Research interests: 1. Health workforce: Examining trends in the racial and ethnic diversity of physicians, nurses, dentists and other health professionals and strategies to enhance diversity in the health professions, and investigating the implications of workforce diversity for access to and quality of care.
2. Language, literacy and communication: Investigating the effects of limited English proficiency and low literacy on process of care and health outcomes; exploring the interaction between patient-clinician relationships and decision making. 3. Primary care: Investigating innovative strategies to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of primary care practice, especially for disadvantaged populations.
Teaching and Mentoring: Associate Director of UCSF Family and Community Medicine Primary Care Research Fellowship Program, Core Faculty for UCSF-SFGH Family Medicine Residency Program, Member of Working Group on Health Policy Curriculum for the UCSF School of Medicine.
Top 10 Publications Relevant to MERC
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E. Wilson, K. Grumbach, J. Heuebner, J. Agrawal and A. B. Bindman, Medical student, physician, and public perceptions of health care disparities. Family Medicine. November-December 2004; 36(10):715-721
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Fernandez A, Schillinger D, Grumbach K, Rosenthal A, Stewart AL, Wang F,Perez-Stable EJ. Physician language ability and cultural competence. An exploratory study of communication with Spanish-speaking patients. J Gen Intern Med. 2004 Feb;19(2):167-74
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E. Peña-Dolhun, C. Muñoz and K. Grumbach. Cross cultural education in U.S. medical schools: Development of an assessment tool. Academic Medicine. June 2003;78(6):1-8
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D. Schillinger, J. Piette, K. Grumbach, F. Wang, C. Wilson, C. Daher, K. Leong-Grotz, C. Castro, A. B. Bindman. Closing the loop. Physician communication with diabetic patients who have low health literacy. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2003;163:83-90
- D. Schillinger, K. Grumbach, J. Piette, F. Wang, D. Osmond, C. Daher, J. Palacios, G. D. Sullivan, A. B. Bindman. Association of health literacy with diabetes outcomes. Journal of the American Medical Association. July 24/31, 2002;288(4):475-482
- J.M. Coffman, E. Rosenoff, K. Grumbach. Racial/ethnic disparities in nursing: Gaps in educational attainment account for much of nursing's lack of diversity. Health Affairs. 2001;20(3):263-373
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J.L. Murray-Garcia, J. Selby, J. Schmittdiel, K. Grumbach, C.P. Quesenberry Jr. Racial and ethnic differences in a patient survey: patients' values, ratings, and reports regarding physician primary care performance in a large health maintenance organization. Medical Care. 2000;38(3):300-310
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A. M. Nápoles-Springer, K. Grumbach, M. Alexander, G. Moreno-John, D. Forté, M. Rangel-Lugo and E. J. Pérez-stable. Clinical research with older African American and Latinos: perspectives from the community. Research on Aging.22(6):668-691
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M. Komaromy, K. Grumbach, M. Drake, K. Vranizan, N. Lurie, D. Keane and A. B. Bindman. The role of black and Hispanic physicians in providing health care for underserved populations. New England Journal of Medicine 1995.334(20):1305-1310
