Department of Internal Medicine

Christopher Pietras, M.D. View profile as PDF

Clinical/Research Interests

Dr. Pietras, Hospitalist, provides care to those patients in the hospital.

Specialty:

Hospitalist, Internal Medicine

Other Languages:

Spanish

Education:

UC San Francisco School of Medicine
San Francisco, California
M.D. 2007

UC Berkeley
Berkeley, California
B.A. 2001

Internships:

UC Davis School of Medicine
Sacramento, CA
2008

Residency:

UC Davis School of Medicine
Sacramento, CA
2010
Internal Medicine

Honors and Awards:

Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship, 2005-2006
UC Berkeley Biology Honors Research, 2001
UC Berkeley Dean’s Honor Roll, 2000-2001
Epilepsy Foundation Student Research Award, 1999-2000
California Delegate, AJAS/NAAS National Meeting, 1998
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Honorary Student Member), 1998
Berkeley /Howard Hughes Medical Institute Biology Scholars Program, 1997-2001
AP Scholar with Distinction, 1997

Select Recent Publications:

Ssewanyana I, Pietras C, Baker C, Nghania F, Jones, N, Rosenthal P, Dorsey G, Cao H (2008). Pattern of malaria-specific T-cell responses in a cohort of Ugandan children. J. Trop. Pediatr. 54: 6-13.

Rausch, R., S. Kraemer, C. Pietras, M. T. Le, BG Vickrey and E. Passaro (2003). Early and late cognitive changes following temporal lobe surgery for epilepsy. Neurology 60 :951-959.