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Heather F. Sateia

Heather F. Sateia, FACP, MD

Languages spoken: English

Clinical Locations

University of Utah Hospital

General Internal Medicine, Area E
Salt Lake City
801-581-7818
  • Heather Sateia, MD is an Associate Professor within the Department of Medicine. She serves as the Medical Director of the Internal Medicine Clinic at E16 where she also sees patients for primary care. Her clinical practice centers on preventive health and chronic disease management. Her academic focus is ambulatory clinical operations and population health.

    Dr. Sateia received her AB from Princeton University and her Doctor of Medicine degree from Dartmouth College. She trained in Internal Medicine at Barnes Jewish Hospital/Washington University in St. Louis where she also served as Chief Resident. She then joined faculty at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, MD where she has practiced for the past decade and was inducted into the Miller-Coulson Academy for Clinical Excellence in recognition of her clinical work. In the past, Dr. Sateia has served as Senior Associate Program Director for the Osler Medical Residency at Johns Hopkins, Core Faculty for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine learning communities, and has been appointed to numerous institutional committees and councils focused on ambulatory operations, wellbeing, EMR, and AI implementation and assessment. She is currently a member of SGIM, ACLGIM, and ACP where she served on the Maryland Governor's Council and chaired the Membership Committee.

    Board Certification

    American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine)
    National Board of Medical Examiners
  • Heather Sateia, MD is an Associate Professor within the Department of Medicine. She serves as the Medical Director of the Internal Medicine Clinic at E16 where she also sees patients for primary care. Her clinical practice centers on preventive health and chronic disease management. Her academic focus is ambulatory clinical operations and population health.

    Dr. Sateia received her AB from Princeton University and her Doctor of Medicine degree from Dartmouth College. She trained in Internal Medicine at Barnes Jewish Hospital/Washington University in St. Louis where she also served as Chief Resident. She then joined faculty at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, MD where she has practiced for the past decade and was inducted into the Miller-Coulson Academy for Clinical Excellence in recognition of her clinical work. In the past, Dr. Sateia has served as Senior Associate Program Director for the Osler Medical Residency at Johns Hopkins, Core Faculty for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine learning communities, and has been appointed to numerous institutional committees and councils focused on ambulatory operations, wellbeing, EMR, and AI implementation and assessment. She is currently a member of SGIM, ACLGIM, and ACP where she served on the Maryland Governor's Council and chaired the Membership Committee.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Internal Medicine -Primary
    Academic Divisions General Medicine
    Board Certification
    American Board of Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine)
    National Board of Medical Examiners

    Education history

    Residency Medicine - Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Chief Resident
    Internal Medicine - Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Resident
    Internship Internal Medicine - Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Intern
    Medicine - Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth M.D.
    Graduate Training Pre-Medical Program - Bryn Mawr College Post Baccalaureate
    English Literature - Princeton University A.B.

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Lu MA, OToole J, Shneyderman M, Brockman S, Cumpsty-Fowler C, Dang D, Herzke C, Rand CS, Sateia HF, Van Dyke E, Eakin MN, Daugherty Biddison EL (2022). "Where You Feel Like a Family Instead of Co-workers": a Mixed Methods Study on Care Teams and Burnout. J Gen Intern Med, 38(2), 341-350. (Read full article)
    2. Choi Y, Peairs KS, Sateia HF, Riddell R, Zhang C, McGuire MJ (2021). High Value Care in Cancer Surveillance and Screening: Evaluating an e-Curriculum for Primary Care Providers. J Cancer Educ, 37(5), 1472-1478. (Read full article)
    3. Russell SW, Desai SV, ORourke P, Ahuja N, Patel A, Myers CG, Zulman D, Sateia HF, Berkenblit GV, Johnson EN, Garibaldi BT (2019). The genealogy of teaching clinical reasoning and diagnostic skill: the GEL Study. Diagnosis (Berl), 7(3), 197-203. (Read full article)

    Review

    1. Keller SC, Tamma PD, Cosgrove SE, Miller MA, Sateia H, Szymczak J, Gurses AP, Linder JA (2017). Ambulatory Antibiotic Stewardship through a Human Factors Engineering Approach: A Systematic Review. [Review]. J Am Board Fam Med, 31(3), 417-430. (Read full article)
    2. Choi Y, Sateia HF, Peairs KS, Stewart RW (2017). Screening for colorectal cancer. [Review]. Semin Oncol, 44(1), 34-44. (Read full article)
    3. Stewart RW, Lizama S, Peairs K, Sateia HF, Choi Y (2017). Screening for prostate cancer. [Review]. Semin Oncol, 44(1), 47-56. (Read full article)
    4. Peairs KS, Choi Y, Stewart RW, Sateia HF (2017). Screening for breast cancer. [Review]. Semin Oncol, 44(1), 60-72. (Read full article)
    5. Sateia HF, Choi Y, Stewart RW, Peairs KS (2017). Screening for lung cancer. [Review]. Semin Oncol, 44(1), 74-82. (Read full article)

    Case Report

    1. Sateia HF, Melia MT, Cofrancesco J Jr (2017). Tularemia presenting as suspected necrotic arachnidism. Clin Case Rep, 5(4), 497-500. (Read full article)

    Editorial

    1. Sateia H (2015). Capsule Commentary on Tartaglia et al., Medical Student Perceptions of Cost-Conscious Care in an Internal Medicine Clerkship: A Thematic Analysis. J Gen Intern Med, 30(10), 1535. (Read full article)

    Letter

    1. Myers CG, Sateia HF, Desai SV (2018). Association Between Team Learning Behavior and Reduced Burnout Among Medicine Residents. [Letter to the editor]. J Gen Intern Med, 33(12), 2037-2039. (Read full article)