George Su, MD

Education
Clinical Fellowship, - , University of California, San Francisco
Publications

  1. Stansbury R, Su G, Stern A, Hrovat A, Parthasarathy S. Coming Full Circle with Preventive Pulmonary Practice: The American Thoracic Society Vaccine Initiative. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2025. PMID: 40153551


  2. Bhat AN, Singh A, Kurien P, Su G, Chang JL, Durr ML. Barriers to Care for Sleep Surgery at a Safety Net Hospital: Qualitative Patient Experiences. The Laryngoscope 2025. PMID: 40145616


  3. Choudhury AS, Cemballi AG, Tuot DS, Su G, DeFries T, Sadasivaiah S, Ratanawongsa N, Lyles CR. Intensive Remote Onboarding to Improve Digital Health Access Among Safety-Net Patients During a Pandemic: An Implementation Study. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association 2025. PMID: 40587823


  4. Khoong EC, Kuznia M, Rodriguez KMT, Gosdin MM, Juarez Yoc JN, Tieu L, Li B, Perron-Burdick M, Su G, Nijagal M, Lyles CR. The Impact of Telehealth Implementation and Visit Modality on No-Show Rate in a High-Risk Obstetrics Clinic in a Safety Net Healthcare System. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association 2024. PMID: 39661952


  5. Juarez Yoc JN, Khoong EC, Perron-Burdick M, Li B, Su G, Lyles C, Nijagal M. Lessons Learned from Offering Video Visits as an Alternative to Phone Visits: A Case Study from a Safety-Net Obstetrics Clinics. Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association 2024. PMID: 39453439


  7. Kong M, Willard-Grace R, Khoong E, Sharma A, Mukerjee M, Su G, Tuot D. Implementing team-based telemedicine workflows in safety-net primary care. The American journal of managed care 2024. PMID: 38820184


  8. Tuot DS, Mukherjee A, Churape A, DeFries T, Su G, Khoong EC, Lyles C. Lessons From the Field From a Volunteer Telehealth Ambassador Program to Enhance Video Visits Among Low-Income Patients: Qualitative Improvement Study. JMIR formative research 2024. PMID: 38619874


  9. Knox M, Huang B, Willard-Grace R, Su G. Innovation in public delivery systems: How one safety net hospital implemented new heart monitoring technology. Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2024. PMID: 38183883


  10. Willard-Grace R, Hessler D, Huang B, DeVore D, Chirinos C, Wolf J, Low D, Garvey C, Donesky D, Tsao S, Thom DH, Su G. Pulmonary Specialist-Supported Health Coaching Delivered by Lay Personnel Improves Receipt of Quality Care for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of patient-centered research and reviews 2023. PMID: 38046991


  11. Sharma AE, Khoong EC, Sierra M, Rivadeneira NA, Nijagal MA, Su G, Lyles CR, Defries T, Tuot D, Sarkar U. System-level factors associated with telephone and video visit use: Survey of safety-net clinicians during the early phase of COVID-19. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2022. PMID: 35148271


  12. Nguyen MT, Garcia F, Juarez J, Zeng B, Khoong EC, Nijagal MA, Sarkar U, Su G, Lyles CR. Satisfaction can co-exist with hesitation: qualitative analysis of acceptability of telemedicine among multi-lingual patients in a safety-net healthcare system during the COVID-19 pandemic. 2015 Year Book of Pediatrics. Ed. Cabana MD. (Elsevier; Philadelphia, PA) 2022. PMID: 35164746


  13. Tsao S, Willard-Grace R, Wolf J, Chirinos C, De Vore D, Huang B, Su G, Thom DH. Implementation and Impact of the Pulmonary Specialist Health Coach Consultation Model to Improve Care for Patients with COPD. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2021. PMID: 34489189


  14. Sharma AE, Khoong EC, Nijagal MA, Lyles CR, Su G, DeFries T, Sarkar U, Tuot D. Clinician experience with telemedicine at a safety-net hospital network during COVID-19: a cross-sectional survey. Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2021. PMID: 37020792


  15. Sadasivaiah S, Shaffer E, Enanoria W, Su G, Goldman S, Scarafia J, Lee T, Yu A, Goldman LE, Ratanawongsa N. Informatics response to address the COVID-19 pandemic in a safety net healthcare system. JAMIA open 2021. PMID: 34504999


  16. Khoong EC, Butler BA, Mesina O, Su G, DeFries TB, Nijagal M, Lyles CR. Patient interest in and barriers to telemedicine video visits in a multilingual urban safety-net system. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2020. PMID: 33164063


  17. Willard-Grace R, Masaki S, Joseph R, DeVore D, Huang B, Su G, Thom DH. "She Showed Me How to Help Myself": A Qualitative Study of Health Coaching for Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2021. PMID: 33678707


  18. Willard-Grace R, Wolf J, Huang B, Lewis E, Su G. Pilot of Brief Health Coaching Intervention to Improve Adherence to Positive Airway Pressure Therapy. Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2020. PMID: 32972868


  19. Willard-Grace R, Chirinos C, Wolf J, DeVore D, Huang B, Hessler D, Tsao S, Su G, Thom DH. Lay Health Coaching to Increase Appropriate Inhaler Use in COPD: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Annals of family medicine 2020. PMID: 31937527


  20. Lee JS, Lisker S, Vittinghoff E, Cherian R, McCoy DB, Rybkin A, Su G, Sarkar U. Follow-up of incidental pulmonary nodules and association with mortality in a safety-net cohort. Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany) 2019. PMID: 31373897


  21. Patterson ES, Su G, Sarkar U.. Reducing Delays to Diagnosis in Ambulatory Care Settings: A Macrocognition Perspective Applied Ergonomics 82 (2020) 2019. PMID:


  22. Patterson ES, Su G, Sarkar U. Reducing delays to diagnosis in ambulatory care settings: A macrocognition perspective. Applied ergonomics 2019. PMID: 31605828


  23. Zakaria A, Maurer T, Su G, Amerson E. Impact of Teledermatology on the Accessibility and Efficiency of Dermatology Care in an Urban Safety-Net Hospital: A Pre-Post analysis. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 2019. PMID: 31415834


  24. Huang B, Willard-Grace R, De Vore D, Wolf J, Chirinos C, Tsao S, Hessler D, Su G, Thom DH. Correction to: Health coaching to improve self-management and quality of life for low income patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): protocol for a randomized controlled trial. BMC pulmonary medicine 2019. PMID: 31113408


  25. Billings ME, Krishnan V, Su G, Donovan LM, Patel SR, Hudgel DW, Ahasic AM, Wilson KC, Thomson CC. Summary for Clinicians: The Role of Weight Management in the Treatment of Adult Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2019. PMID: 30742491


  26. Huang B, De Vore D, Chirinos C, Wolf J, Low D, Willard-Grace R, Tsao S, Garvey C, Donesky D, Su G, Thom DH. Strategies for recruitment and retention of underrepresented populations with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for a clinical trial. BMC medical research methodology 2019. PMID: 30791871


  27. Thom DH, Willard-Grace R, Tsao S, Hessler D, Huang B, DeVore D, Chirinos C, Wolf J, Donesky D, Garvey C, Su G. Randomized Controlled Trial of Health Coaching for Vulnerable Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2018. PMID: 30130430


  29. Huang B, Willard-Grace R, De Vore D, Wolf J, Chirinos C, Tsao S, Hessler D, Su G, Thom DH. Health coaching to improve self-management and quality of life for low income patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): protocol for a randomized controlled trial. BMC pulmonary medicine 2017. PMID: 28599636


  30. Patterson ES, Militello LG, Su G, Sarkar U. Characterizing a Naturalistic Decision Making Phenomenon: Loss of System Resilience Associated with Implementation of New Technology. Journal of cognitive engineering and decision making 2016. PMID: 28138316


  31. Li JT, Melton AC, Su G, Hamm DE, LaFemina M, Howard J, Fang X, Bhat S, Huynh KM, O'Kane CM, Ingram RJ, Muir RR, McAuley DF, Matthay MA, Sheppard D. Unexpected Role for Adaptive aßTh17 Cells in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Volume 195 of Issue 1. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2015. PMID: 26002979


  32. Su G, Atakilit A, Li JT, Wu N, Luong J, Chen R, Bhattacharya M, Sheppard D. Effective treatment of mouse sepsis with an inhibitory antibody targeting integrin avß5. Volume 41 of Issue 2. Critical care medicine 2013. PMID: 23263571


  33. Su G, Atakilit A, Li JT, Wu N, Bhattacharya M, Zhu J, Shieh JE, Li E, Chen R, Sun S, Su CP, Sheppard D. Absence of integrin avß3 enhances vascular leak in mice by inhibiting endothelial cortical actin formation. Volume 185 of Issue 1. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2012. PMID: 21980034


  34. Ganter MT, Roux J, Su G, Lynch SV, Deutschman CS, Weiss YG, Christiaans SC, Myazawa B, Kipnis E, Wiener-Kronish JP, Howard M, Pittet JF. Role of small GTPases and alphavbeta5 integrin in Pseudomonas aeruginosa-induced increase in lung endothelial permeability. American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology 2008. PMID: 18703797


  35. Ganter MT, Roux J, Miyazawa B, Howard M, Frank JA, Su G, Sheppard D, Violette SM, Weinreb PH, Horan GS, Matthay MA, Pittet JF. Interleukin-1beta causes acute lung injury via alphavbeta5 and alphavbeta6 integrin-dependent mechanisms. Volume 102 of Issue 7. 2008. PMID: 18276918


  36. Su G, Hodnett M, Wu N, Atakilit A, Kosinski C, Godzich M, Huang XZ, Kim JK, Frank JA, Matthay MA, Sheppard D, Pittet JF. Integrin alphavbeta5 regulates lung vascular permeability and pulmonary endothelial barrier function. Volume 36 of Issue 3. 2006. PMID: 17079779


  37. Jenkins RG, Su X, Su G, Scotton CJ, Camerer E, Laurent GJ, Davis GE, Chambers RC, Matthay MA, Sheppard D. Ligation of protease-activated receptor 1 enhances alpha(v)beta6 integrin-dependent TGF-beta activation and promotes acute lung injury. Volume 116 of Issue 6. The Journal of clinical investigation 2006. PMID: 16710477


  38. Frank J, Roux J, Kawakatsu H, Su G, Dagenais A, Berthiaume Y, Howard M, Canessa CM, Fang X, Sheppard D, Matthay MA, Pittet JF. Transforming growth factor-beta1 decreases expression of the epithelial sodium channel alphaENaC and alveolar epithelial vectorial sodium and fluid transport via an ERK1/2-dependent mechanism. Volume 278 of Issue 45. The Journal of biological chemistry 2003. PMID: 12930837