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Niraj Sehgal, M.D., M.P.H.

Hospitalist

Dr. Niraj Sehgal specializes in the delivery of comprehensive medical care to hospitalized patients. He focuses on the teamwork and communication required to ensure the highest quality hospital care.

Sehgal is a graduate of Rush Medical College in Chicago and earned a master of public health degree at UC Berkeley. He completed a residency and served as chief resident in internal medicine at Stanford University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. He was a fellow and graduate of the California Healthcare Foundation Leadership Program, a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a senior fellow of the Society for Hospital Medicine. His academic work focuses on improving health care systems through the development of education and training programs, engagement of trainees and providers in systems innovation and a commitment to change management strategies. He is the associate chair for Quality and Safety in the Department of Medicine at UCSF and directs physician leadership programs through the UCSF Center for Health Professions. He is an associate professor of medicine at UCSF.

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Education

Rush Medical College 1998
UC Berkeley School of Public Health 2003

Residencies

Stanford University Medical Center, Internal Medicine 2001

Fellowships

Stanford Prevention Research Center, Internal Medicine 2004

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Neeman N, Quinn K, Soni K, Mourad M, Sehgal NL. Reducing radiology use on an inpatient medical service: choosing wisely. Arch Intern Med. 2012 Nov 12; 172(20):1606-8.
  2. Ashbrook L, Mourad M, Sehgal N. Communicating discharge instructions to patients: A survey of nurse, intern, and hospitalist practices. J Hosp Med. 2013 Jan; 8(1):36-41.
  3. Neeman N, Sehgal NL, Davis RB, Aronson MD. Quality improvement and patient safety activities in academic departments of medicine. Am J Med. 2012 Aug; 125(8):831-5.
  4. Tuot DS, Sehgal NL, Neeman N, Auerbach A. Enhancing quality of trainee-written consultation notes. Am J Med. 2012 Jul; 125(7):649-52.
  5. Neeman N, Ranji SR, Sehgal NL. Perspective: engaging trainees in performance improvement projects: the Quality and Safety Innovation Challenge. Am J Med Qual. 2012 Jul-Aug; 27(4):345-7.
  6. Neeman N, Sehgal NL. Perspective: a road map for academic departments to promote scholarship in quality improvement and patient safety. Acad Med. 2012 Feb; 87(2):168-71.
  7. Auerbach AD, Sehgal NL, Blegen MA, Maselli J, Alldredge BK, Vittinghoff E, Wachter RM. Effects of a multicentre teamwork and communication programme on patient outcomes: results from the Triad for Optimal Patient Safety (TOPS) project. BMJ Qual Saf. 2012 Feb; 21(2):118-26.
  8. O'Leary KJ, Sehgal NL, Terrell G, Williams MV. Interdisciplinary teamwork in hospitals: A review and practical recommendations for improvement. J Hosp Med. 2011 Oct 31.
  9. Rennke S, Kesh S, Neeman N, Sehgal NL. Complementary telephone strategies to improve postdischarge communication. Am J Med. 2012 Jan; 125(1):28-30.
  10. Sehgal NL, Auerbach AA. Communication failures and a call for new systems to promote patient safety: comment on "Structured interdisciplinary rounds in a medical teaching unit". Arch Intern Med. 2011 Apr 11; 171(7):684-5.
  11. Sehgal NL, Fox M, Sharpe BA, Vidyarthi AR, Blegen M, Wachter RM. Critical conversations: a call for a nonprocedural "time out". J Hosp Med. 2011 Apr; 6(4):225-30.
  12. Sehgal NL, Sharpe BA, Auerbach AA, Wachter RM. Investing in the future: building an academic hospitalist faculty development program. J Hosp Med. 2011 Mar; 6(3):161-6.
  13. Blegen MA, Sehgal NL, Alldredge BK, Gearhart S, Auerbach AA, Wachter RM. Republished paper: Improving safety culture on adult medical units through multidisciplinary teamwork and communication interventions: the TOPS Project. Postgrad Med J. 2010 Dec; 86(1022):729-33.
  14. Blegen MA, Sehgal NL, Alldredge BK, Gearhart S, Auerbach AA, Wachter RM. Improving safety culture on adult medical units through multidisciplinary teamwork and communication interventions: the TOPS Project. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010 Aug; 19(4):346-50.
  15. Sehgal NL, Green A, Vidyarthi AR, Blegen MA, Wachter RM. Patient whiteboards as a communication tool in the hospital setting: a survey of practices and recommendations. J Hosp Med. 2010 Apr; 5(4):234-9.
  16. Blegen MA, Gearhart S, O'Brien R, Sehgal NL, Alldredge BK. AHRQ's hospital survey on patient safety culture: psychometric analyses. J Patient Saf. 2009 Sep; 5(3):139-44.
  17. Lee JH, Vidyarthi AR, Sehgal NL, Auerbach AD, Wachter RM. I-CaRe: a case review tool focused on improving inpatient care. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2009 Feb; 35(2):115-9, 61.
  18. Sehgal NL. Engaging patients at hospital discharge. J Hosp Med. 2008 Nov-Dec; 3(6):498-500.
  19. Alexander GC, Sehgal NL, Moloney RM, Stafford RS. National trends in treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus, 1994-2007. Arch Intern Med. 2008 Oct 27; 168(19):2088-94.
  20. Sehgal NL, Fox M, Vidyarthi AR, Sharpe BA, Gearhart S, Bookwalter T, Barker J, Alldredge BK, Blegen MA, Wachter RM. A multidisciplinary teamwork training program: the Triad for Optimal Patient Safety (TOPS) experience. J Gen Intern Med. 2008 Dec; 23(12):2053-7.

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