Leah Karliner, MD, MAS
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

She is also Director of the Multiethnic Health Equity Research Center (MERC) in the Division of General Internal Medicine, and a member of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is both a practicing general internist and a health services researcher, with expertise in practice-based and communication research. She completed her training – including her MD degree, a residency in primary care internal medicine, a general internal medicine research fellowship and a Master’s of Advanced Studies in Clinical Research all at UCSF. Dr. Karliner’s research focus is on evaluation and implementation of interventions to enhance equity, quality care, clinical communication, and outcomes for older adult populations. She is an national and internationally recognized expert on clinical communication and quality care delivery across language barriers. As a primary care general internist and practice-based researcher, she has experience and expertise in recruitment and retention of clinical populations from a variety of backgrounds into research studies. Her studies have spanned clinical topics, including breast cancer screening and diagnosis, chronic kidney disease management, hospital discharge diagnosis, language access services evaluation, and dementia screening and diagnosis. Ultimately, the goal of her research agenda is aimed at achieving optimal health outcomes for all populations.

• Partial language concordance in primary care communication: What is lost, what is gained, and how to optimize.
  Patient education and counseling 2025 Leung G, Dea D, Ho EY, Diamond L, Garcia ME, Karliner L
• An Exploratory Investigation of Heritage and Educational Language Exposures as Factors in Medical Student Spanish Language Proficiency.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2025 Ortega P, Figueroa JA, Gregorich SE, Karliner L, González J, Pérez-Cordón C, Iñiguez RX, Diamond LC
• CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATED WITH PRIMARY CARE–BASED DEMENTIA SCREENING VISIT COMPLETION IN THE ERADAR STUDY.
  Innovation in Aging 2024 Leah Karliner, Sascha Dublin, Yates Coley, Clarissa Hsu, Tyler Barrett, Deborah Barnes
• PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN PERSPECTIVES ON THE INVOLVEMENT OF FAMILY MEMBERS IN THE CARE OF PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA.
  Innovation in Aging 2024 Alma Hernández de Jesús, Sharifa Brooks-Smith-Lowe, Melissa Filippi, Julie Wood, Leah Karliner, Soo Borson, Alissa Bernstein Sideman
• TESTING ERADAR: A NEW EHR-BASED ALGORITHM TO INCREASE DEMENTIA RECOGNITION IN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS.
  Innovation in Aging 2024 Sascha Dublin, Leah Karliner, Yates Coley, Deborah King, Clarissa Hsu, Sei Lee, Judith Walsh, Deborah Barnes
• Residential Neighborhood Disadvantage and Amyloid Positivity: Findings from IDEAS.
  Alzheimer's & Dementia 2024 Charles Windon, Elena Tsoy, Jennifer Livaudais-Toman, Lucy Hanna, Constantine Gatsonis, Maria C. Carrillo, Charles Apgar, Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, Leah Karliner, Bruce E Hillner, Torsten B Neilands, …
• Residential Neighborhood Disadvantage and Amyloid Positivity: Findings from IDEAS.
  Alzheimer's & Dementia 2024 Charles Windon, Elena Tsoy, Jennifer Livaudais-Toman, Lucy Hanna, Constantine Gatsonis, Maria C. Carrillo, Charles Apgar, Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, Leah Karliner, Bruce E Hillner, Torsten B Neilands, …
• Physicians' Perspectives on Using Direct Observation to Assess Non-English Language Proficiency for Clinical Practice: A Qualitative Study.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2024 Garcia ME, Diamond LC, Williams M, Mutha S, Jih J, Pathak S, Karliner LS
• High-risk medication use among older adults with cognitive impairment living alone in the United States.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024 Growdon ME, Jing B, Yaffe K, Karliner LS, Possin KL, Portacolone E, Boscardin WJ, Harrison KL, Steinman MA
• Pain management inequities by demographic and geriatric-related variables in older adult inpatients.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024 Rambachan A, Neilands TB, Karliner L, Covinsky K, Fang M, Nguyen T
• eConsultation for Deprescribing Among Older Adults: Clinician Perspectives on Implementation Barriers and Facilitators.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2024 Growdon ME, Hunt LJ, Miller MJ, Halim M, Karliner LS, Gonzales R, Sudore RL, Steinman MA, Harrison KL
• Who do patients depend on as they age and for what medical needs? An exploratory study of Chinese and Latino primary care patients.
  BMC primary care 2024 Livaudais-Toman J, Kaplan CP, Karliner LS
• Author Details for “Implementation of a digital patient-facing cancer family history tool in medically underserved populations”.
  Genetics in Medicine Open 2024 Heather Spencer Feigelson, Kathleen F. Mittendorf, Sonia Okuyama, Kathryn M. Porter, Joanna Bulkley, Elizabeth Shuster, Katherine P. Anderson, Marian J. Gilmore, Jamilyn M. Zepp, Tia L. Kauffman, …
• "Hate has chipped away at my sense of security": A survey study of the impacts of anti-Asian hate on the health of older Asians.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2024 Li L, Kang J, Nguyen B, Ho M, Li AT, Shih JJ, Kotwal A, Yeh J, Karliner L, Jeung R, Smith A
• Caring for Patients with Functional Impairment in Middle Age: Perspectives from Primary Care Providers and Geriatricians.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2024 Schmucker AM, Reyes-Farias D, Nicosia FM, Xu E, B Potter M, Karliner LS, Brown RT
• Care Partner Engagement in Secure Messaging Between Patients With Diabetes and Their Clinicians: Cohort Study.
  JMIR diabetes 2024 Semere W, Karter AJ, Lyles CR, Reed ME, Karliner L, Kaplan C, Liu JY, Livaudais-Toman J, Schillinger D
• Telemedicine and Depression Screening After the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  JAMA network open 2024 Garcia ME, Neuhaus J, Livaudais-Toman J, Feldman MD, Ochoa-Frongia L, Khoong E, Karliner LS
• Predictors of Psychological Distress Among Rural Family/Friend Caregivers of People Living With Dementia in the United States: Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences 2024 Santoyo-Olsson J, Covinsky KE, Chesla CA, Lorig K, Gallagher-Thompson D, Cheng J, Luzanilla M, Macias Romo E, Aguayo Ramirez G, Karliner L, Yank V
• Language Access Systems Improvement initiative: impact on professional interpreter utilisation, a natural experiment.
  BMJ open 2024 Karliner LS, Gregorich SE, Mutha S, Kaplan C, Livaudais-Toman J, Pathak S, Garcia ME, Diamond L
• Effective strategies to recruit rural family/friend caregivers of persons living with dementia in the United States into a national randomized controlled trial: preliminary results.
  Alzheimer's & Dementia 2023 Veronica A. Yank, Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, Maritza Luzanilla, Elizabeth Macias Romo, Giselle Aguayo Ramirez, Catherine Chesla, Kate Lorig, Jing Cheng, Kenneth E Covinsky, Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, …
• IMPROVING DEMENTIA DETECTION IN PRIMARY CARE: PROCESS EVALUATION FOR THE ERADAR BRAIN HEALTH TRIAL.
  Innovation in Aging 2023 Deborah Barnes, Mikael Anne Greenwood-Hickman, Clarissa Hsu, Leah Karliner, Deborah King, Sei Lee, Rebecca Coley, Sascha Dublin
• Current State and Proposal of Best Practices of Standardized Patients for Spanish-Language Objective Structured Clinical Encounters in US Medical Schools.
  Simulation in healthcare : journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare 2023 Iñiguez RX, Figueroa Narváez JA, Diamond LC, Gregorich SE, Karliner L, González J, Pérez-Cordón C, Shin TM, Izquierdo K, Ortega P
• The electronic health record Risk of Alzheimer's and Dementia Assessment Rule (eRADAR) Brain Health Trial: Protocol for an embedded, pragmatic clinical trial of a low-cost dementia detection algorithm.
  Contemporary clinical trials 2023 Dublin S, Greenwood-Hickman MA, Karliner L, Hsu C, Coley RY, Colemon L, Carrasco A, King D, Grace A, Lee SJ, Walsh JME, Barrett T, Broussard J, Singh U, Idu A, Yaffe K, Boustani M, Barnes DE
• Validity Evidence for the Physician Oral Language Observation Matrix as a Measure of Medical Spanish Proficiency.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Ortega P, Gregorich SE, Karliner L, González J, Pérez-Cordón C, Iñiguez RX, Izquierdo K, Diamond LC
• LungCARE: Encouraging Shared Decision-Making in Lung Cancer Screening-a Randomized Trial.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Walsh JME, Karliner L, Smith A, Leykin Y, Gregorich SE, Livaudais-Toman J, Velazquez AI, Lowenstein M, Kaplan CP
• Language-Concordant Care: a Qualitative Study Examining Implementation of Physician Non-English Language Proficiency Assessment.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Garcia ME, Williams M, Mutha S, Diamond LC, Jih J, Handley MA, Pathak S, Karliner LS
• "How's your mood": Recorded physician mental health conversations with Chinese and Latino patients in routine primary care visits.
  Patient education and counseling 2023 Ho EY, Karliner LS, Leung G, Harb R, Aguayo Ramirez G, Garcia ME
• O.20.6 Mood Talk: Clinician Conversations with Chinese and Latinx Patients in Primary Care Recorded Visits Presenter(s): Maria Garcia, University of California, San Francisco, United States.
  Patient Education and Counseling 2023 Leah S Karliner, Genevieve Leung, Giselle Aguayo Ramirez, Raneem Harb, Evelyn Y Ho
• P44 Development of a Tool to Assess Medical Oral Non-English Language Proficiency Presenter(s): Lisa Diamond, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States.
  Patient Education and Counseling 2023 Steven Gregorich, Leah Karliner, Javier Gonzalez, Cristina Pérez-Cordón, Reniell Iniguez, Jose Alberto Figueroa, Karen Izquierdo, Pilar Ortega
• Medical interpreter-mediated genetic counseling for Spanish preferring adults at risk for a hereditary cancer syndrome.
  Journal of genetic counseling 2023 Joseph G, Lindberg NM, Guerra C, Hernandez C, Karliner LS, Gilmore MJ, Zepp J, Rolf BA, Caruncho M, Riddle L, Kauffman TL, Leo MC, Wilfond BS
• "Long Overdue": Nurse and Resident Physician Perspectives on Implementation of Dual-Handset Interpreter Phones in the Inpatient Setting.
  Health equity 2023 Garcia ME, Mutha S, Napoles AM, Malevanchik L, Williams M, Karliner LS
• Development and Effectiveness of a Rater Training Curriculum for Evaluating Student Medical Spanish Oral Proficiency Using the Physician Oral Language Observation Matrix.
  Global Business Languages 2023 Pilar Ortega, Reniell X. Iñiguez, Steven E. Gregorich, Cristina Pérez-Cordón, José Alberto Figueroa, Karen Izquierdo, Javier González, Leah Karliner, Lisa C. Diamond
• eRADAR detects primary care patients at risk of having undiagnosed dementia in two real-world healthcare systems.
  Alzheimer's & Dementia 2022 R Yates Coley, Julia J Smith, Leah Karliner, Sei J Lee, Sharon Fuller, Rosemary Lam, Deborah E Barnes, Sascha Dublin
• Primary Care Physicians' Perceived Barriers to Follow-Up of Abnormal Mammogram Results: Opportunities for Systems-Level Interventions.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2022 Flynn SJ, Livaudais-Toman J, Kaplan CP, Kerlikowske K, Burke NJ, Pathak S, Karliner LS
• Complementary and integrative healthcare communication in Chinese American patient / primary care visits: An observational discourse analysis.
  PEC innovation 2022 Ho EY, Leung G, Lauer B, Jih J, Karliner L
• Exploring the Impact of Language Concordance on Cancer Communication.
  JCO oncology practice 2022 Bregio C, Finik J, Baird M, Ortega P, Roter D, Karliner L, Diamond LC
• Association of Race and Ethnicity With Prescription of SGLT2 Inhibitors and GLP1 Receptor Agonists Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes in the Veterans Health Administration System.
  JAMA 2022 Lamprea-Montealegre JA, Madden E, Tummalapalli SL, Peralta C, Neilands TB, Garcia PK, Muiru A, Karliner L, Shlipak MG, Estrella MM
• Study protocol for a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of the Building Better Caregivers online workshop for rural family/friend caregivers of people living with dementia.
  Contemporary clinical trials 2022 Santoyo-Olsson J, Lorig K, Romo EM, Luzanilla M, Ramirez GA, Cheng J, Chesla C, Covinsky KE, Karliner L, Thompson DG, Fahrenwald N, Yank V
• Development of a Tool to Assess Medical Oral Language Proficiency.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2022 Diamond LC, Gregorich SE, Karliner L, González J, Pérez-Cordón C, Iniguez R, Alberto Figueroa J, Izquierdo K, Ortega P
• Equitability of Depression Screening After Implementation of General Adult Screening in Primary Care.
  JAMA network open 2022 Garcia ME, Hinton L, Neuhaus J, Feldman M, Livaudais-Toman J, Karliner LS
• External Validation of the eRADAR Risk Score for Detecting Undiagnosed Dementia in Two Real-World Healthcare Systems.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2022 Coley RY, Smith JJ, Karliner L, Idu AE, Lee SJ, Fuller S, Lam R, Barnes DE, Dublin S
• Barriers and Facilitators to Lung Cancer Screening: A Physician Survey.
  American journal of health promotion : AJHP 2022 Lowenstein M, Karliner L, Livaudais-Toman J, Gregorich S, Velazquez AI, Vijayaraghavan M, Walsh JME, Kaplan CP
• When Functional Impairment Develops Early: Perspectives from Middle-Aged Adults.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2022 Xu E, Nicosia FM, Zamora K, Barrientos M, Spar MJ, Reyes-Farias D, Karliner LS, Potter MB, Brown RT
• Association of English Language Proficiency With Hospitalization Cost, Length of Stay, Disposition Location, and Readmission Following Total Joint Arthroplasty.
  JAMA network open 2022 Manuel SP, Nguyen K, Karliner LS, Ward DT, Fernandez A
• Development and evaluation of an exome sequencing training course for medical interpreters.
  Personalized medicine 2022 Riddle L, Karliner LS, Livaudais-Toman J, Guerra C, Roat CE, Rope AF, Wade A, Caruncho M, Zepp JM, Giang J, Wilfond BS, Joseph G
• Differences in Hypertension Medication Prescribing for Black Americans and Their Association with Hypertension Outcomes.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2022 Holt HK, Gildengorin G, Karliner L, Fontil V, Pramanik R, Potter MB
• Increasing Telehealth Access to Care for Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic at an Academic Medical Center: Video Visits for Elders Project (VVEP).
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2021 Chu JN, Kaplan C, Lee JS, Livaudais-Toman J, Karliner L
• Acceptability of an mHealth breast cancer risk-reduction intervention promoting risk assessment, education, and discussion of risk in the primary care setting.
  mHealth 2021 Kaplan CP, Karliner L, Lee A, Livaudais-Toman J, Tice JA, Ozanne E
• Disparities After Discharge: The Association of Limited English Proficiency and Postdischarge Patient-Reported Issues.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2021 Malevanchik L, Wheeler M, Gagliardi K, Karliner L, Shah SJ
• Communication methods between outpatients with limited-English proficiency and ancillary staff: LASI study results.
  Patient education and counseling 2021 Kornbluth L, Kaplan CP, Diamond L, Karliner LS
• Primary Care Physician Recognition and Documentation of Depressive Symptoms Among Chinese and Latinx Patients During Routine Visits: A Cross-Sectional Study.
  Health equity 2021 Garcia ME, Hinton L, Gregorich SE, Livaudais-Toman J, Kaplan CP, Feldman M, Karliner L
• Patient Perspectives on the Quality of Professional Interpretation: Results from LASI Study.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2021 Pathak S, Gregorich SE, Diamond LC, Mutha S, Seto E, Livaudais-Toman J, Karliner L
• Protocols can lead to equitable emergency cardiac care for patients with language barriers, but quality communication remains important for access, outcomes, and prevention.
  European heart journal. Quality of care & clinical outcomes 2020 Karliner LS
• Loss of patient centeredness in interpreter-mediated primary care visits.
  Patient education and counseling 2020 Roter DL, Gregorich SE, Diamond L, Livaudais-Toman J, Kaplan C, Pathak S, Karliner L
• Use and Usefulness of After-Visit Summaries by Language and Health Literacy among Latinx and Chinese Primary Care Patients.
  Journal of health communication 2020 Nouri SS, Pathak S, Livaudais-Toman J, Gregorich SE, Kaplan CP, Diamond L, Karliner L
• Providing equitable care to patients with limited dominant language proficiency amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Patient education and counseling 2020 Diamond LC, Jacobs EA, Karliner L
• Electronic Decision Support for Management of CKD in Primary Care: A Pragmatic Randomized Trial.
  American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation 2020 Peralta CA, Livaudais-Toman J, Stebbins M, Lo L, Robinson A, Pathak S, Scherzer R, Karliner LS
• Organization Communication Factors and Abnormal Mammogram Follow-up: a Qualitative Study Among Ethnically Diverse Women Across Three Healthcare Systems.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Kenny JD, Karliner LS, Kerlikowske K, Kaplan CP, Fernandez-Lamothe A, Burke NJ
• An Automated Telephone Call System Improves the Reach and Cost-effectiveness of Panel Management Outreach for Cancer Screening.
  The Journal of ambulatory care management 2020 Gagliardi KS, Coleman S, Intinarelli G, Karliner L, Appelle N, Taylor B, Grumbach K
• Association of Primary Language and Hospitalization for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions.
  Medical care 2020 Anderson TS, Karliner LS, Lin GA
• Association of Patient Language with Guideline-Concordant Care for Individuals with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in Primary Care.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2019 Rosenwohl-Mack S, Rubinsky A, Karliner L, López L, Peralta CA
• Unmet Mental Health Need Among Chinese and Latino Primary Care Patients: Intersection of Ethnicity, Gender, and English Proficiency.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2019 Garcia ME, Hinton L, Gregorich SE, Livaudais-Toman J, Kaplan C, Karliner L
• Importance of Communication and Relationships: Addressing Disparities in Hospitalizations for African-American Patients in Academic Primary Care.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2019 Valente J, Johnson N, Edu U, Karliner LS
• Patient-Reported Use of the After Visit Summary in a Primary Care Internal Medicine Practice.
  Journal of patient experience 2019 Pathak S, Summerville G, Kaplan CP, Nouri SS, Karliner LS
• Change in Faculty Perceptions of Burnout and Work Life in an Academic General Medicine Clinic: a Pre-Post Study.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2019 Lee JS, Karliner LS, Julian KA, Linzer M, Feldman MD
• Caregiving for Older Adults with Limited English Proficiency: Transitioning from Hospital to Home.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2019 Semere W, Nápoles AM, Gregorich S, Livaudais-Toman J, Karliner L
• A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Trial of an Electronic Clinical Decision Support System to Improve Chronic Kidney Disease Management in Primary Care: Design, Rationale, and Implementation Experience.
  JMIR research protocols 2019 Khoong EC, Karliner L, Lo L, Stebbins M, Robinson A, Pathak S, Santoyo-Olsson J, Scherzer R, Peralta CA
• Establishing the Necessary Conditions for Achieving Language Access and Equitable, Quality Care for Populations with Limited English Proficiency.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2019 Karliner L
• Development of a Multistep Hypertension Quality Improvement Program in an Academic General Medicine Practice.
  Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality 2019 Bui-Duy MK, Wong S, Lam R, Karliner LS
• Real-world lung cancer screening decision-making: Barriers and facilitators.
  Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2019 Lowenstein M, Vijayaraghavan M, Burke NJ, Karliner L, Wang S, Peters M, Lozano A, Kaplan CP
• Validating laboratory defined chronic kidney disease in the electronic health record for patients in primary care.
  BMC nephrology 2019 Frigaard M, Rubinsky A, Lowell L, Malkina A, Karliner L, Kohn M, Peralta CA
• Mammography facilities serving vulnerable women have longer follow-up times.
  Health services research 2018 Karliner LS, Kaplan C, Livaudais-Toman J, Kerlikowske K
• Disparities in Hypertension Control Across and Within Three Health Systems Participating in a Data-Sharing Collaborative.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2018 Selby K, Michel M, Gildengorin G, Karliner L, Pramanik R, Fontil V, Potter MB
• WHEN FUNCTIONAL IMPAIRMENT DEVELOPS EARLY: PERSPECTIVES FROM MIDDLE-AGED ADULTS.
  Innovation in Aging 2018 E Xu, M Barrientos, F Nicosia, M Steinman, M Spar, L Karliner, R Brown
• An Intervention Tool to Increase Patient-Physician Discussion of Lifestyle Risk Factors for Breast Cancer.
  Journal of women's health (2002) 2018 Ozanne E, Karliner LS, Tice JA, Haas JS, Livaudais-Toman J, Pasick RJ, Kaplan CP
• A Comparison of Electronic Patient-Portal Use Among Patients with Resident and Attending Primary Care Providers.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2018 Chan B, Lyles C, Kaplan C, Lam R, Karliner L
• 2.Three Critical Steps to Enhance Delivery of Language Services in Health Care.
  Providing Health Care in the Context of Language Barriers 2017 Leah S. Karliner
• Low Health Literacy and Transitional Care Needs: Beyond Screening.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2017 Karliner L
• Hospital discharge preparedness for patients with limited English proficiency: A mixed methods study of bedside interpreter-phones.
  Patient education and counseling 2017 Lee JS, Nápoles A, Mutha S, Pérez-Stable EJ, Gregorich SE, Livaudais-Toman J, Karliner LS
• Disparities in abnormal mammogram follow-up time for Asian women compared with non-Hispanic white women and between Asian ethnic groups.
  Cancer 2017 Nguyen KH, Pasick RJ, Stewart SL, Kerlikowske K, Karliner LS
• Convenient Access to Professional Interpreters in the Hospital Decreases Readmission Rates and Estimated Hospital Expenditures for Patients With Limited English Proficiency.
  Medical care 2017 Karliner LS, Pérez-Stable EJ, Gregorich SE
• Increased Access to Professional Interpreters in the Hospital Improves Informed Consent for Patients with Limited English Proficiency.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2017 Lee JS, Pérez-Stable EJ, Gregorich SE, Crawford MH, Green A, Livaudais-Toman J, Karliner LS
• Validation of an Efficient Screening Tool to Identify Low-Income Women at High Risk for Hereditary Breast Cancer.
  Public health genomics 2016 Stewart SL, Kaplan CP, Lee R, Joseph G, Karliner L, Livaudais-Toman J, Pasick RJ
• Reducing Health Care Disparities for Minority Women in the Era of the Affordable Care Act: Opportunities within Primary Care.
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2016 Karliner L, Marks A, Mutha S
• The Action Research Program: Experiential Learning in Systems-Based Practice for First-Year Medical Students.
  Teaching and learning in medicine 2016 Ackerman SL, Boscardin C, Karliner L, Handley MA, Cheng S, Gaither TW, Hagey J, Hennein L, Malik F, Shaw B, Trinidad N, Zahner G, Gonzales R
• Inaccurate Language Interpretation and Its Clinical Significance in the Medical Encounters of Spanish-speaking Latinos.
  Medical care 2015 Nápoles AM, Santoyo-Olsson J, Karliner LS, Gregorich SE, Pérez-Stable EJ
• Impact of a primary care based intervention on breast cancer knowledge, risk perception and concern: A randomized, controlled trial.
  Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2015 Livaudais-Toman J, Karliner LS, Tice JA, Kerlikowske K, Gregorich S, Pérez-Stable EJ, Pasick RJ, Chen A, Quinn J, Kaplan CP
• Abstract B35: Disparities in follow up after abnormal mammogram for multiple Asian subpopulations.
  Epidemiology, Lifestyle, and Genetics 2015 Kim Hanh Nguyen, Leah Karliner, Rena Pasick
• Abstract B89: Timeliness in follow-up after abnormal mammography screening among Asian groups.
  Prevention Research 2014 Kim H. Nguyen, Leah Karliner, Rena J. Pasick
• Evaluation of a primary care-based post-discharge phone call program: keeping the primary care practice at the center of post-hospitalization care transition.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2014 Tang N, Fujimoto J, Karliner L
• A randomized, controlled trial to increase discussion of breast cancer in primary care.
  Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2014 Kaplan CP, Livaudais-Toman J, Tice JA, Kerlikowske K, Gregorich SE, Pérez-Stable EJ, Pasick RJ, Chen A, Quinn J, Karliner LS
• Perceived versus objective breast cancer risk in diverse women.
  Journal of women's health (2002) 2013 Fehniger J, Livaudais-Toman J, Karliner L, Kerlikowske K, Tice JA, Quinn J, Ozanne E, Kaplan CP
• Satisfaction with treatment decision-making and treatment regret among Latinas and non-Latina whites with DCIS.
  Patient education and counseling 2013 López ME, Kaplan CP, Nápoles AM, Hwang ES, Livaudais JC, Karliner LS
• Ductal carcinoma in situ: knowledge of associated risks and prognosis among Latina and non-Latina white women.
  Breast cancer research and treatment 2013 Parikh AR, Kaplan CP, Burke NJ, Livaudais-Toman J, Hwang ES, Karliner LS
• Diagnostic imaging and biopsy pathways following abnormal screen-film and digital screening mammography.
  Breast cancer research and treatment 2013 Hubbard RA, Zhu W, Horblyuk R, Karliner L, Sprague BL, Henderson L, Lee D, Onega T, Buist DS, Sweet A
• What do we know about patient-clinician interactions with interpreters?
  Journal of general internal medicine 2013 Pérez-Stable EJ, Karliner LS
• Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS): posttreatment follow-up care among Latina and non-Latina White women.
  Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice 2013 López ME, Kaplan CP, Nápoles AM, Livaudais JC, Hwang ES, Stewart SL, Bloom J, Karliner L
• Abstract P4-13-05: The gap between perceptions of risk and actual risk for breast cancer.
  Poster Session Abstracts 2012 CP Kaplan, M Lopez, J Tice, R Pasick, K Kerlikowske, A Chen, L Karliner
• Quality of life of Latina and Euro-American women with ductal carcinoma in situ.
  Psycho-oncology 2012 Bloom JR, Stewart SL, Napoles AM, Hwang ES, Livaudais JC, Karliner L, Kaplan CP
• Language barriers and understanding of hospital discharge instructions.
  Medical care 2012 Karliner LS, Auerbach A, Nápoles A, Schillinger D, Nickleach D, Pérez-Stable EJ
• Ability of microvolt T-wave alternans to modify risk assessment of ventricular tachyarrhythmic events: a meta-analysis.
  American heart journal 2012 Gupta A, Hoang DD, Karliner L, Tice JA, Heidenreich P, Wang PJ, Turakhia MP
• Impact of an easy-access telephonic interpreter program in the acute care setting: an evaluation of a quality improvement intervention.
  Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety 2012 Tuot DS, Lopez M, Miller C, Karliner LS
• Language barriers, location of care, and delays in follow-up of abnormal mammograms.
  Medical care 2012 Karliner LS, Ma L, Hofmann M, Kerlikowske K
• Performance of an online translation tool when applied to patient educational material.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2011 Khanna RR, Karliner LS, Eck M, Vittinghoff E, Koenig CJ, Fang MC
• Interpreter perspectives of in-person, telephonic, and videoconferencing medical interpretation in clinical encounters.
  Patient education and counseling 2011 Price EL, Pérez-Stable EJ, Nickleach D, López M, Karliner LS
• Adjuvant hormonal therapy use among women with ductal carcinoma in situ.
  Journal of women's health (2002) 2011 Livaudais JC, Hwang ES, Karliner L, Nápoles A, Stewart S, Bloom J, Kaplan CP
• The use of Spanish language skills by physicians and nurses: policy implications for teaching and testing.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2011 Diamond LC, Tuot DS, Karliner LS
• Physician use of advance care planning discussions in a diverse hospitalized population.
  Journal of immigrant and minority health 2011 Kulkarni SP, Karliner LS, Auerbach AD, Pérez-Stable EJ
• The effect of system-level access factors on receipt of reconstruction among Latina and white women with DCIS.
  Breast cancer research and treatment 2011 Kaplan CP, Karliner LS, Hwang ES, Bloom J, Stewart S, Nickleach D, Quinn J, Thrasher A, Nápoles AM
• Patterns of interpreter use for hospitalized patients with limited English proficiency.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2011 Schenker Y, Pérez-Stable EJ, Nickleach D, Karliner LS
• Selection of treatment among Latina and non-Latina white women with ductal carcinoma in situ.
  Journal of women's health (2002) 2010 Kaplan CP, Nápoles AM, Hwang ES, Bloom J, Stewart S, Nickleach D, Karliner L
• Patient-physicians' information exchange in outpatient cardiac care: time for a heart to heart?
  Patient education and counseling 2010 Sarkar U, Schillinger D, Bibbins-Domingo K, Nápoles A, Karliner L, Pérez-Stable EJ
• Language barriers and patient-centered breast cancer care.
  Patient education and counseling 2010 Karliner LS, Hwang ES, Nickleach D, Kaplan CP
• Influence of language barriers on outcomes of hospital care for general medicine inpatients.
  Journal of hospital medicine 2010 Karliner LS, Kim SE, Meltzer DO, Auerbach AD
• Physicians' approaches to recommending colorectal cancer screening: a qualitative study.
  Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education 2010 Walsh JM, Karliner L, Burke N, Somkin CP, Pham LA, Pasick R
• Clinician ratings of interpreter mediated visits in underserved primary care settings with ad hoc, in-person professional, and video conferencing modes.
  Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2010 Nápoles AM, Santoyo-Olsson J, Karliner LS, O'Brien H, Gregorich SE, Pérez-Stable EJ
• Achieving quality in health care through language access services: lessons from a California public hospital.
  American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2009 Karliner LS, Mutha S
• The Reply.
  The American Journal of Medicine 2009 Jeffrey A. Tice, Leah Karliner, Amy J. Petersen, Mitchell D. Feldman
• An assessment of the likelihood, frequency, and content of verbal communication between radiologists and women receiving screening and diagnostic mammography.
  Academic radiology 2009 Carney PA, Kettler M, Cook AJ, Geller BM, Karliner L, Miglioretti DL, Bowles EA, Buist DS, Gallagher TH, Elmore JG
• Accuracy of self-reported breast cancer among women undergoing mammography.
  Breast cancer research and treatment 2009 Abraham L, Geller BM, Yankaskas BC, Bowles EJ, Karliner LS, Taplin SH, Miglioretti DL
• Gastric banding or bypass? A systematic review comparing the two most popular bariatric procedures.
  The American journal of medicine 2008 Tice JA, Karliner L, Walsh J, Petersen AJ, Feldman MD
• Identification of limited English proficient patients in clinical care.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2008 Karliner LS, Napoles-Springer AM, Schillinger D, Bibbins-Domingo K, Pérez-Stable EJ
• Who is responsible for evaluating the safety and effectiveness of medical devices? The role of independent technology assessment.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2008 Feldman MD, Petersen AJ, Karliner LS, Tice JA
• Ethnic disparities in breast cancer.
  Women's health (London, England) 2007 Karliner LS, Kerlikowske K
• Do professional interpreters improve clinical care for patients with limited English proficiency? A systematic review of the literature.
  Health services research 2007 Karliner LS, Jacobs EA, Chen AH, Mutha S
• Missed opportunities: family history and behavioral risk factors in breast cancer risk assessment among a multiethnic group of women.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2007 Karliner LS, Napoles-Springer A, Kerlikowske K, Haas JS, Gregorich SE, Kaplan CP
• The need for more research on language barriers in health care: a proposed research agenda.
  The Milbank quarterly 2006 Jacobs E, Chen AH, Karliner LS, Agger-Gupta N, Mutha S
• Poor patient comprehension of abnormal mammography results.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2005 Karliner LS, Patricia Kaplan C, Juarbe T, Pasick R, Pérez-Stable EJ
• Legal and regulatory obligations to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate emergency department services.
  Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine 2004 Elizabeth A Jacobs, Alice Hm Chen, Leah Karliner, Julia Puebla Fortier, Sunita Mutha
• The language divide. The importance of training in the use of interpreters for outpatient practice.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2004 Karliner LS, Pérez-Stable EJ, Gildengorin G