Jennifer Babik, MD, PhD

Professor of Clinical Medicine

CLINICAL ACTIVITIES
Jennifer Babik specializes in clinical infectious diseases with a particular focus on infections in immunocompromised hosts. She attends on the Immunocompromised Host and General Infectious Diseases Consult Services and has clinic in the Infectious Diseases Practice at UCSF Health.

EDUCATIONAL PURSUITS
Jennifer Babik is the Program Director for the Infectious Diseases Fellowship at UCSF. She gives clinical lectures for students, residents and fellows in residency and fellowship core lecture series. Her primary interests in medical educational are developing best practices for effective teaching by consultants and curriculum development in subspecialty education. She is also the Mentoring Facilitator for the ID Division at UCSF Health.

Education


2018 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
Fellowship, 2009 - Infectious Diseases, UCSF
Residency, 2006 - Internal Medicine, UCSF
M.D., 2003 - School of Medicine, Stanford University
PhD, 1999 - Physiological Sciences, University of Oxford
BA, 1995 - Molecular Biology, Princeton University

Honors and Awards


Long Term Mentor Award in the SOM Inquiry Curriculum, UCSF, 2020

Excellence in Teaching Award, Class of 2018, UCSF, 2018

Master Clinician, Department of Medicine, UCSF, 2018

UCSF Health Exceptional Physician Award, UCSF, 2018

Distinction in Teaching Award from the UCSF Academic Senate, UCSF, 2016

Induction into the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, UCSF, 2015

Vincent G. Pons Award for Excellence in Clinical Infectious Diseases Teaching, UCSF, 2015




Publications
  1. Kim RW, Gutierrez RA, Jacobson R, Babik JM, Fung M, Miller S, Haemel A. Optimizing Diagnostic Test Accuracy of Skin Tissue Assays in Cutaneous Invasive Fungal Disease. 2024. PMID: 39447754