Nora Pfaff, MD

Dr. Pfaff is a pediatric hospitalist at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital with a focus on advancing high-quality, equitable inpatient care across regional systems. She serves as Medical Director of both the Pediatric Hospital Medicine Consortium and the Northern California Neonatal Consortium, leading multi-site clinical guideline development, quality improvement initiatives, and collaboration with community hospitals. Her scholarly work centers on Social Determinants of Health screening and intervention for hospitalized children, and she is a site Principal Investigator for the multicenter, grant-funded SNAK trial. In parallel, she is examining community hospital pediatric unit closures and the regionalization of inpatient pediatric care, with ongoing scholarship focused on impacts to patients, families, and systems of care.