Beth Berrean
Deputy Dir. Design & Discovery
Dean's Office
School of Medicine

Beth works with faculty and leadership to help shape their ideas into digital products and services. She helps internal innovators identify executable product roadmaps and particularly enjoys leveraging participatory design methods and working with diverse populations. Beth has a background in human-centered design with two decades of experience working across various technologies.

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She was in the pioneering cohort of CCA’s Design Strategy MBA program and has a master's in library science she uses just for fun.

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 10/2022
• MBA Design Strategy CCA 2010
• MLIS Library Science Catholic University of America 1998

Websites

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• @@berreanb on Twitter (twitter.com)
• SOM Tech (tech.ucsf.edu)

Videos

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• Innovators and Innovation at UCSF: The Shape of Things to Come: The Internal Studio Model (youtube.com)

Publications (7)

Top publication keywords:
Mobile ApplicationsArthritis, RheumatoidPatientsPatient Reported Outcome MeasuresDecision Support Systems, ClinicalCommunicationBetacoronavirusGames, ExperimentalEmergency Medical ServicesPatient-Centered CareProfessional-Patient RelationsHealth LiteracyClinical Decision-MakingPatient ParticipationMedication Adherence

• Streamlining Care in Crisis: Rapid Creation and Implementation of a Digital Support Tool for COVID-19.
  The western journal of emergency medicine 2020 Stark N, Kerrissey M, Grade M, Berrean B, Peabody C
• Patient and clinician perspectives on a patient-facing dashboard that visualizes patient reported outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis.
  Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy 2020 Liu LH, Garrett SB, Li J, Ragouzeos D, Berrean B, Dohan D, Katz PP, Barton JL, Yazdany J, Schmajuk G
• WYZ: a pilot study protocol for designing and developing a mobile health application for engagement in HIV care and medication adherence in youth and young adults living with HIV.
  BMJ open 2019 Erguera XA, Johnson MO, Neilands TB, Ruel T, Berrean B, Thomas S, Saberi P
• "Am I OK?" using human centered design to empower rheumatoid arthritis patients through patient reported outcomes.
  Patient education and counseling 2018 Ragouzeos D, Gandrup J, Berrean B, Li J, Murphy M, Trupin L, Yazdany J, Schmajuk G
• The 21st dmi: Academic Design Management Conference Proceedings
  Empowering patients with their own data: a partnership between human-centered design and academic medical research 2018 Dana Ragouzeos, Beth Berrean, Gabriela Schmajuk
• A Simple Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Optimization Intervention for Health Care Providers Prescribing PrEP: Pilot Study.
  JMIR formative research 2018 Saberi P, Berrean B, Thomas S, Gandhi M, Scott H
• Development and usability evaluation of the mHealth Tool for Lung Cancer (mHealth TLC): a virtual world health game for lung cancer patients.
  Patient education and counseling 2015 Brown-Johnson CG, Berrean B, Cataldo JK