Sara Ackerman, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
Social Behavioral Sciences
School of Nursing

Awards

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• Diana Forsythe Award, American Medical Informatics Association, 2013

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2022
• BA Psychology Smith College
• PhD Anthropology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• MPH Health Behavior & Education University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Interests

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• science and technology studies
• genetics and genomics
• social and cultural implications of new medical technologies
• community-engaged research
• medical anthropology
• social determinants of health
• mixed methods
• health equity
• qualitative methods
• ethnography
• implementation science

Publications (83)

Top publication keywords:
Rare DiseasesReferral and ConsultationGenetic ResearchMedicineSocial ValuesGenetic TestingPatient PreferenceInformed ConsentRemote ConsultationAnthropology, CulturalPrimary Health CareLaboratoriesCommunity Health CentersInappropriate PrescribingPatient Transfer

• Genetic ancestry and diagnostic yield of exome sequencing in a diverse population.
  NPJ genomic medicine 2024 Mavura Y, Sahin-Hodoglugil N, Hodoglugil U, Kvale M, Martin PM, Van Ziffle J, Devine WP, Ackerman SL, Koenig BA, Kwok PY, Norton ME, Slavotinek A, Risch N
• Caregivers' and providers' perspectives of social and medical care after pediatric liver transplant: Results from the multicenter SOCIAL-Tx study.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2023 Wadhwani SI, Alvarado A, Shifman HP, Bautista B, Yalung J, Squires JE, Campbell K, Ebel NH, Hsu E, Vittorio J, Zielsdorf S, Desai DM, Bucuvalas JC, Gottlieb L, Kotagal U, Lyles CR, Ackerman SL, Lai JC
• Patient Perspectives on Social Risk Screening and Documentation in a Dermatology Clinic.
  JAMA dermatology 2023 Wilkerson K, De Marchis E, Rudd N, Williams JC, Pantell M, Ackerman SL, Amerson EH, Chang AY
• Author Correction: Diagnostic yield of pediatric and prenatal exome sequencing in a diverse population.
  NPJ genomic medicine 2023 Slavotinek A, Rego S, Sahin-Hodoglugil N, Kvale M, Lianoglou B, Yip T, Hoban H, Outram S, Anguiano B, Chen F, Michelson J, Cilio RM, Curry C, Gallagher RC, Gardner M, Kuperman R, Mendelsohn B, Sherr E…
• Access to prenatal exome sequencing for fetal malformations: A qualitative landscape analysis in the US.
  Prenatal diagnosis 2023 Sahin-Hodoglugil NN, Lianoglou BR, Ackerman S, Sparks TN, Norton ME

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• The Need to Standardize the Reanalysis of Genomic Sequencing Results: Findings from Interviews with Underserved Families in Genomic Research.
  Journal of bioethical inquiry 2023 Outram SM, Rego S, Norstad M, Ackerman S
• Clinical decision support and electronic interventions to improve care quality in chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis.
  Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2023 Ge J, Fontil V, Ackerman S, Pletcher MJ, Lai JC
• Community Health Center Staff Perspectives on Financial Payments for Social Care.
  The Milbank quarterly 2023 Lopez JM, Wing H, Ackerman SL, Hessler D, Gottlieb LM
• “We were trying to do quality versus quantity”: Challenges and opportunities at the intersection of standardized and personalized social care in community health centers.
  SSM - Qualitative Research in Health 2023 Sara L. Ackerman, Holly Wing, Benjamín Aceves, Maura Pisciotta, Danielle Hessler, Laura M. Gottlieb
• Diagnostic yield of pediatric and prenatal exome sequencing in a diverse population.
  NPJ genomic medicine 2023 Slavotinek A, Rego S, Sahin-Hodoglugil N, Kvale M, Lianoglou B, Yip T, Hoban H, Outram S, Anguiano B, Chen F, Michelson J, Cilio RM, Curry C, Gallagher RC, Gardner M, Kuperman R, Mendelsohn B, Sherr E…
• Diagnostic Yield of Exome Sequencing in a Diverse Pediatric and Prenatal Population is not Associated with Genetic Ancestry.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2023 Mavura Y, Sahin-Hodoglugil N, Hodoglugil U, Kvale M, Martin PM, Van Ziffle J, Devine WP, Ackerman SL, Koenig BA, Kwok PY, Norton ME, Slavotinek A, Risch N
• "I Have Fought for so Many Things": Disadvantaged families' Efforts to Obtain Community-Based Services for Their Child after Genomic Sequencing.
  AJOB empirical bioethics 2023 Ackerman SL, Brown JEH, Zamora A, Outram S
• O40: Clinical utility of prenatal exome sequencing in a diverse cohort*.
  2023 Mary Norton, Billie Lianoglou, Matthew Shear, Sara Ackerman, Nuriye Sahin-Holodlugil, Mark Kvale, Jessica Van Ziffle, W. Patrick Devine, Ugur Hodoglugil, Pierre-Marie Martin, Barbara Koenig, Neil …
• O41: Genes associated with disease in fetuses compared to children: Exome sequencing in a large pediatric and prenatal cohort.
  2023 Teresa Sparks, Billie Lianoglou, Nuriye Sahin-Holodlugil, Mark Kvale, Jessica Van Ziffle, W. Patrick Devine, Ugur Hodoglugil, Pierre-Marie Martin, Barbara Koenig, Pui-Yan Kwok, Sara Ackerman, Anne …
• Patient perspectives on the utility and impact of prenatal exome sequencing.
  American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2023 Kate Swanson, Nuriye Sahin-Hodoglugil, Teresa N. Sparks, Sara Ackerman, Billie R. Lianoglou, Sarah L. Downum, Mary E. Norton
• The social value of genomic sequencing for disadvantaged families facing rare disease.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2022 Outram SM, Brown J, Ackerman SL
• The Challenge of Recruiting Diverse Populations into Health Research: An embedded social science perspective.
  New genetics and society 2022 Outram SM, Ackerman SL, Norstad M, Koenig B
• Pediatric Primary Care Perspectives of Mental Health Services Delivery during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  Children (Basel, Switzerland) 2022 Lee CM, Lutz J, Khau A, Lin B, Phillip N, Ackerman S, Steinbuchel P, Mangurian C
• Parental Hopes and Understandings of the Value of Prenatal Diagnostic Genomic Sequencing: A Qualitative Analysis.
  Frontiers in genetics 2022 Outram SM, Brown JEH, Zamora AN, Sahin-Hodoglugil N, Ackerman SL
• "Let's Just Wait Until She's Born": Temporal Factors That Shape Decision-Making for Prenatal Genomic Sequencing Amongst Families Underrepresented in Genomic Research.
  Frontiers in genetics 2022 Brown JEH, Zamora AN, Outram S, Sparks TN, Lianoglou BR, Norstad M, Sahin Hodoglugil NN, Norton ME, Ackerman SL
• Perspectives and preferences regarding genomic secondary findings in underrepresented prenatal and pediatric populations: A mixed-methods approach.
  Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics 2022 Rego S, Hoban H, Outram S, Zamora AN, Chen F, Sahin-Hodoglugil N, Anguiano B, Norstad M, Yip T, Lianoglou B, Sparks TN, Norton ME, Koenig BA, Slavotinek AM, Ackerman SL
• Differences in Hospitals' Workplace Violence Incident Reporting Practices: A Mixed Methods Study.
  Policy, politics & nursing practice 2022 Odes R, Chapman S, Ackerman S, Harrison R, Hong O
• Readiness to implement on-site molecular testing for tuberculosis in community health centers in Uganda.
  Implementation science communications 2022 Nalugwa T, Handley M, Shete P, Ojok C, Nantale M, Reza T, Katamba A, Cattamanchi A, Ackerman S
• Multicomponent Strategy with Decentralized Molecular Testing for Tuberculosis.
  The New England journal of medicine 2021 Cattamanchi A, Reza TF, Nalugwa T, Adams K, Nantale M, Oyuku D, Nabwire S, Babirye D, Turyahabwe S, Tucker A, Sohn H, Ferguson O, Thompson R, Shete PB, Handley MA, Ackerman S, Joloba M, Moore DAJ, …
• Promising precision medicine: how patients, clinicians and caregivers work to realize the potential of genomics-informed cancer care.
  New Genetics and Society 2021 Sara L. Ackerman
• Improving Patient Safety in Public Hospitals: Developing Standard Measures to Track Medical Errors and Process Breakdowns.
  Journal of patient safety 2021 Ackerman SL, Gourley G, Le G, Williams P, Yazdany J, Sarkar U
• The difficulties of broad data sharing in genomic medicine: Empirical evidence from diverse participants in prenatal and pediatric clinical genomics research.
  Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics 2021 Norstad M, Outram S, Brown JEH, Zamora AN, Koenig BA, Risch N, Norton ME, Slavotinek A, Ackerman SL
• Conceptualization of utility in translational clinical genomics research.
  American journal of human genetics 2021 Smith HS, Brothers KB, Knight SJ, Ackerman SL, Rini C, Veenstra DL, McGuire AL, Wilfond BS, Malek J
• Perceived Utility of Genomic Sequencing: Qualitative Analysis and Synthesis of a Conceptual Model to Inform Patient-Centered Instrument Development.
  The patient 2021 Smith HS, Morain SR, Robinson JO, Canfield I, Malek J, Rubanovich CK, Bloss CS, Ackerman SL, Biesecker B, Brothers KB, Goytia CN, Horowitz CR, Knight SJ, Koenig B, Kraft SA, Outram S, Rini C, Shipman …
• Examining access to care in clinical genomic research and medicine: Experiences from the CSER Consortium.
  Journal of clinical and translational science 2021 Gutierrez AM, Robinson JO, Outram SM, Smith HS, Kraft SA, Donohue KE, Biesecker BB, Brothers KB, Chen F, Hailu B, Hindorff LA, Hoban H, Hsu RL, Knight SJ, Koenig BA, Lewis KL, Lich KH, O'Daniel JM, …
• Laboratory business models and practices: implications for availability and access to germline genetic testing.
  Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics 2021 Scheuner MT, Douglas MP, Sales P, Ackerman SL, Phillips KA
• OP511 Financing of germline testing: implications for availability and access.
  Molecular Genetics and Metabolism 2021 Grace Lin, Maren Scheuner, Julia Trosman, Paloma Sales, Sara Ackerman, Michael Douglas, Christine Weldon, Allison Kurian, Kathryn Phillips
• Design and execution of a public randomization ceremony to enhance stakeholder engagement within a cluster randomized trial to improve tuberculosis diagnosis in Uganda.
  Contemporary clinical trials communications 2021 Reza TF, Nalugwa T, Nantale M, Adams K, Fielding K, Nakaweesa A, Oyuku D, Nabwire S, Musinguzi J, Ojok C, Babirye D, Ackerman SL, Handley MA, Kityamuwesi A, Dowdy DW, Moore DAJ, Davis JL, Turyahabwe S…
• Frequency of violence towards healthcare workers in the United States' inpatient psychiatric hospitals: A systematic review of literature.
  International journal of mental health nursing 2020 Odes R, Chapman S, Harrison R, Ackerman S, Hong O
• Lessons learned about harmonizing survey measures for the CSER consortium.
  Journal of clinical and translational science 2020 Goddard KAB, Angelo FAN, Ackerman SL, Berg JS, Biesecker BB, Danila MI, East KM, Hindorff LA, Horowitz CR, Hunter JE, Joseph G, Knight SJ, McGuire A, Muessig KR, Ou J, Outram S, Rahn EJ, Ramos MA, …
• Study protocol: a cluster randomized trial to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of onsite GeneXpert testing at community health centers in Uganda (XPEL-TB).
  Implementation science : IS 2020 Reza TF, Nalugwa T, Farr K, Nantale M, Oyuku D, Nakaweesa A, Musinguzi J, Vangala M, Shete PB, Tucker A, Ferguson O, Fielding K, Sohn H, Dowdy D, Moore DAJ, Davis JL, Ackerman SL, Handley MA, Katamba …
• The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Training Program in Implementation Science: Program Experiences and Outcomes.
  Frontiers in public health 2020 Shete PB, Gonzales R, Ackerman S, Cattamanchi A, Handley MA
• Comparing Patients' Experiences with Electronic and Traditional Consultation: Results from a Multisite Survey.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2020 Ackerman SL, Gleason N, Shipman SA
• Patients Assess an eConsult Model's Acceptability at 5 US Academic Medical Centers.
  Annals of family medicine 2020 Ackerman SL, Dowdell K, Clebak KT, Quinn M, Shipman SA
• Implementing an Opt-in eConsult Program at Seven Academic Medical Centers: a Qualitative Analysis of Primary Care Provider Experiences.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2019 Deeds SA, Dowdell KJ, Chew LD, Ackerman SL
• Redesigning primary care in the safety net: A qualitative analysis of team-based care implementation.
  Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2018 Lyson HC, Ackerman S, Lyles C, Schillinger D, Williams P, Gourley G, Gupta R, Handley M, Sarkar U
• Transitioning Patients From Specialty Care to Primary Care: What We Know and What We Can Do.
  The Journal of ambulatory care management 2018 Ackerman SL, Gleason N
• Innovative Implementation Studies Conducted in US Safety Net Health Care Settings: A Systematic Review.
  American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2018 Lyles CR, Handley MA, Ackerman SL, Schillinger D, Williams P, Westbrook M, Gourley G, Sarkar U
• Evaluation of a Brief Dermatologist-Delivered Intervention vs Usual Care on Sun Protection Behavior.
  JAMA dermatology 2018 Mallett KA, Turrisi R, Billingsley E, Trager B, Ackerman S, Reavy R, Robinson JK
• Safety-net institutions in the US grapple with new cholesterol treatment guidelines: a qualitative analysis from the PHoENIX Network.
  Risk management and healthcare policy 2018 Fontil V, Lyles CR, Schillinger D, Handley MA, Ackerman S, Gourley G, Bibbins-Domingo K, Sarkar U
• eConsult-Transforming Primary Care or Exacerbating Clinician Burnout?
  JAMA internal medicine 2018 Gleason N, Ackerman S, Shipman SA
• Understanding variations in secondary findings reporting practices across U.S. genome sequencing laboratories.
  AJOB empirical bioethics 2017 Ackerman SL, Koenig BA
• Meaningful use in the safety net: a rapid ethnography of patient portal implementation at five community health centers in California.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2017 Ackerman SL, Sarkar U, Tieu L, Handley MA, Schillinger D, Hahn K, Hoskote M, Gourley G, Lyles C
• The Ethics of Translational Science: Imagining Public Benefit in Gene-Environment Interaction Research
  Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 2017 Sara L. Ackerman, Katherine Weatherford Darling, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Robert A. Hiatt, Janet K. Shim
• The Ethics of Translational Science: Imagining Public Benefit in Gene-Environment Interaction Research.
  Engaging science, technology, and society 2017 Ackerman SL, Darling KW, Lee SS, Hiatt RA, Shim JK
• Implementation Science Workshop: Barriers and Facilitators to Increasing Mammography Screening Rates in California's Public Hospitals.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2017 Clarity C, Gourley G, Lyles C, Ackerman S, Handley MA, Schillinger D, Sarkar U, Conigliaro J
• Performance Measurement and Target-Setting in California's Safety Net Health Systems.
  American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2017 Hemmat S, Schillinger D, Lyles C, Ackerman S, Gourley G, Vittinghoff E, Handley M, Sarkar U
• Identifying barriers to and facilitators of tuberculosis contact investigation in Kampala, Uganda: a behavioral approach.
  Implementation science : IS 2017 Ayakaka I, Ackerman S, Ggita JM, Kajubi P, Dowdy D, Haberer JE, Fair E, Hopewell P, Handley MA, Cattamanchi A, Katamba A, Davis JL
• Understanding Medicaid Managed Care Investments in Members' Social Determinants of Health.
  Population health management 2017 Gottlieb L, Ackerman S, Wing H, Manchanda R
• States' Influences on Medicaid Investments to Address Patients' Social Needs.
  American journal of preventive medicine 2016 Gottlieb LM, Quiñones-Rivera A, Manchanda R, Wing H, Ackerman S
• Adoption and impact of an eConsult system in a fee-for-service setting.
  Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2016 Gleason N, Prasad PA, Ackerman S, Ho C, Monacelli J, Wang M, Collado D, Gonzales R
• Accounting for complexity: Gene-environment interaction research and the politics of quantification
  Science, Technology, & Human Values 2016 Ackerman SL, Darling KW, Lee SS, Hiatt RA, Shim JK.
• Enacting the molecular imperative: How gene-environment interaction research links bodies and environments in the post-genomic age.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2016 Darling KW, Ackerman SL, Hiatt RH, Lee SS, Shim JK
• Qualitative analysis of programmatic initiatives to text patients with mobile devices in resource-limited health systems.
  BMC medical informatics and decision making 2016 Garg SK, Lyles CR, Ackerman S, Handley MA, Schillinger D, Gourley G, Aulakh V, Sarkar U
• Influence of Quality of Relationship Between Patient With Melanoma and Partner on Partner-Assisted Skin Examination Education: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
  JAMA dermatology 2016 Hultgren BA, Turrisi R, Mallett KA, Ackerman S, Robinson JK
• 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
• Coordinated performance measurement and improvement efforts in California's safety net systems: early experience and lessons.
  Implementation Science 2015 Urmimala Sarkar, David Lown, Sara Ackerman, Courtney Lyles, Gato Gourley, Dean Schillinger, Margaret A Handley
• Accounting for Complexity: Gene-environment Interaction Research and the Moral Economy of Quantification.
  Science, technology & human values 2015 Ackerman SL, Darling KW, Lee SS, Hiatt RA, Shim JK
• Rates of sunburn among dermatology patients.
  JAMA dermatology 2015 Mallett KA, Ackerman S, Turrisi R, Robinson JK
• Health worker perspectives on barriers to delivery of routine tuberculosis diagnostic evaluation services in Uganda: a qualitative study to guide clinic-based interventions.
  BMC health services research 2015 Cattamanchi A, Miller CR, Tapley A, Haguma P, Ochom E, Ackerman S, Davis JL, Katamba A, Handley MA
• Reimagining Race and Ancestry: Biomedicalizaing Difference in Post-Genomic Subjects. In Bell SE, Figert AE (eds), Reimagining (Bio)Medicalization, Pharmaceuticals and Genetics: Old Critiques and New Engagements
  2015 Shim JK, Darling KW, Ackerman SL, Lee SS, Hiatt RA
• Using Rapid Ethnography to Support the Design and Implementation of Health Information Technologies.
  Studies in health technology and informatics 2015 Ackerman S, Gleason N, Gonzales R
• Race and ancestry in the age of inclusion: technique and meaning in post-genomic science.
  Journal of health and social behavior 2014 Shim JK, Ackerman SL, Darling KW, Hiatt RA, Lee SS
• Homogeneity and heterogeneity as situational properties: producing--and moving beyond?--race in post-genomic science.
  Social studies of science 2014 Shim JK, Darling KW, Lappe MD, Thomson LK, Lee SS, Hiatt RA, Ackerman SL
• Preventing Loss of Independence through Exercise (PLIÉ): qualitative analysis of a clinical trial in older adults with dementia.
  Aging & mental health 2014 Wu E, Barnes DE, Ackerman SL, Lee J, Chesney M, Mehling WE
• When to repatriate? Clinicians' perspectives on the transfer of patient management from specialty to primary care.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2014 Ackerman SL, Gleason N, Monacelli J, Collado D, Wang M, Ho C, Catschegn-Pfab S, Gonzales R
• Patient attitudes about specialty follow-up care by telephone.
  The American journal of managed care 2014 Eng JA, Hunter CJ, Handley MA, Boscardin CK, Gonzales R, Ackerman SL
• One size does not fit all: evaluating an intervention to reduce antibiotic prescribing for acute bronchitis.
  BMC health services research 2013 Ackerman SL, Gonzales R, Stahl MS, Metlay JP
• Cultural capital: accounting for power in patient-physician interactions.
  JAMA internal medicine 2013 Ackerman S, Auer R, Gonzales R
• Can implementation science help to overcome challenges in translating judicious antibiotic use into practice?
  Archives of internal medicine 2012 Gonzales R, Ackerman S, Handley M
• Benefit or burden? A sociotechnical analysis of diagnostic computer kiosks in four California hospital emergency departments.
  Social science & medicine (1982) 2012 Ackerman SL, Tebb K, Stein JC, Frazee BW, Hendey GW, Schmidt LA, Gonzales R
• The context of antibiotic overuse.
  Annals of internal medicine 2012 Ackerman S, Gonzales R
• A framework for training health professionals in implementation and dissemination science.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2012 Gonzales R, Handley MA, Ackerman S, O'sullivan PS
• California HealthCare Foundation Case Study
  The Kiosk Will See You Now: Lessons from an ED Experiment 2012 Ackerman, S. Gonzales, R.
• Massage for children undergoing hematopoietic cell transplantation: a qualitative report.
  Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM 2012 Ackerman SL, Lown EA, Dvorak CC, Dunn EA, Abrams DI, Horn BN, Degelman M, Cowan MJ, Mehling WE
• Plastic paradise: transforming bodies and selves in Costa Rica's cosmetic surgery tourism industry.
  Medical anthropology 2010 Ackerman SL
• Evidence-Based Practice Manual (Yeager K, Roberts AR, eds)
  Establishing collaborations that engender trust in the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases 2004 Thomas JC, Eng E, Ackerman S, Earp JA, Ellis H, Carpenter C.
• Encyclopedia of Public Health, Volume 1. Lester Breslow, L. W. Green, W. Keck, J. Last, L. Lave, and M. McGinnis (eds)
  American Indians and Alaska Natives 2002 Daniel, M., Ackerman, S.