Hannah Decker, MD
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN
Surgery
School of Medicine

Following this, she completed her medical school education at Emory University School of Medicine, where she was elected into the Alpha Omega Alpha honor medical society.

Dr. Decker is interested primarily in improving the surgical care of vulnerable populations, including patients who experience trauma, racial and ethnic minorities, and unhoused patients. Her research interest is to combine qualitative analysis, human centered-design, and quality improvement approaches to rigorously study and design solutions for inequities in access to high quality surgical care. She is currently a National Clinician Scholar at UCSF.

• The Case for Rituals.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Decker H
• Large Language Model-Based Chatbot vs Surgeon-Generated Informed Consent Documentation for Common Procedures.
  JAMA network open 2023 Decker H, Trang K, Ramirez J, Colley A, Pierce L, Coleman M, Bongiovanni T, Melton GB, Wick E
• Association of Housing Status With Types of Operations and Postoperative Health Care Utilization.
  Annals of surgery 2023 Decker HC, Kanzaria HK, Evans J, Pierce L, Wick EC
• Association of Housing Status with Types of Operations and Post-Operative Healthcare Utilization
  Annals of Surgery 2023 Hannah C Decker, Hemal K Kanzaria, Jennifer Evans, Logan Pierce, Elizabeth C Wick
• Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening and Surveillance in Homeless Patients: A Case Report and Policy Recommendations.
  Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches 2022 Schwartz HEM, Abel MK, Lin JA, Decker HC, Kushel MB, Wick EC
• Delayed Sigmoid Colon Erosion by Artificial Urinary Sphincter Tubing.
  Urology 2022 Shieh C, Shaw NM, Decker H, Soriano I, Breyer BN
• Surgical Care of Patients Experiencing Homelessness: A Scoping Review Using a Phases of Care Conceptual Framework.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2022 Abel MK, Schwartz H, Lin JA, Decker HC, Wu CL, Grant MC, Kushel M, Wick EC
• Designing an Intimate Partner Violence Screening Program for Surgical Residents in Trauma.
  The Journal of surgical research 2021 Decker H, Schwab ME, Wang J, Rosser ML, Petersen V, Berger M, Stein DM, Bongiovanni T
• Multimodal Pain Control in Surgery 2020.
  Advances in surgery 2021 Decker H, Wu CL, Wick E
• "You don't want anyone who hasn't been through anything telling you what to do, because how do they know?": Qualitative analysis of case managers in a hospital-based violence intervention program.
  PloS one 2020 Decker HC, Hubner G, Nwabuo A, Johnson L, Texada M, Marquez R, Orellana J, Henderson T, Dicker R, Plevin RE, Juillard C
• The impact of belatacept on third-party HLA alloantibodies in highly sensitized kidney transplant recipients.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2019 Parsons RF, Zahid A, Bumb S, Decker H, Sullivan HC, Eun-Hyung Lee F, Badell IR, Ford ML, Larsen CP, Pearson TC, Jackson AM, Chen DF, Levine M, Kamoun M, Bray RA, Gebel HM
• Association of Physician Organization-Affiliated Political Action Committee Contributions With US House of Representatives and Senate Candidates' Stances on Firearm Regulation.
  JAMA network open 2019 Schuur JD, Decker H, Baker O