Sarah Nouri, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Her current scholarly work includes community-engaged research in advance care planning among Black, Chinese, and Latinx communities in San Francisco, and mixed methods research to better understand use of and outcomes associated with digital health in palliative care. She is committed to mentoring learners and increasing workforce diversity in palliative care. Dr. Nouri is a member of the San Francisco Palliative Care Workgroup's Steering Committee and of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

• Differential Use of Outpatient Palliative Care by Demographic and Clinical Characteristics.
  Journal of pain and symptom management 2023 Digitale JC, Nouri SS, Cohen EL, Calton BA, Rabow MW, Pantilat SZ, Bischoff KE
• "We've Got to Bring Information to Where People Are Comfortable": Community-Based Advance Care Planning with the Black Community.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2023 Nouri S, Quinn M, Doyle BN, McKissack M, Johnson N, Wertz M, Tan C, Pantilat SZ, Lyles CR, Ritchie CS, Sudore RL
• "Advocating for what we need": A CBPR approach to advance care planning in the Latinx older adult community.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2023 Nouri S, Tan CH, Rangel M, Wertz M, Sanchez A, Alvarado A, Arreola E, Quinn M, Pantilat SZ, Lyles CR, Ritchie CS, Sudore RL
• Efficacy of a lay community health worker (promotoras de salud) program to improve adherence to emollients in Spanish-speaking Latin American pediatric patients in the United States with atopic dermatitis: A randomized, controlled, evaluator-blinded study.
  Pediatric dermatology 2022 Chen HW, Limmer EE, Joseph AK, Kinser K, Trevino A, Valencia A, Weinheimer RA, Youssef SH, Cervantes C, Guzman MT, Morales A, Morales S, Contreras M, Eifert F, LaMontagne D, Nouri S, Reyes F, Pandya …
• Empowering patients with the PREPARE advance care planning program results in reciprocal clinician communication.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2021 Nouri S, Street RL, Barnes DE, Shi Y, Volow AM, Li B, Alexander SC, Sudore RL
• Alignment of Key Stakeholders' Priorities for Patient-Facing Tools in Digital Health: Mixed Methods Study.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2021 Lyles CR, Adler-Milstein J, Thao C, Lisker S, Nouri S, Sarkar U
• Comparison of Diagnostic Recommendations from Individual Physicians versus the Collective Intelligence of Multiple Physicians in Ambulatory Cases Referred for Specialist Consultation.
  Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making 2021 Khoong EC, Nouri SS, Tuot DS, Nundy S, Fontil V, Sarkar U
• The PREPARE for Your Care program increases advance care planning engagement among diverse older adults with cancer.
  Cancer 2021 Nouri SS, Barnes DE, Shi Y, Volow AM, Shirsat N, Kinderman AL, Harris HA, Sudore RL
• Evaluation of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Characteristics and Advance Care Planning Among Older Adults.
  JAMA network open 2020 Nouri S, Lyles CR, Rubinsky AD, Patel K, Desai R, Fields J, DeRouen MC, Volow A, Bibbins-Domingo K, Sudore RL
• Resident Physician Experiences With and Responses to Biased Patients.
  JAMA network open 2020 de Bourmont SS, Burra A, Nouri SS, El-Farra N, Mohottige D, Sloan C, Schaeffer S, Friedman J, Fernandez A
• A Toolkit for Community-Based, Medicaid-Funded Case Managers to Introduce Advance Care Planning to Frail, Older Adults: A Pilot Study.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2020 Nouri SS, Ritchie C, Volow A, Li B, McSpadden S, Dearman K, Kotwal A, Sudore RL
• Use and Usefulness of After-Visit Summaries by Language and Health Literacy among Latinx and Chinese Primary Care Patients.
  Journal of health communication 2020 Nouri SS, Pathak S, Livaudais-Toman J, Gregorich SE, Kaplan CP, Diamond L, Karliner L
• Supporting In-Home Caregivers in Symptom Assessment of Frail Older Adults with Serious Illness: A Pilot Study.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2020 Nouri S, Ritchie C, Chen P, Volow A, Li B, Tellez I, Sudore RL
• Addressing Equity in Telemedicine for Chronic Disease Management During the Covid-19 Pandemic
  NEJM Catalyst 2020 Nouri S, Khoong EC, Lyles CR, Karliner L
• Patient characteristics associated with objective measures of digital health tool use in the United States: A literature review.
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA 2020 Nouri SS, Adler-Milstein J, Thao C, Acharya P, Barr-Walker J, Sarkar U, Lyles C
• Interventions to Improve Patient Comprehension in Informed Consent for Medical and Surgical Procedures: An Updated Systematic Review.
  Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making 2020 Glaser J, Nouri S, Fernandez A, Sudore RL, Schillinger D, Klein-Fedyshin M, Schenker Y
• Engaging users in the design of an mHealth, text message-based intervention to increase physical activity at a safety-net health care system.
  JAMIA open 2019 Avila-Garcia P, Hernandez-Ramos R, Nouri SS, Cemballi A, Sarkar U, Lyles CR, Aguilera A
• Patient-Reported Use of the After Visit Summary in a Primary Care Internal Medicine Practice
  J Patient Experience 2019 Pathak S, Summerville G, Kaplan CP, Nouri S, Karliner L
• Patient-Reported Use of the After Visit Summary in a Primary Care Internal Medicine Practice.
  Journal of patient experience 2019 Pathak S, Summerville G, Kaplan CP, Nouri SS, Karliner LS
• Assessing Mobile Phone Digital Literacy and Engagement in User-Centered Design in a Diverse, Safety-Net Population: Mixed Methods Study.
  JMIR mHealth and uHealth 2019 Nouri SS, Avila-Garcia P, Cemballi AG, Sarkar U, Aguilera A, Lyles CR
• Health Literacy Matters More Than Experience for Advance Care Planning Knowledge Among Older Adults.
  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019 Nouri SS, Barnes DE, Volow AM, McMahan RD, Kushel M, Jin C, Boscardin J, Sudore RL
• Health Coaching Has Differential Effects on Veterans with Limited Health Literacy and Numeracy: a Secondary Analysis of ACTIVATE.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2019 Nouri SS, Damschroder LJ, Olsen MK, Gierisch JM, Fagerlin A, Sanders LL, McCant F, Oddone EZ
• Health literacy in the "oral exchange": an important element of patient-provider communication.
  Patient education and counseling 2015 Nouri SS, Rudd RE
• Recent developments in diagnosis and assessment of morphea.
  Current rheumatology reports 2013 Nouri S, Jacobe H