Dr. Pallabi Sanyal-Dey, MD

Pallabi Sanyal-Dey, MD, is an internal medicine physician and academic hospitalist with deep experience in clinical operations, quality improvement, and medical education. As Medical Director at General Medicine, she leads clinical oversight and sign-off, making sure the care customers receive is safe, consistent, and built around their full story.

After getting her bachelor’s degree in neuroscience and systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Sanyal-Dey studied healthcare disparities, ethics, and statistics at the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital. She then earned her medical degree from the University of Vermont.

Since then, she has worked as an academic hospitalist at UC San Diego and at UCSF, where she was an associate clinical professor at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. There she directed clinical operations for the Division of Hospital Medicine, oversaw the faculty inpatient services, and served as Physician Advisor for Clinical Documentation & Integrity. She completed her internal medicine residency at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla, California, followed by a year as chief resident, and later directed client services for LeanTaaS’s iQueue for Inpatient flow.

Today, Dr. Sanyal-Dey brings her background in clinical leadership and operations to the way care is delivered at General Medicine. She is certified in Lean Healthcare Management and has trained residents, faculty, and staff in social determinants of health, relationship-centered communication, and medical disclosure.

In addition to her role as Medical Director, Dr. Sanyal-Dey remains committed to patient safety, quality improvement, and physician well-being, the work that makes care more reliable for the people receiving it and more sustainable for the clinicians delivering it.