Dean Schillinger MD

Dean Schillinger, M.D. is Professor of Medicine in Residence at the University of California San Francisco, and Chief of the UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). He is a practicing primary care physician at SFGH, an urban public hospital, where he sees patients, teaches in the primary care residency program, and conducts research. In his prior administrative roles, he has directed the Medi-Cal managed care clinic at SFGH, the General Medicine Clinic at SFGH, and has been the Director of Clinical Operations for the Department of Medicine. Dr. Schillinger also serves as Chief of the Diabetes Prevention and Control Program for the California Department of Public Health.Dr. Schillinger is also PI for the UCSF component of a recently funded NIDDK P30 Center for Type 2 Diabetes Translational Research (CDTR) with Kaiser’s Division of Research.