Robert Baron, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Baron earned a master's degree in nutrition at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and his medical degree from UCSF.

Baron has directed the UCSF Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program since 1989.

• Jump-Starting Faculty Development in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Education: A Team-Based Approach.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2019 van Schaik SM, Chang A, Fogh S, Haehn M, Lyndon A, O'Brien B, O'Sullivan P, Ranji S, Rosenbluth G, Sehgal N, Tabas J, Baron RB
• CE: Breast Cancer Screening: A Review of Current Guidelines.
  The American journal of nursing 2018 Baron R, Drucker K, Lagdamen L, Cannon M, Mancini C, Fischer-Cartlidge E
• Treating Blood Pressure Correctly by Measuring It Correctly.
  JAMA internal medicine 2018 Baron RB
• Ensuring Resident Competence: A Narrative Review of the Literature on Group Decision Making to Inform the Work of Clinical Competency Committees.
  Journal of graduate medical education 2016 Hauer KE, Cate OT, Boscardin CK, Iobst W, Holmboe ES, Chesluk B, Baron RB, O'Sullivan PS
• Development of an itemwise efficiency scoring method: Concurrent, convergent, discriminant, and neuroimaging-based predictive validity assessed in a large community sample.
  Psychological assessment 2016 Moore TM, Reise SP, Roalf DR, Satterthwaite TD, Davatzikos C, Bilker WB, Port AM, Jackson CT, Ruparel K, Savitt AP, Baron RB, Gur RE, Gur RC
• Dissemination of Evidence From Systematic Reviews Through Academic CME Providers: A Feasibility Study.
  The Journal of continuing education in the health professions 2016 Fordis M, King JE, Bonaduce de Nigris F, Morrow R, Baron RB, Kues JR, Norton JC, Kessler H, Mazmanian PE, Colburn L
• In Reply to Oyler et al.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2016 Rosenbluth G, Tabas JA, Baron RB
• Observations on the 2016 World Congress on Continuing Professional Development: Advancing Learning and Care in the Health Professions.
  The Journal of continuing education in the health professions 2016 Turco MG, Baron RB
• What's in It for Me? Maintenance of Certification as an Incentive for Faculty Supervision of Resident Quality Improvement Projects.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2016 Rosenbluth G, Tabas JA, Baron RB
• Is Training in a Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Associated with a Career in Primary Care Medicine?
  Journal of general internal medicine 2015 Stanley M, O'Brien B, Julian K, Jain S, Cornett P, Hollander H, Baron RB, Kohlwes RJ
• Reviewing residents' competence: a qualitative study of the role of clinical competency committees in performance assessment.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2015 Hauer KE, Chesluk B, Iobst W, Holmboe E, Baron RB, Boscardin CK, Cate OT, O'Sullivan PS
• Achieving Hand Hygiene Success With a Partnership Between Graduate Medical Education, Hospital Leadership, and Physicians.
  American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2015 Rosenbluth G, Garritson S, Green AL, Milev D, Vidyarthi AR, Auerbach AD, Baron RB
• In reply to Sedgh.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2014 Baron RB, Rosenbluth G, Green AL, Vidyarthi AR
• Nutrition in medical education: from counting hours to measuring competence.
  JAMA internal medicine 2014 Nestle M, Baron RB
• In reply to Walsh.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2014 Baron RB
• Addressing the nation's physician workforce needs: The Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) recommendations on graduate medical education reform.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2014 Jackson A, Baron RB, Jaeger J, Liebow M, Plews-Ogan M, Schwartz MD, Society of General Internal Medicine Health Policy Committee
• Teaching for quality: where do we go from here?
  American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2014 Baron RB, Davis NL, Davis DA, Headrick LA
• Engaging residents and fellows to improve institution-wide quality: the first six years of a novel financial incentive program.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2014 Vidyarthi AR, Green AL, Rosenbluth G, Baron RB
• Changing resident test ordering behavior: a multilevel intervention to decrease laboratory utilization at an academic medical center.
  American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2014 Vidyarthi AR, Hamill T, Green AL, Rosenbluth G, Baron RB
• Eat more fibre.
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2013 Baron RB
• Can we achieve public accountability for graduate medical education outcomes?
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2013 Baron RB
• Should we all be vegetarians?
  JAMA internal medicine 2013 Baron RB
• Maintenance of certification.
  The New England journal of medicine 2013 Iglehart JK, Baron RB
• Ensuring physicians' competence--is maintenance of certification the answer?
  The New England journal of medicine 2012 Iglehart JK, Baron RB
• Industry support of CME--are we at the tipping point?
  The New England journal of medicine 2012 Steinman MA, Landefeld CS, Baron RB
• Commercial funding of accredited continuing medical education.
  BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2012 Tabas JA, Baron RB
• Financial incentives for residents and fellows: a disruptive innovation to drive quality improvement.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2011 Vidyarthi AR, Baron RB
• Perspective: Creating the next generation of general internists: a call for medical education reform.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2011 Julian K, Riegels NS, Baron RB
• Clinician attitudes about commercial support of continuing medical education: results of a detailed survey.
  Archives of internal medicine 2011 Tabas JA, Boscardin C, Jacobsen DM, Steinman MA, Volberding PA, Baron RB
• Telling patients they are overweight or obese: an insult or an effective intervention?: comment on "The influence of physician acknowledgment of patients' weight status on patient perceptions of overweight and obesity in the United States".
  Archives of internal medicine 2011 Baron RB
• Objective airway monitoring improves asthma control in the cold and flu season: a cluster randomized trial.
  Chest 2010 Janson SL, McGrath KW, Covington JK, Baron RB, Lazarus SC
• Potential unintended consequences due to Medicare's "no pay for errors" rule? A randomized controlled trial of an educational intervention with internal medicine residents.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2010 Mookherjee S, Vidyarthi AR, Ranji SR, Maselli J, Wachter RM, Baron RB
• Commentary: CME and its role in the academic medical center: increasing integration, adding value.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2010 Davis DA, Baron RB, Grichnik K, Topulos GP, Agus ZS, Dorman T
• Commercial influence and learner-perceived bias in continuing medical education.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2010 Steinman MA, Boscardin CK, Aguayo L, Baron RB
• Continuing medical education in Vietnam: new legislation and new roles for medical schools.
  The Journal of continuing education in the health professions 2010 van der Velden T, Van HN, Quoc HN, Van HN, Baron RB
• Improving chronic care of type 2 diabetes using teams of interprofessional learners.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2009 Janson SL, Cooke M, McGrath KW, Kroon LA, Robinson S, Baron RB
• Does health service use in a diabetes management program contribute to health disparities at a facility level? Optimizing resources with demographic predictors.
  Population health management 2009 Robinson S, Baron RB, Cooper B, Janson S
• Factors associated with intern fatigue.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2008 Friesen LD, Vidyarthi AR, Baron RB, Katz PP
• Rebuttal: Is CME a drug-promotion tool?: YES.
  Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien 2007 Steinman MA, Baron RB
• Is continuing medical education a drug-promotion tool?: YES.
  Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien 2007 Steinman MA, Baron RB
• Brief report: Multiprogram evaluation of reading habits of primary care internal medicine residents on ambulatory rotations.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2006 Lai CJ, Aagaard E, Brandenburg S, Nadkarni M, Wei HG, Baron R
• Teaching chronic disease management to interdisciplinary medical learners.
  Medical education 2005 Lai C, Julian K, Baron R
• Implementation of a voluntary hospitalist service at a community teaching hospital: improved clinical efficiency and patient outcomes.
  Annals of internal medicine 2002 Auerbach AD, Wachter RM, Katz P, Showstack J, Baron RB, Goldman L