Sarah Flynn, MD, MPhil
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

She is board certified in Internal Medicine and has scholarly interests and experiences in health disparities research, quality improvement, implementation science, patient safety, and health systems leadership.

Dr. Flynn received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University where she majored in Human Biology and minored in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Prior to medical school she worked in the Johns Hopkins Center to Eliminate Cardiovascular Health Disparities on several community-based interventions to reduce hypertension disparities in Baltimore City. She earned her medical degree from the University of Maryland, School of Medicine where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and Gold Humanism Honor Society. Dr. Flynn completed a graduate degree in Primary Care Research from the University of Cambridge. Her master's thesis explored how sociodemographic inequalities in patient experiences have changed over time in the United Kingdom. Dr. Flynn completed her medical internship and residency in Internal Medicine at UCSF with additional training as a member of the residency’s Health Systems and Leadership pathway. She then served as a UCSF Chief Resident at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.

• 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 2022 Nov 30:1-3.
• The Hospitalist
  Key Clinical Question: How Do You Address Ongoing In-hospital Substance Use Among Adults with SUD 2022 Flynn SJ, Azari S, Esmaili A, Raffel KE
• Sociodemographic inequalities in patients' experiences of primary care: an analysis of the General Practice Patient Survey in England between 2011 and 2017.
  Journal of health services research & policy 2021 Saunders CL, Flynn S, Massou E, Lyratzopoulos G, Abel G, Burt J
• Huppert’s Notes: Pathophysiology and Clinic Pearls for Internal Medicine; Huppert L
  General Medicine 2021 Flynn SJ, Cooke M
• Hypertension Self-management in Socially Disadvantaged African Americans: the Achieving Blood Pressure Control Together (ACT) Randomized Comparative Effectiveness Trial.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2019 Boulware LE, Ephraim PL, Hill-Briggs F, Roter DL, Bone LR, Wolff JL, Lewis-Boyer L, Levine DM, Greer RC, Crews DC, Gudzune KA, Albert MC, Ramamurthi HC, Ameling JM, Davenport CA, Lee HJ, Pendergast JF…
• Promoting sustainability in quality improvement: an evaluation of a web-based continuing education program in blood pressure measurement.
  BMC family practice 2018 Block L, Flynn SJ, Cooper LA, Lentz C, Hull T, Dietz KB, Boonyasai RT
• A bundled quality improvement program to standardize clinical blood pressure measurement in primary care.
  Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) 2017 Boonyasai RT, Carson KA, Marsteller JA, Dietz KB, Noronha GJ, Hsu YJ, Flynn SJ, Charleston JM, Prokopowicz GP, Miller ER, Cooper LA
• Improving medical student confidence in clinical skills through a peer-facilitated workshop
  Medical Science Educator 2017 Flynn, SJ, Williams M, Colgan R, Southall, N, Lewin L
• Improving urban African Americans' blood pressure control through multi-level interventions in the Achieving Blood Pressure Control Together (ACT) study: a randomized clinical trial.
  Contemporary clinical trials 2014 Ephraim PL, Hill-Briggs F, Roter DL, Bone LR, Wolff JL, Lewis-Boyer L, Levine DM, Aboumatar HJ, Cooper LA, Fitzpatrick SJ, Gudzune KA, Albert MC, Monroe D, Simmons M, Hickman D, Purnell L, Fisher A, …
• Adapting hypertension self-management interventions to enhance their sustained effectiveness among urban African Americans.
  Family & community health 2014 Ameling JM, Ephraim PL, Bone LR, Levine DM, Roter DL, Wolff JL, Hill-Briggs F, Fitzpatrick SL, Noronha GJ, Fagan PJ, Lewis-Boyer L, Hickman D, Simmons M, Purnell L, Fisher A, Cooper LA, Aboumatar HJ, …
• Oxford Handbook of Health Communication, Behavior Change, and Treatment Adherence
  The Role of Culture in Promoting Effective Clinical Communication, Behavior Change, and Treatment Adherence 2013 Flynn SJ, Cooper LA, Gary-Webb TL
• Facilitators and barriers to hypertension self-management in urban African Americans: perspectives of patients and family members.
  Patient preference and adherence 2013 Flynn SJ, Ameling JM, Hill-Briggs F, Wolff JL, Bone LR, Levine DM, Roter DL, Lewis-Boyer L, Fisher AR, Purnell L, Ephraim PL, Barbers J, Fitzpatrick SL, Albert MC, Cooper LA, Fagan PJ, Martin D, …
• A multi-level system quality improvement intervention to reduce racial disparities in hypertension care and control: study protocol.
  Implementation science : IS 2013 Cooper LA, Marsteller JA, Noronha GJ, Flynn SJ, Carson KA, Boonyasai RT, Anderson CA, Aboumatar HJ, Roter DL, Dietz KB, Miller ER, Prokopowicz GP, Dalcin AT, Charleston JB, Simmons M, Huizinga MM