Mary Whooley, MD

Mary Whooley MD FACP FAHA FACC FAMIA is a primary care physician, clinical informatician, health systems researcher, Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Director of the Center for Healthcare Improvement and Medical Effectiveness (CHIME) at the San Francisco VA and UCSF. Her work focuses on leveraging clinical informatics to accelerate the adoption of evidence-based practices that improve the quality of healthcare delivered in the U.S. Veterans Health Administration's national learning health system. At the San Francisco VA, Dr. Whooley serves as Director of the VA Measurement Science QUERI, Principal Investigator (PI) of the >20-year Heart and Soul Study, Site PI for the Million Veterans Program, and Site Director for the UCSF Clinical Informatics Fellowship. At UCSF, Dr. Whooley directs the Clinical Research Informatics Postdoctoral (CRISP) fellowship and leads the Research Education Core for UCSF’s Leaning Health System Embedded Scientist Training and Research Center. Her previous work focused on screening for depression (1996-2000), understanding the links between depression and cardiovascular disease (2001-11), and disseminating home-based cardiac rehab (2012-22). She has coauthored over 300 publications and received numerous research mentoring awards.