
Professor in Residence
M_MED-CORE-DGIM
+1 415 476-4362
Publications
Building capacity to disseminate evidence for language access services.
Patient education and counseling
Physician communication experience with language diverse patients when a care partner is present.
Patient education and counseling
The role of race/ethnicity and age in clinical trial knowledge among patients with gynecologic malignancy.
Gynecologic oncology
Who do patients depend on as they age and for what medical needs? An exploratory study of Chinese and Latino primary care patients.
BMC primary care
Care Partner Engagement in Secure Messaging Between Patients With Diabetes and Their Clinicians: Cohort Study.
JMIR diabetes
A qualitative study of primary care clinician's approach to ending cervical cancer screening in older women in the United States.
Preventive Medicine Reports
LungCARE: Encouraging Shared Decision-Making in Lung Cancer Screening-a Randomized Trial.
Journal of general internal medicine
Primary Care Physicians' Perceived Barriers to Follow-Up of Abnormal Mammogram Results: Opportunities for Systems-Level Interventions.
Journal of general internal medicine
Women's Breast Cancer Screening Confidence by Screening Modality and Breast Density: A Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium Survey Study.
Journal of women's health (2002)
Decision quality and regret with treatment decisions in women with breast cancer: Pre-operative breast MRI and breast density.
Breast cancer research and treatment
Mobile Clinical Trial Matching Technology in Medical Oncology Clinic: A Pilot Feasibility Study.
JCO clinical cancer informatics
Barriers and Facilitators to Lung Cancer Screening: A Physician Survey.
American journal of health promotion : AJHP
Evaluating the impact of financial toxicity among cancer clinical trial participants.
International Journal of Cancer Care and Delivery
What do you know? The role of race/ethnicity in clinical trial knowledge among patients with a gynecologic malignancy.
Gynecologic oncology
Increasing Telehealth Access to Care for Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic at an Academic Medical Center: Video Visits for Elders Project (VVEP).
Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety
Research to reduce inequities in cancer risk services: Insights for remote genetic counseling in a pandemic and beyond.
Journal of genetic counseling
The WISDOM study: a new approach to screening can and should be tested.
Breast cancer research and treatment
Prostate cancer patients' self-reported participation in research: an examination of racial/ethnic disparities.
Cancer causes & control : CCC
Communication methods between outpatients with limited-English proficiency and ancillary staff: LASI study results.
Patient education and counseling
Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with genitourinary malignancies.
Journal of Clinical Oncology
Comparative Access to and Use of Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Screening by Women's Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status.
JAMA network open
Abstract PO-012: Acceptance and refusal among multi-lingual safety net patients to participate in a trial comparing genetic counseling delivery modes.
Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
Abstract PO-051: Genetic counseling for high-risk public hospital patients: A randomized and preference-based trial compares delivery in person, by phone, and video.
Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
Guidelines for the Evaluation of Pulmonary Nodules Detected Incidentally or by Screening: A Survey of Radiologist Awareness, Agreement, and Adherence From the Watch the Spot Trial.
Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR
Loss of patient centeredness in interpreter-mediated primary care visits.
Patient education and counseling
Use and Usefulness of After-Visit Summaries by Language and Health Literacy among Latinx and Chinese Primary Care Patients.
Journal of health communication
Assessing preferences for receiving supportive care resources among patients seen at a Breast Care Center.
Breast cancer research and treatment
Organization Communication Factors and Abnormal Mammogram Follow-up: a Qualitative Study Among Ethnically Diverse Women Across Three Healthcare Systems.
Journal of general internal medicine
Abstract A034: Extending the reach of genetic counseling to the safety net: Study design and recruitment challenges of a randomized trial.
Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
Abstract A081: Trial Library: A pilot study to examine feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary estimates of efficacy for an online clinical trial matching website on patient-prompted conversations for prostate cancer clinical trials.
Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
Youth working in tobacco farming: effects on smoking behavior and association with health status.
BMC public health
Knowledge and Perception of Breast Density, Screening Mammography, and Supplemental Screening: in Search of "Informed".
Journal of general internal medicine
A step towards equitable clinical trial recruitment: a protocol for the development and preliminary testing of an online prostate cancer health information and clinical trial matching tool.
Pilot and feasibility studies
Unmet Mental Health Need Among Chinese and Latino Primary Care Patients: Intersection of Ethnicity, Gender, and English Proficiency.
Journal of general internal medicine
How current reporting practices may mask differences: A call for examining cancer-specific demographic enrollment patterns in cancer treatment clinical trials.
Contemporary clinical trials communications
Patient-Reported Use of the After Visit Summary in a Primary Care Internal Medicine Practice.
Journal of Patient Experience
Risk estimation, anxiety, and breast cancer worry in women at risk for breast cancer: A single-arm trial of personalized risk communication.
Psycho-oncology
Real-world lung cancer screening decision-making: Barriers and facilitators.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Evaluation of National Comprehensive Cancer Network guideline-based Tool for Risk Assessment for breast and ovarian Cancer (N-TRAC): A patient-reported survey for genetic high-risk assessment for breast and ovarian cancers in women.
Journal of genetic counseling
Randomized Trial of Personalized Breast Density and Breast Cancer Risk Notification
J Gen Intern Med
Mammography facilities serving vulnerable women have longer follow-up times.
Health services research
Smoking Susceptibility and Attitudes Toward Smoking Among Chinese and Vietnamese American Adolescents.
Tobacco Use and Ethnicity
An Intervention Tool to Increase Patient-Physician Discussion of Lifestyle Risk Factors for Breast Cancer.
Journal of women's health (2002)
A Comparison of Electronic Patient-Portal Use Among Patients with Resident and Attending Primary Care Providers.
Journal of general internal medicine
A bilingual, Internet-based, targeted advertising campaign for prostate cancer clinical trials: Assessing the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of a novel recruitment strategy.
Contemporary clinical trials communications
Effect of risk communication on anxiety, breast cancer worry and risk perception in women at high risk of breast cancer.
Journal of Clinical Oncology
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Prostate Cancer Survivors' Perceived Engagement in Treatment Decision-Making.
Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
Minority Equity and Recruitment Into Trials program: Self-assessment of disease-specific cancer clinical trial recruitment patterns at a comprehensive cancer center.
Journal of Clinical Oncology
Application of Photovoice with Focus Groups to Explore Dietary Behaviors of Older Filipino Adults with Cardiovascular Disease.
Journal of health disparities research and practice
Application of photovoice with focus groups to explore dietary behaviors of older Filipino adults with cardiovascular disease
Journal of health disparities research and practice
Integration of Health Questionnaire Systems to Facilitate Supportive Care Services for Patients at an Academic Breast Care Center
JCO Clin Cancer Inform.
Costs matter: The impact of disclosing treatment costs and provider profit on patients’ decisions.
Journal of Cancer Policy
Abstract P5-02-03: Evaluating the feasibility of a web-based preference-tolerant randomized trial of risk-based vs. annual breast cancer screening: WISDOM study pilot.
Poster Session Abstracts
Smoking-Related Attitudes and Knowledge Among Medical Students and Recent Graduates in Argentina: A Cross-Sectional Study
J Gen Intern Med
Patient and Provider Perspectives on Mammographic Breast Density Notification Legislation.
MDM policy & practice
Validation of an Efficient Screening Tool to Identify Low-Income Women at High Risk for Hereditary Breast Cancer.
Public health genomics
Costs matter: The impact of disclosing treatment costs and provider profit on patients’ decisions
Journal of Cancer Policy.
Effective Referral of Low-Income Women at Risk for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer to Genetic Counseling: A Randomized Delayed Intervention Control Trial.
American journal of public health
The WISDOM study pilot: Evaluating a preference-tolerant RCT of risk-based vs. annual breast cancer screening.
Journal of Clinical Oncology
Women informed to screen depending on measures of risk (WISDOM): A RCT of personalized vs. annual screening for breast cancer.
Journal of Clinical Oncology
Abstract P3-10-01: A pilot feasibility study of the WISDOM study, a preference-tolerant randomized controlled trial evaluating a risk-based breast cancer screening strategy.
Poster Session Abstracts
Abstract P6-02-08: Breast cancer screening in the precision medicine era.
Poster Session Abstracts
Effect of appreciation for Indigenous cultures and exposure to racial insults on alcohol and drug use initiation among multiethnic Argentinean youth.
Preventive medicine
Effectiveness of an Intervention to Teach Physicians How to Assist Patients to Quit Smoking in Argentina
Nicotine Tob Res
Latinos and Cancer Information: Perspectives of Patients, Health Professionals and Telephone Cancer Information Specialists.
Journal of health disparities research and practice
Impact of a primary care based intervention on breast cancer knowledge, risk perception and concern: A randomized, controlled trial.
Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Knowledge and attitudes regarding clinical trials and willingness to participate among prostate cancer patients.
Contemporary clinical trials
The Divide Between Breast Density Notification Laws and Evidence-Based Guidelines for Breast Cancer Screening: Legislating Practice.
JAMA internal medicine
Abstract P6-09-10: The comparison of the distribution of breast cancer risk factor between Chinese women, non-Chinese Asian and Caucasian women in the screening cohort of Athena Breast Health Network.
Poster Session Abstracts
A randomized, controlled trial to increase discussion of breast cancer in primary care.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology
Smoking behavior and use of tobacco industry sponsored websites among medical students and young physicians in Argentina.
Journal of medical Internet research
Can mHealth Improve Risk Assessment in Underserved Populations? Acceptability of a Breast Health Questionnaire App in Ethnically Diverse, Older, Low-Income Women.
Journal of health disparities research and practice
Elder Mistreatment among Chinese and Korean Immigrants: The Roles of Sociocultural Contexts on Perceptions and Help-Seeking Behaviors.
Journal of aggression, maltreatment & trauma
Health Literate Organizations: Are Clinical Trial Sites Equipped to Recruit Minority and Limited Health Literacy Patients?
Journal of health disparities research and practice
Perceived versus objective breast cancer risk in diverse women.
Journal of women's health (2002)
Satisfaction with treatment decision-making and treatment regret among Latinas and non-Latina whites with DCIS.
Patient education and counseling
Ductal carcinoma in situ: knowledge of associated risks and prognosis among Latina and non-Latina white women.
Breast cancer research and treatment
Influence of gender role attitudes on smoking and drinking among girls from Jujuy, Argentina.
Preventive medicine
Family communication of BRCA1/2 results and family uptake of BRCA1/2 testing in a diverse population of BRCA1/2 carriers.
Journal of genetic counseling
Clinical trial discussion, referral, and recruitment: physician, patient, and system factors.
Cancer causes & control : CCC
Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS): posttreatment follow-up care among Latina and non-Latina White women.
Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice
Factors influencing time to diagnosis after abnormal mammography in diverse women.
Journal of women's health (2002)
Abstract P4-13-13: Risk Assessment and Personalized Decision Support: The University of California Athena Breast Health Network.
Poster Session Abstracts
Cost of cancer care: The impact of disclosure on willingness to pay and treatment preferences.
Journal of Clinical Oncology
Abstract B81: Can “mHealth” improve risk assessment? A usability study of older, low-income women answering the Athena Breast Health Questionnaire app.
Prevention Research
Colorectal cancer screening: what do women from diverse ethnic groups want?
Journal of general internal medicine
Willingness to use tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer among diverse women.
Breast cancer research and treatment
Efficient identification and referral of low-income women at high risk for hereditary breast cancer: a practice-based approach.
Public health genomics
A randomized trial to assess the effect of a research informational pamphlet on telephone survey completion rates among older Latinos.
Contemporary clinical trials
Smoking and exposure to racial insults among multiethnic youth in Jujuy, Argentina.
Cancer causes & control : CCC
Using visual displays to communicate risk of cancer to women from diverse race/ethnic backgrounds.
Patient education and counseling
Association of media literacy with cigarette smoking among youth in Jujuy, Argentina.
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Adjuvant hormonal therapy use among women with ductal carcinoma in situ.
Journal of women's health (2002)
Abstract A37: Efficient identification of low-income women at high risk for hereditary breast cancer and referral to genetic counseling.
Behavioral and Social Science
Coping resources and self-rated health among Latina breast cancer survivors.
Oncology nursing forum
The effect of system-level access factors on receipt of reconstruction among Latina and white women with DCIS.
Breast cancer research and treatment
Selection of treatment among Latina and non-Latina white women with ductal carcinoma in situ.
Journal of women's health (2002)
Language barriers and patient-centered breast cancer care.
Patient education and counseling
Healthy colon, healthy life: a novel colorectal cancer screening intervention.
American journal of preventive medicine
Ceremonial tobacco use in the Andes: implications for smoking prevention among indigenous youth.
Anthropology & medicine
Use of alternative tobacco products in multiethnic youth from Jujuy, Argentina.
Journal of environmental and public health
Healthy colon, healthy life (colon sano, vida sana): colorectal cancer screening among Latinos in Santa Clara, California.
Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education
How we design feasibility studies
American Journal of Preventative Medicine
Smoking behavior and ethnicity in Jujuy, Argentina: evidence from a low-income youth sample.
Substance use & misuse
[Problems related to alcohol drinking among youth in Jujuy, Argentina].
Salud publica de Mexico
Preferences for human papillomavirus testing with routine cervical cancer screening in diverse older women.
Journal of general internal medicine
Association between cancer risk perception and screening behavior among diverse women.
Archives of internal medicine
Longitudinal study of smoking progression in Chinese and Vietnamese American adolescents.
Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP
Recruiting low-income healthy women to research: an exploratory study.
Ethnicity & health
Psychographic segments based on attitudes about smoking and lifestyle among Vietnamese-American adolescents.
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine
Missed opportunities: family history and behavioral risk factors in breast cancer risk assessment among a multiethnic group of women.
Journal of general internal medicine
Information exchange and decision making in the treatment of Latina and white women with ductal carcinoma in situ.
Journal of psychosocial oncology
Smoking susceptibility and attitudes toward smoking among Chinese and Vietnamese American adolescents.
Journal of ethnicity in substance abuse
Understanding Latino adolescent risk behaviors: parental and peer influences.
Ethnicity & disease
Smoking Behavior and Demographic Risk Factors in Argentina: A Population-Based Survey.
Prevention and control : the official journal of the World Heart Federation
Breast cancer risk reduction options: awareness, discussion, and use among women from four ethnic groups.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology
Depressive symptoms among women with an abnormal mammogram.
Psycho-oncology
Perceived risk of breast cancer among women at average and increased risk.
Journal of women's health (2002)
Evaluation and outcomes of women with a breast lump and a normal mammogram result.
Journal of general internal medicine
Lifestyle behavior counseling for women patients among a sample of California physicians.
Journal of women's health (2002)
Factors affecting participation in a breast cancer risk reduction telephone survey among women from four racial/ethnic groups.
Preventive medicine
Poor patient comprehension of abnormal mammography results.
Journal of general internal medicine
Are risk factors for breast cancer associated with follow-up procedures in diverse women with abnormal mammography?
Cancer causes & control : CCC
Barriers to breast abnormality follow-up: minority, low-income patients' and their providers' view.
Ethnicity & disease
Factors affecting breast cancer risk reduction practices among California physicians.
Preventive medicine
Do physicians tailor their recommendations for breast cancer risk reduction based on patient's risk?
Journal of general internal medicine
Bupropion in breast milk: an exposure assessment for potential treatment to prevent post-partum tobacco use.
Tobacco control
Factors affecting follow-up among low-income women with breast abnormalities.
Journal of women's health (2002)
Changes in the use of postmenopausal hormone therapy after the publication of clinical trial results.
Annals of internal medicine
Barriers to colorectal cancer screening in Latino and Vietnamese Americans. Compared with non-Latino white Americans.
Journal of general internal medicine
Smoking cessation counseling with young patients: the practices of family physicians and pediatricians.
Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine
The association of race, socioeconomic status, and health insurance status with the prevalence of overweight among children and adolescents.
American journal of public health
Health-compromising behaviors among Vietnamese adolescents: the role of education and extracurricular activities.
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine
Acculturation, Gender Role Orientation, and Reproductive Risk-Taking Behavior among Latina Adolescent Family Planning Clients.
Journal of adolescent research
Acculturation, Gender Role Orientation, and Reproductive Risk-Taking Behavior among Latina Adolescent Family Planning Clients
Journal of adolescent research
Does willingness to pay vary by race/ethnicity? An analysis using mammography among low-income women.
Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Young Latinas and abortion: the role of cultural factors, reproductive behavior, and alternative roles to motherhood.
Health care for women international
Does timely assessment affect the anxiety associated with an abnormal mammogram result?
Journal of women's health & gender-based medicine
Smoking acquisition among adolescents and young Latinas: the role of socioenvironmental and personal factors.
Addictive behaviors
Counseling smoking parents of young children: comparison of pediatricians and family physicians.
Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine
Maximizing qualitative responses about smoking in structured interviews.
Qualitative health research
Improving follow-up after an abnormal pap smear: results from a quasi-experimental intervention study.
Journal of women's health & gender-based medicine
Lessons Learned from Cancer Prevention and Control among Latinos for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Asian American and Pacific Islander journal of health
The Relationship between Acculturation and Cigarette Smoking Beliefs of Hispanic Women
Journal of Health Behavior
The effects of interview mode on smoking attitudes and behavior: self-report among female Latino adolescents.
Substance use & misuse
Low-Income Women with Cervical Abnormalities: Individual and System Factors Affecting Follow-up.
Journal of Women's Health
Initial and repeat mammography screening in a low income multi-ethnic population in Los Angeles.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology
Low-income Women with Cervical Abnormalities: Individual and System Factors Affecting Follow-up
Journal of Women's Health
Screening for cervical cancer in emergency centers and sexually transmitted disease clinics.
Obstetrics and gynecology