Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MA

Assistant Professor
Fellow
School of Medicine

Lekshmi Santhosh, M.D., M.A.Ed. is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Divisions of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine and Hospital Medicine at UCSF Health. She is Assistant Program Director of the Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship Program. She came to UCSF for her internship in Internal Medicine residency and stayed for chief residency and fellowship before transitioning to faculty. She practices in outpatient pulmonary clinic, the medical and neurological ICU, and the medicine teaching inpatient service. She joined the CSW as a chief resident to make sure that the voices of trainees are always represented on the committee, since women trainees are in a uniquely vulnerable position.

Joined UCSF: 2011
Joined CSW: 2014
Subcommittee: Advocacy & Policy

Publications

A “PalliPulm” Framework to Improve Palliative Care Education and Practice in Pulmonary-Critical Care Medicine: An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

AS Iyer, KM Akgün, B Bowman, CE Brown, L Dingfeld, D Donesky, T Fasolino, B Ferrell, RA Gersten, JL Hart, MM Hayes, B Hayward, H Kagel, EK Kross, KO Lindell, CL McDermott, TH Neville, R O’Beirne, WE Rosa, L Santhosh, JB Seamen, NO Sederstrom, D Sloan, N Smallwood, N Smirnova, R Tidwell, C Wagner, LJ Witt, LF Reinke, DR Sullivan

A "PalliPulm" framework to improve palliative care education and practice in pulmonary-critical care medicine: an official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report.

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Iyer AS, Akgün KM, Bowman B, Brown CE, Dingfield L, Donesky D, Fasolino T, Ferrell B, Gersten RA, Hart JL, Hayes MM, Hayward B, Kagel H, Kross EK, Lindell KO, McDermott CL, Neville TH, O'Beirne R, Rosa WE, Santhosh L, Seaman JB, Sederstrom NO, Sloan D, Smallwood N, Smirnova N, Tidwell R, Wagner C, Witt LJ, Reinke LF, Sullivan DR, American Thoracic Society Assembly on Behavioral Science and Health Services Research

Care Transitions Among PICU Patients.

Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies

Johnson C, Cohen PD, Kudchadkar SR, Santhosh L, Cifra CL

Type 2 immune responses are associated with less severe COVID-19 in a hospitalized cohort.

The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. Global

Jayavelu ND, Qi J, Milliren CE, Ozonoff A, Liu S, Levy O, Baden LR, Melamed E, McComsey GA, Cairns CB, Schaenman J, Shaw AC, Hafler DA, Corry DB, Kheradmand F, Atkinson MA, Brakenridge SC, Agudelo Higuita NI, Metcalf JP, Hough CL, Messer WB, Pulendran B, Nadeau KC, Davis MM, Geng LN, Sesma AF, Simon V, Krammer F, Bime C, Calfee CS, Bosinger SE, Eckalbar W, Steen H, Maecker HT, IMPACC Network, Augustine AD, Diray-Arce J, Haddad EK, Sekaly RP, Kraft M, Woodruff PG, Erle DJ, Ehrlich LIR, Montgomery RR, Becker PM, Altman MC, Fourati S

Features of acute COVID-19 associated with post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 phenotypes: results from the IMPACC study.

Nature communications

Ozonoff A, Jayavelu ND, Liu S, Melamed E, Milliren CE, Qi J, Geng LN, McComsey GA, Cairns CB, Baden LR, Schaenman J, Shaw AC, Samaha H, Seyfert-Margolis V, Krammer F, Rosen LB, Steen H, Syphurs C, Dandekar R, Shannon CP, Sekaly RP, Ehrlich LIR, Corry DB, Kheradmand F, Atkinson MA, Brakenridge SC, Higuita NIA, Metcalf JP, Hough CL, Messer WB, Pulendran B, Nadeau KC, Davis MM, Sesma AF, Simon V, van Bakel H, Kim-Schulze S, Hafler DA, Levy O, Kraft M, Bime C, Haddad EK, Calfee CS, Erle DJ, Langelier CR, Eckalbar W, Bosinger SE, IMPACC Network, Peters B, Kleinstein SH, Reed EF, Augustine AD, Diray-Arce J, Maecker HT, Altman MC, Montgomery RR, Becker PM, Rouphael N

Importance of Reconnection With ICU Survivors to ICU Recovery Program Clinicians.

Tammy L. Eaton, Valerie Danesh, Carla M. Sevin, Kelly Potter, Han Su, Theodore J. Iwashyna, Leanne M. Boehm, Joanne McPeake, Critical and Acute Illness Recovery Organization Post-ICU Clinic Collaborative, Taylor Bernstein, Rita N. Bakhru, Michael Baram, Michelle Biehl, Amy L. Bellinghausen, J. Gordon Boyd, Brad W. Butcher, Melanie Dalton, Neha S. Dangayach, Kyle B. Enfield, K. Sarah Hoehn, Aluko A. Hope, David Hornstein, Sugeet Jagpal, Sarah E. Jolley, Babar A. Khan, Michael T. Kenes, Janet Kloos, Karen A. Korzick, Lindsay Lief, Eric Mahoney, Jason H. Maley, Kirby P. Mayer, Tresa McNeal, Jakob I. McSparron, Joel Meyer, Rima A. Mohammad, Ashley Montgomery-Yates, Vanessa Nomellini, Ann M. Parker, Kehllee Popovich, Janelle Poyant, Tara Quasim, Howard Saft, Lekshmi Santhosh, Kristin Schwab, Andrew Slack, Joanna L. Stollings, David Sousa, Heather Torbic, Thomas S. Valley, Dario Villalba

Characteristics of Post-ICU and Post-COVID Recovery Clinics in 29 U.S. Health Systems.

Critical care explorations

Danesh V, Boehm LM, Eaton TL, Arroliga AC, Mayer KP, Kesler SR, Bakhru RN, Baram M, Bellinghausen AL, Biehl M, Dangayach NS, Goldstein NM, Hoehn KS, Islam M, Jagpal S, Johnson AB, Jolley SE, Kloos JA, Mahoney EJ, Maley JH, Martin SF, McSparron JI, Mery M, Saft H, Santhosh L, Schwab K, Villalba D, Sevin CM, Montgomery AA

Response.

Chest

Santhosh L, Block B, Kim SY, Raju S, Shah RJ, Thakur N, Brigham EP, Parker AM