Himali Weerahandi, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor
San Francisco, California

Himali Weerahandi, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine within the Department of Medicine at UCSF. Her areas of expertise include transitions across the continuum of care, care coordination, readmissions, and discharge practices. She is the principal investigator of a National Institutes of Health K23 Career Development Award examining discharge process quality from skilled nursing facility to home after a heart failure hospitalization. She is also examining how frailty and cognitive impairment drive outcomes in these patients in order to design best practices for this vulnerable group.

Presentation(s):

• (SA19) Mitigating COVID-19-Related Complications to Promote Successful Rehabilitation and Discharge

  Saturday, March 11, 2023
  4:00 PM – 5:30 PM ET