Program Leadership
Nardine Riegels, MD
Director of Medical Education & PSF Program Director
Nardine Riegels, MD
Director of Medical Education & PSF Program Director
Medical Education
UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Residency
UC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Board Certification
Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine
About Me
Dr. Nardine Saad Riegels is a hospitalist and medical educator at Kaiser Permanente. Dr. Riegels received a B.S. in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from UCLA, and her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of California, San Francisco. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at UCSF and joined The Permanente Medical Group in 2010. Dr. Riegels has practiced internal medicine at the KP Oakland and Richmond medical centers since that time, as a primary care physician in the Department of Adult and Family Medicine from 2010-2015, and as a hospitalist in the Hospital Based Specialty Department starting in 2016. At TPMG, she also cultivated a passion for medical education, particularly in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement. This has included leading numerous patient safety and quality improvement initiatives for residency programs, including the creation of resident quality dashboards and development of resident and faculty curricula in quality improvement and patient safety. In addition to serving as Patient Safety Fellowship Program Director, Dr. Riegels is also the Kaiser Permanente East Bay Director of Medical Education, supporting all medical student, residency and fellowship programs at that medical center. She holds appointments as Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, and Associate Professor at the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine in the Department of Health Systems Science. She is a member of the UCSF chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators, and the KP East Bay Academy of Medical Educators.
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Naomi Adler, MD
Assistant Program Director
Naomi Adler, MD
Assistant Program Director
About Me
Dr. Naomi Adler is an emergency physician with The Permanente Medical Group and serves as the Lead Mentor for the Patient Safety Fellowship. Dr. Adler received her B.A. in Psychology and Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. After graduating, she worked in public health for a number of years at Columbia University before going on to complete her medical education at the University of California, San Francisco. She competed her Emergency Medicine residency at Highland Hospital and then the Patient Safety Fellowship at Kaiser Permanente. As a fellow, she worked on the implementation of nerve blocks in the emergency department for patients with hip fractures as part of the Enhanced Recover After Surgery initiative, as well as high fidelity simulation for patient safety education and maintenance of skills. She joined The Permanente Medical Group in 2015 and works in the emergency departments in Oakland and Richmond. Dr. Adler has served multiple years as a mentor for patient safety fellows and has also taken on a number of administrative roles. She served as an Assistant Chief of Emergency Medicine during which time she worked on a variety of process improvement initiatives. In addition to her role in the fellowship, she is the Medical Director of Outside Medical Services at Kaiser Permanente East Bay, an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF, and the Kaiser Permanente Richmond Family Violence Prevention Lead. Much of her current work focuses on the identification and care of patients experiencing intimate partner violence, sexual assault and human trafficking.
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