Alissa Sideman, PhD, MPH, MA
Assistant Professor
Institute for Health Policy Studies
School of Medicine

She also conducts research focused on care navigation to support people with dementia and their caregivers and building palliative care approaches in memory care settings. Dr. Bernstein teaches medical students, fellows, and Master's students on topics that include qualitative research methods, implementation science, community-based participatory research, and human-centered design. Dr. Bernstein is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and Department of Neurology within the UCSF School of Medicine, and is core faculty in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, as well as faculty in the Global Brain Health Institute at UCSF.

• Use of Telephone- and Internet-Based Support to Elicit and Address Financial Abuse and Mismanagement in Dementia: Experiences from the Care Ecosystem Study.
  Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Manivannan M, Heunis J, Hooper SM, Bernstein Sideman A, Lui KP, Braley TL, Possin KL, Chiong W
• Closed-Loop Neuromodulation and Self-Perception in Clinical Treatment of Refractory Epilepsy.
  AJOB neuroscience 2021 Haeusermann T, Lechner CR, Fong KC, Bernstein Sideman A, Jaworska A, Chiong W, Dohan D
• The Role of Spirituality in Conceptualizations of Health Maintenance and Healthy Aging Among Latin American Immigrants.
  The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry 2021 Weiner-Light S, Rankin KP, Lanata S, Possin KL, Dohan D, Bernstein Sideman A
• Practices, challenges, and opportunities when addressing the palliative care needs of people living with dementia: Specialty memory care provider perspectives.
  Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2021 Bernstein Sideman A, Harrison KL, Garrett SB, Naasan G, Dementia Palliative Care Writing Group, Ritchie CS
• Using care navigation to address caregiver burden in dementia: A qualitative case study analysis.
  Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2020 Bernstein A, Merrilees J, Dulaney S, Harrison KL, Chiong W, Ong P, Heunis J, Choi J, Walker R, Feuer JE, Lee K, Dohan D, Bonasera SJ, Miller BL, Possin KL
• Effect of Collaborative Dementia Care via Telephone and Internet on Quality of Life, Caregiver Well-being, and Health Care Use: The Care Ecosystem Randomized Clinical Trial.
  JAMA internal medicine 2019 Possin KL, Merrilees JJ, Dulaney S, Bonasera SJ, Chiong W, Lee K, Hooper SM, Allen IE, Braley T, Bernstein A, Rosa TD, Harrison K, Begert-Hellings H, Kornak J, Kahn JG, Naasan G, Lanata S, Clark AM, …
• Dementia assessment and management in primary care settings: a survey of current provider practices in the United States.
  BMC health services research 2019 Bernstein A, Rogers KM, Possin KL, Steele NZR, Ritchie CS, Kramer JH, Geschwind M, Higgins JJ, Wohlgemuth J, Pesano R, Miller BL, Rankin KP
• Primary Care Provider Attitudes and Practices Evaluating and Managing Patients with Neurocognitive Disorders.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2019 Bernstein A, Rogers KM, Possin KL, Steele NZR, Ritchie CS, Miller BL, Rankin KP
• Variations in Costs of a Collaborative Care Model for Dementia.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019 Rosa TD, Possin KL, Bernstein A, Merrilees J, Dulaney S, Matuoka J, Lee KP, Chiong W, Bonasera SJ, Harrison KL, Kahn JG
• Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Health Policy
  Human Organization 2019 Bernstein A, Razon N
• The Role of Care Navigators Working with People with Dementia and Their Caregivers.
  Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2019 Bernstein A, Harrison KL, Dulaney S, Merrilees J, Bowhay A, Heunis J, Choi J, Feuer JE, Clark AM, Chiong W, Lee K, Braley TL, Bonasera SJ, Ritchie CS, Dohan D, Miller BL, Possin KL
• Proliferating Policy: Technologies, Performance, and Aesthetics in the Circulation and Governance of Health Care Reform in Bolivia
  Political and Legal Anthropology Review 2018 Bernstein A
• The Care Ecosystem: Promoting self-efficacy among dementia family caregivers.
  Dementia (London, England) 2018 Merrilees JJ, Bernstein A, Dulaney S, Heunis J, Walker R, Rah E, Choi J, Gawlas K, Carroll S, Ong P, Feuer J, Braley T, Clark AM, Lee K, Chiong W, Bonasera SJ, Miller BL, Possin KL
• “The Gray Zone”; “It Works for Us.”
  hear/say: Stories About Aging, Dementia, Art, and Life, ed. Caroline Prileau and Jennifer Merrilees 2017 Bernstein A
• Development of an adaptive, personalized, and scalable dementia care program: Early findings from the Care Ecosystem.
  PLoS medicine 2017 Possin KL, Merrilees J, Bonasera SJ, Bernstein A, Chiong W, Lee K, Wilson L, Hooper SM, Dulaney S, Braley T, Laohavanich S, Feuer JE, Clark AM, Schaffer MW, Schenk AK, Heunis J, Ong P, Cook KM, Bowhay…
• Personal and political histories in the designing of health reform policy in Bolivia.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2017 Bernstein A
• Beyond the Case: Competing Logics and Practices of Comparative Ethnography (ed. Abrams and Gong)
  Using Computational Tools to Enhance Comparative Ethnography: Lessons from Scaling Ethnography for Biomedicine Bernstein A, Dohan D
• Health Travels: Cuban
Health(care) On and Off the Island (ed. Nancy Burke)
  Transformative Medical Education and the Making of New Clinical Subjectivities Through Cuban-Bolivian Medical Diplomacy Bernstein A