Nephrology

Ann O'Hare, MD is a nephrologist and health services researcher at the University of Washington where she is a Professor in the Department of Medicine as well as a Staff Physician at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System.  She received her undergraduate degree in Geography from the University of Cambridge in England in 1985, her Masters’ degree in Geography from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in 1987, and her medical doctorate from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in 1996.  She completed residency at Stanford University in Palo Alto in 1999 and Nephrology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco in 2003.  She has served on the faculty of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (2003-2007) and at the University of Washington in Seattle (2007-present).  Her clinical, research and teaching interest is in how we care for older adults with kidney disease.  Her research is currently supported by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs.  Over the course of her career she has published widely on the topic of caring for older adults with kidney disease in both the nephrology and general medicine literature.  She is deeply appreciative of the many insights and opportunities for enrichment afforded by her diverse but related roles of caring for patients, conducting research and mentoring trainees and junior faculty. 

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Robert M. Wachter, MD is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where he is the Holly Smith Distinguished Professor in Science and Medicine and the Benioff Endowed Chair in Hospital Medicine. The department leads the nation in NIH grants and is generally ranked as one of the nation’s best.

Wachter is author of 250 articles and 6 books and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. He coined the term “hospitalist” in 1996 and is often considered the “father” of the hospitalist field, the fastest growing specialty in the history of modern medicine. He is past president of the Society of Hospital Medicine and past chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine.

In the safety and quality arenas, he edits the U.S. government’s leading website on patient safety and has written two books on the subject, including Understanding Patient Safety, the world’s top selling safety primer. In 2004, he received the John M. Eisenberg Award, the nation’s top honor in patient safety. Twelve times, Modern Healthcare magazine has ranked him as one of the 50 most influential physician-executives in the U.S.; he was #1 on the list in 2015. His 2015 book, The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age, was a New York Times science bestseller. In 2016, he chaired a blue-ribbon commission advising England’s National Health Service on its digital strategy.

.To access MGR live streams and current semester recordings, please visit ETS here: DOM Medical Grand Rounds.