Associate Professor

I am an internal medicine, palliative medicine, and integrative medicine physician with a passion for excellence in clinical care, medical education, and operational leadership at the intersection of these three fields. I believe in accompanying our patients on every stage of their health journeys as an empowering health advocate, teaching the next generation of medical professionals to do the same, and evolving our healthcare system to optimize healing potential for our patients and wellbeing for providers. I am originally from Chicago, but have lived all over the country in pursuit of professional and personal opportunities. I completed my undergraduate Bachelor of Arts at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and attended medical school at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. From there, I completed my Internal Medicine residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, followed by fellowships in Palliative Medicine and Integrative Medicine at UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco. I am now on faculty at UCSF where I am jointly appointed as an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Divisions of Palliative Medicine and Hospital Medicine.
Education
01/2022 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California San Francisco
06/2019 - Integrative Medicine Fellowship, University of Caifornia San Francisco
06/2018 - Palliative Medicine Fellowship, University of California San Francisco
06/2017 - Internal Medicine Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital
MD, 05/2014 - Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
BA, 05/2008 - Government, History, Economics, Philosophy, Wesleyan University
Publications

  1. Bell BK, Cha J, Cavanaugh KA, O'Riordan DL, Rabow MW, Yang AK, Patel S, Park SH, McGrath MK, Whitaker EM, Nouri SS, Cheng SW. Integrative Management of Cancer Pain: A Scoping Review of the Literature. 2025. PMID: 40317896


  2. Rennels CF, Rosow L, Pantilat S, Bell BK, Lomen-Hoerth C, Cohen E, Bischoff KE. Characteristics and Motivations of People With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Who Pursue Medical Aid in Dying in California. 2025. PMID: 40321197


  3. Dinh MT, Bell B, Bourgeois JA, Weaver E, Martin J, O'Riordan DL, Rabow M, Kaplan L, Anderson B. The California End of Life Option Act at UCSF: Examining the Utility of the Mandatory Mental Health Assessment. 2024. PMID: 39615629


  5. Bell BK, Liu R, Cheng S, Marchand L. Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Integrative Palliative Care. 2023. PMID: 38060315


  6. Brieze Keeley, Jessi Humphreys, Jennifer Olenik, Laura Schoenherr, Giovanni Elia. Capturing Wishes: A Novel Approach to Goals of Care Documentation for Inpatient Palliative Care Consults (QI713). 2019. PMID:


  7. Po-Hong Liu, Yin Cao, Lisa L. Strate, Brieze R. Keeley, Idy Tam, Kana Wu, Edward Giovannucci, Andrew T. Chan. Tu1693 Adherence to a Healthy Lifestyle Reduces Risk of Diverticulitis Among Men. 2017. PMID:


  8. Lisa L. Strate, Brieze R. Keeley, Yin Cao, Kana Wu, Edward Giovannucci, Andrew T. Chan. 659 Major Dietary Patterns and Risk of Incident Diverticulitis. 2016. PMID:


  9. T.J. Carpenter, B. Kann, M.H. Buckstein, B. Keeley, E. Genden, B. Miles, M. Teng, M. Posner, R. Bakst, V. Gupta. Prevalence of Histopathologic Indications for Adjuvant Radiation Following Transoral Robotic Surgery (TORS) for Oropharyngeal Cancer (OPC) and Its Relation to HPV Status. 2013. PMID:


  10. Peter Svider, Brieze Keeley, Qasim Husain, Kevin Mauro, Michael Setzen, Jean Eloy, James Liu. Regional Disparities and Evolving Practice Patterns in Surgical Approaches to Pituitary Tumors in the United States. 2013. PMID:


  11. Sebastian Bernardo, Sara Harcharik, Michael Pan, Brieze Keeley, Mark Lebwohl. Biologic Drugs and Malignancy: A Literature Review Examining the Impact of Concomitant Immunosuppressive Medications. 2012. PMID: