Rate My Professor Glenn Rosenbluth

Glenn Rosenbluth, MD, is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He specializes in pediatric hospital medicine, focusing on the care of children with medical complexity, and works on the Pediatric Hospitalist team as well as with the Craniofacial Center, where he serves as Medical Director at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. Dr. Rosenbluth earned his MD from Weill Cornell Medicine and completed his internship, residency, and chief residency in pediatrics at UCSF from 2002 to 2006. He further pursued a Fellowship in Hospital Medicine through the UCSF Department of Medicine, the UCSF Teaching Scholars Program, and the Intermountain Healthcare Advanced Training Program. Joining the UCSF faculty in 2005, he was one of four physicians to receive the UCSF Exceptional Physician Award in 2006.

In his role as Director of Quality and Safety Programs for the UCSF Office of Graduate Medical Education, Dr. Rosenbluth oversees a Resident and Fellow Quality Improvement Incentive Program that engages over 850 trainees annually. His academic interests center on the intersection of medical education and patient safety. He played a leadership role in the I-PASS study, which showed significant reductions in medical errors and preventable adverse events after implementing a handoff communication bundle. Currently, he mentors in the AHRQ-funded mentored implementation of I-PASS with the Society of Hospital Medicine and served as the UCSF site director for the PCORI-funded Patient and Family-Centered I-PASS Study. Dr. Rosenbluth has led workshops on topics such as improving patient handoffs, interprofessional team training, patient- and family-centered rounding, and clinical reasoning skills. His key publications include "Family Input for Quality and Safety (FIQS): Using mobile technology for in-hospital reporting from families and patients" (Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2022), "Implementation of the I-PASS handoff program in diverse clinical environments: A multicenter prospective effectiveness implementation study" (Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2023), and "Implementing a Family-Centered Rounds Intervention Using Novel Mentor-Trios" (Pediatrics, 2024). Through these contributions, Dr. Rosenbluth has advanced quality improvement and safety initiatives in graduate medical education.