Rachel Bystritsky, MD

HS Asst Clinical Professor

Rachel Bystritsky is an infectious disease specialist who sees patients at the UCSF Medical Center. She received her MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2012 and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center where she went on to be a chief resident. She completed Infectious Disease Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, where she has remained on faculty. Her clinical activities include seeing outpatients at the UCSF Infectious Disease Clinics and attending on the inpatient infectious diseases consult services at Parnassus, Mission Bay and Mount Zion. She serves as the Medical Director of the UCSF Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy Program.

Education
06/2015 - Internal Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
MD, 05/2012 - , Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Publications
  1. Bystritsky R, Gruenberg K, Abdoler E, Hilts-Horeczko A, Doernberg SB. Inter-rater reliability assessment of antibiotic prescription quality by infectious diseases physicians, fellows, and pharmacists. Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE 2023. PMID: 38156222


  2. Otani IM, Tang M, Wang L, Anstey KM, Hilts-Horeczko A, Li F, Le VP, Lee M, Bystritsky R, Mulliken JS, Wattier RL, Blumenthal KG, Doernberg SB. Impact of an Inpatient Allergy Guideline on β-Lactam and Alternative Antibiotic Use. The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice 2023. PMID: 37182569


  3. Bystritsky RJ, Chow FC. Infectious Meningitis and Encephalitis. 2022. PMID: 34798976


  4. Bystritsky RJ. Cellulitis. Infectious disease clinics of North America 2021. PMID: 33494874


  5. Bystritsky RJ, Beltran A, Young AT, Wong A, Hu X, Doernberg SB. Machine learning for the prediction of antimicrobial stewardship intervention in hospitalized patients receiving broad-spectrum agents. Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2020. PMID: 32618533


  6. Luther VP, Shnekendorf R, Abbo LM, Advani S, Armstrong WS, Barsoumian AE, Beeler CB, Bystritsky R, Cherabuddi K, Cohen S, Hamilton KW, Ince D, Justo JA, Logan A, Lynch JB, Nori P, Ohl CA, Patel PK, Pottinger PS, Schwartz BS, Stack C, Zhou Y. Antimicrobial Stewardship Training for Infectious Diseases Fellows: Program Directors Identify a Curriculum Need. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2018. PMID: 29668905


  7. Bystritsky R, Chambers H. Cellulitis and Soft Tissue Infections (Japanese Version). Annals of internal medicine 2018. PMID: 32755383


  8. Bystritsky R, Chambers H. Cellulitis and Soft Tissue Infections. Volume 168 of Issue 3. Annals of internal medicine 2018. PMID: 29404597


  9. Tanner J, Lin Y, Kornblum J, Herzig CT, Bystritsky R, Uhlemann AC, Lowy FD. Molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates obtained from the Rikers Island Jail System from 2009 to 2013. Volume 52 of Issue 8. Journal of clinical microbiology 2014. PMID: 24899033