Claire Horton, MD, MPH
Volunteer Clinical Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Awards

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• UCSF Academy of Medical Educators' Innovations in Education Award, UCSF, 2015
• San Francisco General Hospital Rick Haber Excellence in Teaching Award, San Francisco General Hospital, 2011
• Excellence in Teaching Award, UCSF Academy of Medical Educators, 2011
• California Health Care Foundation Health Leadership Fellowship, UCSF Healthforce Center, 2006-2009

Education & Training

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• Residency School of Medicine - Primary Care University of California, San Francisco 2001
• MD Medicine Duke University 1997
• MPH Maternal and Child Health University of North Carolina 1996
• BA History Duke University 1992

Interests

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• Health systems improvement
• health equity and social justice
• women's health
• immigrant communities

Websites

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• Profile at futurehealth.ucsf.edu (futurehealth.ucsf.edu)

Publications (9)

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AftercareContinuity of Patient CareAdvance DirectivesPrimary Health CareAcademic Medical CentersHospitals, UrbanPatient Care TeamVideo RecordingAdvance Care PlanningDecision Making, Computer-AssistedPatient-Centered CarePractice Patterns, Nurses'Outpatient Clinics, HospitalHematologic TestsMedical Overuse

• The San Francisco Health Systems Collaborative: Public Health and Health Care Delivery Systems' Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic.
  NEJM catalyst innovations in care delivery 2024 Mercer MP, Day L, Ansari M, Kwan E, Kotis D, Caplan V, Nguyen TQ, Lee C, Smith M, Tenner AG, Sangha B, Rivera T, Saelee K, Horton C, Green A, Giang V, Ovbiagele B, Quock J, LeVine T, Sears J, Chow A, …
• Feasibility of a Video-Based Advance Care Planning Website to Facilitate Group Visits among Diverse Adults from a Safety-Net Health System.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2018 Zapata C, Lum HD, Wistar E, Horton C, Sudore RL
• "Choosing wisely" in an academic department of medicine.
  American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2014 Hines JZ, Sewell JL, Sehgal NL, Moriates C, Horton CK, Chen AH
• Interval examination: building primary care teams in an urban academic teaching clinic.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2013 Gupta R, Davis E, Horton C
• Points for improvement: performance measurement for glycemic control in diabetes patients in a safety-net population.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2013 Baxi S, Lakin J, Lyles CR, Berkowitz S, Horton C, Sarkar U

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• The bridge clinic.
  The American journal of nursing 2012 Newbold E, Schneidermann M, Horton C
• Signal and noise: applying a laboratory trigger tool to identify adverse drug events among primary care patients.
  BMJ quality & safety 2012 Brenner S, Detz A, López A, Horton C, Sarkar U
• Patient Follow-up in an Urban Resident Continuity Clinic: An Initiative to Improve Scheduling Practices.
  Journal of graduate medical education 2011 Dowdy DW, Horton CK, Lau B, Ferrer R, Chen AH
• Simian immunodeficiency virus disease course is predicted by the extent of virus replication during primary infection.
  Journal of virology 1999 Staprans SI, Dailey PJ, Rosenthal A, Horton C, Grant RM, Lerche N, Feinberg MB