About
Dr. Kate Lupton is a general internist based at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, the safety net provider for San Francisco. She is a primary care provider at the Richard Fine People's Clinic and attends on the medicine teaching service at ZSFG.Dr. Lupton's educational interests include ambulatory and primary care education for medical students and residents, clinical care of underserved and vulnerable patients and physician workforce diversity. She is a core preceptor for medicine residents with continuity clinic at ZSFG and serves as a resident advising and development (RAD) coach with the medicine residency program. She was recently named the director of SPAN (Specialty Practice Ambulatory Sub-Internship), a longitudinal ambulatory capstone experience for 4th year UCSF medical students and she will be developing this innovative new longitudinal ambulatory clerkship required of all senior medical students as part of the Bridges career launch phase.Dr. Lupton is strongly committed to improving the climate for diversity, equity and inclusion and to increasing physician workforce diversity. She has served on several Department and School of Medicine committees examining issues of diversity, equity and inclusion at UCSF. She was selected as a 2016 John A. Watson Faculty Scholar and has used this opportunity to collaborate on the implementation of holistic review in intern selection for the UCSF internal medicine residency program. She is currently developing a new faculty development certification program that will provide medical educators with skills and tools to incorporate principles of diversity, equity and inclusion in their teaching and educational activities.
Current Work
Dr. Lupton has collaborated on the implementation of holistic review in intern selection for the UCSF internal medicine residency program; these efforts have resulted in a sustained near doubling of the number of residents from racial and ethnic groups traditionally underrepresented in medicine. She is currently developing a new faculty development certification program that will provide medical educators with skills and tools to incorporate principles of diversity, equity and inclusion in their teaching and educational activities.
Research Area Keyword(s)
diversity equity and inclusion, Health Disparities, Medical education, physician workforce diversity