Grace A Lin, MD, MAS
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Lin's research has focused on the appropriateness of medical care provided to patients, shared decision making and assessing the quality of decision making by doctors and patients.

Lin earned her medical degree at the University of Michigan Medical School. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, where she served a year as chief resident. She completed a research fellowship in general internal medicine at UCSF.

• The effectiveness and value of tirzepatide for type 2 diabetes mellitus.
  Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy 2022 Nikitin D, Lin GA, Campbell JD, Hansen RN, Brouwer E, Chen Y, Herron-Smith S, Agboola F, Pearson SD
• Cost-Effectiveness and Value-Based Pricing of Aducanumab for Patients With Early Alzheimer Disease.
  Neurology 2022 Whittington MD, Campbell JD, Rind D, Fluetsch N, Lin GA, Pearson SD
• Geriatricians' Perspectives on the Multiple Dimensions of Utility of Genetic Testing for Alzheimer's Disease: A Qualitative Study.
  Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2022 Arias JJ, Lin GA, Tyler AM, Douglas MP, Phillips KA
• Abstract 10315: Cost-Effectiveness of Bempedoic Acid in Patients with Established Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease.
  Circulation 2021 Neel M Butala, Salim S Virani, Nicolas Isaza, Grace A Lin, Steven Pearson, Brandon Bellows, Chia Liang Liu, Rahul Aggarwal, Yiyi Zhang, Dhruv S Kazi
• Hereditary cancer panel testing challenges and solutions for the latinx community: costs, access, and variants.
  Journal of community genetics 2021 Douglas MP, Lin GA, Trosman JR, Phillips KA
• The effectiveness and value of aducanumab for Alzheimer's disease.
  Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy 2021 Synnott PG, Whittington MD, Lin GA, Rind DM, Pearson SD
• Influence of payer coverage and out-of-pocket costs on ordering of NGS panel tests for hereditary cancer in diverse settings.
  Journal of genetic counseling 2021 Lin GA, Trosman JR, Douglas MP, Weldon CB, Scheuner MT, Kurian A, Phillips KA
• The effectiveness and value of bempedoic acid and inclisiran for heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia and secondary prevention of ASCVD.
  Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy 2021 Agboola F, Lin GA, Kazi DS, McKenna A, Pearson SD
• Is Better Patient Knowledge Associated with Different Treatment Preferences? A Survey of Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease.
  Patient preference and adherence 2021 Yuan N, Boscardin C, Lisha NE, Dudley RA, Lin GA
• Patient Roadmaps for Chronic Illness: Introducing a New Approach for Fostering Patient-Centered Care.
  MDM Policy & Practice 2021 Laura D. Scherer, Daniel D. Matlock, Larry A. Allen, Chris E. Knoepke, Colleen K. McIlvennan, Monica D. Fitzgerald, Vinay Kini, Channing E. Tate, Grace Lin, Hillary D. Lum
• Testing Cascades-A Call to Move From Descriptive Research to Deimplementation Science.
  JAMA internal medicine 2020 Anderson TS, Lin GA
• The Effectiveness and Value of Deflazacort and Exon-Skipping Therapies for the Management of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
  Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy 2020 Agboola F, Lin GA, Fluetsch N, Walton SM, Rind DM, Pearson SD
• Association of Primary Language and Hospitalization for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions.
  Medical care 2020 Anderson TS, Karliner LS, Lin GA
• More Pills but Better Adherence?: Learning to Improve Medication Adherence in Patients With Ischemic Heart Disease.
  Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes 2019 Lin GA
• Electronic health records systems and hospital clinical performance: a study of nationwide hospital data.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2019 Yuan N, Dudley RA, Boscardin WJ, Lin GA
• PRO24 COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF LANADELUMAB AND C1-INHIBITORS FOR PROPHYLAXIS AGAINST ACUTE ATTACKS OF HEREDITARY ANGIOEDEMA.
  Value in Health 2019 S.J. Lubinga, F.O. Agboola, G. Lin, M. Seidner, D. Rind, J. Carlson
• The Effectiveness and Value of Lanadelumab and C1 Esterase Inhibitors for Prophylaxis of Hereditary Angioedema Attacks.
  Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy 2019 Agboola F, Lubinga S, Carlson J, Lin GA, Dreitlein WB, Pearson SD
• Trends in Hospitalization, Readmission, and Diagnostic Testing of Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Syncope.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2018 Anderson TS, Thombley R, Dudley RA, Lin GA
• Out-of-Pocket Costs for Infliximab and Its Biosimilar for Rheumatoid Arthritis Under Medicare Part D.
  JAMA 2018 Yazdany J, Dudley RA, Lin GA, Chen R, Tseng CW
• Abstract 191: Trends in Hospitalization and Readmission of Patients With Syncope: An Analysis Using State Inpatient and Emergency Department Databases.
  Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 2018 Timothy S Anderson, Robert L Thombley, Grace A Lin
• Abstract 32: Have Choosing Wisely Recommendations Changed Diagnostic Testing Patterns for Patients With Syncope?.
  Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 2018 Timothy Anderson, Robert L Thombley, Grace A Lin
• Nationwide Coverage and Cost-Sharing for PCSK9 Inhibitors Among Medicare Part D Plans.
  JAMA cardiology 2017 Kazi DS, Lu CY, Lin GA, DeJong C, Dudley RA, Chen R, Tseng CW
• MEDICARE PART D—COST BURDEN OF INHALED DRUGS FOR CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE.
  Innovation in Aging 2017 C. Tseng, J. Yazdany, R. Dudley, C. Dejong, D. Kazi, R. Chen, G. Lin
• Medicare Part D Plans' Coverage and Cost-Sharing for Acute Rescue and Preventive Inhalers for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
  JAMA internal medicine 2017 Tseng CW, Yazdany J, Dudley RA, DeJong C, Kazi DS, Chen R, Lin GA
• Giving formulary and drug cost information to providers and impact on medication cost and use: a longitudinal non-randomized study.
  BMC health services research 2016 Tseng CW, Lin GA, Davis J, Taira DA, Yazdany J, He Q, Chen R, Imamura A, Dudley RA
• Pharmaceutical Industry-Sponsored Meals and Physician Prescribing Patterns for Medicare Beneficiaries.
  JAMA internal medicine 2016 DeJong C, Aguilar T, Tseng CW, Lin GA, Boscardin WJ, Dudley RA
• Variation in Quality of Urgent Health Care Provided During Commercial Virtual Visits.
  JAMA internal medicine 2016 Schoenfeld AJ, Davies JM, Marafino BJ, Dean M, DeJong C, Bardach NS, Kazi DS, Boscardin WJ, Lin GA, Duseja R, Mei YJ, Mehrotra A, Dudley RA
• From the closest observers of patient care: a thematic analysis of online narrative reviews of hospitals.
  BMJ quality & safety 2015 Bardach NS, Lyndon A, Asteria-Peñaloza R, Goldman LE, Lin GA, Dudley RA
• Implementation of Patient Decision Support Interventions in Primary Care: The Role of Relational Coordination.
  Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making 2015 Tietbohl CK, Rendle KA, Halley MC, May SG, Lin GA, Frosch DL
• Addressing Overuse of Medical Services One Decision at a Time.
  JAMA internal medicine 2015 Lin GA, Redberg RF
• Revisit rates and associated costs after an emergency department encounter: a multistate analysis.
  Annals of internal medicine 2015 Duseja R, Bardach NS, Lin GA, Yazdany J, Dean ML, Clay TH, Boscardin WJ, Dudley RA
• Coverage for high-cost specialty drugs for rheumatoid arthritis in Medicare Part D.
  Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) 2015 Yazdany J, Dudley RA, Chen R, Lin GA, Tseng CW
• Preoperative medical testing in Medicare patients undergoing cataract surgery.
  The New England journal of medicine 2015 Chen CL, Lin GA, Bardach NS, Clay TH, Boscardin WJ, Gelb AW, Maze M, Gropper MA, Dudley RA
• Can appropriate use criteria lead to appropriate care?
  Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes 2015 Lin GA, Harris IS
• Editorial: Moving Patients from Consultants to Partners in Health Care System Redesign: Achieving Meaningful Engagement.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2014 Lin GA, Bardach NS
• Shared medical appointments to screen for geriatric syndromes: preliminary data from a quality improvement initiative.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2014 May SG, Cheng PH, Tietbohl CK, Trujillo L, Reilly K, Frosch DL, Lin GA
• Fighting the "oculostenotic reflex".
  JAMA internal medicine 2014 Lin GA, Dudley RA
• Receipt of glucocorticoid monotherapy among Medicare beneficiaries with rheumatoid arthritis.
  Arthritis care & research 2014 Yazdany J, Tonner C, Schmajuk G, Lin GA, Trivedi AN
• Shared decision making: state of the science.
  Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes 2014 Lin GA, Fagerlin A
• Patient education: one size does not fit all.
  JAMA internal medicine 2013 Lin GA
• Mortality in Medicare patients undergoing elective percutaneous coronary intervention with or without antecedent stress testing.
  Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes 2013 Lin GA, Lucas FL, Malenka DJ, Skinner J, Redberg RF
• Less patient-centered care: an unintended consequence of guidelines?
  JAMA internal medicine 2013 Lin GA, Matlock DD
• An effort to spread decision aids in five California primary care practices yielded low distribution, highlighting hurdles.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2013 Lin GA, Halley M, Rendle KA, Tietbohl C, May SG, Trujillo L, Frosch DL
• Abstract 256: Information-Seeking Behavior among Medicare Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease.
  Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 2012 Katherine Hicks, Grace A Lin, Carol Cosenza, Julie Bynum, Karen Sepucha, Kim Smolderen, R. A Dudley
• Abstract 86: What Do Patients Remember? The Knowledge Gap in Patients Undergoing Elective Percutaneous Coronary Interventions.
  Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 2012 Grace Lin, Julie Bynum, Carol Cosenza, Adam Lucas, Celeste Reinking, Karen Sepucha, Kim Smolderen, R. Adams Dudley
• Consequences of not respecting patient preferences for cancer screening: opportunity lost.
  Archives of internal medicine 2012 Lin GA, Trujillo L, Frosch DL
• Prediction of hospital acute myocardial infarction and heart failure 30-day mortality rates using publicly reported performance measures.
  Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality 2011 Aaronson DS, Bardach NS, Lin GA, Chattopadhyay A, Goldman LE, Dudley RA
• Impact of changes in clinical practice guidelines on assessment of quality of care.
  Medical care 2010 Lin GA, Redberg RF, Anderson HV, Shaw RE, Milford-Beland S, Peterson ED, Rao SV, Werner RM, Dudley RA
• Patient decision aids for prostate cancer treatment: a systematic review of the literature.
  CA: a cancer journal for clinicians 2009 Lin GA, Aaronson DS, Knight SJ, Carroll PR, Dudley RA
• Patient-centered care: what is the best measuring stick?
  Archives of internal medicine 2009 Lin GA, Dudley RA
• Use of stress testing prior to percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with stable coronary artery disease.
  Expert review of cardiovascular therapy 2009 Lin GA, Redberg RF
• Documenting Ischemia Prior to Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention—Reply.
  JAMA 2009 Grace A. Lin, David J. Malenka, Rita F. Redberg
• Frequency of stress testing to document ischemia prior to elective percutaneous coronary intervention.
  JAMA 2008 Lin GA, Dudley RA, Lucas FL, Malenka DJ, Vittinghoff E, Redberg RF
• Why physicians favor use of percutaneous coronary intervention to medical therapy: a focus group study.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2008 Lin GA, Dudley RA, Redberg RF
• Cardiologists' use of percutaneous coronary interventions for stable coronary artery disease.
  Archives of internal medicine 2007 Lin GA, Dudley RA, Redberg RF
• Resident perceptions of the impact of work hour limitations.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2007 Lin GA, Beck DC, Stewart AL, Garbutt JM
• Residents' perceptions of the effects of work hour limitations at a large teaching hospital.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2006 Lin GA, Beck DC, Garbutt JM