Diane Rittenhouse, MD, MPH
Professor
Family Community Medicine
School of Medicine

Dr. Rittenhouse’s principal research interest lies at the intersection of social policy and clinical quality with a particular focus on primary care. She is currently funded by the California HealthCare Foundation to investigate the policies that impact funding of graduate medical education in California and has developed recommendations for GME expansion. She has written extensively on topics including innovations in primary care delivery and policies impacting the primary care workforce and delivery system. Dr. Rittenhouse has published in peer-reviewed journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association, and has been invited to speak to members of the U.S. Congress on the role of the primary care in health reform.

In addition, Dr. Rittenhouse has been a leader in Health Systems/Health Policy curriculum development for the UCSF School of Medicine, and has received awards for her teaching and curriculum development work. She currently serves as the faculty advisor for the UCSF-UC Berkeley MD/MPH program. She also serves as the Family Medicine site director for the UCSF Primary Care Research Fellowship.

Dr. Rittenhouse received her MD from the University of California, Davis, and her Masters in Public Health with an emphasis in Health Policy and Management from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to her medical training she worked for both the California Statewide Office of Health Planning and Development and for the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health in Washington, D.C.

• Factors Associated With Family Medicine and Internal Medicine First-Year Residents' Ambulatory Care Training Time.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2021 Kim JG, Rodriguez HP, Shortell SM, Fuller B, Holmboe ES, Rittenhouse DR
• Meaningful Use And Medical Home Functionality In Primary Care Practice.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2020 Rittenhouse DR, Wiley JA, Peterson LE, Casalino LP, Phillips RL
• Sponsoring Institution Interests, Not National Plans, Shape Physician Workforce in the United States.
  Family medicine 2020 Rittenhouse DR, Ament AS, Grumbach K
• The CMS State Innovation Models Initiative and Improved Health Information Technology and Care Management Capabilities of Physician Practices.
  Medical care research and review : MCRR 2020 Kandel ZK, Rittenhouse DR, Bibi S, Fraze TK, Shortell SM, Rodríguez HP
• Implementation Variation in Natural Experiments of State Health Policy Initiatives.
  American journal of accountable care 2019 Rittenhouse DR, Phillips AZ, Bibi S, Rodriguez HP
• Training Tomorrow's Physicians: Recommendations for Expanding Graduate Medical Education Funding in California
  2019 Rittenhouse, DR; Ament A; Grumbach K
• Guide to Graduate Medical Education Funding in California
  2018 Rittenhouse DR, Ament A, Grumbach K, Peterson S, Levin Z, Bazemore A
• Spending per Medicare Beneficiary Is Higher in Hospital-Owned Small- and Medium-Sized Physician Practices.
  Health services research 2017 Pesko MF, Ryan AM, Shortell SM, Copeland KR, Ramsay PP, Sun X, Mendelsohn JL, Rittenhouse DR, Casalino LP
• Increased Health Information Technology Adoption and Use Among Small Primary Care Physician Practices Over Time: A National Cohort Study.
  Annals of family medicine 2017 Rittenhouse DR, Ramsay PP, Casalino LP, McClellan S, Kandel ZK, Shortell SM
• Accountable Communities for Health: Data-Sharing Toolkit
  Accountable Communities for Health: Data-Sharing Toolkit 2016 Rittenhouse DR, Ament A, Shortell SM.
• The Most Critical Health Care Issues for the Next President to Address.
  Annals of internal medicine 2016 Shortell SM, Rittenhouse D
• The Use of Enhanced Appointment Access Strategies by Medical Practices.
  Medical care 2016 Rodriguez HP, Knox M, Hurley V, Rittenhouse DR, Shortell SM
• A Longitudinal Study of Medical Practices' Treatment of Patients Who Use Tobacco.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2015 Ramsay PP, Shortell SM, Casalino LP, Rodriguez HP, Rittenhouse DR
• Managing chronic illness: physician practices increased the use of care management and medical home processes.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2015 Wiley JA, Rittenhouse DR, Shortell SM, Casalino LP, Ramsay PP, Bibi S, Ryan AM, Copeland KR, Alexander JA
• Small primary care physician practices have low rates of preventable hospital admissions.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2014 Casalino LP, Pesko MF, Ryan AM, Mendelsohn JL, Copeland KR, Ramsay PP, Sun X, Rittenhouse DR, Shortell SM
• Independent practice associations and physician-hospital organizations can improve care management for smaller practices.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2013 Casalino LP, Wu FM, Ryan AM, Copeland K, Rittenhouse DR, Ramsay PP, Shortell SM
• Incentivizing primary care providers to innovate: building medical homes in the post-Katrina New Orleans safety net.
  Health services research 2013 Rittenhouse DR, Schmidt LA, Wu KJ, Wiley J
• Contrasting trajectories of change in primary care clinics: lessons from New Orleans safety net.
  Annals of family medicine 2013 Rittenhouse DR, Schmidt L, Wu K, Wiley J
• When does adoption of health information technology by physician practices lead to use by physicians within the practice?
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2013 McClellan SR, Casalino LP, Shortell SM, Rittenhouse DR
• Transforming primary care in the New Orleans safety-net: the patient experience.
  Medical care 2013 Schmidt LA, Rittenhouse DR, Wu KJ, Wiley JA
• Use of care management practices in small- and medium-sized physician groups: do public reporting of physician quality and financial incentives matter?
  Health services research 2012 Alexander JA, Maeng D, Casalino LP, Rittenhouse D
• The post-Katrina conversion of clinics in New Orleans to medical homes shows change is possible, but hard to sustain.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2012 Rittenhouse DR, Schmidt LA, Wu KJ, Wiley J
• The cultural complexity of medical groups.
  Health care management review 2012 Nembhard IM, Singer SJ, Shortell SM, Rittenhouse D, Casalino LP
• The patient-centered medical home and patient experience.
  Health services research 2012 Martsolf GR, Alexander JA, Shi Y, Casalino LP, Rittenhouse DR, Scanlon DP, Shortell SM
• The un-managed system of Medicare referrals.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2012 Chen AH, Rittenhouse D
• Small and medium-size physician practices use few patient-centered medical home processes.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2011 Rittenhouse DR, Casalino LP, Shortell SM, McClellan SR, Gillies RR, Alexander JA, Drum ML
• Adoption of policies to treat tobacco dependence in U.S. medical groups.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2010 McMenamin SB, Bellows NM, Halpin HA, Rittenhouse DR, Casalino LP, Shortell SM
• Relationship between quality improvement processes and clinical performance.
  The American journal of managed care 2010 Damberg CL, Shortell SM, Raube K, Gillies RR, Rittenhouse D, McCurdy RK, Casalino LP, Adams J
• Developing a policy-relevant research agenda for the patient-centered medical home: a focus on outcomes.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2010 Rittenhouse DR, Thom DH, Schmittdiel JA
• Specialist physician practices as patient-centered medical homes.
  The New England journal of medicine 2010 Casalino LP, Rittenhouse DR, Gillies RR, Shortell SM
• Title VII is critical to the community health center and National Health Service Corps workforce.
  American family physician 2010 Harrison B, Rittenhouse DR, Phillips RL, Grumbach K, Bazemore AW, Dodoo MS
• Improving chronic illness care: findings from a national study of care management processes in large physician practices.
  Medical care research and review : MCRR 2010 Rittenhouse DR, Shortell SM, Gillies RR, Casalino LP, Robinson JC, McCurdy RK, Siddique J
• Primary care and accountable care--two essential elements of delivery-system reform.
  The New England journal of medicine 2009 Rittenhouse DR, Shortell SM, Fisher ES
• Improving chronic illness care: a longitudinal cohort analysis of large physician organizations.
  Medical care 2009 Shortell SM, Gillies R, Siddique J, Casalino LP, Rittenhouse D, Robinson JC, McCurdy RK
• The patient-centered medical home: will it stand the test of health reform?
  JAMA 2009 Rittenhouse DR, Shortell SM
• Financial incentives, quality improvement programs, and the adoption of clinical information technology.
  Medical care 2009 Robinson JC, Casalino LP, Gillies RR, Rittenhouse DR, Shortell SS, Fernandes-Taylor S
• Quality-based payment for medical groups and individual physicians.
  Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing 2009 Robinson JC, Shortell SM, Rittenhouse DR, Fernandes-Taylor S, Gillies RR, Casalino LP
• Impact of Title VII training programs on community health center staffing and national health service corps participation.
  Annals of family medicine 2008 Rittenhouse DR, Fryer GE, Phillips RL, Miyoshi T, Nielsen C, Goodman DC, Grumbach K
• Measuring the medical home infrastructure in large medical groups.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2008 Rittenhouse DR, Casalino LP, Gillies RR, Shortell SM, Lau B
• Improving quality in Medicaid: the use of care management processes for chronic illness and preventive care.
  Medical care 2006 Rittenhouse DR, Robinson JC
• Physician organization and care management in California: from cottage to Kaiser.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2004 Rittenhouse DR, Grumbach K, O'Neil EH, Dower C, Bindman A
• No exit: an evaluation of measures of physician attrition.
  Health services research 2004 Rittenhouse DR, Mertz E, Keane D, Grumbach K
• Do required preclinical courses with family physicians encourage interest in family medicine?
  Family medicine 2003 Hill-Sakurai LE, Schillinger E, Rittenhouse DR, Fahrenbach R, Hudes ES, LeBaron S, Shore WB, Hearst N
• Improvements in prenatal insurance coverage and utilization of care in California: an unsung public health victory.
  Maternal and child health journal 2003 Rittenhouse DR, Braveman P, Marchi K
• Improving timely access to primary care: case studies of the advanced access model.
  JAMA 2003 Murray M, Bodenheimer T, Rittenhouse D, Grumbach K