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: 

Reckoning with uncertainty to repair trust.

Journal of hospital medicine

Santhosh L

Creation of a sustainable longitudinal women in Leadership Development (WILD) curriculum focused on graduate medical education trainees.

BMC medical education

McGourty CA, Castillo F, Donzelli G, Keenan BP, Gilbreth M, Santhosh L

The ABCs of Cultivating Psychological Safety for Clinical Learner Growth

Journal of graduate medical education

Brown W, Santhosh L, Stewart NH, Adamson R, & Lee M

The ABCs of Cultivating Psychological Safety for Clinical Learner Growth.

Journal of graduate medical education

Wade Brown, Lekshmi Santhosh, Nancy H. Stewart, Rosemary Adamson, May M. Lee

Centering health equity during handoff communications.

Journal of hospital medicine

Bansal R, Bhatia M, Santhosh L

Validating the Physician Documentation Quality Instrument for Intensive Care Unit–Ward Transfer Notes.

ATS Scholar

Patrick G. Lyons, Juan C. Rojas, Alice F. Bewley, Sara M. Malone, Lekshmi Santhosh

Changes in Gender and Racial/Ethnic Diversity in US Residency Program Applications From 2018 to 2022.

Journal of graduate medical education

Huppert LA, Santhosh L, Alba-Nguyen S, Lai CJ, Babik JM

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

Beyond the Procedure Log: Using Individualized Learning Plans to Set Learner-Specific Milestones for Procedural Skills Acquisition.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Dyster T, Santhosh L

Policies to Support Lactation at Highly Ranked US Medical Schools.

JAMA network open

Santhosh L, Vo A, Wick C, Mourad M, Sarkar U, Jagsi R, Mangurian C

Eye on the Prize: Patient Outcomes Research in Medical Education.

ATS Scholar

Cooper AZ, Jain S, Santhosh L, Carlos WG

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

Exercises in Clinical Reasoning: Beyond the Surface.

Journal of general internal medicine

Salazar JW, Minter DJ, Tseng ZH, Santhosh L

Diagnostic Safety Across Transitions of Care Throughout the Healthcare System: Current State and a Call to Action

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Publication

Santhosh L, Cornell E, Rojas JC, Lyons P.

Medical Societies Must Choose Professional Meeting Locations Responsibly in a Post-Roe World.

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Lee AG, Maley J, Hibbert K, Akgün KM, Hauschildt KE, Law A, Kaminski N, Hayes M, Gesthalter Y, Bosslet GT, Santhosh L, Witkin A, Hills-Dunlap K, Çoruh B, Gershengorn HB, Hardin CC

Discourage Paint-by-Numbers Presentations.

ATS Scholar

Baugh AD, Santhosh L

Time to Reimagine Diagnosis in the Acute Care Setting.

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

Pulia MS, Papanagnou D, Santhosh L

Gender Disparities in Critical Care Procedure Training of Internal Medicine Residents.

ATS Scholar

Olson EM, Sanborn DM, Dyster TG, Kelm DJ, Murray SG, Santhosh L, DesJardin JT

Reimagining the Learner-Employee Dyad: Trainees as "Essential Learners".

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Holzer H, Salib S, Wray C, Santhosh L

Teaching the science of uncertainty.

Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany)

Moulder G, Harris E, Santhosh L

Best Practices for Remediation in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Training.

ATS Scholar

Camac E, Stewart N, Santhosh L, Carlos WG, Denson JL, Heath J

Analysis of Narrative Text in Evaluations of Continuing Medical Education Faculty by Gender.

JAMA network open

Santhosh L, Rojek AE, Yim JWL, Lisker S, Wang K, Dy M, Sarkar U

Beyond "In the Red": Building the Business Case for a Post-COVID Clinic.

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Santhosh L

Reimagining Undergraduate Medical Education in a Post-COVID-19 Landscape.

Journal of general internal medicine

Guo MZ, Allen J, Sakumoto M, Pahwa A, Santhosh L

Cocreating the ICU-PAUSE Tool for Intensive Care Unit-Ward Transitions.

ATS Scholar

Santhosh L, Rojas JC, Garcia B, Thomashow M, Lyons PG

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

Long COVID Patient Fact Sheet.

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

Butler SJ, Santhosh L, Gupta S, Parker AM, Gershon AS

Prospective arrhythmia surveillance after a COVID-19 diagnosis.

Open heart

Dewland TA, Whitman IR, Win S, Sanchez JM, Olgin JE, Pletcher MJ, Santhosh L, Kumar U, Joyce S, Yang V, Hwang J, Ogomori K, Peyser N, Horner C, Wen D, Butcher X, Marcus GM

Response.

Chest

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

Longitudinal Milestone Assessment Extending Through Subspecialty Training: The Relationship Between ACGME Internal Medicine Residency Milestones and Subsequent Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Milestones.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Heath JK, Wang T, Santhosh L, Denson JL, Holmboe E, Yamakazi K, Clay AS, Carlos WG

Leadership & Professional Development: How to Teach When You Don’t Know.

Journal of hospital medicine

Samantha Wang, Lekshmi Santhosh, Charlie Wray

Tissue, Teamwork, and Timing: an Exercise in Clinical Reasoning.

Journal of general internal medicine

Ahmad TR, Kazberouk A, Santhosh L, Hsu G, Dhaliwal G

Emphasizing Empathy in Communicating About Uncertainty by Using a Dialogic Approach.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Chou CL, Connor DM, Santhosh L

A Novel Ambulatory Curriculum for Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Training.

ATS Scholar

Kassutto SM, Santhosh L, Dine CJ, Kreider M, Lapin J, Shah RJ

An Elusive Seizure.

The Neurohospitalist

Han HJ, Parks AL, Shah MP, Hsu G, Santhosh L

Tips and Traps for Trainees Traversing Social Media.

ATS Scholar

Santhosh L, Carroll CL, Seam N

Virtual Interviews at Graduate Medical Education Training Programs: Determining Evidence-Based Best Practices.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Huppert LA, Hsiao EC, Cho KC, Marquez C, Chaudhry RI, Frank J, Goglin SE, Hsu G, Kathpalia P, Khanna R, Kompala T, Rao MN, Bower BA, Trafas V, Santhosh L, Schwartz BS, Babik JM

COVID-19 Infection versus Influenza (Flu) and Other Respiratory Illnesses.

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

Sockrider M, Jamil S, Santhosh L, Carlos WG

On Treatments and Tests Deferred: Preparing for Collateral Damage from COVID-19.

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Jain S, Santhosh L

A call for collaboration and consensus on training for endotracheal intubation in the medical intensive care unit.

Critical care (London, England)

Brown W, Santhosh L, Brady AK, Denson JL, Niroula A, Pugh ME, Self WH, Joffe AM, O'Neal Maynord P, Carlos WG

Variation in Intensive Care Unit Intubation Practices in Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine Fellowship.

Anna K. Brady, Wade Brown, Joshua L. Denson, Gretchen Winter, Abesh Niroula, Lekshmi Santhosh, W. Graham Carlos

Variation in Intensive Care Unit Intubation Practices in Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine Fellowship.

ATS Scholar

Brady AK, Brown W, Denson JL, Winter G, Niroula A, Santhosh L, Carlos WG

Strategies for forming effective women's groups.

The clinical teacher

Santhosh L, Harleman E, Venado A, Farrand E, E Gilbreth M, Keenan BP, Thompson VV, Shah RJ

Patient Safety and Resident Schedules without 24-Hour Shifts.

The New England journal of medicine

Lyons PG, Rojas JC, Santhosh L

During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Lung Specialists of the World Implore You: Inhale Only Clean Air.

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

Santhosh L, Alismail A, Breiburg A, Carlos G, Jamil S

Family Meetings on Behalf of Patients with Serious Illness.

The New England journal of medicine

Widera E, Anderson WG, Santhosh L, McKee KY, Smith AK, Frank J

The "Third Shift": A Path Forward to Recognizing and Funding Gender Equity Efforts.

Journal of women's health (2002)

Santhosh L, Keenan BP, Jain S

Leadership Training in Pulmonary and Critical Care: A National Survey of Fellowship Program Directors.

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Steinbach TC, Adamson R, Carlos WG, Denson JL, Kritek PA, Santhosh L, Seam N, Wang TS, Çoruh B

From Bedrest to Balance

International Journal of Academic Medicine

Santhosh L.

Design and Implementation of a Peer-Reviewed Medical Education Video Competition: The Best of American Thoracic Society Video Lecture Series.

Journal of graduate medical education

Seam N, Richards JB, Kritek PA, Khemasuwan D, McCallister JW, Santhosh L, Prasad B, Bhargava S, Clay AS, Crotty Alexander LE

Diagnostic Error and Anchoring Bias in a Patient with Schizophrenia.

The American journal of medicine

Hemmat S, Santhosh L

Off Trail, On Track: an Exercise in Clinical Reasoning.

Journal of general internal medicine

Zejnullahu K, Santhosh L, Mourad M, Connor DM

Diagnostic uncertainty: from education to communication.

Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany)

Santhosh L, Chou CL, Connor DM

Strategies to build a clinician-educator career.

The clinical teacher

Santhosh L, Abdoler E, Babik JM

The Complex Problem of Women Trainees in Academic Medicine.

Journal of hospital medicine

Keenan B, Santhosh L, Thompson V, Harleman E

Wildfires Disaster Guidance: Tips for Staying Healthy during Wildfires.

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

Jamil S, Carlos WG, Leard L, Wang A, Santhosh L, Balmes J, Seam N, Dela Cruz CS

Characterising ICU-ward handoffs at three academic medical centres: process and perceptions.

BMJ quality & safety

Santhosh L, Lyons PG, Rojas JC, Ciesielski TM, Beach S, Farnan JM, Arora V

Practical Tips for ICU Bedside Teaching.

Chest

Santhosh L, Brown W, Ferreira J, Niroula A, Carlos WG

Tissue Isn't the Issue.

Journal of hospital medicine

Santhosh L, Koth L, Baudendistel TE, Sharpe B, Monash B

Intensive Care Unit Educators: A Multicenter Evaluation of Behaviors Residents Value in Attending Physicians.

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Santhosh L, Jain S, Brady A, Sharp M, Carlos WG

Whither the Pulmonary Ward Attending? Preserving Subspecialty Exposure in United States Internal Medicine Residency Training.

Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Santhosh L, Babik J, Looney MR, Hollander H

Medicine Enters the Computer Age.

Distracted Doctoring

Lekshmi Santhosh, Raman Khanna

From the sidelines to the frontline: how the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration embraced smoking cessation.

American journal of public health

Santhosh L, Meriwether M, Saucedo C, Reyes R, Cheng C, Clark B, Tipperman D, Schroeder SA

Regional distribution and behavioral correlates of 5-HT(2A) receptors in Alzheimer's disease with [(18)F]deuteroaltanserin and PET.

Psychiatry research

Santhosh L, Estok KM, Vogel RS, Tamagnan GD, Baldwin RM, Mitsis EM, Macavoy MG, Staley JK, van Dyck CH

Importance sampling method of correction for multiple testing in affected sib-pair linkage analysis.

BMC genetics

Klein AP, Kovac I, Sorant AJ, Baffoe-Bonnie A, Doan BQ, Ibay G, Lockwood E, Mandal D, Santhosh L, Weissbecker K, Woo J, Zambelli-Weiner A, Zhang J, Naiman DQ, Malley J, Bailey-Wilson JE