Dr. Wachter has served as interim chair of the medicine department for the past year. He is the author of 250 articles and six books. He received the National Quality Forum’s John M. Eisenberg Award in 2004. He is also the founding chief of the hospital medicine division at UCSF School of Medicine.
Dr. Wachter completed his residency in internal medicine at UCSF, followed by a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar fellowship at Stanford (Calif.) University.
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