Residency Programs
Internal Medicine
Faculty Spotlight
Paul Aronowitz, MD - Program Director
Dr. Aronowitz was previously Co-Director of the California Pacific Medical Center Hospitalist Service. He is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University. He trained in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where he was Chief Resident, and later, Chief of the VA Medical Center emergency room and Urgent Care Clinic.
Dr. Aronowitz is a council member of the Association of Program Directors of Internal Medicine (APDIM). This council is the main advisory panel for all Internal Medicine Programs in the United States. Dr. Aronowitz has presented numerous talks and educational workshops at national meetings for the Program Directors.
Dr. Aronowitz continues to work as a hospitalist. He has received multiple teaching awards from UCSF medical students and CPMC residents in past years. He has also published work in a diversity of places, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Medical Economics, Discover, Hippocrates, Family Circle and the New York Times Magazine. His Research interests include Medical Humanities, Hospitalist Medicine and Hospitalist Education of Medical House Staff. As one of the first hospitalists on the West Coast, his thoughts about this emerging field have been published in the Washington Post, New England Journal of Medicine, San Francisco Business Times, Medical Economics and The Hospitalist.
He also has a strong interest in the use of “Images” in clinical medicine to teach students and residents. He is the editor of “Images in Hospital Medicine” in the Journal of Hospital Medicine and an Assistant Editor of that journal. He is also a Deputy Editor of Journal of General Internal Medicine where he co-edits “Reflections,” the creative writing section of that journal.