Melanie Molina, MD, MAS

Melanie Molina, MD, MAS

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Location: UCSF San Francisco & Oakland
Specialty: Emergency Medicine

Biography

Melanie Molina, MD, MAS, is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Affiliate Faculty of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. She is also the Co-Director of the Social Emergency Medicine and Health Equity Section in the Department of Emergency Medicine and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation. She works clinically as an emergency physician at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and UCSF Medical Center, and as a health services and informatics researcher within the UCSF School of Medicine. Her research focuses on improving comprehensive emergency care for vulnerable populations, specifically leveraging technology to identify and address social needs in the emergency department.

Education and Training

  • Fellowship, 2023 - , National Clinician Scholars Program
  • MAS, 2023 - Clinical Research, UCSF
  • 2022 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, UCSF
  • Residency, 2021 - Emergency Medicine, Harvard, Mass General Brigham
  • MD, 2017 - Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • BS, BA, 2012 - Biology, Hispanic Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

Awards and Honors

  • NIDA Loan Repayment Award, National Institutes of Health, 2024-2025
  • Top 40 Under 40, National Hispanic Medical Association, 2024
  • John A. Watson Faculty Scholar, University of California, San Francisco, 2023
  • NIAID Loan Repayment Award, National Institutes of Health, 2022-2024
  • Outstanding Research Publication Award, Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine, 2021
  • Presidential Scholars Public Service Initiative Award, Harvard Medical School, 2017

Research Activities and Funding

  • June 15, 2024 - May 31, 2029 - Using Clinical Decision Support to Provide Social Risk-Informed Care for Opioid Use Disorder in the Emergency Department , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH/NIDA, Sponsor Award ID: K23DA060993
  • November 15, 2024 - November 14, 2028 - Developing Electronic Health Record-Enabled Interventions to Overcome Social Risk Limitations in the Emergency Department , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Sponsor Award ID: 82575
  • May 24, 2023 - May 31, 2024 - PROmotion of COVID-19 BOOSTer VA(X)ccination in the Emergency Department (PROBOOSTVAXED) , Co-Principal Investigator . Sponsor: UCSF Resource Allocation Program, Sponsor Award ID:
  • May 5, 2023 - May 31, 2024 - PROmotion of COVID-19 BOOSTer VA(X)ccination in the Emergency Department (PROBOOSTVAXED) , Co-Investigator . Sponsor: Pfizer, Sponsor Award ID: P0566350 (CA-0210910)
  • January 20, 2023 - April 30, 2024 - PROmotion of COVID-19 BOOSTer VA(X)ccination in the Emergency Department (PROBOOSTVAXED) , Co-Investigator . Sponsor: NIH/NIAID Diversity Supplement, Sponsor Award ID: R01AI166967

Publications

The Patient Perspective: Receiving Care in the Post-ACA Era
Molina M, Briggs-Malonson M
Physician- versus Large Language Model-Generated Summaries in the Emergency Department
Golchini NB, Mehandru N, Alaa A, Molina M.
When the Domain Expert Has No Time and the LLM Developer Has No Clinical Expertise: Real-World Lessons from LLM Co-Design in a Safety-Net Hospital
Kothari A, Vossler P, Digitale J, Forouzannia M, Rosenberg E, Lee M, Bryant J, Molina M, Marks J, Zier L, Feng J.
Emergency Department Survey of Vaccination Knowledge, Vaccination Coverage, and Willingness to Receive Vaccines in an Emergency Department Among Underserved Populations - Eight U.S. Cities, April-December, 2024.
Rodriguez RM, Torres JR, Chinnock B, Kean E, Rising KL, Conn C, Gottlieb M, Sekar S, Gomez P, Olivera L, Eucker SA, DiFulvio S, Alvarez C, Molina MF, Ge S, Kumar VA
ER-REASON: A Benchmark Dataset for LLM-Based Clinical Reasoning in the Emergency Room
Mehandru N, Golchini N, Bamman D, Zack T, Molina M, Alaa A.
Evaluating the Feasibility and Effectiveness of an Interdisciplinary Verbal De-Escalation and Implicit Bias Check Training for Agitation Management in the Emergency Department.
Carreras Tartak JA, Rodriguez G, Schwid M, Meeker MA, Thomas MD, Roy HJ, Dadabhoy FZ, Molina M, Chary A, Bukhman AK, Im DD, Temin ES, Macias-Konstantopoulos WL
Learning From the SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting.
Gottlieb LM, Angove R, Cartier Y, Coleman K, Corley A, Petruzzi L, Grevious N, Palakshappa D, Molina M, Fichtenberg C
Screening and Response for Adverse Social Determinants of Health in US Emergency Departments.
Molina MF, Cash RE, Loo SS, Swanton MF, Espinola JA, Boggs KM, Chen O, Ardelean AJ, Camargo CA, Samuels-Kalow ME
Implementing Social Determinants of Health Screening in US Emergency Departments.
Loo S, Molina M, Ahmad NJ, Swanton M, Chen O, Boggs KM, Camargo CA, Samuels-Kalow M
Navigating Nonlinear Pathways: Challenges and Opportunities for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leaders in Academic Emergency Medicine.
Molina MF, Bhananker A, Torres B, Owda D, Ordoñez E, Chary AN
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