Esther H. Chen, MD

Professor of Emergency Medicine
Associate Residency Director
Department of Emergency Medicine

Esther Chen, MD is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Associate Residency Director within the Department of Emergency Medicine and based clinically at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG). She is also he Director of Graduate Medical Education at ZSFG, focused on improving the clinical learning environment and wellbeing for residents and fellows and actively involved with the WARM Hearts (Women's Advancement and Recognition in Medicine) peer faculty development group at ZSFG.

Joined UCSF: 2009
Joined CSW: 2020
CSW sub-committee: Events

Publications: 

Perception of Quiet Students in Emergency Medicine: An Exploration of Narratives in the Standardized Letter of Evaluation.

The western journal of emergency medicine

Quinn JK, Mongelluzzo J, Nip A, Graterol J, Chen EH

Executive Summary of the SAEM 2022 Consensus Conference to Address Racism in Emergency Medicine Clinical Research, Training, and Leadership.

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Chen EH, Dessie AS, Druck J, Norman M, Raukar N

Reporting race and ethnicity in medical research: you can't fix what you don't know.

European journal of emergency medicine : official journal of the European Society for Emergency Medicine

Dessie AS, Chen EH

The Standardized Letter of Evaluation: How We Perceive the Quiet Student.

The western journal of emergency medicine

Quinn JK, Mongelluzzo J, Addo N, Nip A, Graterol J, Chen EH

An Injury Mitigation Program Highlights the Importance of Adhering to Current Infection Control Policies.

Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety

Chen EH, Addo N, Cohen G

Can COVID-19 Cause You to Skip a Beat?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Breyre A, Tabas J, Chen EH

Caring for Transgender Patients: Complications of Gender-Affirming Genital Surgeries.

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Hanley K, Wittenberg H, Gurjala D, Safir MH, Chen EH

Financial Incentives to Enhance Participation of Resident Physicians in Hospital-Based Quality Improvement Projects.

Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety

Chen EH, Losak MJ, Hernandez A, Addo N, Huen W, Mercer MP

Shared Decision Making for the Emergency Provider: Engaging Patients When Seconds Count.

MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources

Kanzaria HK, Chen EH

Embracing FOAM as an Academic Community.

AEM education and training

Munz N, Chen EH

L&D in the ED: A Game-Based Approach to Learning High-Risk Obstetric Emergencies.

MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources

Silverio LM, Chen EH

Does the Flipped Classroom Improve Learning in Graduate Medical Education?

Journal of graduate medical education

Riddell J, Jhun P, Fung CC, Comes J, Sawtelle S, Tabatabai R, Joseph D, Shoenberger J, Chen E, Fee C, Swadron SP

Dissemination and Implementation of Shared Decision Making Into Clinical Practice: A Research Agenda.

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Kanzaria HK, Booker-Vaughns J, Itakura K, Yadav K, Kane BG, Gayer C, Lin G, LeBlanc A, Gibson R, Chen EH, Williams P, Carpenter CR

The Role of Education in the Implementation of Shared Decision Making in Emergency Medicine: A Research Agenda.

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Chen EH, Kanzaria HK, Itakura K, Booker-Vaughns J, Yadav K, Kane BG

TF9 Video Self-Assessment: Describing Resident Experience.

Annals of Emergency Medicine

V. Madia, J. Mongelluzzo, E. Chen, C. Fee, P. O'Sullivan

Low Back Pain in the Emergency Medicine Department: A Flipped Classroom Module.

MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources

Riddell JC, Sawtelle S, Jhun P, Comes J, Tabatabai R, Joseph D, Shoenberger J, Chen E, Fee C, Swadron S

Research Priorities in the Utilization and Interpretation of Diagnostic Imaging: Education, Assessment, and Competency.

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Lewiss RE, Chan W, Sheng AY, Soto J, Castro A, Meltzer AC, Cherney A, Kumaravel M, Cody D, Chen EH

Top 10 ideas to improve your bedside teaching in a busy emergency department.

Emergency medicine journal : EMJ

Green GM, Chen EH

Appropriate Use of Telemetry Monitoring in Hospitalized Patients.

Current Emergency and Hospital Medicine Reports

Esther H. Chen

Poor sensitivity of a modified Alvarado score in adults with suspected appendicitis.

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Meltzer AC, Baumann BM, Chen EH, Shofer FS, Mills AM

Assessing systems-based practice.

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Chen EH, O'Sullivan PS, Pfennig CL, Leone K, Kessler CS

B2M.

Vikas P. Chaubey, Kevin B. Laupland, Christopher B. Colwell, Gina Soriya, Shelden Magder, Jonathan Ball, Jennifer M. DiCocco, Timothy C. Fabian, Gregory J. Moran, Raul Easton-Carr, Gregory J. Moran, Raul Easton-Carr, Gregory J. Moran, Raul Easton-Carr, Gregory J. Moran, Raul Easton-Carr, Gregory J. Moran, Raul Easton-Carr, Gregory J. Moran, Raul Easton-Carr, Pierre Squara, Daniel Burkhoff, Rolf Dembinski, Esther H. Chen, Andrew D. Yeoman, Julia A. Wendon, Eric R. Frykberg, Julie P. Chou, Tom Lim, Andrew G. Lee, Christopher H. Mody, Georges Ouellet, Martine Leblanc, Marcel M. Levi, James C. O’Neill, Anne-Cornélie J. M. de Pont, Walter L. Biffl, C. Crawford Mechem, Ana Velez, Marcie Tomblyn, Hitoshi Honda, David K. Warren, Lars Widdel, Kathryn M. Beauchamp, Stéphane Y. Donati, Laurent Papazian, James D. Chalmers, Adam T. Hill, Laura J. Moore, John G. Muscedere, Christopher C. Baker, Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Ziad A. Memish, Andrew K. Roy, Patrick T. Murray, Devashish J. Anjaria, Edwin A. Deitch, Devashish J. Anjaria, Edwin A. Deitch, Gabriel A. Mecott, Marc G. Jeschke, Ahmed M. Al-Mousawi, David N. Herndon, Arthur Sanford, Richard L. Gamelli, Manuel Dibildox, Marc G. Jeschke, David N. Herndon, Kevin S. Akers, Clinton K. Murray, Arthur Sanford, Richard L. Gamelli, Jessie S. Glasser, Clinton K. Murray, Carlos M. Luna, Abelardo Capdevila, Brian K. Hogan, Clinton K. Murray

Bite Injuries.

Esther H. Chen

Gag Reflex.

Denis D. Bensard, Kathryn M. Beauchamp, Ryan T. Hurt, Stephen A. McClave, Angela M. Mills, Esther H. Chen, J. P. J. Wester, John B. Conneely, Michael Sugrue, Edgardo S. Salcedo, C. William Schwab, Eduardo Gonzalez, Ernest E. Moore, Peter F. Mount, Judy Savige, Lindsay-Rae B. Weitzel, Paul P. E. Wischmeyer, Marie Fröberg, Jan Wernerman, David F. Gaieski, Munish Goyal, Susan M. Lareau, Richard H. Beigi, Jessica A. Dominguez, Craig M. Coopersmith, Richard H. Beigi

Gastrointestinal Bleeding.

Angela M. Mills, Esther H. Chen

Abdominal pain in special populations.

Emergency medicine clinics of North America

Chen EH, Mills AM

Patient perceptions of computed tomographic imaging and their understanding of radiation risk and exposure.

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Baumann BM, Chen EH, Mills AM, Glaspey L, Thompson NM, Jones MK, Farner MC

Complications of percutaneous procedures.

The American journal of emergency medicine

Chen EH, Nemeth A

The impact of crowding on time until abdominal CT interpretation in emergency department patients with acute abdominal pain.

Postgraduate medicine

Mills AM, Baumann BM, Chen EH, Zhang KY, Glaspey LJ, Hollander JE, Pines JM

The association between emergency department crowding and analgesia administration in acute abdominal pain patients.

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Mills AM, Shofer FS, Chen EH, Hollander JE, Pines JM

The association between physician risk tolerance and imaging use in abdominal pain.

The American journal of emergency medicine

Pines JM, Hollander JE, Isserman JA, Chen EH, Dean AJ, Shofer FS, Mills AM

Inter-rater reliability of historical data collected by non-medical research assistants and physicians in patients with acute abdominal pain.

The western journal of emergency medicine

Mills AM, Dean AJ, Shofer FS, Hollander JE, McCusker CM, Keutmann MK, Chen EH

Derivation of a clinical prediction rule for evaluating patients with abdominal pain and diarrhea.

The American journal of emergency medicine

Chen EH, Shofer FS, Dean AJ, Hollander JE, Robey JL, Sease KL, Mills AM

Gender disparity in analgesic treatment of emergency department patients with acute abdominal pain.

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Chen EH, Shofer FS, Dean AJ, Hollander JE, Baxt WG, Robey JL, Sease KL, Mills AM

Resident exposure to critical patients in a pediatric emergency department.

Pediatric emergency care

Chen EH, Cho CS, Shofer FS, Mills AM, Baren JM

Emergency physicians do not use more resources to evaluate obese patients with acute abdominal pain.

The American journal of emergency medicine

Chen EH, Shofer FS, Hollander JE, Robey JL, Sease KL, Mills AM

In reply.

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Esther H. Chen, Amit Sareen

When do patients need admission to a telemetry bed?

The Journal of emergency medicine

Chen EH, Hollander JE

Gender Bias in Opiate Administration for Acute Abdominal Pain.

Academic Emergency Medicine

A. Mills, J. Hollander, F. Shofer, J. Robey, W. Baxt, E. Chen

The impact of a concurrent trauma alert evaluation on time to head computed tomography in patients with suspected stroke.

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Chen EH, Mills AM, Lee BY, Robey JL, Zogby KE, Shofer FS, Reilly PM, Hollander JE

Are blood cultures necessary in adults with cellulitis?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Mills AM, Chen EH

Inadequate Exposure to Patients in the Pediatric Emergency Department - In Reply.

Academic Emergency Medicine

Esther H. Chen, Jill M. Baren

Emergency medicine resident rotation in pediatric emergency medicine: what kind of experience are we providing?

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Chen EH, Shofer FS, Baren JM