Katherine Malcolm

Katherine Malcolm is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. She specializes in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, with additional training in Sleep Medicine. Her clinical and research work focuses on respiratory tract infections, pleural effusions, antimicrobial resistance, and critical illness management, particularly in lung transplantation and postoperative complications.

• MD from Tufts University School of Medicine (2016)
• MPH from Boston University (2012)
• Residency in Internal Medicine at UCSF (2019)
• Fellowships in Pulmonary/Critical Care (2022) and Sleep Medicine (2023) at UCSF

Her research integrates Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care, and Genetics, with recent work analyzing metagenomic data for antimicrobial resistance prediction and characterizing risk factors for recurrent pleural effusions in transplant recipients. Earlier studies explored sleep quality disparities in smokers and cardiovascular risk from CT lung screening.

Malcolm collaborates with UCSF colleagues like Yaron Gesthalter, Joe DeRisi, and Neeta Thakur on translational research projects. Her work appears in journals such as J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol, J Clin Sleep Med, and Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement with fields including data science, epidemiology, and clinical outcomes research.