Alicia Fernandez, M.D.
Current position:
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Education and training:
Yale University (BA, 1984)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine (MD, 1993)
Primary Care Internal Medicine Internship and Residency (93-96)
Chief Resident, Department of Medicine, UCSF (96-97)
Fellow, General Internal Medicine Research Fellowship (97-98)
Areas of interest:
Teaching: quality improvement, health policy, health and health care disparities
Teaching-clinical: diabetes management, lipid management, atrial fibrillation
Clinical: In-patient medicine and primary care of low-income patients with chronic disease
Current academic and/or research activities:
Dr. Fernandez interests include improving care of low-income patients with chronic disease, language and cultural barriers in health care, racial/ethnic health care disparities, and chronic disease care in patient with substance abuse or mental illness. Her research is supported by an NIH K23 Career Development Award.
Recent publications:
Saba GW, Wong, S.T., Schillinger, D, Fernandez, A, Somkin, CP, Wilson, C, Grumbach, K. Shared Decision Making and the Experience of Partnership in Primary Care. Under review.
Rosenthal A, Wang F, Schillinger D, Perez Stable EJ, Fernandez A (corresponding) Measures of Physician Spanish Proficiency. Under review.
Fernandez A, Chen H. Perspective: On Teaching in a Public Hospital. Under review.
Wilson E, Chen AH, Grumbach K, Wang F, Fernandez A (corresponding). The Effects of English Proficiency and Physician Language on Health Care Comprehension. Journal of General Internal Medicine. In press
Bodenheimer T and Fernandez A. Cost Containment and Quality Improvement. Annals of Internal Medicine. In press.
Pletcher MJ, Fernandez A, May TA, Westphal JR, Gamez CA, Hersh DF, Gonzales R. Unintended consequences of a quality improvement program designed to improve treatment of alcohol withdrawal in hospitalized patients. Jt Comm J Qual Saf 2005; 31(3): 148-157.
Pontecorvo C, Mejia R, Aleman M, Vidal A, Majdalani MP, Fayanas R, Fernandez A,Pérez-Stable EJ. Violencia domestica contra la mujer. Una encuesta en consultorios de atencion primaria (Detection of domestic violence against women. Survey in a primary health care clinic). Medicina 2004; 64: 492-496.
Fernandez A, Schillinger D, Grumbach K, Rosenthal A, Stewart A, Wang F, Perez-Stable EJ. Physician language ability and cultural competence: An exploratory study of communication with Spanish –speaking patients. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2004 19 (2), 167-174.
Majdalani M, Mejia R, Fayanas R, Fernandez A, Perez-Stable EJ. Residentes de primer ano de Medicina Interna: distribucion horaria de las tareas. Educacion Medica.2003, Vol XIII, (49), 15-19.
Fernandez A, Kushel M, Muhta S, Schillinger D. Populations and Quality Improvement: Improving Care and Creating Agents for Change. 2003. Curriculum published as PDF file. Center for Health Professions Web Site: http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/cnetwork/resources/curricula/intro.html
Pignone M, Phillips CJ, Elasy T, Fernandez A. Physicians' ability to predict the risk of coronary heart disease. BMC Health Services Research 2003, 3:13
Fernandez A, Grumbach K, Vranizan K, Osmond DH, Bindman AB. Primary Care Physicians’ Experience with Disease Management Programs. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2001;16 (3): 163-167 This article was cited as among the 20 best recent articles of JGIM in Bass E. Best of JGIM 2003. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2003; 18 1062-1065
Fernandez A, Grumbach K, Gotein L, Vranizan K, Osmond DH, Bindman AB. Friend or Foe: How Primary Care Physicians Perceive Hospitalists. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2000;160:2902-2908
Schillinger D, Fernandez A, Wheeler M. The populations and quality improvement seminar
for medical residents. Academic Medicine, 2000 May, 75(5):562-563.
Mejia R, Aleman M, Fernandez A, Perez Stable E. Conocimientos y Deteccion de Violencia Domestica Por los Medicos Clinicos. (Awareness and detection of domestic violence by clinical physicians) Medicina 2000; 60, 591-594
Fernandez A and Goldschlager N. Anticoagulation in Patients with Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation. Heart Failure 1997;1:36-42
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