Gerald Hsu, MD, PhD

Education
2019 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
06/2011 - Medical Oncology, University of California, San Francisco
06/2008 - Internal Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital
MD, PhD, 06/2005 - , Duke University
BS, 06/1997 - Biochemistry, University of Toronto
Honors and Awards
  • Essential Core Teaching Award - Excellence in Small Group Instruction, UCSF, 2016
  • Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, UCSF, 2016
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, UCSF, 2015
Publications

  1. Butler B, Velazquez AI, Trejo E, Huppert LA, Hsu G, Babik JM, Santhosh L. How do Internal Medicine Residents from Different Backgrounds Make Subspecialty Career Choices? A Qualitative Analysis. Journal of general internal medicine 2025. PMID: 41269511


  2. Santos MA, Manesh R, Dhaliwal G, Hsu G, Geha RM. Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind. Journal of hospital medicine 2021. PMID: 34328845


  3. Brondfield S, Harmon D, Romero D, Tai J, Hsu G. Design-Based Bone Marrow Biopsy Training. Simulation in healthcare : journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare 2021. PMID: 34319272


  4. Ahmad TR, Kazberouk A, Santhosh L, Hsu G, Dhaliwal G. Tissue, Teamwork, and Timing: an Exercise in Clinical Reasoning. Journal of general internal medicine 2021. PMID: 34244961


  5. Han HJ, Parks AL, Shah MP, Hsu G, Santhosh L. An Elusive Seizure. The Neurohospitalist 2021. PMID: 34950412


  6. Brondfield S, Seol A, Hyland K, Teherani A, Hsu G. Integrating Concept Maps into a Medical Student Oncology Curriculum. Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education 2021. PMID: 31414369


  7. Rencic J, Zhou M, Hsu G, Dhaliwal G. Circling Back for the Diagnosis. The New England journal of medicine 2017. PMID: 29091567


  8. Mannis G, Wu D, Dea T, Mauro T, Hsu G. Ibrutinib rash in a patient with 17p del chronic lymphocytic leukemia. American journal of hematology 2014. PMID: 24890909


  9. Wiita AP, Hsu GW, Lu CM, Esensten JH, Wells JA. Circulating proteolytic signatures of chemotherapy-induced cell death in humans discovered by N-terminal labeling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2014. PMID: 24821784


  10. Crawford ED, Seaman JE, Agard N, Hsu GW, Julien O, Mahrus S, Nguyen H, Shimbo K, Yoshihara HA, Zhuang M, Chalkley RJ, Wells JA. The DegraBase: a database of proteolysis in healthy and apoptotic human cells. Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP 2012. PMID: 23264352


  11. Shimbo K, Hsu GW, Nguyen H, Mahrus S, Trinidad JC, Burlingame AL, Wells JA. Quantitative profiling of caspase-cleaved substrates reveals different drug-induced and cell-type patterns in apoptosis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2012. PMID: 22802652


  12. Büsch F, Pieck JC, Ober M, Gierlich J, Hsu GW, Beese LS, Carell T. Dissecting the differences between the alpha and beta anomers of the oxidative DNA lesion FaPydG. Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 2008. PMID: 18196510


  13. Hsu GW, Huang X, Luneva NP, Geacintov NE, Beese LS. Structure of a high fidelity DNA polymerase bound to a benzo[a]pyrene adduct that blocks replication. The Journal of biological chemistry 2004. PMID: 15548515


  14. Hsu GW, Kiefer JR, Burnouf D, Becherel OJ, Fuchs RP, Beese LS. Observing translesion synthesis of an aromatic amine DNA adduct by a high-fidelity DNA polymerase. The Journal of biological chemistry 2004. PMID: 15385534


  15. Hsu GW, Ober M, Carell T, Beese LS. Error-prone replication of oxidatively damaged DNA by a high-fidelity DNA polymerase. Nature 2004. PMID: 15322558