Alicia Fernandez, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Fernandez is the founding Director of the UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence, a groundbreaking initiative funded by HRSA , UCSF and philanthropy to promote academic diversity and support the success of Latinx medical professionals. Additionally, she leads the Latinx and Immigrant Health Research Program at the UCSF Action Resource Center (former CVP), where her team focuses on generating actionable research to advance health equity and reduce healthcare disparities.

Dr. Fernandez’s research centers on healthcare equity, with a particular emphasis on understanding how language, literacy, and cultural barriers impact outcomes in cardiometabolic disease care, patient experience, and patient-clinician trust. Her work has been supported by numerous funders, including the National Institutes of Health, the Russell Sage Foundation, and The Greenwall Foundation. She is also an editor of Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients, a textbook in the Lange series that addresses critical issues in caring for low-income populations.

Nationally, Dr. Fernandez contributes her expertise through service on the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors and the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Board of Directors. She has also participated in NIH and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) study sections, as well as advisory committees for leading organizations such as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National Academy of Medicine. In 2024, Dr. Fernandez was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, a recognition of her contributions to medicine and public health. She was appointed to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in January 2025.

• Primary Care Behavioral Counseling Interventions to Support Breastfeeding: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement.
  JAMA 2025 US Preventive Services Task Force, Nicholson WK, Silverstein M, Wong JB, Chelmow D, Coker TR, Davis EM, Fernandez A, Gibson E, Jaén CR, Krousel-Wood M, Lee S, Rao G, Ruiz JM, Stevermer J, Tsevat J, …
• Screening for Food Insecurity: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement.
  JAMA 2025 US Preventive Services Task Force, Nicholson WK, Silverstein M, Wong JB, Chelmow D, Coker TR, Fernandez A, Gibson E, Jaén CR, Krousel-Wood M, Lee S, Rao G, Ruiz JM, Stevermer J, Tsevat J, Underwood SM…
• Language Serving Hospitals and their Impact on Readmission for Surgical Patients with a Non-English Primary Language: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
  Annals of surgery 2025 Dacier BM, Jones AN, Allar BG, Mejia J, Torres BS, Murphy RE, Magana N, Bergmark RW, Pusic AL, Fernandez A, Bates DW, Peck GL, Ortega G
• Variations in digital health literacy for pediatric caregivers of hospitalized children: implications for digital health equity.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2025 Crook S, Rosenbluth G, Glidden DV, Fernandez A, Lee CM, Avina L, Magana L, Washington K, Bardach NS
• Care for Patients With a History of Immigration.
  JAMA 2025 Wheeler M, Gutierrez JR, Fernandez A
• Patient Safety Event Risk and Language Barriers: A Scoping Review.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2025 Schulson LB, Rodriguez JA, Cruz R, Flynn D, Fernandez A
• Challenges to Video Visits for Patients With Non-English Language Preference: A Qualitative Study.
  JAMA network open 2025 Kong M, Rios-Fetchko F, Olmos-Rodriguez M, Branagan L, Iott B, Chan Tack T, Yarbrough C, Grumbach K, Fernandez A
• Patient Safety Event Risk and Language Barriers: a Scoping Review.
  The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety 2025 Lucy B. Schulson, Jorge A. Rodriguez, Ricardo Cruz, David Flynn, Alicia Fernandez
• Facilitators and barriers of alcohol goals for Latinx men hospitalized with alcohol use disorder seen by an Addiction Consult Team.
  Annals of medicine 2025 Carson MS, Haro-Ramos AY, López-Solano N, Fernandez C, Cummins M, Fernandez A, DeFries T, Martin M
• The Impact of Language Discordance on Acquiring Broad Social History: A Qualitative Study of Patients, Clinicians, and Interpreters.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2024 Doshi B, Luna I, Quesada R, Garcia ME, Fernandez A, Khoong EC
• An Update on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children's Health Behaviors.
  Academic pediatrics 2024 Maxwell SL, Fernandez A, Martinez S, Beck AL
• Changes in BMI prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic among children: a retrospective cohort study in San Francisco, CA.
  BMC public health 2024 Maxwell SL, McCulloch CE, Fernandez A, Beck AL
• A comparative analysis of patients with breast cancer with and without language barriers.
  Journal of Clinical Oncology 2024 Melody Karen Schiaffino, Dominique Rash, Alicia Fernandez
• Association of pain assessment method and postepidural pain levels in labouring patients with limited English proficiency.
  Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie 2024 Lee W, George RB, Fernandez A
• The Association Between Social Determinants of Health and Distal Radius Fracture Outcomes.
  The Journal of hand surgery 2024 Truong NM, Stroud SG, Zhuang T, Fernandez A, Kamal RN, Shapiro LM
• The burden of premature coronary heart disease among adults with low socioeconomic status in Argentina: A modeling study.
  PloS one 2024 Salgado MV, Penko J, Fernández A, Rios-Fetchko F, Coxson PG, Mejia R
• Are Clinical Practice Guidelines Representative of Patients With Distal Radius Fractures? A Review of Patient Demographics and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures Used to Inform Guidelines.
  The Journal of hand surgery 2024 Mulakaluri A, Julian KR, Fernandez A, Kamal RN, Shapiro LM
• Keep Your Eyes on the Prize - Focusing on Health Care Equity.
  The New England journal of medicine 2024 Fernandez A, Chin MH
• Are Orthopaedic Clinical Trials Linguistically and Culturally Diverse? A Systematic Review.
  JBJS reviews 2024 Julian KR, Mulakaluri A, Truong NM, Fernandez A, Kamal RN, Shapiro LM
• Are Orthopaedic Clinical Trials Linguistically and Culturally Diverse?.
  JBJS Reviews 2024 Kaitlyn R. Julian, Ashley Mulakaluri, Nicole M. Truong, Alicia Fernandez, Robin N. Kamal, Lauren M. Shapiro
• Association between English Proficiency and Kidney Disease Knowledge and Communication Quality among Patients with ESKD.
  Kidney360 2024 Martinez A, Warner A, Powe NR, Fernandez A, Tuot DS
• Disparities in pre-health advising across California's public universities.
  PloS one 2024 Rios-Fetchko F, Carson M, Tapia M, Fernandez A, Coffman J
• Adoption of Internal Medicine Milestone Ratings and Changes in Bias Against Black, Latino, and Asian Internal Medicine Residents.
  Annals of internal medicine 2023 Gray BM, Lipner RS, Roswell RO, Fernandez A, Vandergrift JL, Alsan M
• Aspiring physicians program: description and characterization of the support processes for an undergraduate pathway program to medicine.
  Medical education online 2023 Teherani A, Uwaezuoke K, Kenny J, Calderón-Jensen C, Magana T, Flores K, Fernandez A
• Academic Leadership Academy Summer Program: Clerkship Transition Preparation for Underrepresented in Medicine Medical Students.
  Teaching and learning in medicine 2023 Connor DM, Fernandez A, Alba-Nguyen S, Collins S, Teherani A
• Barriers and facilitators to mental health promotion for Mexican immigrants in the U.S. through the Ventanillas de Salud program.
  Frontiers in public health 2023 González Casanova I, Martínez Rodriguez DL, Ortiz Brunel J, Rangel Gómez MG, de Groot M, Fernández A
• A Review of Community Health Worker Interventions for Latinx/o/a Individuals With Unhealthy Alcohol Use.
  Journal of addiction medicine 2023 Carson M, Fernandez A, Martin M
• Association of Language Barriers With Perioperative and Surgical Outcomes: A Systematic Review.
  JAMA network open 2023 Joo H, Fernández A, Wick EC, Moreno Lepe G, Manuel SP
• The Impact of Patient-Physician Racial and Gender Concordance on Patient Satisfaction with Outpatient Clinic Visits.
  Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities 2023 Shaw NM, Hills N, Holler J, Fernandez A, Davis D, Palmer NR, Sliwka D, Breyer BN
• The 7-day Beverage Intake Questionnaire for Latino Children: Validation of a Culturally Tailored Tool.
  Journal of nutrition education and behavior 2023 Beck AL, Fernandez A, Martinez SM
• A Multimethod Evaluation of the Futuros Fuertes Intervention to Promote Healthy Feeding, Screen Time, and Sleep Practices.
  Academic pediatrics 2023 Beck AL, Mora R, Joseph G, Perrin E, Cabana M, Schickedanz A, Fernandez A
• Racial and ethnic disparities in obstetric anesthesia: a scoping review.
  Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie 2023 Lee W, Martins MS, George RB, Fernandez A
• Disparities in Treatment of Closed Distal Radius Fractures in Patients Aged 18-64 Years and ≥65 Years by Insurance Type.
  The Journal of hand surgery 2023 Tankersley MP, Zhuang T, Julian K, Fernandez A, Kamal RN, Shapiro LM
• The PhenX Toolkit: Measurement Protocols for Assessment of Social Determinants of Health.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2023 Krzyzanowski MC, Ives CL, Jones NL, Entwisle B, Fernandez A, Cullen TA, Darity WA, Fossett M, Remington PL, Taualii M, Wilkins CH, Pérez-Stable EJ, Rajapakse N, Breen N, Zhang X, Maiese DR, Hendershot…
• Racial and sociodemographic predictors of COVID-19 compared with influenza, appendicitis, and all-cause hospitalization: retrospective cohort analysis.
  Ethnicity & health 2023 Raphael E, Azar KMJ, Gu D, Shen Z, Rubinsky A, Wang M, Pantell M, Lyles CR, Fernandez A, Bibbins-Domingo K, Pressman A, Nasrallah C, Hamad R
• Limited English Proficiency in Older Adults Referred to the Cardiovascular Team.
  The American journal of medicine 2023 Medrano FJ, Fernandez AJ, Sudore RL, Kirkpatrick JN, Benda NC, Creber RM, Goyal P, Beavers C, Maurer MS, Rich MW, Alexander KP, Krishnaswami A, Geriatric Cardiology and Cardiovascular Team Councils of…
• Patients Who Have Limited English Proficiency Have Decreased Utilization of Revision Surgeries After Hip and Knee Arthroplasty.
  The Journal of arthroplasty 2023 Nguyen KH, Suarez P, Sales C, Fernandez A, Ward DT, Manuel SP
• Evaluation of Commercially Available Machine Interpretation Applications for Simple Clinical Communication.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Lee W, Khoong EC, Zeng B, Rios-Fetchko F, Ma Y, Liu K, Fernandez A
• A matter of trust: Commitment to act for health equity.
  Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2023 Wyatt R, Tucker L, Mate K, Cerise F, Fernandez A, Jain S, Bau I, Wolfson D
• [Disparities in regional obesity rates in Argentina by socioeconomic status].
  Medicina 2023 Ríos-Fetchko F, Fernández A, Mejía R, Salgado MV
• Limited English proficiency correlates with postoperative complications after knee arthroplasty.
  Musculoskeletal care 2022 Nguyen KH, Sales C, Suarez P, Fernandez A, Ward DT, Manuel SP
• COVID-19 Vaccination Perceptions Among Young Adults of Color in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  Health equity 2022 Rios-Fetchko F, Carson M, Gonzalez Ramirez M, Butler JZ, Vargas R, Cabrera A, Gallegos-Castillo A, LeSarre M, Liao M, Woo K, Ellis R, Liu K, Doyle B, Leung L, Grumbach K, Fernandez A
• The Association of Limited English Proficiency With Morbidity and Mortality After Trauma.
  The Journal of surgical research 2022 Castro MRH, Schwartz H, Hernandez S, Calthorpe L, Fernández A, Stein D, Mackersie RC, Menza R, Bongiovanni T
• Assessing Medical Student Readiness to Navigate Language Barriers in Telehealth: Cross-sectional Survey Study.
  JMIR medical education 2022 Yin L, Ng F, Rutherford-Rojas M, Williams M, Cornes S, Fernandez A, Garcia ME, Khoong EC
• Worker Perspectives on COVID-19 Risks: A Qualitative Study of Latino Construction Workers in Oakland, California.
  International journal of environmental research and public health 2022 Meza E, Giglio L, Franco AO, Rodriguez E, Stock L, Balmes J, Torres JM, Fernandez A
• Association of Language Barriers With Process Outcomes After Craniotomy for Brain Tumor.
  Neurosurgery 2022 Manuel SP, Chia ZK, Raygor KP, Fernández A
• Limited English Proficiency Associated With Suboptimal Pain Assessment in Hospitalized Trauma Patients.
  The Journal of surgical research 2022 Schwartz H, Menza R, Lindquist K, Mackersie R, Fernández A, Stein D, Bongiovanni T
• COVID-19 vaccination readiness among multiple racial and ethnic groups in the San Francisco Bay Area: A qualitative analysis.
  PloS one 2022 Butler JZ, Carson M, Rios-Fetchko F, Vargas R, Cabrera A, Gallegos-Castillo A, LeSarre M, Liao M, Woo K, Ellis R, Liu K, Burra A, Ramirez M, Doyle B, Leung L, Fernandez A, Grumbach K
• Response to Letter: Clinician Educator and Clinician Researcher Collaborations.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2022 Chang A, Schwartz BS, Fernandez A
• Impacto sanitario de la prohibición total de publicidades de tabaco en argentina.
  Global health promotion 2022 Konfino J, Salgado MV, Penko J, Coxson P, Fernández A, Pichon-Riviere A, Bibbins-Domingo K, Mejía R
• A Window Into Mental Health: Developing and Pilot-Testing a Mental Health Promotion Intervention for Mexican Immigrants Through the Ventanilla de Salud Program.
  Frontiers in public health 2022 Martínez Rodríguez DL, González Vázquez T, Márquez Serrano M, de Groot M, Fernandez A, Gonzalez Casanova I
• JAMA Health Forum
  Physician–Public Health Practitioners—The Missing Academic Medicine Career Track 2022 Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS; Alicia Fernandez, MD
• All in the Family: A Qualitative Study of the Early Experiences of Adults with Younger-Onset Type 2 Diabetes
  JAMA Network Open 2022 All in the Family: A Qualitative Study of the Early Experiences of Adults with Younger-Onset Type 2 Diabetes
• Association of English Language Proficiency With Hospitalization Cost, Length of Stay, Disposition Location, and Readmission Following Total Joint Arthroplasty.
  JAMA network open 2022 Manuel SP, Nguyen K, Karliner LS, Ward DT, Fernandez A
• Physician-Public Health Practitioners-The Missing Academic Medicine Career Track.
  JAMA health forum 2022 Bibbins-Domingo K, Fernandez A
• Factors associated with adherence to guideline-recommended cardiovascular disease prevention among HIV clinicians.
  Translational behavioral medicine 2022 Galaviz KI, Colasanti JA, Kalokhe AS, Ali MK, Ofotokun I, Fernandez A
• Evaluating the Impact of Language Concordance on Coronavirus Disease 2019 Contact Tracing Outcomes Among Spanish-Speaking Adults in San Francisco Between June and November 2020.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2021 Eliaz A, Blair AH, Chen YH, Fernandez A, Ernst A, Mirjahangir J, Celentano J, Sachdev D, Enanoria W, Reid MJA
• Inequity in discharge pain management for trauma patients with limited English proficiency.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2021 Schwartz HEM, Matthay ZA, Menza R, Fernández A, Mackersie R, Stein DM, Bongiovanni T
• No One Size Fits All: A Qualitative Study of Clerkship Medical Students' Perceptions of Ideal Supervisor Responses to Microaggressions.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2021 Bullock JL, O'Brien MT, Minhas PK, Fernandez A, Lupton KL, Hauer KE
• Weight Gain during the COVID-19 Pandemic in a High-Risk Cohort of Children in San Francisco, CA.
  Childhood obesity (Print) 2021 Beck AL, Huang JC, Lendzion L, Fernandez A, Martinez S
• Speaking the Same Language: Improving Language-concordant Care in Surgery.
  Annals of surgery 2021 Ruiz AM, Allar BG, Fernandez A, Bates DW, Ortega G
• Does NAFLD mediate the relationship between obesity and type 2 diabetes risk? evidence from the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA).
  Annals of epidemiology 2021 Rodriguez LA, Kanaya AM, Shiboski SC, Fernandez A, Herrington D, Ding J, Bradshaw PT
• Modelling the impact of plain packaging of tobacco products on cardiovascular disease in Argentina.
  Tobacco control 2021 Salgado MV, Penko J, Fernandez A, Mejia R
• Using incident reporting to understand and characterize sexual harassment of physicians by patients.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2021 Hemmat S, Khoong EC, Olazo K, Sharma AE, Mangurian C, Fernandez A, Sarkar U
• Excess mortality among Latino people in California during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  SSM - population health 2021 Riley AR, Chen YH, Matthay EC, Glymour MM, Torres JM, Fernandez A, Bibbins-Domingo K
• Racial Disparities in 7-Day Readmissions from an Adult Hospital Medicine Service.
  Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities 2021 Rambachan A, Abe-Jones Y, Fernandez A, Shahram Y
• Impact of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic on Parents' Perception of Health Behaviors in Children With Overweight and Obesity.
  Academic pediatrics 2021 Beck AL, Huang JC, Lendzion L, Fernandez A, Martinez S
• Addressing Gaps in Interpreter Use: Time for Implementation Science Informed Multi-Level Interventions.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2021 Khoong EC, Fernandez A
• Variation in SARS-CoV-2 Infection Risk and Socioeconomic Disadvantage Among a Mayan-Latinx Population in Oakland, California.
  JAMA network open 2021 Esaryk EE, Wesson P, Fields J, Rios-Fetchko F, Lindan C, Bern C, Fernández A
• Excess Mortality in California During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic, March to August 2020.
  JAMA internal medicine 2021 Chen YH, Glymour MM, Catalano R, Fernandez A, Nguyen T, Kushel M, Bibbins-Domingo K
• Guiding Academic Clinician Educators at Research-Intensive Institutions: a Framework for Chairs, Chiefs, and Mentors.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2021 Chang A, Schwartz BS, Harleman E, Johnson M, Walter LC, Fernandez A
• A mentor training workshop focused on fostering diversity engenders lasting impact on mentoring techniques: Results of a long-term evaluation.
  Journal of clinical and translational science 2021 Johnson MO, Fuchs JD, Sterling L, Sauceda JA, Saag MS, Fernandez A, Evans CH, Gandhi M
• Primary nonadherence to statin medications: Survey of patient perspectives.
  Preventive medicine reports 2021 Tarn DM, Pletcher MJ, Tosqui R, Fernandez A, Tseng CH, Moriconi R, Bell DS, Barrientos M, Turner JA, Schwartz JB
• Experiences of Latinx Individuals Hospitalized for COVID-19: A Qualitative Study.
  JAMA network open 2021 Cervantes L, Martin M, Frank MG, Farfan JF, Kearns M, Rubio LA, Tong A, Matus Gonzalez A, Camacho C, Collings A, Mundo W, Powe NR, Fernandez A
• Predicting Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease for Adults Using Practical Clinical Measures: Evidence from the Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2021 Rodriguez LA, Shiboski SC, Bradshaw PT, Fernandez A, Herrington D, Ding J, Bradley RD, Kanaya AM
• Excess death among Latino people in California during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2021 Riley AR, Chen YH, Matthay EC, Glymour MM, Torres JM, Fernandez A, Bibbins-Domingo K
• Perceptions of Patients with Primary Nonadherence to Statin Medications.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2021 Tarn DM, Barrientos M, Pletcher MJ, Cox K, Turner J, Fernandez A, Schwartz JB
• Medical Education's Wicked Problem: Achieving Equity in Assessment for Medical Learners.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2020 Lucey CR, Hauer KE, Boatright D, Fernandez A
• Trends in sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among California children - CORRIGENDUM.
  Public health nutrition 2020 Beck AL, Martinez S, Patel AI, Fernandez A
• Resident Physician Experiences With and Responses to Biased Patients.
  JAMA network open 2020 de Bourmont SS, Burra A, Nouri SS, El-Farra N, Mohottige D, Sloan C, Schaeffer S, Friedman J, Fernandez A
• Experimentally Manipulated Low Social Status and Food Insecurity Alter Eating Behavior Among Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
  Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 2020 Cardel MI, Pavela G, Janicke D, Huo T, Miller D, Lee AM, Gurka MJ, Dhurandhar E, Peters JC, Caldwell AE, Krause E, Fernandez A, Allison DB
• A Qualitative Exploration of Barriers and Facilitators to Physical Activity Among Low-Income Latino Adolescents.
  Hispanic health care international : the official journal of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses 2020 Vasquez T, Fernandez A, Haya-Fisher J, Kim S, Beck AL
• The Unacceptable Pace of Progress in Health Disparities Education in Residency Programs.
  JAMA network open 2020 Fernandez A
• Projected impact of a reduction in sugar-sweetened beverage consumption on diabetes and cardiovascular disease in Argentina: A modeling study.
  PLoS medicine 2020 Salgado MV, Penko J, Fernandez A, Konfino J, Coxson PG, Bibbins-Domingo K, Mejia R
• Addressing Patient Bias Toward Health Care Workers: Recommendations for Medical Centers.
  Annals of internal medicine 2020 Paul-Emile K, Critchfield JM, Wheeler M, de Bourmont S, Fernandez A
• Trends in sugar-sweetened beverage consumption among California children.
  Public health nutrition 2020 Beck AL, Martinez S, Patel AI, Fernandez A
• Abstract P282: A Simple Clinical Scoring System Using Readily Available Clinical Measures for Prediction of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Evidence From the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).
  Circulation 2020 Luis A Rodriguez, Stephen Shiboski, Patrick Bradshaw, Alicia Fernandez, David M Herrington, Jingzhong Ding, Ryan D Bradley, Alka M Kanaya
• Interventions to Improve Patient Comprehension in Informed Consent for Medical and Surgical Procedures: An Updated Systematic Review.
  Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making 2020 Glaser J, Nouri S, Fernandez A, Sudore RL, Schillinger D, Klein-Fedyshin M, Schenker Y
• Physician and Trainee Experiences With Patient Bias.
  JAMA internal medicine 2019 Wheeler M, de Bourmont S, Paul-Emile K, Pfeffinger A, McMullen A, Critchfield JM, Fernandez A
• Further Incorporating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Into Medical Education Research.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2019 Fernandez A
• Language, culture and preventable readmissions: pragmatic, intervention studies needed.
  BMJ quality & safety 2019 Khoong EC, Fernandez A
• Evaluation of a Medical Student Research and Career Development Program to Increase Diversity in Academic Medicine.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2019 Fernandez A, Chen V, Quan J, Martinez A, Flowers L, Aronson L
• Medical Students' Perceptions of and Responses to Health Care Disparities During Clinical Clerkships.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2019 Glaser J, Pfeffinger A, Quan J, Fernandez A
• Changes in Perceptions of Discrimination in Health Care in California, 2003 to 2017.
  JAMA network open 2019 Schulson LB, Paasche-Orlow MK, Xuan Z, Fernandez A
• Unsound Evaluations of Medical Machine Translation Risk Patient Health and Confidentiality-Reply.
  JAMA internal medicine 2019 Khoong EC, Fernandez A
• 1527-P: Race/Ethnic-Specific Association between BMI and Incident Type 2 Diabetes (T2DM): Evidence from the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
  Diabetes 2019 LUIS A. RODRIGUEZ, PATRICK T. BRADSHAW, STEPHEN SHIBOSKI, ALICIA FERNANDEZ, ERIC VITTINGHOFF, DAVID M. HERRINGTON, JINGZHONG DING, ALKA M. KANAYA
• 155-OR: Are the American Diabetes Association Screening Guidelines Appropriate for the Racial/Ethnically Diverse U.S. Population? Evidence from the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
  Diabetes 2019 LUIS A. RODRIGUEZ, PATRICK T. BRADSHAW, STEPHEN SHIBOSKI, ALICIA FERNANDEZ, DAVID M. HERRINGTON, JINGZHONG DING, ALKA M. KANAYA
• How Does Acculturation Influence Smoking Behavior Among Latinos? The Role of Education and National Background.
  Ethnicity & disease 2019 Rodriquez EJ, Fernández A, Livaudais-Toman JC, Pérez-Stable EJ
• Barriers and facilitators to healthy eating among low-income Latino adolescents.
  Appetite 2019 Beck AL, Iturralde E, Haya-Fisher J, Kim S, Keeton V, Fernandez A
• Assessing the Use of Google Translate for Spanish and Chinese Translations of Emergency Department Discharge Instructions.
  JAMA internal medicine 2019 Khoong EC, Steinbrook E, Brown C, Fernandez A
• After-visit summaries in primary care: mixed methods results from a literature review and stakeholder interviews.
  Family practice 2019 Lyles CR, Gupta R, Tieu L, Fernandez A
• Examining the role of funders in ensuring value and reducing waste in research: An organizational case-study of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
  F1000Research 2019 Whitlock EP, Selby JV, Dunham KM, Fernandez A, Forsythe LP, Norquist G
• Patient-Centered, Integrated Health Care Quality Measures Could Improve Health Literacy, Language Access, and Cultural Competence.
  NAM Perspectives 2019 Ignatius Bau, Robert A. Logan, Christopher Dezii, Bernard Rosof, Alicia Fernandez, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow, Winston W. Wong
• Challenges and Successes with Food Resource Referrals for Food-Insecure Patients with Diabetes.
  The Permanente journal 2019 Marpadga S, Fernandez A, Leung J, Tang A, Seligman H, Murphy EJ
• How Does Acculturation Influence Smoking Behavior Among Latinos? The Role of Education and National Background
  Ethnicity and Disease 2019 Erik J. Rodriquez, Alicia Fernández, Jennifer C. Livaudais-Toman, Eliseo J. Perez-Stable
• Update of the cardiovascular disease policy model to predict cardiovascular events in Argentina.
  Medicina 2019 Salgado MV, Coxson P, Konfino J, Penko J, Irazola VE, Gutiérrez L, Fernández A, Mejía R
• Regulatory initiatives to reduce sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in Latin America.
  PloS one 2018 Bergallo P, Castagnari V, Fernández A, Mejía R
• How Small Differences in Assessed Clinical Performance Amplify to Large Differences in Grades and Awards: A Cascade With Serious Consequences for Students Underrepresented in Medicine.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2018 Teherani A, Hauer KE, Fernandez A, King TE, Lucey C
• Language barriers and LDL-C/SBP control among Latinos with diabetes.
  The American journal of managed care 2018 Fernandez A, Warton EM, Schillinger D, Moffet HH, Kruger J, Adler N, Karter AJ
• Health Literacy and Power.
  Health literacy research and practice 2018 Paasche-Orlow MK, Schillinger D, Weiss BD, Bickmore T, Cabral H, Chang P, Bailey SC, Dewalt DA, Fernandez A, Fransen M, Leung A, McCaffery K, Meade CD, McCormack LA, Protheroe J, Parker R, Rothman R, …
• Collaborative Care for Depression among Patients with Limited English Proficiency: a Systematic Review.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2017 Garcia ME, Ochoa-Frongia L, Moise N, Aguilera A, Fernandez A
• Consequences of Recent Anti-Immigration Policy-Reply.
  JAMA internal medicine 2017 Fernandez A, Rodriguez RA
• “Lost in Translation”: How Clinicians Make Sense of Structural Barriers to Diabetes Care among US Latinos with Limited English Proficiency.
  Health and Health Care Concerns Among Women and Racial and Ethnic Minorities 2017 Claudia Chaufan, Mi-Kyung “Miki” Hong, Alicia Fernandez
• Randomized Controlled Trial of a Clinic-Based Intervention to Promote Healthy Beverage Consumption Among Latino Children.
  Clinical pediatrics 2017 Beck AL, Fernandez A, Rojina J, Cabana M
• Perspectives of low-income chronically ill patients on complex care management.
  Families, systems & health : the journal of collaborative family healthcare 2017 Mao AY, Willard-Grace R, Dubbin L, Aronson L, Fernandez A, Burke NJ, Finch J, Davis E
• How Should Physicians Respond When Patients Distrust Them Because of Their Gender?
  AMA journal of ethics 2017 Peek M, Lo B, Fernandez A
• Undocumented Immigrants and Access to Health Care.
  JAMA internal medicine 2017 Fernández A, Rodriguez RA
• Adherence to Newly Prescribed Diabetes Medications Among Insured Latino and White Patients With Diabetes.
  JAMA internal medicine 2017 Fernández A, Quan J, Moffet H, Parker MM, Schillinger D, Karter AJ
• Association of Patient-Physician Language Concordance and Glycemic Control for Limited-English Proficiency Latinos With Type 2 Diabetes.
  JAMA internal medicine 2017 Parker MM, Fernández A, Moffet HH, Grant RW, Torreblanca A, Karter AJ
• Comparing Strategies for Lipid Lowering in Argentina: An Analysis from the CVD Policy Model-Argentina.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2016 Konfino J, Fernandez A, Penko J, Mason A, Martinez E, Coxson P, Heller D, Moran A, Bibbins-Domingo K, Pérez-Stable EJ, Mejía R
• Projected Impact of Mexico's Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax Policy on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: A Modeling Study.
  PLoS medicine 2016 Sánchez-Romero LM, Penko J, Coxson PG, Fernández A, Mason A, Moran AE, Ávila-Burgos L, Odden M, Barquera S, Bibbins-Domingo K
• Identifying Spanish Language Competent Physicians: The Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE).
  Ethnicity & disease 2016 Chaufan C, Karter AJ, Moffet HH, Quan J, Parker MM, Kruger J, Schillinger D, Fernandez A
• San Francisco childcare centers' preparedness in the prevention and management of asthma among preschool-aged children.
  The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma 2016 Young CA, Stookey J, Patel AI, Chan C, Evans J, Cohn K, Agana L, Yen IH, Fernandez A, Cabana MD
• The Association Between Limited English Proficiency and Unplanned Emergency Department Revisit Within 72 Hours.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2016 Ngai KM, Grudzen CR, Lee R, Tong VY, Richardson LD, Fernandez A
• Dealing with Racist Patients.
  The New England journal of medicine 2016 Paul-Emile K, Smith AK, Lo B, Fernández A
• ¿Doctor, habla español? Increasing the Supply and Quality of Language-Concordant Physicians for Spanish-Speaking Patients.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2015 Fernández A, Pérez-Stable EJ
• Research in the Sociology of Health Care
  "It's not the doctor - it's me." How self-blame obscures language and other structural barriers to diabetes care mong low-income Latinos with limited English Proficiency. 2015 Chaufan C, Fielding H, Chesla C, Fernandez A.
• “It’s Not the Doctor – It’s Me”: How Self-Blame Obscures Language and Other Structural Barriers to Diabetes Care among Low-Income Latinos with Limited English Proficiency Abstract Note Acknowledgments.
  Education, Social Factors, and Health Beliefs in Health and Health Care Services 2015 Claudia Chaufan, Hegla Fielding, Catherine Chesla, Alicia Fernandez
• Development of a Tool to Evaluate Asthma Preparedness and Management in Child-Care Centers.
  Pediatric allergy, immunology, and pulmonology 2015 Young CA, Chan C, Stookey J, Patel AI, Evans J, Cohn K, Agana L, Yen IH, Fernandez A, Cabana MD
• Patient-physician language concordance and use of preventive care services among limited English proficient Latinos and Asians.
  Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) 2015 Jih J, Vittinghoff E, Fernandez A
• From admission to discharge: patterns of interpreter use among resident physicians caring for hospitalized patients with limited english proficiency.
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2014 Tang AS, Kruger JF, Quan J, Fernandez A
• Self-care and Subjectivity among Mexican Diabetes Patients in the United States.
  Medical anthropology quarterly 2014 Seligman R, Mendenhall E, Valdovinos MD, Fernandez A, Jacobs EA
• Development and implementation of a workshop to enhance the effectiveness of mentors working with diverse mentees in HIV research.
  AIDS research and human retroviruses 2014 Gandhi M, Fernandez A, Stoff DM, Narahari S, Blank M, Fuchs J, Evans CH, Kahn JS, Johnson MO
• Undocumented immigration status and diabetes care among Mexican immigrants in two immigration "sanctuary" areas.
  Journal of immigrant and minority health 2014 Iten AE, Jacobs EA, Lahiff M, Fernández A
• Age and glycemic control among low-income Latinos.
  Journal of immigrant and minority health 2013 Naranjo DM, Jacobs EA, Fisher L, Hessler D, Fernandez A
• Differences in the clinical recognition of depression in diabetes patients: the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE).
  The American journal of managed care 2013 Hudson DL, Karter AJ, Fernandez A, Parker M, Adams AS, Schillinger D, Moffet HH, Zhou J, Adler NE
• "Because somebody cared about me. That's how it changed things": homeless, chronically ill patients' perspectives on case management.
  PloS one 2012 Davis E, Tamayo A, Fernandez A
• Advances in measuring culturally competent care: a confirmatory factor analysis of CAHPS-CC in a safety-net population.
  Medical care 2012 Stern RJ, Fernandez A, Jacobs EA, Neilands TB, Weech-Maldonado R, Quan J, Carle A, Seligman HK
• Aspects of culturally competent care are associated with less emotional burden among patients with diabetes.
  Medical care 2012 Slean GR, Jacobs EA, Lahiff M, Fisher L, Fernandez A
• Associations between aspects of culturally competent care and clinical outcomes among patients with diabetes.
  Medical care 2012 Fernandez A, Seligman H, Quan J, Stern RJ, Jacobs EA
• Risk factors for reporting poor cultural competency among patients with diabetes in safety net clinics.
  Medical care 2012 Seligman HK, Fernandez A, Stern RJ, Weech-Maldonado R, Quan J, Jacobs EA
• Susto, coraje, and abuse: depression and beliefs about diabetes.
  Culture, medicine and psychiatry 2012 Mendenhall E, Fernandez A, Adler N, Jacobs EA
• Interpretation for discussions about end-of-life issues: results from a National Survey of Health Care Interpreters.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2012 Schenker Y, Fernandez A, Kerr K, O'Riordan D, Pantilat SZ
• Testing a Spanish-language colorectal cancer screening decision aid in Latinos with limited English proficiency: results from a pre-post trial and four month follow-up survey.
  BMC medical informatics and decision making 2012 Reuland DS, Ko LK, Fernandez A, Braswell LC, Pignone M
• Concepts of diabetes self-management in Mexican American and African American low-income patients with diabetes.
  Health education research 2012 Lynch EB, Fernandez A, Lighthouse N, Mendenhall E, Jacobs E
• Effect of Spanish language immersion rotations on medical student Spanish fluency.
  Family medicine 2012 Reuland DS, Slatt LM, Alemán MA, Fernandez A, Dewalt D
• Food insecurity and glycemic control among low-income patients with type 2 diabetes.
  Diabetes care 2011 Seligman HK, Jacobs EA, López A, Tschann J, Fernandez A
• "Her husband doesn't speak much English": conducting a family meeting with an interpreter.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2011 Schenker Y, Smith AK, Arnold RM, Fernandez A
• The association between housing instability, food insecurity, and diabetes self-efficacy in low-income adults.
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2011 Vijayaraghavan M, Jacobs EA, Seligman H, Fernandez A
• Ethnic differences in appointment-keeping and implications for the patient-centered medical home--findings from the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE).
  Health services research 2011 Parker MM, Moffet HH, Schillinger D, Adler N, Fernandez A, Ciechanowski P, Karter AJ
• Food insecurity and hypoglycemia among safety net patients with diabetes.
  Archives of internal medicine 2011 Seligman HK, Jacobs EA, Lopez A, Sarkar U, Tschann J, Fernandez A
• Adherence to laboratory test requests by patients with diabetes: the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE).
  The American journal of managed care 2011 Moffet HH, Parker MM, Sarkar U, Schillinger D, Fernandez A, Adler NE, Adams AS, Karter AJ
• Birthplace, language use, and body size among Mexican American women and men: findings from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2001-2006.
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2011 Guendelman S, Fernandez A, Thornton D, Brindis C
• Accuracy of physician self-report of Spanish language proficiency.
  Journal of immigrant and minority health 2011 Rosenthal A, Wang F, Schillinger D, Pérez Stable EJ, Fernandez A
• Asian Americans and obesity in California: a protective effect of biculturalism.
  Journal of immigrant and minority health 2011 Wang S, Quan J, Kanaya AM, Fernandez A
• Case 34-2010: A woman with an incorrect operation.
  The New England journal of medicine 2011 Fernandez A, Ettinger KM, Lo B
• Assessment of medical students' shared decision-making in standardized patient encounters.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2010 Hauer KE, Fernandez A, Teherani A, Boscardin CK, Saba GW
• Language barriers, physician-patient language concordance, and glycemic control among insured Latinos with diabetes: the Diabetes Study of Northern California (DISTANCE).
  Journal of general internal medicine 2010 Fernandez A, Schillinger D, Warton EM, Adler N, Moffet HH, Schenker Y, Salgado MV, Ahmed A, Karter AJ
• Improving the quality of informed consent: it is not all about the risks.
  Annals of internal medicine 2010 Fernandez A
• Impact of student ethnicity and patient-centredness on communication skills performance.
  Medical education 2010 Hauer KE, Boscardin C, Gesundheit N, Nevins A, Srinivasan M, Fernandez A
• Racial composition of residential areas associates with access to pre-ESRD nephrology care.
  Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 2010 Prakash S, Rodriguez RA, Austin PC, Saskin R, Fernandez A, Moist LM, O'Hare AM
• Speaking through diabetes: Rethinking the significance of lay discourses on diabetes.
  Medical anthropology quarterly 2010 Mendenhall E, Seligman RA, Fernandez A, Jacobs EA
• A strategy for improving health disparities education in medicine.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2010 Ross PT, Wiley Cené C, Bussey-Jones J, Brown AF, Blackman D, Fernández A, Fernández L, Glick SB, Horowitz CR, Jacobs EA, Peek ME, Wilkerson L, Lypson ML
• Teaching about health care disparities in the clinical setting.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2010 Glick SB, Fernandez L, Irby DM, Harleman E, Fernandez A
• Interventions to improve patient comprehension in informed consent for medical and surgical procedures: a systematic review.
  Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making 2010 Schenker Y, Fernandez A, Sudore R, Schillinger D
• The impact of limited English proficiency and physician language concordance on reports of clinical interactions among patients with diabetes: the DISTANCE study.
  Patient education and counseling 2010 Schenker Y, Karter AJ, Schillinger D, Warton EM, Adler NE, Moffet HH, Ahmed AT, Fernandez A
• Time to establish national standards and certification for health care interpreters.
  Patient education and counseling 2010 Fernandez A, Schenker Y
• Placebo prescriptions are missed opportunities for doctor-patient communication.
  The American journal of bioethics : AJOB 2009 Schenker Y, Fernandez A, Lo B
• Accuracy of self-assessed Spanish fluency in medical students.
  Teaching and learning in medicine 2009 Reuland DS, Frasier PY, Olson MD, Slatt LM, Aleman MA, Fernandez A
• Responding to the Language Challenge: Kaiser Permanente's Approach.
  The Permanente journal 2009 Meyers K, Tang G, Fernandez A
• Getting by: underuse of interpreters by resident physicians.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2008 Diamond LC, Schenker Y, Curry L, Bradley EH, Fernandez A
• Navigating language barriers under difficult circumstances.
  Annals of internal medicine 2008 Schenker Y, Lo B, Ettinger KM, Fernandez A
• Acute myocardial infarction length of stay and hospital mortality are not associated with language preference.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2007 Grubbs V, Bibbins-Domingo K, Fernandez A, Chattopadhyay A, Bindman AB
• Recommendations for teaching about racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care.
  Annals of internal medicine 2007 Smith WR, Betancourt JR, Wynia MK, Bussey-Jones J, Stone VE, Phillips CO, Fernandez A, Jacobs E, Bowles J
• Language barriers in health care.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2007 Saha S, Fernandez A
• Reducing language barriers and racial/ethnic disparities in health care: an investment in our future.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2007 Saha S, Fernandez A, Perez-Stable E
• The impact of language barriers on documentation of informed consent at a hospital with on-site interpreter services.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2007 Schenker Y, Wang F, Selig SJ, Ng R, Fernandez A
• BiDil for heart failure in black patients.
  Annals of internal medicine 2007 Bibbins-Domingo K, Fernandez A
• Impact of student ethnicity and primary childhood language on communication skill assessment in a clinical performance examination.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2007 Fernandez A, Wang F, Braveman M, Finkas LK, Hauer KE
• BiDil for heart failure in black patients: implications of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval.
  Annals of internal medicine 2007 Bibbins-Domingo K, Fernandez A
• Effect of awareness of language law on language access in the health care setting.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2006 Grubbs V, Chen AH, Bindman AB, Vittinghoff E, Fernandez A
• Shared decision making and the experience of partnership in primary care.
  Annals of family medicine 2006 Saba GW, Wong ST, Schillinger D, Fernandez A, Somkin CP, Wilson CC, Grumbach K
• Effects of limited English proficiency and physician language on health care comprehension.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2005 Wilson E, Chen AH, Grumbach K, Wang F, Fernandez A
• High and rising health care costs. Part 4: can costs be controlled while preserving quality?
  Annals of internal medicine 2005 Bodenheimer T, Fernandez A
• Unintended consequences of a quality improvement program designed to improve treatment of alcohol withdrawal in hospitalized patients.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2005 Pletcher MJ, Fernandez A, May TA, Westphal JR, Gamez CA, Hersh DF, Gonzales R
• Primary care physicians who treat blacks and whites.
  The New England journal of medicine 2004 Fernandez A, Goldstein L
• Physician language ability and cultural competence. An exploratory study of communication with Spanish-speaking patients.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2004 Fernandez A, Schillinger D, Grumbach K, Rosenthal A, Stewart AL, Wang F, Pérez-Stable EJ
• [Detection of domestic violence against women. Survey in a primary health care clinic].
  Medicina 2004 Pontecorvo C, Mejía R, Aleman M, Vidal A, Majdalani MP, Fayanás R, Fernández A, Pérez Stable EJ
• Physicians' ability to predict the risk of coronary heart disease.
  BMC health services research 2003 Pignone M, Phillips CJ, Elasy TA, Fernandez A
• Educacion Medica
  Residentes de primer año de Medicina Interna: distribucion horaria de las tareas 2003 Majdalani M, Mejia R, Fayanas R, Fernandez A, Perez-Stable EJ
• Primary care physicians' experience with disease management programs.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2001 Fernandez A, Grumbach K, Vranizan K, Osmond DH, Bindman AB
• Friend or foe? How primary care physicians perceive hospitalists.
  Archives of internal medicine 2000 Fernandez A, Grumbach K, Goitein L, Vranizan K, Osmond DH, Bindman AB
• The populations and quality improvement seminar for medical residents.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2000 Schillinger D, Wheeler M, Fernandez A
• [Awareness and detection of domestic violence by clinical physicians].
  Medicina 2000 Mejia R, Aleman M, Férnandez A, Pérez Stable EJ
• Heart Failure
  Anticoagulation in Patients with Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation 1997 Fernandez A and Goldschlager N