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Our interdisciplinary research program has a long tradition dedicated to improving the care of children. Our faculty collaborates and conduct interdisciplinary research with the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Institute for Health Policy Studies. Faculty and trainees receive support from federal, state and foundation sources to conduct research that focuses on improving quality of care and evaluating existing community health programs.
The Division is committed to training the next generation of academic physician-researchers. Our fellowship program accepts two post-doctoral fellowship trainees each year to pursue further training and research in issues relevant to general pediatrics, including screening and prevention, well child care, creation of a medical home, chronic disease management, methods of improving quality and access to care, and methods to evaluate and improve the cost-effectiveness of primary care. Our trainees have gone on to careers in public health, academic medicine and preventive medicine.
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Chief, Division of General Pediatrics
Director, General Pediatrics Fellowship
Professor of Pediatrics
Dr. Cabana’s research interests include understanding variation in physician practice as it relates to quality of care, particularly in asthma. His work has focused on measurement of quality of care, physician use of clinical practice guidelines, primary care referrals to subspecialists for asthma, as well as the primary prevention of asthma. Dr. Cabana is currently the principal investigator for the Enhancing Pediatric Asthma Management Study, a five-year study focused on improving physician management of pediatric asthma. He is also the principal investigator for the Trial of Infant Probiotic Supplementation, a five-year randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of probiotic supplementation in the prevention of early markers of asthma. He is the recipient of the 2006 Nemours Child Health Services Research Award.
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Clinical Instructor
Dr. Bardach’s research focuses on the delivery of high quality health care to children via improved health information technology (HIT). She is applying this work in improving outcomes for children from an underserved populations. She is a former Doris Duke Fellow in Clinical Research at UCSF. She is currently a fellow in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies.
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Christine Cho clinical interests are in pediatric emergency medicine, resident and medical student education, development and promotion of professionalism during training and qualitative research methods. Her community interests are emergency department utilization by underserved population and continuing physician education.
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Clinical Instructor
Valerie Flaherman’s research focuses on goal improving duration of breastfeeding among mothers who initiate breastfeeding. One of her current studies is a randomized trial comparing electric breast pump to manual expression of milk for mothers of healthy term infants who are not nursing vigorously at 12-36 hours. Her second current study is a retrospective cohort analysis of predictors of increased newborn weight loss at 36 hours after birth. She is a K12 Roadmap Scholar.
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Professor of Pediatrics
Dr. Fuentes-Afflick is a leading researcher in understanding ethnic disparities in health outcomes, immigrant health, Latino health and welfare reform. Her professional work also includes service to the National Advisory Council for the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development (NIHCD), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Thrasher Fund, and most recently, the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. In 2006, Dr. Fuentes-Afflick was elected Vice President of the Society for Pediatric Research (SPR). Dr. Fuentes-Afflick will go on to serve as President-elect of SPR and President of SPR in each succeeding year. Dr. Fuentes Afflick recently began a term on the SFGH Medical Executive Committee.
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Clinical Instructor
Adam Hersh’s research focuses on studying physician practice patterns for pediatric infectious diseases including diagnostic testing and antibiotic prescribing. He is currently studying primary care management practices for skin and soft-tissue infections. His methodologic interests include the use of decision and cost-effectiveness analysis, secondary dataset analysis and surveys.
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Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Director, General Pediatrics Fellowship Program
Director, Summer Internship Program
Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, and a faculty member in The Center for Health and Community, the Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. She is also on the postdoctoral fellowship committee for the NCI-funded Postdoctoral Training Program in Tobacco Control and the NIMH-funded Postdoctoral Fellowship "Psychology and Medicine: An Integrative Research Approach,” and is the core developmental psychology faculty for the Leadership Education in Adolescent Health (LEAH) Training Project grant, funded by the Maternal and Child Health Branch. Dr. Halpern-Felsher has been the primary mentor for high school, graduate and medical students, and postdoctoral fellows. In 2003, Dr. Halpern-Felsher founded and continues to direct the UCSF Department of Pediatrics High School Student Summer Internship Program in Biomedical and Health Sciences, which is funded by the NIH (R25 DK078382). In this capacity, Dr. Halpern-Felsher has mentored and supervised over 45 high school students participating in this summer internship program over the past three years. During the eight-week program, high school interns are placed with a research group or laboratory, where they have the opportunity to interact with graduate students, medical students, postdoctoral fellows, research assistants and faculty members. Dr. Halpern-Felsher’s own research examines factors influencing adolescent health risk behaviors, including sexual behavior, tobacco use, alcohol and other drug use, and injury prevention; and she has published in each of these areas.
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Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Dr. Madsen completed a fellowship in General Pediatrics at UCSF. Her research is focused on childhood obesity and ways to promote physical activity to prevent and reduce obesity among low-income children.
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Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Pediatrics
Tom Newman, MD, MPH has been with the University of California since 1972, having received his undergraduate degree from UC Santa Cruz, medical degree from UC San Diego, Residency Training in Pediatrics at UCSF and MPH in Epidemiology from UC Berkeley. His research over the past twenty years has applied principles of clinical epidemiology to common clinical problems in general pediatrics, including evaluation and treatment of jaundice in newborns, childhood cholesterol screening and urinary tract infections in infants. He is particularly interested in the use of existing data to answer clinically relevant questions.
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Clinical Instructor
Megumi Okumura’s research focuses on youth and young adults with special health care needs as they transition from pediatric to adult healthcare. She is specifically interested in chronic disease management, quality of care delivery, insurance coverage and heath care utilization of children and young adults with special health care needs using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. She is also interested in how community based programs and public programs can be used to help improve the care for transitioning youth.
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Professor of Pediatrics
Robert Pantell, Professor of Pediatrics, is a nationally-recognized expert in primary care and practice-based research. He is author of the book, “Taking Care of Your Child.” Dr. Pantell’s recent work has focused on the treatment of febrile infants, treatment and diagnosis of urinary tract infections and use of screening tests in primary care. He is a former Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for the Future of Children and the recipient of the 1998 Ambulatory Pediatric Association Teaching Award for Community Programs.
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