Ellen Hughes,
MD, PhD
- Clinical Professor of Medicine, Division of General Internal
Medicine, UCSF
- Osher Foundation Endowed Chair in Education in Integrative
Medicine
- Director of Education, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
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Ellen Hughes, MD, PhD, Director of Education at the Osher Center for Integrative
Medicine, is Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal
Medicine at UCSF. She received a PhD in cell biology from the University
of California Berkeley and an MD from the UCSF School of Medicine where
she completed a residency in primary care internal medicine and a fellowship
in general medicine. She has served on the faculty of the Division of General
Internal Medicine since 1987.
Dr. Hughes has been actively involved in development of the new UCSF
medical school curriculum. She has designed and taught several CAM
electives at UCSF, lectured extensively on CAM, and presented workshops
on CAM education at the American Association of Medical Colleges meetings.
She has taught allopathic and CAM courses in the Schools of Medicine,
Nursing, Pharmacy and Physical Therapy.
Dr. Hughes was awarded the prestigious Kaiser Award for Excellence in
Teaching by clinical faculty at UCSF, the first Humanism in Medicine Award
by the class of 2000, and has received six major teaching awards from
medical school students. She has been selected as a senior faculty mentor
for one of the five Advising Colleges recently established by UCSF for
entering medical students. In September 2001, she was chosen as one of
the founding members of the new
Academy of Medical Educators at UCSF.
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