Rachel Stern, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

I co-teach the health systems and quality improvement curriculum for UCSF internal medicine primary care residents.

From 2017-2021 I was a full-time UCSF faculty member. My role was as the medical director of the Public Hospital Redesign and Incentives in Medi-Cal (PRIME) and Quality Incentive Pool (QIP) programs for the San Francisco Health Network. I also worked on special COVID19 projects including serving as the deputy lead for SFHN's COVID vaccine delivery. My primary interest is in making public health care systems safer, higher quality and more equitable. Other interests include value based care, Medicaid transformation, teaching QI, developing the next generation of safety net leaders and high quality chronic disease care, especially for heart failure, diabetes and hypertension.

• Unmet health-related needs of community-dwelling older adults during COVID-19 lockdown in a diverse urban cohort.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2022 Perry L, Scheerens C, Greene M, Shi Y, Onion Z, Bayudan E, Stern RJ, Gilissen J, Chodos AH
• Effect of a Novel, Evidence-Based, Standardized Discharge Checklist on 30-Day All-Cause Readmissions in Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure in an Urban Safety Net Hospital.
  The American journal of cardiology 2022 Marano PJ, Steverson AB, Chen C, Ma Y, Stern RJ, Davis J, Hsue PY, Zier LS
• The Power Of Access To Affordable Care.
  Health affairs (Project Hope) 2020 Stern RJ
• Teaching Medical Students to Engage Meaningfully and Judiciously With Patient Data.
  JAMA internal medicine 2016 Stern RJ
• Firearm Injuries and Gun Violence: Call for Papers.
  JAMA internal medicine 2016 Steinbrook R, Stern RJ, Redberg RF
• Teaching High-Value Care on Rounds: Modeling Moderation.
  JAMA internal medicine 2016 Stern RJ, Parks AL
• Mass Media Campaigns to Prevent Chronic Disease-A Powerful but Underused Tool.
  JAMA internal medicine 2015 Stern RJ
• Maximizing the EMR's Educational Potential.
  JAMA internal medicine 2015 Stern RJ, Charlton B
• Reducing Life-Threatening Allopurinol Hypersensitivity.
  JAMA internal medicine 2015 Stern RJ
• Searching for Joy in Residency by Listening to Our Patients.
  JAMA internal medicine 2015 Charlton B, Stern RJ
• Advances in measuring culturally competent care: a confirmatory factor analysis of CAHPS-CC in a safety-net population.
  Medical care 2012 Stern RJ, Fernandez A, Jacobs EA, Neilands TB, Weech-Maldonado R, Quan J, Carle A, Seligman HK
• Associations between aspects of culturally competent care and clinical outcomes among patients with diabetes.
  Medical care 2012 Fernandez A, Seligman H, Quan J, Stern RJ, Jacobs EA
• Risk factors for reporting poor cultural competency among patients with diabetes in safety net clinics.
  Medical care 2012 Seligman HK, Fernandez A, Stern RJ, Weech-Maldonado R, Quan J, Jacobs EA
• Individual- and neighborhood-level factors associated with nonprescription counseling in pharmacies participating in the New York State Expanded Syringe Access Program.
  Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhA 2010 Rivera AV, Blaney S, Crawford ND, White K, Stern RJ, Amesty S, Fuller C
• A community-based approach to linking injection drug users with needed services through pharmacies: an evaluation of a pilot intervention in New York City.
  AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education 2010 Rudolph AE, Standish K, Amesty S, Crawford ND, Stern RJ, Badillo WE, Boyer A, Brown D, Ranger N, Orduna JM, Lasenburg L, Lippek S, Fuller CM
• Comparison of injection drug users accessing syringes from pharmacies, syringe exchange programs, and other syringe sources to inform targeted HIV prevention and intervention strategies.
  Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhA 2010 Rudolph AE, Crawford ND, Ompad DC, Benjamin EO, Stern RJ, Fuller CM