Elisabeth Askin

Elisabeth Askin, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. She specializes in general internal medicine and practices primarily in primary care. Her research interests focus on chronic disease management, optimization of medication use (including deprescribing), and enhancing care for complex patients through team-based approaches. She actively participates in the Quality Improvement Committee at her clinic and engages with the UCSF Accountable Care Organization. Dr. Askin holds an MD from Washington University School of Medicine (2014), completed residency at UCSF (2017), and earned a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training certificate from UCSF in 2018. Her recent work includes a collaborative study on hospital discharge summaries using large language models, published in JAMA Internal Medicine.