Rebeccah Brusca, MD, MPH

Co-Associate Medical Director

Internal Medicine

Dr. Rebeccah McKibben Brusca is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and an academic hospitalist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG). She graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine before completing her residency training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital Osler Internal Medicine Program.

Dr. Brusca is currently the Site Director for the Internal Medicine residency at ZSFG and a Bridges coach with the UCSF School of Medicine. Her academic interests include medical education, health equity and asylum medicine. She conducts forensic medical evaluations for individuals seeking asylum and is the Associate Medical Director of the UCSF Human Rights Collaborative.

Publications

Subclinical cardiovascular disease in HIV controller and long-term nonprogressor populations.

HIV medicine

Brusca RM, Hanna DB, Wada NI, Blankson JN, Witt MD, Jacobson LP, Kingsley L, Palella FJ, Budoff M, Brown TT, Anastos K, Lazar JM, Mack WJ, Bacchetti P, Tien PC, Golzar Y, Plankey M, Golub E, Kaplan RC, Post WS

Performance of Critical Care Outcome Prediction Models in an Intermediate Care Unit.

Journal of intensive care medicine

Brusca RM, Simpson CE, Sahetya SK, Noorain Z, Tanykonda V, Stephens RS, Needham DM, Hager DN

Inflammatory biomarkers and subclinical carotid atherosclerosis in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected men in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study.

PloS one

Subramanya V, McKay HS, Brusca RM, Palella FJ, Kingsley LA, Witt MD, Hodis HN, Tracy RP, Post WS, Haberlen SA

The ILD-GAP risk prediction model performs poorly in myositis-associated interstitial lung disease.

Respiratory medicine

Brusca RM, Pinal-Fernandez I, Psoter K, Paik JJ, Albayda J, Mecoli C, Tiniakou E, Mammen AL, Christopher-Stine L, Danoff S, Johnson C

Metastatic amelanotic melanoma with cardiac involvement: A case report.

Journal of cardiology cases

Brusca RM, Griffin JM, Miller K, Russell SD

Anatomic Fat Depots and Coronary Plaque Among Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected and Uninfected Men in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study.

Open forum infectious diseases

Palella FJ, McKibben R, Post WS, Li X, Budoff M, Kingsley L, Witt MD, Jacobson LP, Brown TT

Primary Prevention of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in Women.

Current cardiovascular risk reports

McKibben RA, Al Rifai M, Mathews LM, Michos ED

Osteoprotegerin, but Not Receptor Activator for Nuclear Factor-κB Ligand, is Associated With Subclinical Coronary Atherosclerosis in HIV-Infected Men.

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)

Ketlogetswe KS, McKibben R, Jacobson LP, Li X, Dobs AS, Budoff M, Witt MD, Palella FJ, Kingsley L, Margolick JB, Post WS, Brown TT

mActive: A Randomized Clinical Trial of an Automated mHealth Intervention for Physical Activity Promotion.

Journal of the American Heart Association

Martin SS, Feldman DI, Blumenthal RS, Jones SR, Post WS, McKibben RA, Michos ED, Ndumele CE, Ratchford EV, Coresh J, Blaha MJ

Factors Associated With Change in 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels Over Longitudinal Follow-Up in the ARIC Study.

The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism

McKibben RA, Zhao D, Lutsey PL, Schneider AL, Guallar E, Mosley TH, Michos ED

A Cross-sectional Study of the Association Between Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection and Subclinical Coronary Atherosclerosis Among Participants in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study.

The Journal of infectious diseases

McKibben RA, Haberlen SA, Post WS, Brown TT, Budoff M, Witt MD, Kingsley LA, Palella FJ, Thio CL, Seaberg EC

Practices to Reduce Surgical Site Infections Among Women Undergoing Cesarean Section: A Review.

Infection control and hospital epidemiology

McKibben RA, Pitts SI, Suarez-Cuervo C, Perl TM, Bass EB

Elevated levels of monocyte activation markers are associated with subclinical atherosclerosis in men with and those without HIV infection.