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John Sheffield, MD, FACP

John Sheffield, headshot
Professor
Medicine
Associate Chief of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center
Required Internal Medicine Clerkship Site Co-Director, Harborview Medical Center

Faculty Information

Biography
Education & Training: 
MD
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
1985–1989
Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine, Primary Care Track
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
1989–1992
Chief Residency in Medicine
Harborview Medical Center
Seattle, WA
1992–1993
Honors: 
Harborview Housestaff Achievement Award
1992, 93
Dr. Paul Beeson Award
1996
Fellow, American College of Physicians
2000
UW Teacher Superior in Perpetuity
2001
Best Doctors in America
2003–
Laureate of the Washington Chapter, American College of Physicians
2009
Gold Humanism Society
2017
ACP National Award for Outstanding Educator of Residents and Fellows
2021–2022
Contact
Email: 
jvls@uw.edu [1]
Research & Clinical Interests
Clinical Interests: 

Medical education
Keeping fellow internists up-to-date with advances in medical knowledge
Primary HIV care

Publications
Publications: 
  • Sheffield JVL, Wipf JE, Buchwald D. Work activities of clinician-educators [2]. J Gen Intern Med. 1998;13:406–9.
  • Sheffield JVL, Root RK. Smoking and pneumococcal infection [editorial] [3]. N Engl J Med. 2000;342:732–4.
  • Sheffield JVL, Larson EB. Update in general internal medicine [4]. Ann Intern Med. 2001;135:269–78.
  • Sheffield JVL, Young A, Goldstein EA, Logerfo JP. The public hospital mission at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center: high-quality care for the underserved and excellence in medical education [5]. Acad Med. 2006; 81:886–90.
  • Ash S, Sheffield JVL. Pneumococcus. in: D. S. Paauw (ed.): Infectious disease threats. Medical Clinics of North America 2013;97 (4):647–66.
  • Sheffield JVL, Paauw DS. We sent them home [6]. The Pharos. Summer 2020: 38-41.

Source URL: https://gim.uw.edu/faculty/john-sheffield-md-facp

Links
[1] mailto:jvls@uw.edu
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1496969/
[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=10706905
[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11511142
[5] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=16985348
[6] https://alphaomegaalpha.org/pharos/2020/Summer/2020_Summer_SheffieldPaauw.pdf