Physician Leadership Program

Hilary Worthen, MD

Course Director

Dr. Worthen is an internist who has served in many leadership roles, including CMIO, at the Cambridge Health Alliance, a public academic health care system affiliated with Harvard and Tufts medical schools. He has been a Visiting Scientist at MIT and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and taught leadership for physicians through UCSF’s Healthforce Center for nine years. He has served as course director of the Physician Leadership Program from its beginning in 2016.

Read Pierce, MD

Dr. Pierce is Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at Dell Medical School where he also serves as Associate Chair for Faculty Development and Wellbeing in the Department of Medicine. Previously he founded the Hospital Medicine Section at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, and led  the University of Colorado’s Hospital Medicine Division. He has worked locally and nationally with many organizations to improve healthcare quality and safety.

Patrick Kerwin, MBA

Arpana Vidyarthi, MD

Dr. Vidyarthi is an academic hospitalist and Professor of Medicine at UCSF. After completing the CHCF Physician Leadership Fellowship, she established the Institute for Physician Leadership at UCSF. She has served as the Chief of the Division of Advanced Internal Medicine at the National University Hospital in Singapore. She holds a master’s degree in individual and organizational psychology and has studied, published, and taught on leadership, quality, and safety nationally and internationally.

Kimberly MacPherson, MBA, MBH

Director of Health Management at the Haas School of Business and the Faculty Program Director for Health Policy & Management at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. She directs the MBA/MPH program, the two-year MPH in HPM program, a one-year MPH for clinicians and the MPP/MPH offered with the Goldman School of Public Policy.

Jennifer Caleshu, MBA

Jennifer Caleshu is a lecturer, facilitator, and certified executive coach for programs in leadership, communications, design thinking, and innovation. She is a member of the professional faculty at UC’s Haas School of Business, where she lectures on Leadership Communications, Fundamentals of Design Thinking, and Building Trust-Based Relationships. 

Michelle Guy, MD

Dr. Guy is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF, where she also serves as Director of Diversity for Graduate Medical Education. She works with trainees, faculty, and staff to increase diversity and inclusion for all training programs at UCSF. As the Dean’s Diversity Leader for Differences Matter, she leads the group on faculty diversity and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion training that has trained over 1,600 UCSF faculty and staff.