Andy Bindman, M.D.

Current positions:
Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital
Professor Medicine, Health Policy, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF

Education and training:
Harvard College ‘80
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine '84
Internship  - Mt. Sinai Hospital New York '84-85
Residency - General  Internal Medicine University of California San Francisco '85-'87
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar – Stanford University '87-'89

Areas of interest:
Health policy evaluation
Access to primary care
Underserved populations
Safety net institutions

Current academic and/or research activities:
Dr. Bindman’s interests include Medicaid policy and its impact on access to and quality of care, cross-national comparisons of primary care practice, and expanding the capacity of hospital administrative data to monitor the quality of care

Recent publications:
Bindman AB, Chattopadhyay A, Osmond DH, Huen W, Bacchetti P. The impact of Medicaid managed care on hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions.Health Serv Res. 2005 Feb;40(1):19-38.

Wilson E, Grumbach K, Huebner J, Agrawal J, Bindman AB  Medical student, physician, and public perceptions of health care disparities. Fam Med. 2004 Nov-Dec;36(10):715-21.

Yoon J, Grumbach K, Bindman AB. Access to Spanish-speaking physicians in California: supply, insurance, or both. J Am Board Fam Pract. 2004 May-Jun;17(3):165-72.

Bindman AB, Yoon J, Grumbach K.Trends in physician participation in Medicaid. The California experience.  J Ambul Care Manage. 2003 Oct-Dec;26(4):334-43.

Bindman AB, Haggstrom DA.Small steps or a giant leap for the uninsured? JAMA. 2003 Aug 13;290(6):816-8.