Kim Rhoads, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
School of Medicine

Lee Fellow in Health Policy (2007-2008)). She has formal training in community organizing at the Center for Third World Organizing in Oakland, California; and Community Based Participatory Research as a member of the first cohort of academic-community partnership teams trained by the California Breast Cancer Research Program. Before joining the faculty at UCSF, Rhoads founded the Community Outreach and Engagement program for the Stanford Cancer Institute. Rhoads views community engagement and institutional partnerships as substantive pathways to promote health equity and eliminate disparities.

• Accelerating cancer clinical trial recruitment through a financial reimbursement program integrated with patient navigation: an interrupted time series analysis.
  Journal of cancer policy 2021 Borno HT, Lin TK, Zhang S, Skafel A, Lalanne A, Dornsife D, Johnson R, Spicer D, Small EJ, Rhoads KF
• Loneliness and symptom burden in oncology patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Cancer 2021 Miaskowski C, Paul SM, Snowberg K, Abbott M, Borno HT, Chang SM, Chen LM, Cohen B, Cooper BA, Hammer MJ, Kenfield SA, Kober KM, Laffan A, Levine JD, Pozzar R, Rhoads K, Tsai KK, Van Blarigan EL, Van …
• Stress and Symptom Burden in Oncology Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2020 Miaskowski C, Paul SM, Snowberg K, Abbott M, Borno H, Chang S, Chen LM, Cohen B, Hammer MJ, Kenfield SA, Kober KM, Levine JD, Pozzar R, Rhoads KF, Van Blarigan EL, Van Loon K
• Quality Improvement at the Health System Level: Measurement, Risk Stratification, Disparity Populations, and Governance.
  American Society of Clinical Oncology educational book. American Society of Clinical Oncology. Annual Meeting 2019 Rocque GB, Lennes IT, Rhoads KF, Yu PP
• Measuring Institutional Quality in Head and Neck Surgery Using Hospital-Level Data: Negative Margin Rates and Neck Dissection Yield.
  JAMA otolaryngology-- head & neck surgery 2017 Schoppy DW, Rhoads KF, Ma Y, Chen MM, Nussenbaum B, Orosco RK, Rosenthal EL, Divi V
• Inappropriate oophorectomy at time of benign premenopausal hysterectomy.
  Menopause (New York, N.Y.) 2017 Mahal AS, Rhoads KF, Elliott CS, Sokol ER
• Lymph Node Count From Neck Dissection Predicts Mortality in Head and Neck Cancer.
  Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2016 Divi V, Chen MM, Nussenbaum B, Rhoads KF, Sirjani DB, Holsinger FC, Shah JL, Hara W
• Predictors of readmission to non-index hospitals after colorectal surgery.
  American journal of surgery 2016 Cloyd JM, Huang L, Ma Y, Rhoads KF
• Risks of adverse events in colorectal patients: population-based study.
  The Journal of surgical research 2016 Hernandez-Boussard TM, McDonald KM, Morrison DE, Rhoads KF
• Regional variation in head and neck cancer mortality: Role of patient and hospital characteristics.
  Head & neck 2015 Divi V, Ma Y, Rhoads KF
• Knowing it When You See it: The Need for Continuing Innovation in Research on Healthcare Discrimination.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2015 Rhoads K, Dohan D
• Association Between Weekend Discharge and Hospital Readmission Rates Following Major Surgery.
  JAMA surgery 2015 Cloyd JM, Chen J, Ma Y, Rhoads KF
• Reply to M.H. Kanter et al.
  Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2015 Rhoads KF, Patel MI, Ma Y, Schmidt LA
• The role of the hospital and health care system characteristics in readmissions after major surgery in California.
  Surgery 2015 Chen JC, Shaw JD, Ma Y, Rhoads KF
• Is weekend discharge associated with hospital readmission?
  Journal of hospital medicine 2015 Cloyd JM, Chen JC, Ma Y, Rhoads KF
• Factors that influence minority use of high-volume hospitals for colorectal cancer care.
  Diseases of the colon and rectum 2015 Huang LC, Tran TB, Ma Y, Ngo JV, Rhoads KF
• Patient safety in plastic surgery: identifying areas for quality improvement efforts.
  Annals of plastic surgery 2015 Hernandez-Boussard T, McDonald KM, Rhoads KF, Curtin CM
• Age and genetics: how do prognostic factors at diagnosis explain disparities in acute myeloid leukemia?
  American journal of clinical oncology 2015 Patel MI, Ma Y, Mitchell BS, Rhoads KF
• Compliance with gastric cancer guidelines is associated with improved outcomes.
  Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN 2015 Worhunsky DJ, Ma Y, Zak Y, Poultsides GA, Norton JA, Rhoads KF, Visser BC
• Collateral damage: taxane-induced colonic perforation.
  Digestive diseases and sciences 2015 Erdrich J, Kastenberg ZJ, DiMaio MA, Longacre TA, Rhoads KF
• How do differences in treatment impact racial and ethnic disparities in acute myeloid leukemia?
  Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2015 Patel MI, Ma Y, Mitchell B, Rhoads KF
• How do integrated health care systems address racial and ethnic disparities in colon cancer?
  Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2015 Rhoads KF, Patel MI, Ma Y, Schmidt LA
• Integrated health systems and evidence-based care: standardizing treatment to eliminate cancer disparities.
  Future oncology (London, England) 2015 Patel MI, Rhoads KF
• Capsule commentary on Anderson et al., quality of care and racial disparities in medicare among potential ACOs.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2014 Rhoads KF
• Understanding the reliability of American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program as a quality comparator.
  JAMA surgery 2014 Rhoads KF, Wren SM
• Adequacy of lymph node examination in colorectal surgery: contribution of the hospital versus the surgeon.
  Medical care 2013 Rhoads KF, Ackerson LK, Ngo JV, Gray-Hazard FK, Subramanian SV, Dudley RA
• What factors influence minority use of National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers?
  Cancer 2013 Huang LC, Ma Y, Ngo JV, Rhoads KF
• Surgical site infection: is it time to change our expectations?
  JAMA surgery 2013 Rhoads KF
• Do hospitals that serve a high percentage of Medicaid patients perform well on evidence-based guidelines for colon cancer care?
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2013 Rhoads KF, Ngo JV, Ma Y, Huang L, Welton ML, Dudley RA
• Predictors of postoperative urinary retention after colorectal surgery.
  Diseases of the colon and rectum 2013 Kin C, Rhoads KF, Jalali M, Shelton AA, Welton ML
• Improving the accuracy of prolapse and incontinence procedure epidemiology by utilizing both inpatient and outpatient data.
  International urogynecology journal 2013 Elliott CS, Rhoads KF, Comiter CV, Chen B, Sokol ER
• The influence of intern home call on objectively measured perioperative outcomes.
  JAMA surgery 2013 Kastenberg ZJ, Rhoads KF, Melcher ML, Wren SM
• Seventh edition (2010) of the AJCC/UICC staging system for gastric adenocarcinoma: is there room for improvement?
  Annals of surgical oncology 2012 Patel MI, Rhoads KF, Ma Y, Ford JM, Visser BC, Kunz PL, Fisher GA, Chang DT, Koong A, Norton JA, Poultsides GA
• Understanding disparities in leukemia: a national study.
  Cancer causes & control : CCC 2012 Patel MI, Ma Y, Mitchell BS, Rhoads KF
• Failure to comply with NCCN guidelines for the management of pancreatic cancer compromises outcomes.
  HPB : the official journal of the International Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association 2012 Visser BC, Ma Y, Zak Y, Poultsides GA, Norton JA, Rhoads KF
• Racial and ethnic differences in lymph node examination after colon cancer resection do not completely explain disparities in mortality.
  Cancer 2011 Rhoads KF, Cullen J, Ngo JV, Wren SM
• Predictors of surgical intervention for hepatocellular carcinoma: race, socioeconomic status, and hospital type.
  Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 2011 Zak Y, Rhoads KF, Visser BC
• Variation in the quality of surgical care for uterovaginal prolapse.
  Medical care 2011 Rhoads KF, Sokol ER
• Understanding racial disparities in cancer treatment and outcomes.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2010 Morris AM, Rhoads KF, Stain SC, Birkmeyer JD
• Performance measurement, public reporting, and pay-for-performance.
  The Urologic clinics of North America 2009 Rhoads KF, Konety BM, Dudley RA
• Quality of colon cancer outcomes in hospitals with a high percentage of Medicaid patients.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2008 Rhoads KF, Ackerson LK, Jha AK, Dudley RA
• Differential modulation of plasma beta-amyloid by insulin in patients with Alzheimer disease.
  Neurology 2006 Kulstad JJ, Green PS, Cook DG, Watson GS, Reger MA, Baker LD, Plymate SR, Asthana S, Rhoads K, Mehta PD, Craft S
• A role for Hox A5 in regulating angiogenesis and vascular patterning.
  Lymphatic research and biology 2005 Rhoads K, Arderiu G, Charboneau A, Hansen SL, Hoffman W, Boudreau N
• Breast Cancer Beliefs and Behaviors at the San Francisco General Hospital.
  The breast journal 2000 Rhoads KF, Luce JA, Knudson MM
• Five-year follow-up for adverse outcomes in males with at least minimally positive angiograms: importance of "denial" in assessing psychosocial risk factors.
  Journal of psychosomatic research 1998 Ketterer MW, Huffman J, Lumley MA, Wassef S, Gray L, Kenyon L, Kraft P, Brymer J, Rhoads K, Lovallo WR, Goldberg AD