Meghan O'Brien, MD

Associate Professor

Meghan O'Brien, MD, MBE, is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and a hospital-based general internist at San Francisco General Hospital where she leverages her training in primary care, humanities, and bioethics in service of providing dignity-driven, whole-person care.

Dr. O'Brien focuses her academic time on medical education, advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in medicine, and addiction medicine. She is a Bridges Coach for the SJV-PRIME program, teaching medical students clinical reasoning and doctoring skills, and she has been awarded four educational innovations grants to support curriculum development and educational research. Dr. O'Brien is committed to promoting an equitable and inclusive workplace and learning environment, co-leads a faculty development workshops for medical educators on selecting and designing equitable curriculum, and has been trained as a Community Ambassador to provide support to colleagues around issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. She was member of Differences Matter Working Group 3 which worked to promote an inclusive curriculum and educational environment and co-authored the Race and Race Literacy: Toolkit and Primer for Anti-Racism. In recognition of her contributions to medical education, Dr. O’Brien was inducted into UCSF’s Academy of Medical Educators in 2022.

In addition to her clinical and educational work, Dr. O’Brien previously served as a Bay Area Regional Director for the California Bridge Project from 2019 through 2021. In this capacity, she worked with a team to support regional hospitals in building their capacity to treat patients with opioid use disorder and connect them to ongoing care.

Dr. O'Brien is a certified bilingual provider (Spanish).