J Davoren, MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Medicine
School of Medicine

J. Ben Davoren, MD, PhD is Professor of Clinical Medicine within the Division of Hematology/Oncology at UCSF. His clinical practice is general hematology and oncology at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, where he is also Associate Chief of Staff for Clinical Informatics. His oncology research interests are in gastrointestinal malignancies. His informatics research interests are in the area of implementation of electronic health records and the impact on workflow and efficiency.

Education & Training

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• Fellowship Medical Oncology University of California 06/1995
• Residency Internal Medicine University of California 06/1992
• MD Medicine University of California 05/1989
• PhD Physiology & Pharmacology University of California 06/1985
• BA Neurobiology University of California 06/1980

Publications (5)

Top publication keywords:
Drug Therapy, Computer-AssistedMedical Staff, HospitalDrug InteractionsMedical Order Entry SystemsReminder SystemsAdvance DirectivesEmbolization, TherapeuticContraindicationsWarfarinPharmacistsHospitals, VeteransNursing HomesMedical Records Systems, ComputerizedPatient AdmissionDocumentation

• Impact of age and comorbidity on non-small-cell lung cancer treatment in older veterans.
  Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2012 Wang S, Wong ML, Hamilton N, Davoren JB, Jahan TM, Walter LC
• Provider and pharmacist responses to warfarin drug-drug interaction alerts: a study of healthcare downstream of CPOE alerts.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2011 Miller AM, Boro MS, Korman NE, Davoren JB
• Periprocedural complications by Child-Pugh class in patients undergoing transcatheter arterial embolization or chemoembolization to treat unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma at a VA medical center.
  American journal of surgery 2010 Russell JS, Sawhney R, Monto A, Nanavati S, Davoren JB, Aslam R, Corvera CU
• Implementation of a multidisciplinary treatment team for hepatocellular cancer at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center improves survival.
  HPB : the official journal of the International Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association 2008 Chang TT, Sawhney R, Monto A, Davoren JB, Kirkland JG, Stewart L, Corvera CU
• An electronic medical record intervention increased nursing home advance directive orders and documentation.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2007 Lindner SA, Davoren JB, Vollmer A, Williams B, Landefeld CS