Jessica B Rubin, MD, MPH

Biography

Jessica Rubin is a transplant hepatologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco VA. After completing her undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering at Yale, she attended Weill Cornell for medical school, concurrently completing her MPH at Mount Sinai. She then moved across the country to UCSF for residency and has remained here since then. Dr. Rubin's research is focused on improving the quality-of-life and care provided to patients with chronic liver disease, with a focus on pain management. Her work has been funded by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the UCSF Liver Center, and the NIH. She currently has an NIDDK K23 funding her work using national VA and CMS data to explore the real-world risks of analgesics in patients with cirrhosis, with a goal of developing evidence-based guidance for safely and effectively managing pain in this population.