Nardine Saad Riegels, MD

Biography

Associate Professor

Health Systems Science

Dr. Nardine Saad Riegels serves the Kaiser Permanente East Bay Medical Center as a hospitalist. She has supported the UCSF Kaiser Permanente Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship in various roles, including Clerkship Director. Dr. Riegels’ research has focused mostly on medical education, covering such topics as longitudinal integrated clerkships and health systems science education.

Education and Training

Degrees: BS, summa cum laude, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
MD, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Postdoctoral Training: Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Professional Positions

Primary Care Internist: Kaiser Permanente East Bay Medical Center; 2010-2016

Course Director, PULSE: Policy, Leadership and Systems Engineering course: Kaiser Permanente Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship; 2011-present

Hospitalist: Kaiser Permanente East Bay Medical Center; 2016-present

Graduate Medical Education (GME) Committee Member: Kaiser Permanente East Bay Medical Center; 2016-present

Clerkships with Continuity Committee: UCSF School of Medicine; 2016-present

Clerkship Director: UCSF-Kaiser Permanente Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship; 2016-present

Hospital Performance Improvement Committee: Kaiser Permanente East Bay Medical Center; 2018-present

Associate Clinical Professor: UCSF Department of Medicine; 2018-present

Honors and Awards

Highest Member Provider Satisfaction Score: Kaiser Permanente East Bay Department of Adult and Family Medicine; 2014

Teacher of the Year Award: Kaiser Permanente Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship; 2015

Academy of Medical Educators: Kaiser Permanente East Bay; 2015

Academy of Medical Educators: UCSF School of Medicine; 2017

Scholarly Activities

Peer-reviewed research manuscripts

Julian K, Riegels NS, Baron R. Perspective: Creating the next generation of general internists: a call for medical education reform. Academic Medicine 2011 Nov; 86:1443-7.
Riegels NS, Suri A, Weil H. Systems based practice within the longitudinal integrated clerkship. In: Poncelet A and Hirsh D. Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (LICs): Principles, outcomes, practical tools and future directions. Gegensatz Press.
Riegels NS, Asher E, Cartwright J, Chow J, Lee E, Nordstrom M, Schneider A, Schwarz M, Zarin-Pass M, Mazotti L. Listening Beyond Auscultating: A Quality Initiative to Improve Communication Scores in the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey. The Permanente Journal. Perm J 2018; 22:16-187