Ariana Thompson-Lastad, PhD
Assistant Professor
Family Community Medicine
School of Medicine

Her work primarily examines innovative approaches to primary care, including integrative group medical visits implemented in US community health centers and the community midwifery model of postpartum care. Dr. Thompson-Lastad is currently a board member of Integrative Medicine for the Underserved and a leadership team member of the Structural Competency Working Group. She is an affiliated faculty member with the UCSF Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health and the UC Berkeley Center for Social Medicine. Prior to becoming a researcher, Dr. Thompson-Lastad worked in a community health center as a diabetes care coordinator and group medical visit facilitator.

• "Housing Is Health Care": Treating Homelessness in Safety-net Hospitals.
  Medical anthropology quarterly 2021 Hanssmann C, Shim JK, Yen IH, Fleming MD, Van Natta M, Thompson-Lastad A, Rasidjan MP, Burke NJ
• Managing the "hot spots": Health care, policing, and the governance of poverty in the US.
  American ethnologist 2021 Fleming MD, Shim JK, Yen I, Dubbin L, Thompson-Lastad A, Hanssmann C, Burke NJ
• Adaptations to Acupuncture and Pain Counseling Implementation in a Multisite Pragmatic Randomized Clinical Trial.
  Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) 2021 Ho EY, Thompson-Lastad A, Lam R, Zhang X, Thompson N, Chao MT
• Social Literacy: Nurses' Contribution Toward the Co-Production of Self-Management.
  Global qualitative nursing research 2021 Dubbin L, Burke N, Fleming M, Thompson-Lastad A, Napoles TM, Yen I, Shim JK
• Experiences of Advanced Breast Cancer Among Latina Immigrants: A Qualitative Pilot Study.
  Journal of immigrant and minority health 2020 Glaser J, Coulter YZ, Thompson-Lastad A, Castro-Smyth L, Serrano E, Adler SR
• Group Medical Visits and Clinician Wellbeing.
  Global advances in health and medicine 2020 Thompson-Lastad A, Gardiner P
• Patient Engagement, Chronic Illness, and the Subject of Health Care Reform.
  Medical anthropology 2020 Fleming MD, Shim JK, Yen I, Thompson-Lastad A, Burke NJ
• A crack in the wall: Chronic pain management in integrative group medical visits.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2020 Thompson-Lastad A, Rubin S
• Structural Competency: Curriculum for Medical Students, Residents, and Interprofessional Teams on the Structural Factors That Produce Health Disparities.
  MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources 2020 Neff J, Holmes SM, Knight KR, Strong S, Thompson-Lastad A, McGuinness C, Duncan L, Saxena N, Harvey MJ, Langford A, Carey-Simms KL, Minahan SN, Satterwhite S, Ruppel C, Lee S, Walkover L, De Avila J, …
• The Quadruple Aim as a Framework for Integrative Group Medical Visits.
  Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) 2020 Roth I, Thompson-Lastad A, Thomas AU
• Acupressure and Therapeutic Touch in Childhood Cancer to Promote Subjective and Intersubjective Experiences of Well-being During Curative Treatment.
  Global advances in health and medicine 2019 Hu H, Shear D, Thakkar R, Thompson-Lastad A, Pinderhughes H, Hecht FM, Lown EA
• Improving Access to Integrative Oncology Through Group Medical Visits: A Pilot Implementation Project.
  Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) 2019 Thompson-Lastad A, Atreya CE, Chao MT, Pollak C, Dhruva A, Santana T, Abrams DI
• Vulnerable Patients' Psychosocial Experiences in a Group-Based, Integrative Pain Management Program.
  Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) 2019 Bruns EB, Befus D, Wismer B, Knight K, Adler SR, Leonoudakis-Watts K, Thompson-Lastad A, Chao MT
• Integrative Group Medical Visits: A National Scoping Survey of Safety-Net Clinics.
  Health equity 2019 Thompson-Lastad A, Gardiner P, Chao MT
• Group Medical Visits as Participatory Care in Community Health Centers.
  Qualitative health research 2018 Thompson-Lastad A
• Complex care and contradictions of choice in the safety net.
  Sociology of health & illness 2018 Van Natta M, Burke NJ, Yen IH, Rubin S, Fleming MD, Thompson-Lastad A, Shim JK
• Response to commentary, "Trauma and the structuring of complex care: Back to the settlements?" by Elizabeth Bowen.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2017 Thompson-Lastad A, Yen IH, Fleming MD, Van Natta M, Rubin S, Shim JK, Burke NJ
• Defining trauma in complex care management: Safety-net providers' perspectives on structural vulnerability and time.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2017 Thompson-Lastad A, Yen IH, Fleming MD, Van Natta M, Rubin S, Shim JK, Burke NJ
• Patient engagement at the margins: Health care providers' assessments of engagement and the structural determinants of health in the safety-net.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2017 Fleming MD, Shim JK, Yen IH, Thompson-Lastad A, Rubin S, Van Natta M, Burke NJ
• Does CenteringPregnancy Group Prenatal Care Affect the Birth Experience of Underserved Women? A Mixed Methods Analysis.
  Journal of immigrant and minority health 2017 Liu R, Chao MT, Jostad-Laswell A, Duncan LG
• Latino Parents' Insight on Optimal Sleep for Their Preschool-Age Child: Does Context Matter?
  Academic pediatrics 2015 Martinez SM, Thompson-Lastad A