Mengyu Zhou, M.D., FACP (she/her)
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, School of Medicine
Biography
Dr. Mengyu Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at OHSU. Based at OHSU Health Hillsboro Medical Center, she divides her clinical time as a hospitalist between the Hillsboro and Marquam Hill campuses. She is passionate about medical education and serves as an Associate Program Director for the OHSU Hillsboro Internal Medicine Residency Program. She established the OHSU School of Medicine Internal Medicine Acting Internship rotation at Hillsboro, where she continues to serve as site director. She completed her internal medicine residency at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, and subsequently served on the UCSF faculty before joining her family in Portland.
Her primary clinical and academic interests center on learning and teaching clinical reasoning, and she is a team member of the Clinical Problem Solvers. As an Associate Program Director, she leads multiple educational initiatives and works closely with faculty to build a robust and structured residency curriculum. She is deeply invested in advancing clinical reasoning education through resident case conferences and curriculum innovation. Her other interests include integrating point-of-care ultrasound into bedside teaching and patient care, and developing self-assessment tools to help trainees navigate complex learning environments with a growth mindset. Through her part-time role in clinical informatics, she applies a health informatics lens and related tools to systematically improve patient care and medical education.
In her free time, she enjoys nerding out with her fellow clinical problem solvers, listening to audiobooks, learning Spanish, and spending time with her family.
Education and training
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Degrees
- M.D., 2015, Peking Union Medical College/Tsinghua University
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Internship
- Internal Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, 2017
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Residency
- Internal Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, 2019
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Certifications
- American Board of Internal Medicine
- American Board of Preventative Medicine - Clinical Informatics
Memberships and associations:
- American College of Physicians
- American Medical Informatics Association
Areas of interest
- Clinical reasoning
- Medical education
- Curriculum development
- Clinical informatics
Honors and awards
- Inpatient Clinician Educator of the Year, OHSU Hillsboro Internal Medicine Residency Program, 2023-2024 (inaugural)
- Educator Award, Division of Hospital Medicine, OHSU, 2025
Publications
Selected publications
- Rencic J, Zhou M, Hsu G, Dhaliwal G. Circling back for the diagnosis. N Engl J Med. 2017 Nov 2;377(18):1778-84.
- Black KC, Snyder NA, Zhou M, et al. An electronic health record alert for inpatient coronavirus disease 2019 vaccinations increases vaccination ordering and uncovers workflow inefficiencies. Appl Clin Inform. 2024 Jan;15(1):192-198.