Alyssa Perez, MD

Asst Prof of Clinical Medicine

Dr. Perez graduated from Jefferson Medical College and completed Internal Medicine residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She received her Master of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She then came to UCSF for pulmonary and critical care fellowship. She spent her third year of fellowship pursuing advanced training in lung transplantation, cystic fibrosis, and advanced lung disease.

Dr. Perez is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. She specializes in the care of lung transplant recipients and patients living with cystic fibrosis. Dr. Perez is also a medical educator. She is an associate program director for the UCSF internal medicine residency and a fellowship coach for the UCSF pulmonary and critical care fellowship.

Education
Advanced Fellowship, 06/2020 - Lung Transplantation and Advanced Lung Disease, University of California San Francisco
Fellowship, 06/2020 - Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of California San Francisco
EdM, 05/2017 - Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Residency, 06/2016 - Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
MD, 05/2013 - Medicine, Jefferson Medical College
Honors and Awards
  • The Jeffrey Golden Outstanding Clinical Fellow Award, UCSF, 2020
  • Henry Christian Award, AFMR, 2019
Publications
  1. Odisho AY, Liu AW, Maiorano AR, Bigazzi MOA, Medina E, Leard LE, Shah R, Venado A, Perez A, Golden J, Kleinhenz ME, Kolaitis NA, Maheshwari J, Trinh BN, Kukreja J, Greenland J, Calabrese D, Neinstein AB, Singer JP, Hays SR. Design and implementation of a digital health home spirometry intervention for remote monitoring of lung transplant function. The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 2023. PMID: 37031033


  2. Perez AA, Shah RJ. Critical Care of the Lung Transplant Patient. Clinics in chest medicine 2022. PMID: 36116814


  3. Perez A. The Other Side. 2021. PMID: 34665200


  4. Perez AA, Hays SR, Soong A, Gao Y, Greenland JR, Leard LE, Shah RJ, Golden J, Kukreja J, Venado A, Kleinhenz ME, Singer JP. Improvements in frailty contribute to substantial improvements in quality of life after lung transplantation in patients with cystic fibrosis. Pediatric pulmonology 2020. PMID: 32237273


  5. Perez AA, Singer JP, Schwartz BS, Chin-Hong P, Shah RJ, Kleinhenz ME, Gao Y, Venado A, Leard LE, Golden JA, Kukreja J, Greenland JR, Hays SR. Management and clinical outcomes after lung transplantation in patients with pre-transplant Mycobacterium abscessus infection: A single center experience. Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society 2019. PMID: 30924986


  6. Perez AA, Pelletier SR, Klein IA, Shields HM. Patient as Co-Teacher on Rounds: a Pilot Study. Volume 33 of Issue 7. Journal of general internal medicine 2018. PMID: 29633127