Her academic work focuses on patient safety issues including adverse events, mortality review, transfers and transitions of care and teaching on patient safety. She has conducted quality improvement projects on identifying preventable inpatient deaths through the use of electronic data capture, patient transfers and patient satisfaction. Her clinical responsibilities include caring for hospitalized patients on the medicine services at UCSF Medical Center. Kiran is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, and earned an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital where she stayed on to pursue a two-year fellowship in patient safety and quality improvement prior to joining the faculty at UCSF.