San Francisco & Oakland Staff Physicians

Judith Klein, MD

Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF School of Medicine
1001 Potrero Avenue, SFGH 5
San Francisco, CA 94110-1377
 
Education:
BA / BS:
 Stanford University
MD: UCSF
Residency: UCSF (Pediatrics) / Stanford University (Emergency Medicine)
Board Certification: Emergency Medicine

Research and Academic Interests: 
Imaging in pediatric trauma
Wilderness Medicine

University and National Positions:
American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)
Wilderness Essays Editor, Wilderness and Environmental Medicine (WEM), journal of Wilderness Medical Society
Pediatric Section Editor, Western Journal Of Emergency Medicine 
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
Phi Beta Kappa

Honors/Awards:
Quarterly Bedside Teaching Award, UCSF-SFGH Emergency Medicine Residency Program 2010
Quarterly Bedside Teaching Award, Stanford Emergency Medicine Residency Program 2006
Outstanding “Foundations of Patient Care” Preceptor Award 2004

Dan Mcdermott, MD

Clinical Professor
UCSF School of Medicine
505 Parnassus Ave, L126
San Francisco, CA, 94143
 
Education:
BA / BS:
 Univ of California, Riverside
MD: UCLA School of Medicine
Residency: Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Emergency Medicine
Board Certification: Emergency Medicine

Research and Academic Interests: 
Syncope, Stroke

Derek Richardson, MD, MPH

Assistant Clinical Professor
UCSF School of Medicine
1001 Potrero Avenue, SFGH 5
San Francisco, CA 94110-1377
 
Education:
BS:
  University of Michigan
MD:  University of Michigan
MPH:  Oregon Health & Science University
Residency: New York Presbyterian Hospital, Emergency Medicine
Board Certification: Emergency Medicine

Research and Academic Interests: 
End of Life Decision Making
Global Health

Community Service: 
Volunteer Physician, ASRI Clinic

Prathap Sooriyakumaran, MD

HS Assistant Clinical Prof.

UCSF School of Medicine
1001 Potrero Avenue 1E21
San Francisco, CA 94110-1377

Education:
BA: University of California, Berkeley
MD: Yale School of Medicine
Residency: UCSF-SFGH Emergency Medicine
 

Nathan Teismann, MD

ASC PHYSCN DIPLOMATE
UCSF School of Medicine
533 Parnassus Avenue, Suite U-575
San Francisco, CA 94143-0749
 
Education:
BA: 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, BS, Biology; 
MD: University of Chicago-Pritzker SOM, Chicago, IL
Residency: ACMC-Highland Hospital, Oakland, CA, Emergency Medicine
Fellowship: ACMC-Highland Hospital, Oakland, CA, Emergency Ultrasound

Board Certification: Emergency Medicine

Research and Academic Interests: 
Emergency Ultrasound, Point-of-Care Ultrasound, Ocular Ultrasound, Ultrasound-Guided Venous Access, Ultrasound Education, D-dimer, Venous Thromboembolism, Medical Student Education, Emergency Medicine Residency Education

University and National Positions:
American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
ACEP Ultrasound Section Member
American College of Emergency Physicians
American Medical Association
Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, Reviewer

Honors/Awards:
Excellence in Teaching Award - Academy of Medical Educators 2012
Outstanding Medical Student Educator Award 2012
Bedside Teaching Award 2011, 2012
Editors's Choice Selection for "Is the Ordering of Imaging for Suspected Venous Thromboembolism Consistent with D-dimer Result?" 2009
M Andrew Levitt Memorial Research Grant/Emergency Medicine Academic Resident of the Year 2007
Graduation with Highest Honors 1998
Phi Beta Kappa 1997