Mitchell D. Feldman, MD, MPhil

Associate Vice Provost
Medicine
+1 415 353-7900

HONORS AND AWARDS:
2011 – 2012 Fulbright Research Scholar, Kyoto University, Japan
2010 Excellence in Research, Crede Award, DGIM, Nominee
2010 Nominee, AOA Honor Society, UCSF Medical School Class of 2008
2008 Excellence in Teaching, Crede Award, DGIM, Nominee
2007 Outstanding Clinical Teaching Award, Nominee, UCSF School of Medicine
2006 Co-author of Best Published Research Paper of the Year, Society of General Internal Medicine, Awarded at the April 2006 Annual Meeting
2006 “Article of the Year” Award, Academy Health, June 2006 Annual Meeting
2006 Excellence in Clinical Research, Crede Award Nominee. Division of General Internal Medicine, UCSF
2003 Clinician-Educator of the Year Award, Society of General Internal Medicine California Region
1999 Research Fellow, The Japan Foundation
1998 National Award for Innovation in Medical Education, Society of General Internal Medicine, Presented at the Annual Meeting
1997 Robert H. Crede Award for Excellence in Teaching, Division of General Internal Medicine
1982 Earle C. Anthony Fellowship, UCSF
1978 Phi Beta Kappa, Johns Hopkins University

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS
2011 Visiting Professor, MD Anderson, Houston, Texas
2010 Visiting Professor, Columbia University School of Medicine, New York, New York
2010 Visiting Professor, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York
2010 Visiting Professor, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
2010 Visiting Professor, Kyoto University School of Medicine and School of Public Health, Kyoto, Japan
2010 Visiting Professor, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah

Mitchell D. Feldman, MD, MPhil obtained his B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University, an MPhil in social anthropology from Cambridge University, England and his MD and Internal Medicine Residency training at the University of California, San Francisco where he is Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine. Dr Feldman is Associate Vice Provost, Faculty Mentoring, Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs; Director, Mentor Development Program of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, UCSF. Dr Feldman’s current research is focused on mentoring in academic medicine and on psychiatric and behavioral issues in medical patients. Dr Feldman's other area of research interest is in the clinical and economic barriers to high-quality depression treatment in primary care. He has been especially interested in examining the influence of patient prompts on physician behavior.Dr Feldman is the co-editor of the text Behavioral Medicine: A Guide for Clinical Practice (McGraw-Hill) and is the former co-editor in chief of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

Publications: 

Telemedicine and Depression Screening After the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

JAMA network open

Garcia ME, Neuhaus J, Livaudais-Toman J, Feldman MD, Ochoa-Frongia L, Khoong E, Karliner LS

Does Sponsorship Promote Equity in Career Advancement in Academic Medicine? A Scoping Review.

Journal of general internal medicine

Schwartz R, Williams MF, Feldman MD

Faculty knowledge, actions, and perceptions of sponsorship: an institutional survey study.

Medical education online

Williams MF, Yank V, O'Sullivan P, Alldredge B, Feldman MD

Equitability of Depression Screening After Implementation of General Adult Screening in Primary Care.

JAMA network open

Garcia ME, Hinton L, Neuhaus J, Feldman M, Livaudais-Toman J, Karliner LS

Responding to the Great Resignation: Detoxify and Rebuild the Culture.

Journal of general internal medicine

Linzer M, Griffiths EP, Feldman MD

Challenges in Mentoring.

Mia F. Williams, Radhika A. Ramanan, Mitchell D. Feldman

Developing a Culture of Mentoring.

Mitchell D. Feldman, Patricia S. O’Sullivan

Utilizing Lean Leadership Principles to Build an Academic Primary Care Practice of the Future.

Journal of general internal medicine

Morduchowicz S, Lee JS, Choi L, Kivlahan C, Null D, Smith S, Feldman MD

A new Mentor Evaluation Tool: Evidence of validity.

PloS one

Yukawa M, Gansky SA, O'Sullivan P, Teherani A, Feldman MD

Predictors of health-related quality of life among older adults living with HIV in Thailand: results from the baseline and follow-up surveys.

AIDS care

Musumari PM, Srithanaviboonchai K, Tangmunkongvorakul A, Dai Y, Sitthi W, Rerkasem K, Kowal P, Techasrivichien T, Suguimoto SP, Feldman MD, Ono-Kihara M, Kihara M

Change in Faculty Perceptions of Burnout and Work Life in an Academic General Medicine Clinic: a Pre-Post Study.

Journal of general internal medicine

Lee JS, Karliner LS, Julian KA, Linzer M, Feldman MD

Dietary habits, body image, and health service access related to cardiovascular diseases in rural Zambia: A qualitative study.

PloS one

Tateyama Y, Musumari PM, Techasrivichien T, Suguimoto SP, Zulu R, Dube C, Feldman MD, Ono-Kihara M, Kihara M

Correction: Socio-behavioral risk factors among older adults living with HIV in Thailand.

PloS one

Musumari PM, Tangmunkongvorakul A, Srithanaviboonchai K, Feldman MD, Sitthi W, Rerkasem K, Techasrivichien T, Suguimoto SP, Ono-Kihara M, Kihara M

Eight Years at the Helm.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD, Kravitz RL

Socio-behavioral risk factors among older adults living with HIV in Thailand.

PloS one

Musumari PM, Tangmunkongvorakul A, Srithanavibooncha K, Feldman MD, Sitthi W, Rerkasem K, Techasrivichien T, Suguimoto SP, Ono-Kihara M, Kihara M

Medical Education Then and Now.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD, Kramer-Feldman JA

Psychiatric Consultation at Your Fingertips: Descriptive Analysis of Electronic Consultation From Primary Care to Psychiatry.

Journal of medical Internet research

Lowenstein M, Bamgbose O, Gleason N, Feldman MD

Altruism and Medical Practice.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD

International Perspectives on General Internal Medicine.

Journal of general internal medicine

Greene J, Feldman MD

Reinventing Primary Care: Embracing Change, Preserving Relationships.

Journal of general internal medicine

Kravitz RL, Feldman MD

Mentoring clinical trainees: a need for high touch.

Lancet (London, England)

Wilkes M, Feldman MD

Peer Review at JGIM.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD, Kravitz RL

Guns, Doctors and Public Health.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD

Prediction of Sepsis in the Intensive Care Unit With Minimal Electronic Health Record Data: A Machine Learning Approach.

JMIR medical informatics

Desautels T, Calvert J, Hoffman J, Jay M, Kerem Y, Shieh L, Shimabukuro D, Chettipally U, Feldman MD, Barton C, Wales DJ, Das R

Getting to the 'Why' of Behavior Change.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD

A computational approach to early sepsis detection.

Computers in biology and medicine

Calvert JS, Price DA, Chettipally UK, Barton CW, Feldman MD, Hoffman JL, Jay M, Das R

International Perspectives on General Internal Medicine.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression.

Psychotherapy and psychosomatics

Eisendrath SJ, Gillung E, Delucchi KL, Segal ZV, Nelson JC, McInnes LA, Mathalon DH, Feldman MD

Rumors of the Demise of Peer Review are Premature.

Journal of general internal medicine

Kravitz RL, Feldman MD

Leading the Way in Health Disparities Research.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD

Don't Believe Everything You Think.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD

A failure to communicate.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD

Mentoring the next generation of physician-scientists in Japan: a cross-sectional survey of mentees in six academic medical centers.

BMC medical education

Sakushima K, Mishina H, Fukuhara S, Sada K, Koizumi J, Sugioka T, Kobayashi N, Nishimura M, Mori J, Makino H, Feldman MD

Analysis of threats to research validity introduced by audio recording clinic visits: Selection bias, Hawthorne effect, both, or neither?

Patient education and counseling

Henry SG, Jerant A, Iosif AM, Feldman MD, Cipri C, Kravitz RL

Maintaining competence in general internal medicine.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD

Changes in Sexual Behavior and Attitudes Across Generations and Gender Among a Population-Based Probability Sample From an Urbanizing Province in Thailand.

Archives of sexual behavior

Techasrivichien T, Darawuttimaprakorn N, Punpuing S, Musumari PM, Lukhele BW, El-Saaidi C, Suguimoto SP, Feldman MD, Ono-Kihara M, Kihara M

Impact of patient requests on provider-perceived visit difficulty in primary care.

Journal of general internal medicine

Fenton JJ, Franks P, Feldman MD, Jerant A, Henry SG, Paterniti DA, Kravitz RL

Potential antidepressant overtreatment associated with office use of brief depression symptom measures.

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM

Jerant A, Kravitz RL, Fernandez Y Garcia E, Feldman MD, Cipri C, Nishio D, Knoepfler A, Wooddell MK, Baquero V, Franks P

The effect of targeted and tailored patient depression engagement interventions on patient-physician discussion of suicidal thoughts: a randomized control trial.

Journal of general internal medicine

Shah R, Franks P, Jerant A, Feldman M, Duberstein P, Fernandez y Garcia E, Hinton L, Strohecker L, Kravitz RL

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) versus the health-enhancement program (HEP) for adults with treatment-resistant depression: a randomized control trial study protocol.

BMC complementary and alternative medicine

Eisendrath SJ, Gillung EP, Delucchi KL, Chartier M, Mathalon DH, Sullivan JC, Segal ZV, Feldman MD

Peer review: the year in review.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD, Kravitz RL

Patient engagement programs for recognition and initial treatment of depression in primary care: a randomized trial.

JAMA

Kravitz RL, Franks P, Feldman MD, Tancredi DJ, Slee CA, Epstein RM, Duberstein PR, Bell RA, Jackson-Triche M, Paterniti DA, Cipri C, Iosif AM, Olson S, Kelly-Reif S, Hudnut A, Dvorak S, Turner C, Jerant A

Screening for intimate partner violence: the time is now.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD

Direct to consumer unproved screening tests turn a profit in Japan.

BMJ (Clinical research ed.)

Tokuda Y, Feldman MD

Getting back to basics.

Journal of general internal medicine

Kravitz RL, Feldman MD

General internal medicine as an engine of innovation.

Journal of general internal medicine

Kravitz RL, Feldman MD

Targeted versus tailored multimedia patient engagement to enhance depression recognition and treatment in primary care: randomized controlled trial protocol for the AMEP2 study.

BMC health services research

Tancredi DJ, Slee CK, Jerant A, Franks P, Nettiksimmons J, Cipri C, Gottfeld D, Huerta J, Feldman MD, Jackson-Triche M, Kelly-Reif S, Hudnut A, Olson S, Shelton J, Kravitz RL

The primary care behaviorist: a new approach to medical/behavioral integration.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD, Feldman S

Characteristics of successful and failed mentoring relationships: a qualitative study across two academic health centers.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Straus SE, Johnson MO, Marquez C, Feldman MD

Peer review: looking back, looking forward.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD, Kravitz RL

A mentor development program for clinical translational science faculty leads to sustained, improved confidence in mentoring skills.

Clinical and translational science

Feldman MD, Steinauer JE, Khalili M, Huang L, Kahn JS, Lee KA, Creasman J, Brown JS

Latin American immigrants have limited access to health insurance in Japan: a cross sectional study.

BMC public health

Suguimoto SP, Ono-Kihara M, Feldman MD, Kihara M

Role of behavioral medicine in primary care.

Current opinion in psychiatry

Feldman MD, Berkowitz SA

Vicarious experience affects patients' treatment preferences for depression.

PloS one

Berkowitz SA, Bell RA, Kravitz RL, Feldman MD

Deriving competencies for mentors of clinical and translational scholars.

Clinical and translational science

Abedin Z, Biskup E, Silet K, Garbutt JM, Kroenke K, Feldman MD, McGee R, Fleming M, Pincus HA

From the editors' desk: peer review now and in the future.

Journal of general internal medicine

Kravitz RL, Feldman MD

From the editors' desk: religion, health and cucumbers.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD

From the editors' desk: valuing health and primary care.

Journal of general internal medicine

Srinivasan M, Feldman MD

Suffering in silence: reasons for not disclosing depression in primary care.

Annals of family medicine

Bell RA, Franks P, Duberstein PR, Epstein RM, Feldman MD, Fernandez y Garcia E, Kravitz RL

Career development of physician scientists: a survey of leaders in academic medicine.

The American journal of medicine

Shea JA, Stern DT, Klotman PE, Clayton CP, O'Hara JL, Feldman MD, Griendling KK, Moss M, Straus SE, Jagsi R

From the editors' desk: physician heal thyself.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD

From the editors' desk: The July effect.

Journal of general internal medicine

Kravitz RL, Feldman MD, Alexander GC

From the editors' desk: challenging problems, challenging patients.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD

From the editors' desk: decisions, decisions.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD, Kravitz RL

From the editors' desk: disparities near and far.

Journal of general internal medicine

Kravitz RL, Feldman MD

Journal of General Internal Medicine. From the editor's desk: our paper anniversary.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD, Kravitz RL

From the Editors' Desk: Self-Plagiarism and Other Editorial Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Journal of general internal medicine

Kravitz RL, Feldman MD

From the editors' desk: what you don't know could hurt you.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD

From the editors' desk: confronting costs of care at the end of life.

Journal of general internal medicine

Kravitz RL, Feldman MD

Is all that fluctuates delirium?

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Cauley KD, Feldman MD

Relational barriers to depression help-seeking in primary care.

Patient education and counseling

Kravitz RL, Paterniti DA, Epstein RM, Rochlen AB, Bell RA, Cipri C, Fernandez y Garcia E, Feldman MD, Duberstein P

"I didn't know what was wrong:" how people with undiagnosed depression recognize, name and explain their distress.

Journal of general internal medicine

Epstein RM, Duberstein PR, Feldman MD, Rochlen AB, Bell RA, Kravitz RL, Cipri C, Becker JD, Bamonti PM, Paterniti DA

Does mentoring matter: results from a survey of faculty mentees at a large health sciences university.

Medical education online

Feldman MD, Arean PA, Marshall SJ, Lovett M, O'Sullivan P

Editorial peer reviewers' recommendations at a general medical journal: are they reliable and do editors care?

PloS one

Kravitz RL, Franks P, Feldman MD, Gerrity M, Byrne C, Tierney WM

Donepezil-associated bradyarrhythmia in a patient with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB).

Alzheimer disease and associated disorders

Rosenbloom MH, Finley R, Scheinman MM, Feldman MD, Miller BL, Rabinovici GD

An innovative program to train health sciences researchers to be effective clinical and translational research mentors.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Johnson MO, Subak LL, Brown JS, Lee KA, Feldman MD

From the Editor's desk: legislating change.

Journal of general internal medicine

Srinivasan M, Feldman MD

Screening for suicide ideation among older primary care patients.

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM

Heisel MJ, Duberstein PR, Lyness JM, Feldman MD

From the editors' desk: the science and politics of screening.

Journal of general internal medicine

Kravitz RL, Feldman MD

From the editors' desk.

Journal of general internal medicine

Feldman MD, Kravitz RL

Training the next generation of research mentors: the University of California, San Francisco, Clinical & Translational Science Institute Mentor Development Program.

Clinical and translational science

Feldman MD, Huang L, Guglielmo BJ, Jordan R, Kahn J, Creasman JM, Wiener-Kronish JP, Lee KA, Tehrani A, Yaffe K, Brown JS

Depressive symptoms, health behaviors, and risk of cardiovascular events in patients with coronary heart disease.

JAMA

Whooley MA, de Jonge P, Vittinghoff E, Otte C, Moos R, Carney RM, Ali S, Dowray S, Na B, Feldman MD, Schiller NB, Browner WS

Gastric banding or bypass? A systematic review comparing the two most popular bariatric procedures.

The American journal of medicine

Tice JA, Karliner L, Walsh J, Petersen AJ, Feldman MD

Physicians' shared decision-making behaviors in depression care.

Archives of internal medicine

Young HN, Bell RA, Epstein RM, Feldman MD, Kravitz RL

Factitious Usher syndrome: a new type of factitious disorder.

Medscape journal of medicine

Feldman MD, Miner ID

Introduction: new medical device technologies.

Journal of general internal medicine

Tice JA, Hoffman RM, Steiner C, Feldman MD

Let's not talk about it: suicide inquiry in primary care.

Annals of family medicine

Feldman MD, Franks P, Duberstein PR, Vannoy S, Epstein R, Kravitz RL

Exploring and validating patient concerns: relation to prescribing for depression.

Annals of family medicine

Epstein RM, Shields CG, Franks P, Meldrum SC, Feldman M, Kravitz RL

Barriers to psychotherapy among depressed and nondepressed primary care patients.

Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine

Mohr DC, Hart SL, Howard I, Julian L, Vella L, Catledge C, Feldman MD

Caught in the act? Prevalence, predictors, and consequences of physician detection of unannounced standardized patients.

Health services research

Franz CE, Epstein R, Miller KN, Brown A, Song J, Feldman M, Franks P, Kelly-Reif S, Kravitz RL

Types of information physicians provide when prescribing antidepressants.

Journal of general internal medicine

Young HN, Bell RA, Epstein RM, Feldman MD, Kravitz RL

What drives referral from primary care physicians to mental health specialists? A randomized trial using actors portraying depressive symptoms.

Journal of general internal medicine

Kravitz RL, Franks P, Feldman M, Meredith LS, Hinton L, Franz C, Duberstein P, Epstein RM

Realigning economic incentives for depression care at UCSF.

Administration and policy in mental health

Feldman MD, Ong MK, Lee DL, Perez-Stable EJ

Economic grand rounds: incentives for primary care providers to participate in a collaborative care program for depression.

Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)

Feldman MD, Areán PA, Ong MK, Lee DL, Feldman S

Influence of patients' requests for direct-to-consumer advertised antidepressants: a randomized controlled trial.

JAMA

Kravitz RL, Epstein RM, Feldman MD, Franz CE, Azari R, Wilkes MS, Hinton L, Franks P

Teaching the psychosocial aspects of care in the clinical setting: practical recommendations.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Kern DE, Branch WT, Jackson JL, Brady DW, Feldman MD, Levinson W, Lipkin M

HIV/AIDS surveillance in Japan, 1984-2000.

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Kihara M, Ono-Kihara M, Feldman MD, Ichikawa S, Hashimoto S, Eboshida A, Yamamoto T, Kamakura M

Introduction: HIV/AIDS surveillance in a new era.

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Kihara M, Kamakura M, Feldman MD

The role of provider attitudes in prescribing antidepressants to older adults: leverage points for effective provider education.

International journal of psychiatry in medicine

Areán PA, Alvidrez J, Feldman M, Tong L, Shermer R

Physicians' response to victims of domestic violence: toward a model of care.

Women & health

Gerbert B, Moe J, Caspers N, Salber P, Feldman M, Herzig K, Bronstone A

Becoming an emotionally intelligent physician.

The Western journal of medicine

Feldman MD

Potential interaction between ritonavir and carbamazepine.

Pharmacotherapy

Kato Y, Fujii T, Mizoguchi N, Takata N, Ueda K, Feldman MD, Kayser SR

Simplifying physicians' response to domestic violence.

The Western journal of medicine

Gerbert B, Moe J, Caspers N, Salber P, Feldman M, Herzig K, Bronstone A

Apricot orchards: doctors and patients in Japan.

The Western journal of medicine

Feldman M

Sex, AIDS, and the elderly.

Archives of internal medicine

Feldman MD