Dr. Gurpreet Dhaliwal: Healthcare Expert
Diagnostic reasoning keynote speaker and medical educator Gurpreet Dhaliwal helps clinicians and leaders understand how experts think, decide, and continuously improve performance in complex systems.
Quick Facts:
- Highlights:
- Professor of Medicine at UCSF and director of internal medicine clerkship
- Global authority on diagnostic reasoning and clinical decision-making
- Author of 140+ scholarly articles
- Recipient of multiple national and institutional teaching awards
- Formats: Keynote speaker, clinician-educator, and expert facilitator
- Audiences: Physicians, healthcare leaders, educators, safety teams, and organizations focused on decision-making, quality, and performance improvement
- Outcomes:
- Clear frameworks for understanding expert clinical thinking
- Improved diagnostic accuracy and reflective practice
- Insight into building systems that support better decisions
- Travels from: San Francisco, CA
- **Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000
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Dr. Gurpreet Dhaliwal is a nationally and internationally recognized clinician-educator and Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco. He practices internal medicine and teaches medical students and residents across emergency, inpatient, and outpatient settings at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, where he also directs the internal medicine clerkship.
Dr. Dhaliwal’s work focuses on how doctors think. He studies diagnostic reasoning, clinical decision-making, and the development of expertise, with a particular interest in how individuals and systems can improve diagnostic accuracy. His teaching bridges cognitive science, real-world clinical cases, and reflective practice, making complex thinking processes visible and actionable.
A member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators and the Department of Medicine Council of Master Clinicians, Dr. Dhaliwal has authored more than 140 peer-reviewed articles and has served as a visiting professor at universities across the United States, as well as in China and Japan. His excellence in education has been recognized with numerous awards, including the UCSF Osler Distinguished Teacher Award and the national Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award.
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Dr. Gurpreet Dhaliwal, MD, is a clinician-educator and Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco.
He sees patients and teaches medical students and residents in the emergency department, inpatient wards, and outpatient clinic at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, where he directs the internal medicine clerkship.
He studies, writes, and speaks about how doctors think – how they make diagnoses, how they develop diagnostic expertise, and what motivates them to improve their practice and the systems in which they work.
Dr. Dhaliwal is a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators and the UCSF Department of Medicine Council of Master Clinicians.
He has published over 140 articles and has been a visiting professor at multiple universities across the U.S. and in China and Japan.
He has received multiple teaching awards, including the 2019 UCSF Osler Distinguished Teacher Award and the 2015 national Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award.
He is currently a member of the board of directors of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. He previously served as the Co-chair of the SIDM Education Committee for 8 years.
In 2012 he was profiled in the New York Times in an article entitled “Could A Computer Outthink This Doctor?” From 2013-2018 he was a writer for the Wall Street Journal’s The Experts Health Care Report.
Dr. Gurpreet Dhaliwal has been a podcast guest on Freakonomics M.D., British Medical Journal, The Curbsiders, IMreasoning, Clinical Problem Solvers, Explore the Space, Medical Mentors, Bedside Rounds, and The Wall Street Journal Report.
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