About Charlie Wray

Charlie M. Wray DO, MS is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Francisco (UCSF) and the San Francisco VA Medical Center. He completed medical school at Western University – College of Osteopathic Medicine, Internal Medicine residency at Loma Linda University, and a Hospital Medicine Research Fellowship at The University of Chicago. Dr. Wray’s research interests have focused on inpatient care transitions and care fragmentation in the hospital setting, overutilization of hospital resources, and the use of telemedicine to improve care for socially-vulnerable patients. Additionally, Dr. Wray is an Associate Editor and Digital Media Editor for the Journal of Hospital Medicine (JHM) – where he helped establish the use of Visual Abstracts and the Twitter-based journal club; JHMChat. Dr. Wray is also the Director of the newly developed JHM Editorial Fellowship. When not fulfilling these duties, Dr. Wray can often be found tweeting at @WrayCharles or trying to keep up with his two young boys.
Physician Leadership in a Time of Crisis: A Conversation with Lt. General Mark Hertling
April 14, 2020 |  0
Like the vast majority of you, I never thought I’d ever experience or be a part of a pandemic. A month ago, if you’d have told me we’d be where we’re at right now, I’d have thought you were crazy. Yet here we are. The vast majority of the nation is on self-quarantine, hospitals around […]
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Both Sides of the Bedrail: Bringing patients and hospitalists together to better understand the hospitalized patients’ experience
December 12, 2019 |  0
Years ago, I heard the saying, “For you [as a hospitalist], it may just be Monday or Tuesday, but for the patient it is often the worst day of their life.” This powerful medical aphorism captures the stark differences that can exist between a patient and a doctor. Physicians and health care systems are often […]
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Leadership & Professional Development in Academic Medicine
June 19, 2019 |  0
Becoming a leader in medicine is a unique process. I can’t think of another career where during ones training, regardless of how good you are at your job, you are automatically promoted to a more senior position each year! As you’ll recall, each July a new crop of interns shows up to our nation’s hospitals, […]
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Academia and Pregnancy: Reflections on How We Can Do Better
December 6, 2018 |  0
Co-authored by Vinny Arora, MD, MAPP, MHM One of us is a lucky husband to a physician mother, while the other is a physician hospitalist mom who is married to another hospitalist-leader. Together, we share many things: hospital medicine, #JHMChat, research interests, workshops, social circles, University of Chicago, and of course, being parents to young […]
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#JHMChat: Operating at the Intersection of Gore-Tex® and Twitter
September 20, 2018 |  0
Have you ever wondered if there’s a correlation between Gore-Tex® (Think: rain jacket material) and Social Media? No!? Well, I have… It turns out there may be more commonality between these topics than what one might imagine. You see, Bill Gore (the company’s founder and CEO) recognized a particular number in his manufacturing plants: 150. […]
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This Month’s #JHMChat: What Role Does Defensive Medicine Play in Resource Utilization?
February 22, 2018 |  1
“One-out-of-three”. I’m going to say that one more time: “One-out-of-three”. That’s the amount of medical resources that a group of surveyed hospitalists believe is used toward defensive medicine. Can you think of any other aspect of your life in which 1/3 of your decisions are made, not to optimize the outcome, but “just to be […]
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