Carly Zapata

Dr. Carly Zapata is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and serves as a palliative care attending physician across multiple services, including the Palliative Care Consult Service at Parnassus, the Helen Diller Cancer Center, and the Outpatient Palliative Care Service. She directs the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at UCSF and is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Palliative Care.

• B.A., Johns Hopkins University (2006)
• MD and MPH, Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2012)
• Internal Medicine Residency, UCSF (2015)
• Chief Resident, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (2016)
• Palliative Medicine Fellowship, UCSF (2017)

Dr. Zapata's research focuses on family caregiver needs and healthcare disparities in palliative care. She has developed tools for caregiver assessment and advocates for equitable service delivery. Her work spans telemedicine, outpatient models, and disease-specific programs (e.g., ALS, interstitial lung disease, CRC).

Scientific trends in her publications include equitable cancer care (2023), outpatient palliative integration (2022), virtual medical education (2021), and cross-disciplinary clinical frameworks (2015-2018). Her 15 most recent articles emphasize practical implementation, technology in care, and support systems for underserved populations.

Dr. Zapata collaborates extensively with UCSF colleagues such as Steven Pantilat, Kara Bischoff, and Rebecca Sudore. She is actively involved in fellowship training and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (2018).