Sarah Dobbins, PhD, MPH, PMHNP
Assistant Professor
Community Health Systems
School of Nursing

Awards

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• John A. Hartford Center for Gerontological Excellence Scholarship, University of California, San Francisco, 2019
• T32 Training Grant in Biobehavioral Symptom Science, University of California, San Francisco, 2018-2021
• Osher Scholarship, University of California, San Francisco, 2016-2018
• Nursing Alumni Scholarship, University of California, San Francisco, 2016

Education & Training

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• PhD Nursing University of California, San Francisco 06/2021
• MS Nursing University of California, San Francisco 06/2018
• MPH Public Health University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health 08/2009
• BA Biology Marlboro College 05/2007

Interests

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• Intersections of Mental Health and Aging
• Homelessness & housing instability
• Substance Use Disorders
• Cognitive Impairment and Memory

Publications (23)

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Genetic LociVideo GamesResilience, PsychologicalExercise TherapyHealth ServicesPublic HousingNurse's RoleMental DisordersChromosomes, Human, Pair 5Military PersonnelLymphedemaPlay TherapyDepressionDrug MonitoringProgram Evaluation

• Upstream nurse-community partnership strategies to improve social determinants of health: A scoping review.
  Nursing outlook 2026 LeClair J, Atkinson R, Yang P, Peterson K, Kneipp S, Dobbins S
• Insights into KIF11 pathogenesis in microcephaly-lymphedema-chorioretinopathy syndrome from a lymphatic perspective.
  JCI insight 2025 Ogmen K, Dobbins SE, Behncke RY, Martinez-Corral I, Brown RC, Meier M, Ulferts S, Hansmeier NR, Sackey E, Alqahtani A, Karapouliou C, Grigoriadis D, Del Rey Jimenez JC, Oberlin M, Williams D, Ekici A,…
• Continued Homelessness and Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults.
  JAMA network open 2024 Dobbins SK, Garcia CM, Evans JL, Valle K, Guzman D, Kushel MB
• The Howard Street Method: A Community Pharmacy-led Low Dose Overlap Buprenorphine Initiation Protocol for Individuals Using Fentanyl.
  Journal of addiction medicine 2023 Noel M, Abbs E, Suen L, Samuel L, Dobbins S, Geier M, Soran CS
• Antiracist symptom science: A call to action and path forward.
  Nursing outlook 2022 Salomon RE, Dobbins S, Harris C, Haeusslein L, Lin CX, Reeves K, Richoux S, Roussett G, Shin J, Dawson-Rose C

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• Engagement in HIV care and viral suppression following changes in long-term opioid therapy for treatment for chronic pain.
  AIDS and behavior 2022 Silvis J, Rowe CL, Dobbins S, Haq N, Vittinghoff E, McMahan VM, Appa A, Coffin PO
• Education Mediates Racial Disparities in Cognitive Impairment Among Older Adults With Schizophrenia.
  Clinical gerontologist 2021 Dobbins S, Hubbard E, Leutwyler H
• Phenome-wide association analysis of LDL-cholesterol lowering genetic variants in PCSK9.
  BMC cardiovascular disorders 2019 Schmidt AF, Holmes MV, Preiss D, Swerdlow DI, Denaxas S, Fatemifar G, Faraway R, Finan C, Valentine D, Fairhurst-Hunter Z, Hartwig FP, Horta BL, Hypponen E, Power C, Moldovan M, van Iperen E, Hovingh …
• "Looking Forward": a qualitative evaluation of a physical activity program for middle-aged and older adults with serious mental illness.
  International psychogeriatrics 2019 Dobbins S, Hubbard E, Leutwyler H
• Play provides social connection for older adults with serious mental illness: A grounded theory analysis of a 10-week exergame intervention.
  Aging & mental health 2018 Dobbins S, Hubbard E, Flentje A, Dawson-Rose C, Leutwyler H
• Genome-wide association analysis identifies a meningioma risk locus at 11p15.5.
  Neuro-oncology 2018 Claus EB, Cornish AJ, Broderick P, Schildkraut JM, Dobbins SE, Holroyd A, Calvocoressi L, Lu L, Hansen HM, Smirnov I, Walsh KM, Schramm J, Hoffmann P, Nöthen MM, Jöckel KH, Swerdlow A, Larsen SB, …
• The Applicability of Resilience Training to the Mitigation of Trauma-Related Mental Illness in Military Personnel [Formula: see text].
  Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association 2017 Thompson SR, Dobbins S
• Genetic Predisposition to Multiple Myeloma at 5q15 Is Mediated by an ELL2 Enhancer Polymorphism.
  Cell reports 2017 Li N, Johnson DC, Weinhold N, Kimber S, Dobbins SE, Mitchell JS, Kinnersley B, Sud A, Law PJ, Orlando G, Scales M, Wardell CP, Försti A, Hoang PH, Went M, Holroyd A, Hariri F, Pastinen T, Meissner T, …
• Correspondence: SEMA4A variation and risk of colorectal cancer.
  Nature communications 2016 Kinnersley B, Chubb D, Dobbins SE, Frampton M, Buch S, Timofeeva MN, Castellví-Bel S, Farrington SM, Forsti A, Hampe J, Hemminki K, Hofstra RM, Northwood E, Palles C, Pinheiro M, Ruiz-Ponte C, …
• Nurses in Supportive Housing are Associated With Decreased Health Care Utilization and Improved HIV Biomarkers in Formerly Homeless Adults.
  The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC 2016 Dobbins SK, Cruz M, Shah S, Abt L, Moore J, Bamberger J
• Misclassification of acute respiratory distress syndrome after traumatic injury: The cost of less rigorous approaches.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2015 Hendrickson CM, Dobbins S, Redick BJ, Greenberg MD, Calfee CS, Cohen MJ
• A new GWAS and meta-analysis with 1000Genomes imputation identifies novel risk variants for colorectal cancer.
  Scientific reports 2015 Al-Tassan NA, Whiffin N, Hosking FJ, Palles C, Farrington SM, Dobbins SE, Harris R, Gorman M, Tenesa A, Meyer BF, Wakil SM, Kinnersley B, Campbell H, Martin L, Smith CG, Idziaszczyk S, Barclay E, …
• Identification of susceptibility loci for colorectal cancer in a genome-wide meta-analysis.
  Human molecular genetics 2014 Whiffin N, Hosking FJ, Farrington SM, Palles C, Dobbins SE, Zgaga L, Lloyd A, Kinnersley B, Gorman M, Tenesa A, Broderick P, Wang Y, Barclay E, Hayward C, Martin L, Buchanan DD, Win AK, Hopper J, …
• Hospital-based violence intervention: risk reduction resources that are essential for success.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2013 Smith R, Dobbins S, Evans A, Balhotra K, Dicker RA
• Using trauma center data to identify missed bicycle injuries and their associated costs.
  The journal of trauma and acute care surgery 2012 Lopez DS, Sunjaya DB, Chan S, Dobbins S, Dicker RA
• The TERT variant rs2736100 is associated with colorectal cancer risk.
  British journal of cancer 2012 Kinnersley B, Migliorini G, Broderick P, Whiffin N, Dobbins SE, Casey G, Hopper J, Sieber O, Lipton L, Kerr DJ, Dunlop MG, Tomlinson IP, Houlston RS, Colon Cancer Family Registry
• Racial variation in timing of pyeloplasty: prenatal versus postnatal diagnosis.
  The Journal of urology 2011 Routh JC, Pennison M, Rosoklija I, Dobbins S, Kokorowski PJ, Hubert KC, Huang L, Nelson CP
• A genome-wide association study of Hodgkin's lymphoma identifies new susceptibility loci at 2p16.1 (REL), 8q24.21 and 10p14 (GATA3).
  Nature genetics 2010 Enciso-Mora V, Broderick P, Ma Y, Jarrett RF, Hjalgrim H, Hemminki K, van den Berg A, Olver B, Lloyd A, Dobbins SE, Lightfoot T, van Leeuwen FE, Försti A, Diepstra A, Broeks A, Vijayakrishnan J, …