OUR PEOPLE
Charlie Wray, DO, MS
Associate Professor
School of Medicine
1700 4th Street, #308
San Francisco, CA 94158
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Education and Training
University of Texas at Austin, B.A - 2003 Biological Sciences
Western University, D.O. - 2011 College of Osteopathic Medicine
Loma Linda University Medical Center, Residency - 2014 Internal Medicine
University of Chicago, Hospital Medicine Research Fellowship - 2016 Section of Hospital Medicine
University of Chicago, M.S. - 2016 Health Services Research
University of California,San Francisco, CA 2018 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training
Awards and Honors
Lawrence Loo Evidence Based Medicine Teaching Award, Loma Linda University, 2014
Senior Fellow, Society of Hospital Medicine, 2023
Overview
As a health services researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, my research focuses on improving the quality, value, and accessibility of care for Veterans, with particular emphasis on hospital medicine and virtual care.
I co-direct the Hospital Medicine Analytics Team (HMAT), a national, multidisciplinary team that uses data from more than 120 VA hospitals to better understand variation in hospital care and identify opportunities to improve quality, access, and value. HMAT combines a national hospital medicine data infrastructure with research, evaluation, and quality-improvement initiatives, with a particular focus on supporting rural VA hospitals and advancing the VA as a learning health system.
My second major area of research examines the implementation, accessibility, and outcomes of virtual care within the VA. My work has focused on digital disparities and telemedicine access among socially vulnerable Veterans, improving digital literacy and engagement with virtual care, and understanding how the balance of virtual and in-person care affects clinical outcomes. More recently, I have focused on the impact of virtual care following hospitalization among Veterans with heart failure, with the goal of identifying how virtual care can be delivered safely, effectively, and equitably.
I co-direct the Hospital Medicine Analytics Team (HMAT), a national, multidisciplinary team that uses data from more than 120 VA hospitals to better understand variation in hospital care and identify opportunities to improve quality, access, and value. HMAT combines a national hospital medicine data infrastructure with research, evaluation, and quality-improvement initiatives, with a particular focus on supporting rural VA hospitals and advancing the VA as a learning health system.
My second major area of research examines the implementation, accessibility, and outcomes of virtual care within the VA. My work has focused on digital disparities and telemedicine access among socially vulnerable Veterans, improving digital literacy and engagement with virtual care, and understanding how the balance of virtual and in-person care affects clinical outcomes. More recently, I have focused on the impact of virtual care following hospitalization among Veterans with heart failure, with the goal of identifying how virtual care can be delivered safely, effectively, and equitably.