Información básica

Nombre: Lea Karliner
Título: MD, Professor of Medicine
Institución: University of California San Francisco
Disciplina: Medicamento
Años de experiencia: 22

Investigación

Enfoque metodológico primario de la investigación:

• Literatura saludable
• Minorías/población desfavorecida
• Relación paciente-proveedor

Enfoque de la investigación en comunicación y salud:

• Investigación de implementación
• Estudios observacionales
• Diseños (cuasi) experienciales
• ECA

Descripción

Tres palabras clave que describen experiencia e interés:

1. language access, applied research, primary care, health equity, older adults, clinical communication

Descripción del campo de especialización, intereses principales y temas de consulta:

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Breve biografía:

I am a primary care general internist, and a health services and practice-based researcher with a focus on evaluation and implementation of interventions to enhance quality care, clinical communication, and outcomes for diverse older adults. I am a national and internationally recognized expert on clinical communication and quality care delivery across language barriers. As the PI and Director of the NIA P30-funded UCSF Center for Aging in Diverse Communities (CADC), and Director of the UCSF Multiethnic Health Equity Research Center (MERC), I work with multi-disciplinary research teams focused on health equity.

As a primary care general internist and practice-based researcher, I have direct and extensive experience with conducting research with diverse clinical populations. I have successfully engaged in research studies with Chinese, Spanish and English speaking patients both in the acute hospital setting (as PI on a NIA funded R01) and in primary care settings (as PI on a PCORI), collaborated on an RCT of a tablet-based intervention for breast cancer risk assessment in primary care, and evaluated the components important to successful implementation of high quality language access services in health systems. As co-PI on a NIDDK R18 funded pragmatic RCT of an electronic health record-based clinical decision support tool for primary care physicians, I implemented and studied an intervention to improve chronic kidney disease care across diverse populations. I am currently co-I on a clinical trial focused on supporting caregivers of rural people with dementia, and on another clinical trial (eRADAR study) of an intervention to assess older patients at high risk for having undiagnosed dementia and feed-back that assessment information to their primary care physicians for further evaluation and diagnosis. I am additionally co-I on a contract from the California Department of Public Health focused on supporting dementia risk assessment and diagnosis in primary care, and on a contract from the Administration for Community Living focused on identifying and supporting caregivers as partners in clinical care teams.