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Janet Shim, PhD

Title(s)Professor, Social Behavioral Sciences
SchoolSchool of Nursing
Address490 Illinois Street
San Francisco CA 94158
Phone415-514-9392
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    American Sociological Association2003Roberta G. Simmons Outstanding Dissertation Award
    University of California, San Francisco2002Distinguished Dissertation Award in Sociology
    University of California2001  - 2002President's Dissertation Year Fellowship
    University of California, San Francisco1996  - 1998Graduate Student Mentorship and Research Assistantship Fellowship
    University of California, San Francisco1995  - 1996Graduate Opportunity Fellowship
    UCSF School of Nursing2012Excellence in Teaching Award for Supportive Learning Environment
    UCSF School of Nursing Graduating Class of 20122012Mentor of the Year Award
    Society for the Study of Social Problems2014Finalist, C. Wright Mills Award, for Heart-Sick: The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease
    UCSF Graduate Students Association and the Graduate Division Alumni Association2014Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award nomination
    UCSF Academic Senate2016Distinguished Faculty Distinction in Teaching Award

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    Areas of Interest: Sociology of health and illness; social inequalities in health; science, technology, and medicine studies; race, gender, and class; qualitative research methods.

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    The Ethics of Inclusion: Diversity in Precision Medicine Research
    NIH/NHGRI R01HG010330Feb 23, 2019 - Jun 30, 2022
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    Health literacy systems in the safety net: Lessons from complex care management
    NIH/NINR R01NR015233Sep 26, 2014 - Jul 31, 2018
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Conceptions of Race and Ethnicity Used in Gene-Environment Interaction Studies
    NIH/NHGRI R01HG005848Aug 25, 2010 - Jun 30, 2014
    Role: Principal Investigator
    MEANINGS OF RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER IN HEART DISEASE
    AHRQ R03HS010582Sep 30, 1999 - Feb 28, 2001
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Patient Engagement, Chronic Illness, and the Subject of Health Care Reform. Med Anthropol. 2020 Sep 18; 1-14. Fleming MD, Shim JK, Yen I, Thompson-Lastad A, Burke NJ. PMID: 32946278.
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    2. Ethnographic investigation of patient-provider communication among African American men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer: a study protocol. BMJ Open. 2020 08 05; 10(8):e035032. Palmer NR, Shim JK, Kaplan CP, Schillinger D, Blaschko SD, Breyer BN, Pasick RJ. PMID: 32759241.
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    3. Direct-to-consumer genomic testing: Are nurses prepared? Nursing. 2020 Aug; 50(8):48-52. Flowers E, Leutwyler H, Shim JK. PMID: 32618766.
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    4. Empowering Patient Participation in Advance Care Planning Discussions: Audio Recordings of Primary Care Visits Among PREPARE Randomized Trial Participants (CS201B). Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2020 Jul 1; 60(1):194-195. Jennifer Freytag, Deborah Barnes, Ying Shi, Aiesha Volow, Janet Shim, Stewart Alexander, Rebecca Sudore. .
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    5. Empowering Older Adults to Discuss Advance Care Planning During Clinical Visits: The PREPARE Randomized Trial. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 Jun; 68(6):1210-1217. Freytag J, Street RL, Barnes DE, Shi Y, Volow AM, Shim JK, Alexander SC, Sudore RL. PMID: 32157684.
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    6. Hysteresis - or the mismatch of expectations and possibilities among relatives in a transforming health care system. Health Sociol Rev. 2020 Mar; 29(1):31-44. Roenn-Smidt H, Shim JK, Larsen K, Hindhede AL. PMID: 33411658.
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    7. Ethics of inclusion: Cultivate trust in precision medicine. Science. 2019 Jun 07; 364(6444):941-942. Lee SS, Fullerton SM, Saperstein A, Shim JK. PMID: 31171685.
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    8. "They Don't Trust Us": The Influence of Perceptions of Inadequate Nursing Home Care on Emergency Department Transfers and the Potential Role for Telehealth. Clin Nurs Res. 2020 03; 29(3):157-168. Stephens CE, Halifax E, David D, Bui N, Lee SJ, Shim J, Ritchie CS. PMID: 31007055.
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    9. Caring for "Super-utilizers": Neoliberal Social Assistance in the Safety-net. Med Anthropol Q. 2019 06; 33(2):173-190. Fleming MD, Shim JK, Yen I, Van Natta M, Hanssmann C, Burke NJ. PMID: 30291726.
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    10. Stratified citizenship, stratified health: Examining latinx legal status in the U.S. healthcare safety net. Soc Sci Med. 2019 01; 220:49-55. Van Natta M, Burke NJ, Yen IH, Fleming MD, Hanssmann CL, Rasidjan MP, Shim JK. PMID: 30391641.
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    11. Like a Fish out of Water: Managing Chronic Pain in the Urban Safety Net. J Health Soc Behav. 2018 12; 59(4):487-500. Rubin S, Burke N, Van Natta M, Yen I, Shim JK. PMID: 30229682.
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    12. Knowing something versus feeling different:The effects and non-effects of genetic ancestry on racial identity. New Genet Soc. 2018; 37(1):44-66. Shim JK, Alam SR, Aouizerat BE. PMID: 31666800.
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    13. Complex care and contradictions of choice in the safety net. Sociol Health Illn. 2018 03; 40(3):538-551. Van Natta M, Burke NJ, Yen IH, Rubin S, Fleming MD, Thompson-Lastad A, Shim JK. PMID: 29424102.
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    14. Assessing Patient Activation among High-Need, High-Cost Patients in Urban Safety Net Care Settings. J Urban Health. 2017 Dec; 94(6):803-813. Napoles TM, Burke NJ, Shim JK, Davis E, Moskowitz D, Yen IH. PMID: 28597203.
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    15. Response to commentary, "Trauma and the structuring of complex care: Back to the settlements?" by Elizabeth Bowen. Soc Sci Med. 2017 11; 192:28-29. Thompson-Lastad A, Yen IH, Fleming MD, Van Natta M, Rubin S, Shim JK, Burke NJ. PMID: 28957781.
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    16. Comparing Mobile Health Strategies to Improve Medication Adherence for Veterans With Coronary Heart Disease (Mobile4Meds): Protocol for a Mixed-Methods Study. JMIR Res Protoc. 2017 Jul 18; 6(7):e134. Park LG, Collins EG, Shim JK, Whooley MA. PMID: 28720557.
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    17. The Ethics of Translational Science: Imagining Public Benefit in Gene-Environment Interaction Research. Engaging Science Technology and Society. 2017 Jun 29; 3(0):351-374. Sara L. Ackerman, Katherine Weatherford Darling, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Robert A. Hiatt, Janet K. Shim. .
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    18. Defining trauma in complex care management: Safety-net providers' perspectives on structural vulnerability and time. Soc Sci Med. 2017 08; 186:104-112. Thompson-Lastad A, Yen IH, Fleming MD, Van Natta M, Rubin S, Shim JK, Burke NJ. PMID: 28618290.
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    19. Patient engagement at the margins: Health care providers' assessments of engagement and the structural determinants of health in the safety-net. Soc Sci Med. 2017 06; 183:11-18. Fleming MD, Shim JK, Yen IH, Thompson-Lastad A, Rubin S, Van Natta M, Burke NJ. PMID: 28445806.
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    20. How Neighborhoods Influence Health: Lessons to be learned from the application of political ecology. Health Place. 2017 05; 45:117-123. Chitewere T, Shim JK, Barker JC, Yen IH. PMID: 28342425.
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    21. The odd couple: Using biomedicine and intersectional approaches to address health inequities. Global Health Action. 2017; 10(sup2). Hankivsky, Olena, Lesley Doyal, Gillian Einstein, Ursula Kelly, Janet K. Shim, Lynn Weber, and Robin Repta.
    22. Illness Narratives of African Americans Living With Coronary Heart Disease: A Critical Interactionist Analysis. Qual Health Res. 2017 Mar; 27(4):497-508. Dubbin L, McLemore M, Shim JK. PMID: 27117961.
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    23. Enacting the molecular imperative: How gene-environment interaction research links bodies and environments in the post-genomic age. Soc Sci Med. 2016 Apr; 155:51-60. Darling KW, Ackerman SL, Hiatt RH, Lee SS, Shim JK. PMID: 26994357.
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    24. Accounting for Complexity. Science Technology & Human Values. 2016 Mar 1; 41(2):194-218. Sara L. Ackerman, Katherine Weatherford Darling, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Robert A. Hiatt, Janet K. Shim. .
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    25. My Bioethics Will Be Intersectional or It Will Be [Bleep]. Am J Bioeth. 2016; 16(4):27-9. Grzanka PR, Brian JD, Shim JK. PMID: 26982918.
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    26. Understanding Health Inequalities and Justice: Bridging Perspectives for New Conversations, edited by Michele Rivkin-Fish, Mara Buchbinder, and Rebecca Walker. Cultural health capital: A sociological intervention into patient-centered care and the Affordable Care Act. 2016. Shim, Janet K., Jamie Suki Chang, and Leslie A. Dubbin.
    27. Negotiating substance use stigma: the role of cultural health capital in provider-patient interactions. Sociol Health Illn. 2016 Jan; 38(1):90-108. Chang J, Dubbin L, Shim J. PMID: 26382837.
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    28. Provider Perspectives on the Influence of Family on Nursing Home Resident Transfers to the Emergency Department: Crises at the End of Life. Curr Gerontol Geriatr Res. 2015; 2015:893062. Stephens C, Halifax E, Bui N, Lee SJ, Harrington C, Shim J, Ritchie C. PMID: 26379704.
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    29. Reimagining (Bio)Medicalization, Pharmaceuticals, and Genetics: Old Critiques and New Engagements, edited by Susan Bell and Anne Figert. Reimagining race and ancestry: Biomedicalizing difference in post-genomic subjects. 2015. Shim, Janet K., Katherine Weatherford Darling, Sara L. Ackerman, Robert A. Hiatt, and Sandra Soo-Jin Lee.
    30. Race and ancestry in the age of inclusion: technique and meaning in post-genomic science. J Health Soc Behav. 2014 Dec; 55(4):504-18. Shim JK, Ackerman SL, Darling KW, Hiatt RA, Lee SS. PMID: 25378251.
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    31. Homogeneity and heterogeneity as situational properties: producing--and moving beyond?--race in post-genomic science. Soc Stud Sci. 2014 Aug; 44(4):579-99. Shim JK, Darling KW, Lappe MD, Thomson LK, Lee SS, Hiatt RA, Ackerman SL. PMID: 25272613.
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    32. Heart-Sick: The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease. 2014. Janet K. Shim. .
    33. Cultural health capital and the interactional dynamics of patient-centered care. Soc Sci Med. 2013 Sep; 93:113-20. Dubbin LA, Chang JS, Shim JK. PMID: 23906128.
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    34. Older people and social connectedness: how place and activities keep people engaged. J Aging Res. 2012; 2012:139523. Yen IH, Shim JK, Martinez AD, Barker JC. PMID: 22272374.
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    35. Application of Two Schools of Social Theory to Neighbourhood, Place and Health Research. Rethinking Social Epidemiology. 2012 Jan 1; 157-174. Irene H. Yen, Janet K. Shim, Airín D. Martínez. .
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    36. Rethinking Social Epidemiology: Towards a Science of Change, edited by O’Campo P and Dunn J. Application of two schools of social theory for neighbourhood, place, and health research. 2011; 157-74. Yen IH, Shim JK, Martinez AD.
    37. Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing: Blueprint for the 21st Century, edited by Pescosolido B, Martin JK, McLeod JD, and Rogers A. Medicalization and biomedicalization revisited: Technoscience and transformations of health, illness, and American medicine. 2011; 173-99. Clarke AE and Shim JK. .
    38. The end of the epidemiology wars? Epidemiological ‘ethics’ and the challenge of translation. BioSocieties. 2010 Jun 1; 5(2):159-179. Janet K Shim, L Katherine Thomson. .
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    39. Cultural health capital: A theoretical approach to understanding health care interactions and the dynamics of unequal treatment. J Health Soc Behav. 2010 Mar; 51(1):1-15. Shim JK. PMID: 20420291.
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    40. The End of the Epidemiology Wars? Epidemiological ‘Ethics’ and the Challenge of Translation. BioSocieties. 2010; 5(2):159-79. Shim JK and Thomson LK. .
    41. Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health and Illness in the U.S. 2010. Clarke AE, Mamo L, Fosket JR, Fishman JR, and Shim JK (eds.). .
    42. Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health and Illness in the U.S., edited by Adele E. Clarke, Laura Mamo, Jennifer R. Fosket, Jennifer R. Fishman, and Janet K. Shim. Biomedicalization: A theoretical and substantive introduction. 2010; 1-44. Clarke AE, Shim JK, Mamo L, Fosket JR, Fishman JR.
    43. The stratified biomedicalization of heart disease: Expert and lay perspectives on racial and class inequality. Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health and Illness in the U.S., edited by Adele E. Clarke, Laura Mamo, Jennifer R. Fosket, Jennifer R. Fishman, and Janet K. Shim. 2010; 218-241. Shim JK. .
    44. Medicalization and biomedicalization revisited: Technoscience and transformations of health, illness, and biomedicine. Salute e Società (Health and Society). 2009; 2(8):209-241. Clarke, Adele E. and Janet K. Shim. .
    45. Late-life cardiac interventions and the treatment imperative. PLoS Med. 2008 Mar 04; 5(3):e7. Shim JK, Russ AJ, Kaufman SR. PMID: 18318595.
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    46. The Sociology of Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives, edited by Conrad P. ‘Choosing later’ about dialysis treatment near the end of life. 2008; 405-14. Russ AJ, Shim JK, Kaufman SR.
    47. The value of "life at any cost": talk about stopping kidney dialysis. Soc Sci Med. 2007 Jun; 64(11):2236-47. Russ AJ, Shim JK, Kaufman SR. PMID: 17418924.
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    48. Clinical life: expectation and the double edge of medical promise. Health (London). 2007 Apr; 11(2):245-64. Shim JK, Russ AJ, Kaufman SR. PMID: 17344274.
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    49. Old age, life extension, and the character of medical choice. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2006 Jul; 61(4):S175-84. Kaufman SR, Shim JK, Russ AJ. PMID: 16855038.
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    50. Risk, life extension and the pursuit of medical possibility. Sociol Health Illn. 2006 May; 28(4):479-502. Shim JK, Russ AJ, Kaufman SR. PMID: 16669809.
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    51. Aged bodies and kinship matters: The ethical field of kidney transplant. Am Ethnol. 2006 Feb; 33(1):81-99. Kaufman SR, Russ AJ, Shim JK. PMID: 18461150.
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    52. Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations, edited by Chen NN and Moglen H. Aged bodies and kinship matters: The biologization of moral commitment. 2006; 126-35. Kaufman SR, Russ AJ, Shim JK. .
    53. "Is there life on dialysis?": time and aging in a clinically sustained existence. Med Anthropol. 2005 Oct-Dec; 24(4):297-324. Russ AJ, Shim JK, Kaufman SR. PMID: 16249136.
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    54. Constructing ‘Race’ Across the Science-Lay Divide. Social Studies of Science. 2005 Jun 1; 35(3):405-436. Janet K. Shim. .
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    55. Revisiting the biomedicalization of aging: clinical trends and ethical challenges. Gerontologist. 2004 Dec; 44(6):731-8. Kaufman SR, Shim JK, Russ AJ. PMID: 15611209.
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    56. CHWs get credit: a 10-year history of the first college-credit certificate for community health workers in the United States. Health Promot Pract. 2004 Oct; 5(4):418-28. Love MB, Legion V, Shim JK, Tsai C, Quijano V, Davis C. PMID: 15358914.
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    57. Biomedicalization: Technoscientific transformations of health, illness, and U.S. biomedicine. American Sociological Review. 2003; 68(2):161-94. Clarke AE, Shim JK, Mamo L, Fosket JR, and Fishman JR.
    58. Understanding the routinised inclusion of race, socioeconomic status and sex in epidemiology: the utility of concepts from technoscience studies. Sociology of Health & Illness. 2002 Mar 1; 24(2):129-150. Janet K. Shim. .
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    59. Bio-power and racial, class, and gender formation in biomedical knowledge production. Research in the Sociology of Health Care. 2000; 17:73-95. Shim, JK.
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