Bhavika Kaul

Bhavika Kaul, MD, MAS is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. She serves as an attending physician in the UCSF Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) clinic, the Parnassus medical ICU, and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs pulmonary consult service.

• Education: MD (Baylor College of Medicine), Fellow/Chief Fellow Pulmonary and Critical Care (UCSF), Advanced Fellowship in Interstitial Lung Disease (UCSF), MAS in Clinical Research (UCSF)

Her research focuses on health services and implementation science to redesign pulmonary care delivery systems, particularly for Veterans with pulmonary fibrosis. Key areas include:

• Timely ILD diagnosis
• Subspecialty care engagement
• Big data analysis for epidemiology of pulmonary fibrosis
• Novel informatics approaches to healthcare access

Recent publications highlight her work in machine learning for diagnostic delays, global ILD prevalence variability, and health disparities in antifibrotic medication use. She has received prestigious awards including the American Society for Clinical Investigation's 2025 Young Physician-Scientist Award and National Academy of Medicine's Scholar in Diagnostic Excellence.