Anna Chang, MD
Associate Dean for Curriculum; Professor
Dr. Anna Chang is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics and Associate Dean for Curriculum in the UCSF School of Medicine.
Over two decades at UCSF, she has helped transform undergraduate medical education through innovative curriculum design, clinical learning experiences, and a deep commitment to mentorship and educator development. She was an integral member of the team that envisioned and launched the Bridges Curriculum in 2016 and has since directed the Clinical Microsystems Clerkship (CMC), the required clinical skills and health systems improvement course for early learners. She co-founded the Tideswell Emerging Leaders in Aging Program (ELIA), a national interprofessional leadership development program, and the Department of Medicine's Program for Clinician Educator Success (DOM PRO-cess), which has supported clinician educator faculty in career development, mentorship, and scholarship.
She was inducted into the UCSF Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators in 2009, selected as the Gold Headed Cane Endowed Education Chair in Internal Medicine in 2014, and received the American Geriatric Society Outstanding Mid-Career Clinician Educator of the Year Award in 2016, and the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) Distinguished Service Award in 2021. In 2025, she and her team became the first health professions educators selected as UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement Fellows for their research focused on strengthening trust between scientific evidence and public discourse.
She is board certified in Geriatric Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine and a clinician practicing at SFVAHCS.
Over two decades at UCSF, she has helped transform undergraduate medical education through innovative curriculum design, clinical learning experiences, and a deep commitment to mentorship and educator development. She was an integral member of the team that envisioned and launched the Bridges Curriculum in 2016 and has since directed the Clinical Microsystems Clerkship (CMC), the required clinical skills and health systems improvement course for early learners. She co-founded the Tideswell Emerging Leaders in Aging Program (ELIA), a national interprofessional leadership development program, and the Department of Medicine's Program for Clinician Educator Success (DOM PRO-cess), which has supported clinician educator faculty in career development, mentorship, and scholarship.
She was inducted into the UCSF Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators in 2009, selected as the Gold Headed Cane Endowed Education Chair in Internal Medicine in 2014, and received the American Geriatric Society Outstanding Mid-Career Clinician Educator of the Year Award in 2016, and the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) Distinguished Service Award in 2021. In 2025, she and her team became the first health professions educators selected as UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement Fellows for their research focused on strengthening trust between scientific evidence and public discourse.
She is board certified in Geriatric Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine and a clinician practicing at SFVAHCS.
