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Matthew J. Gonzales, M.D.

Palliative care specialist

Dr. Matthew J. Gonzales is a specialist in palliative care, which is the care and comfort of seriously ill patients and their families, at UCSF Medical Center. The goal of palliative care is to maximize a patient's comfort, while providing appropriate medical treatment, in the advanced stage of illness.

Gonzales earned a medical degre at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles and completed a residency in internal medicine at UCSF, where he also completed a fellowship in hospice and palliative medicine. He is an assistant professor of hospital medicine and palliative care at UCSF.

More about Matthew J. Gonzales

Education

USC Keck School of Medicine 2007

Residencies

UCSF Medical Center 2010

Fellowships

UCSF Medical Center 2011

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Gonzales MJ, Pantilat SZ. Pain at the End of Life. Hosp Med Clin. 2012; 1(1):e109–e123.
  2. Gonzales MJ, Widera E. Nausea and other nonpain symptoms in long-term care. Clin Geriatr Med. 2011 May; 27(2):213-28.
  3. Johnston E, Dupnik KM, Gonzales MJ, Winters MA, Rhee SY, Imamichi T, Shafer RW. Panel of prototypical infectious molecular HIV-1 clones containing multiple nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor resistance mutations. AIDS. 2005 Apr 29; 19(7):731-3.
  4. Rhee SY, Liu T, Ravela J, Gonzales MJ, Shafer RW. Distribution of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 protease and reverse transcriptase mutation patterns in 4,183 persons undergoing genotypic resistance testing. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2004 Aug; 48(8):3122-6.
  5. Gonzales MJ, Johnson E, Dupnik KM, Imamichi T, Shafer RW. Colinearity of reverse transcriptase inhibitor resistance mutations detected by population-based sequencing. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2003 Dec 1; 34(4):398-402.
  6. Gonzales MJ, Belitskaya I, Dupnik KM, Rhee SY, Shafer RW. Protease and reverse transcriptase mutation patterns in HIV type 1 isolates from heavily treated persons: comparison of isolates from Northern California with isolates from other regions. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2003 Oct; 19(10):909-15.
  7. Gonzales MJ, Delwart E, Rhee SY, Tsui R, Zolopa AR, Taylor J, Shafer RW. Lack of detectable human immunodeficiency virus type 1 superinfection during 1072 person-years of observation. J Infect Dis. 2003 Aug 1; 188(3):397-405.
  8. Gonzales MJ, Wu TD, Taylor J, Belitskaya I, Kantor R, Israelski D, Chou S, Zolopa AR, Fessel WJ, Shafer RW. Extended spectrum of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase mutations in patients receiving multiple nucleoside analog inhibitors. AIDS. 2003 Apr 11; 17(6):791-9.
  9. Wu TD, Schiffer CA, Gonzales MJ, Taylor J, Kantor R, Chou S, Israelski D, Zolopa AR, Fessel WJ, Shafer RW. Mutation patterns and structural correlates in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 protease following different protease inhibitor treatments. J Virol. 2003 Apr; 77(8):4836-47.
  10. Rhee SY, Gonzales MJ, Kantor R, Betts BJ, Ravela J, Shafer RW. Human immunodeficiency virus reverse transcriptase and protease sequence database. Nucleic Acids Res. 2003 Jan 1; 31(1):298-303.
  11. Palmer S, Vuitton D, Gonzales MJ, Bassignot A, Shafer RW. Reverse transcriptase and protease sequence evolution in two HIV-1-infected couples. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2002 Nov 1; 31(3):285-90.
  12. Gonzales MJ, Dugan JM, Shafer RW. Synonymous-non-synonymous mutation rates between sequences containing ambiguous nucleotides (Syn-SCAN). Bioinformatics. 2002 Jun; 18(6):886-7.
  13. Eshleman SH, Gonzales MJ, Becker-Pergola G, Cunningham SC, Guay LA, Jackson JB, Shafer RW. Identification of Ugandan HIV type 1 variants with unique patterns of recombination in pol involving subtypes A and D. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2002 May 1; 18(7):507-11.

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