Recent Books Written By UCSF-Affiliated Authors
As a resource for members of the UCSF community and the UCSF Alumni Virtual Book Club, we want to highlight and celebrate recent books (fiction or nonfiction) written by UCSF alumni and/or faculty emeriti!
Scroll down to view the latest list, updated biannually, typically in January and July.
Nonfiction
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life (2019)
by Louise Aronson, MD, MFA, Resident Alum, Clinical Fellow Alum
Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health - 3rd edition (2019)
by Donald A. Barr, MD ’73, PhD, Resident Alum
Reunion: Finding the Disappeared Children of El Salvador (2022)
by Elizabeth Barnert, MD ’09
Love, Sanity, or Medical School: A Memoir (2019)
by Stephanie Benjamin, MD, Resident Alum
The Delusions Of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups (2021)
by William Bernstein, MD ’76
Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures with Nursing Diagnoses - 9th edition (2019)
by Jane V. Corbett, MS ’70, and Angela D. Banks, PhD ’05
Women Physician Pioneers of the 1960s: Their Lives and Profession Over a Half Century (2021)
by Susan Detweiler, MD ’71
Culture & Clinical Care - 3rd edition (2019)
by Suzanne Dibble, PhD ’86; Surani Hayre-Kwan; and Juliene Lipson, PhD ’78
Clinical Care and Rehabilitation in Head and Neck Cancer (2019)
by Philip Doyle, PhD ’85
Cardiology Board Review and Self-Assessment: A Companion Guide to Hurst’s the Heart (2018)
by Mark J. Eisenberg, MD, MPH, Resident Alum, Clinical Fellow Alum
The Essential MD-PhD Guide (2021)
by Mark J. Eisenberg, MD, MPH, Resident Alum, Clinical Fellow Alum, and Andrea L. Cox, MD, PhD
When Antidepressants Aren't Enough: Harnessing the Power of Mindfulness to Alleviate Depression (2019)
by Stuart J. Eisendrath, MD, Resident Alum, Professor Emeritus
The Stress Prescription: Seven Days to More Joy and Ease (2022)
by Elissa Epel, PhD, Postdoc Alum
Understanding Modern Health Care: The Wonders We Created and the Potholes We Dug (2021)
by Steve Fredman, MD, Resident Alum, Clinical Fellow Alum
Endemic: A Post-Pandemic Playbook (2023)
by Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, Resident Alum
Guarding the Golden Gate: A History of the U.S. Quarantine Station in San Francisco Bay (2022)
by J. Gordon Frierson, MD, Resident Alum
Latinx Salud Poems, an Inaugural Collection (2019)
by Alvaro Garza, MD ’75
Profiteering, Corruption and Fraud in U.S. Health Care (2020)
by John Geyman, MD ’60
Acupuncture for Dentistry and Orofacial Pain (2020)
by Greg Goddard, DDS ’67, and Giovanni Mauro, MD, DDS
STAGE (Not Age) (2022)
by Susan Golden, Postdoc Alum
Infiltrating Healthcare: How Marketing Works Underground to Influence Nurses (2018)
by Quinn Grundy, PhD ’15
The Case for Masks (2020)
by Dean Hashimoto, MD ’80
Outmatched: The Death Penalty Meets the Wisdom of Montaigne (2020)
by Philip D. Hansten, PharmD ’67, Resident Alum
Responsible: A Memoir (2020)
by Diana Hendel, PharmD ’89
Why Cope When You Can Heal?: How Healthcare Heroes of COVID-19 Can Recover from PTSD (2020)
by Diana Hendel, PharmD ’89, and Mark Goulston, MD
Boundless: An Abortion Doctor Becomes a Mother (2022)
by Christine Henneberg MD ’13
Treatment of Stress Response Syndromes (2020)
by Mardi Horowitz, MD ’58
The Truth About Dietary Supplements: An Evidence-Based Guide to a Safe Medicine Cabinet (2021)
by Mahtab Jafari, PharmD ’94
Kaiser Foundation School of Nursing: A Legacy of Disruptive Innovation (2020)
by Deloras Jones, MS ’70, and Jim D’Alfonso
Wounded Workers: Tales from a Working Man’s Shrink (2021)
by Robert Larsen, MD, Resident Alum
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice (2021)
by Rupa Marya, MD, Resident Alum, and Raj Patel
Recognizing and Treating Hoarding Disorder: How Much Is Too Much? (2020)
by Carol Mathews, MD, Resident Alum
Immunology and Rheumatology in Questions - 2nd edition (2021)
by Haralambos Moutsopoulos, MD, Resident Alum, et al.
Wildhood (2019)
by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, MD ’87
Evidence-Based Diagnosis: an Introduction to Clinical Epidemiology - 2nd edition (2020)
by Thomas Newman, MD, MPH, Resident Alum, Postdoc Alum, Professor Emeritus, and Michael A Kohn, MD, MPP
Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs (2021)
by Ina Park, MD, Postdoc Alum
The Sleep Prescription: Seven Days to Unlocking Your Best Rest (2022)
by Aric Prather, PhD, Postdoc Alum
Focal Point (2021)
by Jenny Qi, PhD ’17
Navigating Change: Global Health, AIDS, CDC, and the United Nations (2022)
by Deborah Rugg, PhD ’82
Top 3 Differentials in Gastrointestinal Imaging: A Case Review (2019)
by Rocky Saenz, MD, Clinical Fellow Alum
Spicebox Kitchen: Eat Well and Be Healthy with Globally Inspired, Vegetable-Forward Recipes (2021)
by Linda Shiue, MD, Resident Alum
Back to the Roots: Memory, Inequality, and Urban Agriculture (2021)
by Sara Shostak, PhD ’03
Not the Fuhrer’s Son (2022)
by Werner Stamm, MD ’58
Unnecessary Expense: An Antidote for the Billion Dollar Drug Problem (2021)
by Charles Theuer, MD ’89, PhD
The Psychological Effects of Immigrating (2022)
by Robert Tyminski, DMH ’86
Balance, Pedal, Breathe (2022)
by Claire Unis, MD ’00
An Easy Guide to Adding Orthodontics onto Your Dental Practice (2020)
by Amanda Wilson, DDS ’01
The Power of Pooping: A Cheeky Diet and Lifestyle Guide to End Constipation and Transform Your Health (2022)
by Susan Wong, BS ’78, RN
Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor's Unlikely Adventure (2024)
by Mimi Zieman, MD, Clinical Fellow Alum
Fiction
Heart Wood (2020)
by Shirley Dickard, BS ’68
An Enemy to Love (2021) and In Flew Enza (2022)
by James Gottesman, MD ’70, Resident Alum
Slings & Arrows (2020)
by David Greenberg, MD, PhD, Resident Alum
Erica Rosen MD Trilogy (2021-2022)
by Deven Greene (aka D.G., MD, Resident Alum)
Baobab - a novel (2019)
by Larry Hill, MD ’67, Resident Alum
Extinction 6 (2018)
by Hosein Kouros-Mehr, MD ’08, PhD ’06
North Woods (2023)
by Daniel Mason, MD ’04
Soldiers of a Foreign War (2018) and In a Dark Wood (2021)
by Charles McNair, MD ’78