Ashley McMullen, MD

Dr. Ashley McMullen is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and a primary care internist at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. She is also a Houston, TX native and lifelong book nerd, who grew up nurtured by her mother, a pediatric nurse, and grandmother, an ordained minister. She attended UT Houston McGovern Medical School and completed a residency in internal medicine at UCSF where she also served as an ambulatory chief resident.

Dr. McMullen’s work focuses on the role of narrative and storytelling in medical education, as well as a mechanism for healing, advocacy, and improving care across differences. She teaches a curriculum in narrative medicine for UCSF residents. She served as the host and producer of The Nocturnists: Black Voices in Healthcare Series, a 2021 Webby Award Honoree, and currently co-hosts a story-telling podcast with Dr. Kimberly Manning called, The Human Doctor. In her free time, you’ll find her buying more books than she can read and seeking out all the sunny parts of the Bay Area.