UCSF Academic Physician Salaries

UCSF Academic Physician Salaries

Below are the top seven highest earning academic physicians at the University of California, San Francisco.  Figures were reported in 2008 and made public here due to the Freedom of Information Act.

You’ll notice that the trend is

  • having an MD
  • all male
  • trained as a specialist
  • more so trained as a surgical specialist
  • and in some sort of leadership role such as being a director or chairman

Philip E Leboit, MD
Professor of Clinical Pathology and Dermatology
Co-Director, UCSF Dermatopathology Service
$1,574,392

Timothy H. McCalmont, MD
Professor of Clinical Pathology and Dermatology
Co-Director, UCSF Dermatopathology Service
$1,573,493

Anthony Azakie, MD
Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
Surgical Director, UCSF Pediatric Heart Center
Surgical Director, Adult Congenital Heart Program
Director, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Labs
$1,098,588

Christopher P Ames, MD 
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery
Director of Spine Tumor & Spinal Deformity Surgery
Co-director, Spinal Surgery and UCSF Spine Center
Director, Spinal Biomechanics Laboratory
$945,406

Michael T Lawton, MD
Professor in Residence of Neurological Surgery, Tong Po Kan Endowed Chair
Chief, Cerebrovascular and Skull Base Surgery Programs
Director, Cerebrovascular Disorders Program
Principal Investigator, Cerebrovascular Research
$821,468

Stanley B Prusiner, MD
Director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Professor of Neurology
$795,574

Thomas P Vail, MD
Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
$780,000

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