Announcing Anoop Muniyappa, MD, MS, as the Inaugural Director of AI Innovation in Medical Education

The Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation (DoC-IT) and the Department of Medicine (DOM) are thrilled to announce that Anoop Muniyappa, MD, MS, has been named the inaugural Director of AI Innovation and Medical Education. In this role, Anoop will lead efforts to integrate AI in medical education across the department while also serving as a resource and liaison for faculty and divisions exploring AI applications across a broader range of areas. 

Anoop is an assistant professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine and DoC-IT, with expertise in leveraging electronic health record (EHR) systems, data analytics, digital health tools, and AI. Through his work as a clinical informaticist, he leads several initiatives to improve care delivery to patients and enhance and streamline clinical workflows to reduce the burden on physicians.

“AI tools offer incredible potential to advance UCSF’s educational mission,” Anoop said. “To fully realize this potential, we need an organized approach to understand the needs of our trainees, faculty, and staff, and robust frameworks and governance to evaluate, deploy, and monitor AI tools that match these needs.”

In this new role, Anoop will develop a strategic roadmap for how to advance medical education through AI and also collaborate with institutional leaders to implement AI-driven educational initiatives.

Anoop will draw on his experience providing direct care on a variety of inpatient medicine services where he teaches and supervises residents and medical students at the UCSF Medical Center. He also holds leadership positions in clinical operations, quality improvement, and education.  Anoop serves as interim medical co-director for Adult Transitions of Care at UCSF Health, where he spearheads efforts to develop EHR-based clinical decision support, integrate digital health tools, and standardize workflows to improve post-discharge quality of care, reduce readmissions, and increase revenue. Anoop also serves as an associate director for the GME Clinical Informatics and Data Science pathway and as core faculty for the Clinical Informatics Fellowship.

Anoop’s journey in medicine and informatics began at UC Berkeley, where he earned a BS in public health and an MS in health and medical science. He later completed his MD, internal medicine residency, and clinical informatics fellowship at UCSF.

“There is a substantial opportunity to use AI to improve various aspects of medical education, and I am excited for our Division to partner with DOM to be at the forefront at this intersection,” said Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, chief of DoC-IT. “Anoop brings an ideal mix of creative ideas and a track record of successful collaborations using digital tools to drive improvements.”

Anoop was selected thanks to the dedicated efforts of the search committee: Rima Arnaout, Michelle Mourad, Sara Murray, Maria Novelero, and Lucas Zier.

To learn more about Anoop, visit his UCSF profile.