Lisa Rotenstein, MD, MBA, MSc, Honored with National Investigator Award

We’re proud to celebrate Lisa Rotenstein, MD, MBA, MSc, who has been selected as the 2025 Outstanding Junior Investigator of the Year by the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), a leading national organization dedicated to advancing academic general internal medicine.

The award recognizes Lisa’s exceptional contributions in general internal medicine, including health services research, a focus on health equity, and her growing influence on health policy and systems innovation. SGIM’s selection committee praised her for numerous paradigm-shifting publications and the national impact of her research, which spans physician wellbeing, digital transformation in clinical practice, and strategies to improve care delivery.

The award will be formally presented on Saturday, May 17, during the 2025 SGIM Annual Meeting taking place this week in Hollywood, FL. The meeting (May 15-17) is dedicated to the pivotal role of academic general internists in transforming the healthcare landscape. Lisa also will be featured during numerous presentations, and more information about her sessions can be found here.

At UCSF, Lisa serves as the founding director of the Center to Advance Digital Physician Practice Transformation (ADAPT), launched in 2024. Her team is working to harness digital tools to support clinicians, streamline care, and reduce administrative burden, all while centering patient outcomes and provider experience.

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Rotenstein on this well-deserved recognition.

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About Lisa Rotenstein, MD, MBA, MSc

Dr. Rotenstein, a primary care physician, researcher, and healthcare leader, specializes in ambulatory care delivery, physician well-being, gender issues in medicine, and the impact of electronic health records on medical practice around these topics. Her research has been widely published, such as her work on physician and trainee mental health – published in JAMA, JAMA Health Forum, and the Journal of General Internal Medicine – has fostered increased awareness of the epidemic of depression and burnout in medical students and physicians and catalyzed action to address this public health burden. Her research on the electronic health record (EHR), published in JAMA Internal Medicine, JAMA Network Open, and JAMIA, have deepened the field’s understanding of the role of the EHR in physician experience.

Among her many achievements, Dr. Rotenstein has been named a 2022 Modern Healthcare Top 25 Emerging Leader, the 2022 New England Region SGIM Investigator of the Year, and a 2024 member of the New Voices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.