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Amanda Sammann, M.D., M.P.H.

Amanda Sammann, M.D., M.P.H.

  • Associate Professor of Surgery
  • Division of General Surgery
  • Trauma and Surgical Critical Care 
  • Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
  • Founder and Director of The Better Lab
  • Director of the Wraparound Program

Contact Information

Academic Office 
1001 Potrero Avenue, 3A
San Francisco, CA 94110
[email protected]

Clinic Appointments
(415) 206-8674 
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Stanford University, B.A. with Honors, 2001
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, M.P.H, 2004
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, M.D., 2008
  • University of California, San Francisco, Intern, General Surgery, 2008-2009
  • University of California, San Francisco, Resident, General Surgery, 2009-2015
  • Oregon Health & Science University, Fellow, Surgical Critical Care, 2015-2016
  • American Board of Surgery, General Surgery
  • American Board of Surgery, Surgical Critical Care
  • The Better Lab
  • Acute Care Surgery
  • General Surgery
  • Surgical Critical Care
  • Trauma Surgery
  • Quality Improvement and Outcomes
  • Human Centered Design
  • Implementation Sciences
  • Innovation
  • Shared Decision Making
  • Surgical and Medical Education
  • Transitions of Care
  • Trauma Care
  • Underserved Populations
Amanda Sammann, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of general surgery at the University of California, San Francisco and the Founder and Executive Director of The Better Lab; a venture that uses design to study and fix health care challenges. Dr. Sammann is a general surgeon who practices trauma surgery, acute care surgery and surgical critical care at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG).
Dr. Sammann received a bachelor's degree in human biology from Stanford University, a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University and a Medical Degree from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She completed her surgical training at UCSF and her critical care fellowship at Oregon Health & Sciences University. Dr. Sammann also spent two years as the Medical Fellow and Medical Director at the Silicon Valley design firm, IDEO.
Dr. Sammann has spent a lifetime trying to make things better. She has built novel content for health websites, developed surgical training curriculum, designed medical products and fixed dozens of health care systems challenges. Dr. Sammann has expertise in Human Centered Design (HCD) and is leading research at ZSFG to implement and study the HCD process in the health care setting. She lectures on innovation and design locally and nationally.

Dr. Sammann is the Founder and Executive Director of The Better Lab, a multidisciplinary venture that conducts human centered design research. The goal of her research is to develop new ways to fix health care challenges through greater empathy and better design and to study these novel methods and their outcomes with rigorous public health methodologies. Early research initiatives are focused on health care systems quality improvement at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 40
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  1. Kiwanuka N, Kityamuwesi A, Crowder R, Guzman K, Berger CA, Lamunu M, Namale C, Kunihira Tinka L, Nakate AS, Ggita J, Turimumahoro P, Babirye D, Oyuku D, Patel D, Sammann A, Turyahabwe S, Dowdy DW, Katamba A, Cattamanchi A. Implementation, feasibility, and acceptability of 99DOTS-based supervision of treatment for drug-susceptible TB in Uganda. PLOS Digit Health. 2023 Jun; 2(6):e0000138. View in PubMed
  2. Liao EN, Chehab LZ, Neville K, Liao J, Patel D, Sammann A. Using a human-centered, mixed methods approach to understand the patient waiting experience and its impact on medically underserved Populations. BMC Health Serv Res. 2022 Nov 22; 22(1):1388. View in PubMed
  3. Liao EN, Chehab LZ, Ossmann M, Alpers B, Patel D, Sammann A. Using Architectural Mapping to Understand Behavior and Space Utilization in a Surgical Waiting Room of a Safety Net Hospital. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Oct 25; 19(21). View in PubMed
  4. Elizabeth N. Liao, Lara Z. Chehab, Michelle Ossmann, Benjamin Alpers, Devika Patel, Amanda Sammann. Using Architectural Mapping to Understand Behavior and Space Utilization in a Surgical Waiting Room of a Safety Net Hospital. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022 Oct 25; 19(21):13870. View in PubMed
  5. Schmidt CN, Patel D, Alpers BS, Spaulding M, Ocegueda L, Thomas M, Sammann A, Briscoe H. Facilitating Integrated Perinatal Care for Families Affected by Substance Use. J Addict Med. 2023 Jan-Feb 01; 17(1):1-3. View in PubMed
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