Diane Sliwka, MD

Professor

Diane Sliwka, MD is a Hospitalist and Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. In her role as Chief Physician Experience Officer at UCSF Health, she has led provider experience efforts organizationally since 2014. This role includes measurement of the provider work experience as well as individual, local and organizational efforts to improve well-being and the structural and systemic challenges for providers. Diane also co-chairs the University of California wide collaborative on physician well-being since 2019, is a member of the National CHARM Chief Wellness Officer Network, and has completed training in the Stanford Chief Wellness Officer Course.

Diane leads UCSF Health’s Center for Enhancement of Communication in Healthcare which provides relationship centered communication skills training for providers. She co-chairs the Health Equity Council at UCSF, leads clinical communications related to COVID pandemic. From 2012-until 2020 she served as Executive Medical Director for Patient Experience with a focus on physician engagement in improving the experience for patients at UCSF Health.

Diane received her bachelor degree in Biology from Dartmouth College and her medical degree from University of Connecticut School of Medicine after which she completed Internal Medicine Residency at Maine Medical Center. She then spent 2 years as a clinician educator and hospitalist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston where she completed the Rabkin Fellowship in Medical Education with an academic focus on simulation education before transitioning to UCSF. She has completed leadership training through the UCSF Institute for Physician Leadership and the Coro Women’s Initiative at UCSF. She is faculty in the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare.

Education
2019 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
2018 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
M.D., 2002 - School of Medicine, University of Connecticut
Websites
Publications
  1. Mourad M, Prasad P, Wick C, Sliwka D. Physician Satisfaction With Lactation Resources Following an Intervention to Improve Lactation Accommodations. JAMA network open 2023. PMID: 37552478


  2. Shaw NM, Hills N, Holler J, Fernandez A, Davis D, Palmer NR, Sliwka D, Breyer BN. The Impact of Patient-Physician Racial and Gender Concordance on Patient Satisfaction with Outpatient Clinic Visits. Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities 2023. PMID: 37341950


  3. Shaw NM, Abbasi B, Odisho AY, Hills N, Holler J, Sliwka D, Breyer BN. The Impact of Patient Travel Distance on Outpatient Visit Satisfaction: Comparison of Telehealth and Traditional In-Person Visits. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association 2023. PMID: 37172307


  4. Lisa S. Rotenstein, Daiva Braunfelds, Diane Sliwka. Health Affairs Blog Six Principles To Ensure Clinician Well-Being: Lessons From COVID-19’s Darkest Days For A New Way Of Working 2021. PMID:


  5. Britney N. Wilson MBS, Jenny E. Murase MD, Diane Sliwka MD, Nina Botto MD. International Journal of Women's Dermatology Bridging racial differences in the clinical encounter: How implicit bias and stereotype threat contribute to health care disparities in the dermatology clinic 2021. PMID:


  6. Wilson BN, Murase JE, Sliwka D, Botto N. Bridging racial differences in the clinical encounter: How implicit bias and stereotype threat contribute to health care disparities in the dermatology clinic. International journal of women's dermatology 2021. PMID: 33937479


  7. Neeman N, Quinn K, Shoeb M, Mourad M, Sehgal NL, Sliwka D. Postdischarge focus groups to improve the hospital experience. American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2013. PMID: 23687239


  8. Mourad M, Ranji S, Sliwka D. A randomized controlled trial of the impact of a teaching procedure service on the training of internal medicine residents. Journal of graduate medical education 2012. PMID: 23730437


  9. Mourad, Michelle, Sumant Ranji, and Diane Sliwka. Journal of Graduate Medical Education A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Impact of a Teaching Procedure Service on the Training of Internal Medicine Residents. 2012. PMID:


  10. Mourad M, Auerbach AD, Maselli J, Sliwka D. Patient satisfaction with a hospitalist procedure service: is bedside procedure teaching reassuring to patients? Journal of hospital medicine 2011. PMID: 21480494


  11. Plant JL, van Schaik SM, Sliwka DC, Boscardin CK, O'Sullivan PS. Validation of a self-efficacy instrument and its relationship to performance of crisis resource management skills. Advances in health sciences education : theory and practice 2011. PMID: 21264508


  12. Sliwka D, Fang MC. Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in the United States: still room for improvement. Journal of general internal medicine 2010. PMID: 20390463