Nida F. Degesys, MD

Dr. Degesys is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at UCSF and serves as the medical director for the UCSF Age Friendly Emergency Department (AFED), the only Level 1 GED in the Bay Area, as well as the Assistant Medical Director for the UCSF ED, the Medical Director of the Clinical Decision Unity (CDU) and the UCSF EM Administrative Fellowship Director. Dr. Degesys completed an administrative fellowship at Stanford University and emergency medicine residency at UCSF/ZSFG. Dr. Degesys has won several awards including ACEP's National Junior Faculty Teaching Award (2023), Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Academy of Geriatric EM (AGEM) Early Career Achievement (2023), the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association (EMRA) National Fellow of the Year (2019), the UCSF EM faculty bedside teaching award (2019), and SAEM's National Resident Educator Award (2018).