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.

Publications

Decreased expression of ATP6V1H in type 2 diabetes: a pilot report on the diabetes risk study in Mexican Americans.
Molina MF, Qu HQ, Rentfro AR, Nair S, Lu Y, Hanis CL, McCormick JB, Fisher-Hoch SP
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
Long COVID Illness: Disparities in Understanding and Receipt of Care in Emergency Department Populations.
Rodriguez RM, Reyes K, Kumar VA, Chinnock B, Eucker SA, Rising KL, Rafique Z, Gottlieb M, Nichol G, Morse D, Molina M, Arreguin MI, Shughart L, Conn C, Eckstrand S, Mesbah H, Chakraborty L, Welch RD
Exploration of Electronic Health Record Patterns of Emergency Physicians-Charting the Digital Burden.
Rotenstein LS, Molina M
Demystifying Hispanic Versus Latino/a Versus Latinx: Which Do Emergency Department Patients Prefer?
Molina MF, Chary AN, Reyes K, Ford JS, Chinnock B, Rodriguez RM
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