal medicine 2018. PMID: 29992424


  9. Zapata JA, Lai AR, Moriates C. Is Excessive Resource Utilization an Adverse Event? JAMA 2017. PMID: 28245327


  10. Zapata JA, Widera E. Partial Codes-A Symptom of a Larger Problem. JAMA internal medicine 2016. PMID: 27295527


  11. Zapata JA, Moriates C. The High-Value Care Considerations of Inpatient versus Outpatient Testing. AMA journal of ethics 2015. PMID: 26595242


  12. Doshi S, Chen TF, Zapata J, Holzman RS, Zapata LC, Aberg JA, Sivapalasingam S. Risk factors for tuberculin skin test conversion among HIV-infected patients in New York City. International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases 2012. PMID: 22542005