Eliseo Perez-Stable, MD
Professor Emeritus
Medicine
School of Medicine

He is Co-PI of the NCI funded Redes En Accion National Latino Cancer Control Research and Education Network. He collaborates with new investigators from several institutions to help develop the tobacco control research agenda for minority populations in the US. Dr. Pérez-Stable also has an R01 grant from the Fogarty International Center/NIDA to strengthen capacity in tobacco control research and implement projects in Argentina. Dr. Pérez-Stable is Director of the UCSF Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations (MERC) and Director of the Center for Aging in Diverse Communities (CADC). MERC and CADC focus on health and health care disparities in African American, Asian American, and Latino populations with a special emphasis on cancer, cardiovascular disease, aging, and reproductive health.

He is the director of the Center for Aging in Diverse Communities, a center that works to help alleviate disparities in health care and to help better understand how health professionals can communicate cross-culturally, and co-director of the UCSF Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, which is addressing issues for African Americans, Asians and Latinos in the areas of cancer, cardiovascular disease and reproductive health. Perez-Stable is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

• Whole-Exome Profiling of NSCLC Among African Americans.
  Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 2020 Arauz RF, Byun JS, Tandon M, Sinha S, Kuhn S, Taylor S, Zingone A, Mitchell KA, Pine SR, Gardner K, Perez-Stable EJ, Napoles AM, Ryan BM
• Trends in Premature Deaths Among Adults in the United States and Latin America.
  JAMA network open 2020 Chen Y, Freedman ND, Rodriquez EJ, Shiels MS, Napoles AM, Withrow DR, Spillane S, Sigel B, Perez-Stable EJ, Berrington de González A
• Patient-Clinician Relationships: It's Complicated.
  Medical care 2018 Wasserman J, Perez-Stable EJ
• Variability in Cancer Risk and Outcomes Within US Latinos by National Origin and Genetic Ancestry.
  Current epidemiology reports 2016 Stern MC, Fejerman L, Das R, Setiawan VW, Cruz-Correa MR, Perez-Stable EJ, Figueiredo JC
• Recommendations for Cancer Epidemiologic Research in Understudied Populations and Implications for Future Needs.
  Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2016 Martin DN, Lam TK, Brignole K, Ashing KT, Blot WJ, Burhansstipanov L, Chen JT, Dignan M, Gomez SL, Martinez ME, Matthews A, Palmer JR, Perez-Stable EJ, Schootman M, Vilchis H, Vu A, Srinivasan S
• Basic science: Bedrock of progress.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2016 Collins FS, Anderson JM, Austin CP, Battey JF, Birnbaum LS, Briggs JP, Clayton JA, Cuthbert B, Eisinger RW, Fauci AS, Gallin JI, Gibbons GH, Glass RI, Gottesman MM, Gray PA, Green ED, Greider FB, …
• Genome-wide association study of breast cancer in Latinas identifies novel protective variants on 6q25.
  Nature communications 2014 Fejerman L, Ahmadiyeh N, Hu D, Huntsman S, Beckman KB, Caswell JL, Tsung K, John EM, Torres-Mejia G, Carvajal-Carmona L, Echeverry MM, Tuazon AM, Ramirez C, COLUMBUS Consortium, Gignoux CR, Eng C, …
• Smoking behavior and use of tobacco industry sponsored websites among medical students and young physicians in Argentina.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2014 Salgado MV, Mejia R, Kaplan CP, Perez-Stable EJ
• Elder Mistreatment among Chinese and Korean Immigrants: The Roles of Sociocultural Contexts on Perceptions and Help-Seeking Behaviors.
  Journal of aggression, maltreatment & trauma 2014 Lee YS, Kaplan CP, Perez-Stable EJ
• Reducing time-to-treatment in underserved Latinas with breast cancer: the Six Cities Study.
  Cancer 2013 Ramirez A, Perez-Stable E, Penedo F, Talavera G, Carrillo JE, Fernández M, Holden A, Munoz E, San Miguel S, Gallion K
• Coronary heart disease and stroke attributable to major risk factors is similar in Argentina and the United States: the Coronary Heart Disease Policy Model.
  International journal of cardiology 2011 Moran A, Degennaro V, Ferrante D, Coxson PG, Palmas W, Mejia R, Perez-Stable EJ, Goldman L
• Immigrant generation and physical activity among Mexican, Chinese & Filipino adults in the U.S.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2010 Afable-Munsuz A, Ponce NA, Rodriguez M, Perez-Stable EJ
• Risk perception and preference for prevention of Alzheimer's disease.
  Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 2009 Chung S, Mehta K, Shumway M, Alvidrez J, Perez-Stable EJ
• Health literacy and access to kidney transplantation.
  Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN 2008 Grubbs V, Gregorich SE, Perez-Stable EJ, Hsu CY
• Genetic ancestry and risk of breast cancer among U.S. Latinas.
  Cancer research 2008 Fejerman L, John EM, Huntsman S, Beckman K, Choudhry S, Perez-Stable E, Burchard EG, Ziv E
• Reducing language barriers and racial/ethnic disparities in health care: an investment in our future.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2007 Saha S, Fernandez A, Perez-Stable E
• Genetic ancestry and risk factors for breast cancer among Latinas in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2006 Ziv E, John EM, Choudhry S, Kho J, Lorizio W, Perez-Stable EJ, Burchard EG
• Realigning economic incentives for depression care at UCSF.
  Administration and policy in mental health 2006 Feldman MD, Ong MK, Lee DL, Perez-Stable EJ
• Population stratification confounds genetic association studies among Latinos.
  Human genetics 2005 Choudhry S, Coyle NE, Tang H, Salari K, Lind D, Clark SL, Tsai HJ, Naqvi M, Phong A, Ung N, Matallana H, Avila PC, Casal J, Torres A, Nazario S, Castro R, Battle NC, Perez-Stable EJ, Kwok PY, Sheppard…
• Latino populations: a unique opportunity for the study of race, genetics, and social environment in epidemiological research.
  American journal of public health 2005 González Burchard E, Borrell LN, Choudhry S, Naqvi M, Tsai HJ, Rodriguez-Santana JR, Chapela R, Rogers SD, Mei R, Rodriguez-Cintron W, Arena JF, Kittles R, Perez-Stable EJ, Ziv E, Risch N
• Issues in achieving compliance with antihypertensive treatment in the Latino population.
  Clinical cornerstone 2004 Perez-Stable EJ, Salazar R
• Colon cancer screening in the ambulatory setting.
  Preventive medicine 2002 Walsh JM, Posner SF, Perez-Stable EJ