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Molly Cooke, M.D. |
William G. Irwin Endowed Chair
Director of the Academy of Medical Educators
Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Senior Scholar, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
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Education and Training
- Medical School: Stanford University
- Residency: University of California, San Francisco
- Fellowship: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Fellowship in General Internal Medicine
Areas of Interest
- HIV/AIDS
- Medical education
- Medical ethics
- Health problems of underserved populations
- Palliative/End-of-Life care
- Doctor-patient relationship
Current Academic and/or Research Activities
Molly Cooke, M.D. FACP, Professor of Medicine, holds the William G. Irwin Endowed Chair as Director of the Academy of Medical Educators at the University of California, San Francisco. The Academy of Medical Educators was established to serve as a resource for medical school faculty who demonstrate a significant commitment to medical education. It advocates for including teaching excellence in criteria for promotion, and raises and distributes funding in support of teaching and innovative curriculum development. In this effort it is nationally recognized as a groundbreaking initiative.
Dr. Cooke is a Senior Scholar of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; in that capacity, she co-directs a national study of medical education. The central focus of the investigation is on the professional development of physicians-in-training at three key points in their clinical education: 1) the early exposure to "doctoring"; 2) the third year clerkships; and 3) the residency; a book based on this work will be published by Jossey-Bass in 2008.
Dr. Cooke has been active in medical education program development throughout her career. She was a founding member of the Division of General Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) and participated in the development of the primary care internal medicine residency at that hospital. An awardee of HRSA funding for the "Interdisciplinary Generalist Curriculum", she served as the founding director of "Foundations of Patient Care," an innovative six-quarter, preceptorship-based course for first- and second-year medical students. A distinguished teacher herself, Dr. Cooke has twice received the Kaiser Family Foundation Teaching Award as well as a UCSF Academic Senate Award for Distinction in Teaching. In 2006, she was awarded the AOA/Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Dr. Cooke is also well known in the field of HIV ethics. After her fellowship studies focused on bioethics, she established the first ethics committee at SFGH and served as its chair, becoming experienced with the ethical problems arising in urban public hospitals. She has advised the AMA, the American College of Physicians, and the AAMC on clinical care and ethical and policy issues in the HIV epidemic, and was a founding co-director of the AIDS Task Force of the Society for General Internal Medicine. Dr. Cooke testified before both National AIDS Commissions (in 1988 and 1990) and served as chair of the board of directors of Project Open Hand, the internationally known food program for people with HIV.
A practicing internist with a strong interest in HIV, Dr. Cooke has been selected by her peers as one of the Bay Area's "Best Doctors" repeatedly over the past ten years. She is the Governor for the Northern California chapter of the American College of Physicians. She was a Department of Health and Human Service Primary Care Health Policy Fellow in 2004 and is serving a two-year term as vice chair of the ACP's Health and Public Policy Committee.
Selected Publications
Cooke M, Gourlay L, Collette L., Boccellari A, Chesney MA, Folkman S. "Dying of AIDS-The Role of Caregivers in Intentionally Hastened Death" Archives of Internal Medicine, 1998; 158:69-75.
Thompson B, Lawson D, Croughan-Minihane M and Cooke M. "Do patients' ethnic and social factors influence the use of Do Not Resuscitate orders" Ethnicity and Disease 1999; 9:132-9.
Lesky L, Davis A, Cooke M. "How did we make the interdisciplinary generalist curriculum work? -- National efforts to facilitate success." Academic Medicine 2001; 76:S26-S30.
Fenton C, Loeser H, Cooke M. "Intersessions; Covering the bases in the clinical years." Academic Medicine 2002: 77;1159.
Cooke M, Irby DM, Debas HT. "The UCSF Academy of Medical Educators." Academic Medicine 2003; 78:666-72.
Other Links
http://medschool.ucsf.edu/academy/
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