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San Francisco VA Medical Center/UCSF
Dept. of Medicine/Div. of Geriatrics
4150 Clement Street
Box 181G
San Francisco, CA 94121
phone: (415) 221-4810 x 4681
fax: (415) 750-6641
sandra.moody@med.va.gov

Research interests: Research Interests:  Using large databases to understand patterns of care that contribute to socioeconomic determinants of health and health disparities; examining the relationship between race/ethnicity and life-course socioeconomic status in relation to health outcomes in older and minority populations; determining preferences and goals of care at the end-of-life in older adults with progressive chronic disease; understanding the patient’s experience of racial bias and mistrust and the impact on the doctor-patient relationship and end-of-life care choices.

Teaching and mentoring:  Content and clinical mentoring related to end-of-life/palliative care, geriatric medicine, and ethnic disparities in health.

Publications Relevant to MERC

• Corbie-Smith G, Thomas S, Williams M, Moody-Ayers SY.  Participation in medical research: assessing attitudes and beliefs of African Americans in an urban hospital.  JGIM 1999; 14:537-546
  
  
• Blazer DG, Moody-Ayers S, Craft-Morgan J, Burchett B.  Depression in diabetes and obesity: Racial/ethnic/gender issues in older adults.  J Psychosom Res 2002; 53:913-916
  
  
• Corbie-Smith G, St. George DM, Moody-Ayers SY, Ransohoff DF.  Adequacy of reporting race/ethnicity in clinical trials in areas of health disparities.  J of Clin Epidemiol 2003; 56:416-420
  

• Corbie-Smith G, Moody-Ayers SY, Thrasher AD.  Closing the circle between minority inclusion in research and health disparities. Arch Intern Med 2004; 164:1362-1364
  

• Moody-Ayers S, Mehta K, Lindquist K, Sands L, Covinsky K. Black-White Disparities in Functional Decline in Older Persons:  The Role of Cognitive Function.  J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2004 [In print]