Benjamin Rosner, MD, PhD

Title(s)Associate Professor, Medicine
SchoolSchool of Medicine
Address10 Koret Way, #325
San Francisco CA 94117
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    Cornell University, Ithaca, NYBS05/1993Biomechanical Engineering
    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MNMD, PhD05/2003Medicine and Biochemical Engineering

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    Dr. Rosner is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, a practicing hospitalist, and an informaticist and digital health researcher at the UCSF Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research. He holds affiliations at the UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies, and the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute.

    Dr. Rosner is a nationally recognized researcher and entrepreneur in digital health who combines industry experience with pragmatic study design. His research focuses on three main areas: 1> Feedback to physicians and health systems about their diagnostic performance (see GoodDx.org), and performance related to the implementation of digital health tools, 2. Composite measures for adherence to the 4Ms Framework for older adults (What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility) and its association with outcomes, and 3. The use of large language models (artificial intelligence) in the hospital setting.

    Between 2008-2010, Dr. Rosner worked in health economics and outcomes research as a Medical Director at Archimedes, Inc., performing in silico clinical trials, publishing in the peer-reviewed literature, and influencing policy and clinical practice guidelines. Between 2011-2018, he was the founding Chief Medical Information Officer of a digital patient engagement company, where he created automated remote patient guidance and monitoring technologies, empowering healthcare providers to receive follow up on patient outcomes. In that capacity, he worked with C-suite health system leaders throughout the country, and top leadership at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. He was the lead author of CMS' Merit Based Incentive Payment System's Improvement Activity IA-BE-14, Engage Patients and Families to Guide Improvement in the System of Care. Dr. Rosner also led the Patient Engagement and Empowerment Reporting national consortium to move the industry towards quality metrics associated with engaging and empowering the patient.

    Dr. Rosner serves as a digital health clinical advisor to several national digital health not-for-profit organizations, and continues to work in policy related to digital health with the FDA, the ONC, and CMS. He holds an MD and a PhD (Chemical Engineering) from the University of Minnesota and is Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics.

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    1. An Ontology for Digital Medicine Outcomes: Development of the Digital Medicine Outcomes Value Set (DOVeS). JMIR Med Inform. 2025 Feb 06; 13:e67589. Rosner B, Horridge M, Austria G, Lee T, Auerbach A. PMID: 39914801.
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    2. 4 Steps to 4Ms: A Navigation Guide for a Hospital-Based Composite Measure of 4Ms Care and the Implications for Outcomes Assessment. Inquiry. 2025 Jan-Dec; 62:469580251323135. Rosner B, Thombley R, Rogers S, Adler Milstein J. PMID: 40022607; PMCID: PMC11873920.
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    3. A national survey of digital health company experiences with electronic health record application programming interfaces. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2024 04 03; 31(4):866-874. Barker W, Maisel N, Strawley CE, Israelit GK, Adler-Milstein J, Rosner B. PMID: 38281124; PMCID: PMC10990546.
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    4. Assessing Equitable Adherence to the Age-Friendly Health System's 4Ms Framework in an Academic Inpatient Setting. Inquiry. 2024 Jan-Dec; 61:469580241285598. Adler-Milstein J, Thombley R, Rosenthal S, Rosner B, Rogers S. PMID: 39314001; PMCID: PMC11425728.
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    5. Clinical Assessment of Residents: A Survey of Clinician Educators Regarding Resident Assessment Burden and Modifiable Factors. J Grad Med Educ. 2023 Feb; 15(1):92-97. Tierney AA, Rosner BI. PMID: 36817521; PMCID: PMC9934833.
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    6. Where Is the Digitally Silent Provider? Development and Validation of a Team-Centered Electronic Health Record Attribution Model for Supervising Residents. Acad Med. 2023 01 01; 98(1):62-66. Wang MD, Rosner BI, Rosenbluth G. PMID: 36576768.
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    7. On-Call Junior Neurosurgery Residents Spend 9 hours of Their On-Call Shift Actively Using the Electronic Health Record. Neurosurgery. 2023 04 01; 92(4):870-875. Patel A, Mummaneni PV, Zheng J, Rosner BI, Thombley R, Sorour O, Theodosopoulos PV, Aghi MK, Berger MS, Chang EF, Chou D, Manley GT, DiGiorgio AM. PMID: 36729755.
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    8. Imagining the future of diagnostic performance feedback. Diagnosis (Berl). 2023 02 01; 10(1):31-37. Rosner BI, Zwaan L, Olson APJ. PMID: 36378520.
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    9. Implementation of a Digital Health Curriculum for Healthcare Students 2022. Vol 8, Issue 1, p 22. Digital Medicine. 2022; 8(1):22. Yang KX, Rosner BI, Chan SR, Brindis RG, Lee TM, Khanna RR, Auerbach AD. View Publication.
    10. Patient Generated Health Data Earn a Seat at the Table:Clinical Adoption During the Covid-19 Transition to Telemedicine. JAMIA Open. 2021. Benjamin I Rosner, Joseph C Kvedar, Julia Adler-Milstein. View Publication.
    11. Patient-generated health data earn a seat at the table: clinical adoption during the COVID-19 transition to telemedicine. JAMIA Open. 2021 Oct; 4(4):ooab097. Rosner BI, Kvedar JC, Adler-Milstein J. PMID: 35155996; PMCID: PMC8822402.
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    12. NODE. Health Meeting Report and Panel Discussion - The FDA's Changing Regulatory Landscape for Digital Health Technologies and Digital Health Innovation during COVID-19: A Discussion with Eric Topol and Bakul Patel, Moderated by Aenor Sawyer. Digit Biomark. 2020 Sep-Dec; 4(3):128-133. Andoni A, Ramedani S, Rosner BI, Sawyer A. PMID: 33442575; PMCID: PMC7772872.
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    13. Digital Health, Telehealth, and Primary Care Post-COVID: A Discussion with Kim Boyd and Joe Kvedar, Moderated by Benjamin Rosner. Digit Biomark. 2020 Sep-Dec; 4(3):123-127. Rosner BI, Morozov M, Andoni A. PMID: 33442574; PMCID: PMC7772846.
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    14. NODE.Health Meeting Report and Panel Discussion - The FDA's Changing Regulatory Landscape for Digital Health Technologies and Digital Health Innovation during COVID-19: A Discussion with eric Topol and Bakul Patel, Moderated by Aenor Sawyer. Digital Biomarkers. 2020; 4 (3):128-133. Andoni A, Ramedani S, Rosner BI, Sawyer A. View Publication.
    15. Digital Health, Telehealth, and Primary Care Post-COVID: A Discussion with Kim Boyd and Joe Kvedar, Moderated by Benjamin Rosner. Digital Biomarkers. 2020; 4 (3):123-127. Rosner BI, Morozov M, Andoni A. View Publication.
    16. Leveraging a Digital Care Platform to Drive Quality Improvement in Postoperative Opioid Medication Use. Journal of the American College of Surgeons General Surgery. 2020; 231, S2E19(4). Stulberg Jonah Huang Reiping Chao Susan Y Wickline Victoria N Schafer Willemjin Ko Clifford Y Rosner Benjamin . . View Publication.
    17. Quality of Life after Radioembolization for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using a Digital Patient-Reported Outcome Tool. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2020 Feb; 31(2):311-314.e1. Salem R, Hassan S, Lewandowski RJ, Grace K, Martin RCG, Sichlau MJ, Fung J, Kim E, Chao S, Rosner BI. PMID: 31732223.
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    18. Navigating the Digital Health Ecosystem to Bridge the Gap from Innovation to Transformation: A NODE. Health Perspective on Digital Evidence. Digit Biomark. 2019 May-Aug; 3(2):83-91. Van Winkle B, Solad Y, Vaswani N, Rosner BI. PMID: 32095768; PMCID: PMC7015361.
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    19. Accuracy of Internet-Based Patient Self-Report of Postdischarge Health Care Utilization and Complications Following Orthopedic Procedures: Observational Cohort Study. J Med Internet Res. 2018 07 20; 20(7):e10405. Rosner BI, Gottlieb M, Anderson WN. PMID: 30030212; PMCID: PMC6076369.
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    20. Effectiveness of an Automated Digital Remote Guidance and Telemonitoring Platform on Costs, Readmissions, and Complications After Hip and Knee Arthroplasties. J Arthroplasty. 2018 04; 33(4):988-996.e4. Rosner BI, Gottlieb M, Anderson WN. PMID: 29229238.
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    21. Mandating Value: Medical Conversations in B Major. Journal of General Practice. 2016; (4):242. Benjamin Rosner. . View Publication.
    22. Physicians' actions and influence, such as aggressive blood pressure control, greatly improve the health of diabetes patients. Health Aff (Millwood). 2012 Jan; 31(1):140-9. Gray B, Schuetz CA, Weng W, Peskin B, Rosner B, Lipner RS. PMID: 22232104.
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    23. Health benefits and cost-effectiveness of primary genetic screening for Lynch syndrome in the general population. Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2011 Jan; 4(1):9-22. Dinh TA, Rosner BI, Atwood JC, Boland CR, Syngal S, Vasen HF, Gruber SB, Burt RW. PMID: 21088223; PMCID: PMC3793254.
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    24. Schwann cell behavior in three-dimensional collagen gels: evidence for differential mechano-transduction and the influence of TGF-beta 1 in morphological polarization and differentiation. Exp Neurol. 2005 Sep; 195(1):81-91. Rosner BI, Hang T, Tranquillo RT. PMID: 15890339.
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    25. Rational design of contact guiding, neurotrophic matrices for peripheral nerve regeneration. Ann Biomed Eng. 2003 Dec; 31(11):1383-401. Rosner BI, Siegel RA, Grosberg A, Tranquillo RT. PMID: 14758929.
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