Maria Garcia, MD, MPH, MAS
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| Title(s) | Associate Professor, Medicine |
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| School | School of Medicine |
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| Address | 490 Illinois Street, #83J
San Francisco CA 94158
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| Phone | 628-206-5164 |
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| Pronouns | She/Her/Hers |
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ORCID
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Biography
| University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA | BA | 12/2003 | Latin American Studies |
| Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD | MD | 06/2011 | Medicine |
| Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA | MPH | 06/2011 | Family and Community Health |
| University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA | | 06/2014 | Internal Medicine Residency |
| University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA | | 06/2017 | Primary Care Research Fellowship |
| University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA | MAS | 06/2016 | Clinical Research |
Overview
As a clinician-investigator, Dr. Garcia focuses on co-morbid mental health and chronic diseases and their disproportionate impact on vulnerable and marginalized populations. As an Associate Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine, she conducts research on mental health integration in primary care, with a focus on racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse populations. Dr. Garcia completed residency training in Internal Medicine at UCSF, in the San Francisco General Hospital Primary Care Program, and subsequently the UCSF Primary Care Research Fellowship. During her fellowship, she developed an interest in improving mental health service delivery for individuals with limited English proficiency. Dr. Garcia has researched the unique challenges that patients with co-morbid mental health and chronic diseases face and focused on implementation work in mental health integration and improvement of service delivery for populations with language barriers.
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Partial language concordance in primary care communication: What is lost, what is gained, and how to optimize. Patient Educ Couns. 2025 May; 134:108678.
Leung G, Dea D, Ho EY, Diamond L, Garcia ME, Karliner L. PMID: 39954380.
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Quality of Psychiatric Care for Immigrants and People With a Non-English Language Preference: A Systematic Scoping Review. Psychiatr Serv. 2025 Apr 01; 76(4):381-392.
Singhal S, Mause E, Garcia ME, St Pierre M, Ochoa-Frongia L, Dempsey AG. PMID: 39844637; PMCID: PMC11961333.
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The Impact of Language Discordance on Acquiring Broad Social History: A Qualitative Study of Patients, Clinicians, and Interpreters. J Gen Intern Med. 2025 Jun; 40(8):1836-1843.
Doshi B, Luna I, Quesada R, Garcia ME, Fernandez A, Khoong EC. PMID: 39672983.
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Physicians' Perspectives on Using Direct Observation to Assess Non-English Language Proficiency for Clinical Practice: A Qualitative Study. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2025 Mar; 51(3):211-215.
Garcia ME, Diamond LC, Williams M, Mutha S, Jih J, Pathak S, Karliner LS. PMID: 39799071.
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First-generation college graduates have similar depressive symptoms in midlife as multi-generational college graduates. SSM Popul Health. 2024 Mar; 25:101633.
Meza E, Hebert J, Garcia ME, Torres JM, Glymour MM, Vable AM. PMID: 38434443; PMCID: PMC10905036.
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Barriers and facilitators to depression care among Latino men in a primary care setting: a qualitative study. BMC Prim Care. 2024 01 20; 25(1):30.
Swetlitz N, Hinton L, Rivera M, Liu M, Fernandez AC, Garcia ME. PMID: 38245674; PMCID: PMC10799470.
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Language Access Systems Improvement initiative: impact on professional interpreter utilisation, a natural experiment. BMJ Open. 2024 01 04; 14(1):e073486.
Karliner LS, Gregorich SE, Mutha S, Kaplan C, Livaudais-Toman J, Pathak S, Garcia ME, Diamond L. PMID: 38176864; PMCID: PMC10773371.
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Validity of the Spanish-Language Patient Health Questionnaires 2 and 9: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 10 02; 6(10):e2336529.
Martinez A, Teklu SM, Tahir P, Garcia ME. PMID: 37847505; PMCID: PMC10582786.
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Language-Concordant Care: a Qualitative Study Examining Implementation of Physician Non-English Language Proficiency Assessment. J Gen Intern Med. 2023 11; 38(14):3099-3106.
Garcia ME, Williams M, Mutha S, Diamond LC, Jih J, Handley MA, Pathak S, Karliner LS. PMID: 37620723; PMCID: PMC10651569.
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"How's your mood": Recorded physician mental health conversations with Chinese and Latino patients in routine primary care visits. Patient Educ Couns. 2023 09; 114:107850.
Ho EY, Karliner LS, Leung G, Harb R, Aguayo Ramirez G, Garcia ME. PMID: 37364381; PMCID: PMC10528172.
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"Long Overdue": Nurse and Resident Physician Perspectives on Implementation of Dual-Handset Interpreter Phones in the Inpatient Setting. Health Equity. 2023; 7(1):100-108.
Garcia ME, Mutha S, Napoles AM, Malevanchik L, Williams M, Karliner LS. PMID: 36876231; PMCID: PMC9982138.
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Validity of the Chinese Language Patient Health Questionnaire 2 and 9: A Systematic Review. Health Equity. 2022; 6(1):574-594.
Yin L, Teklu S, Pham H, Li R, Tahir P, Garcia ME. PMID: 36081885; PMCID: PMC9448521.
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Assessing Medical Student Readiness to Navigate Language Barriers in Telehealth: Cross-sectional Survey Study. JMIR Med Educ. 2022 Aug 11; 8(3):e36096.
Yin L, Ng F, Rutherford-Rojas M, Williams M, Cornes S, Fernandez A, Garcia ME, Khoong EC. PMID: 35969421; PMCID: PMC9412902.
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Equitability of Depression Screening After Implementation of General Adult Screening in Primary Care. JAMA Netw Open. 2022 08 01; 5(8):e2227658.
Garcia ME, Hinton L, Neuhaus J, Feldman M, Livaudais-Toman J, Karliner LS. PMID: 35980633; PMCID: PMC9389351.
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Lack of Racial and Ethnic Diversity Among Addiction Physicians. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 09; 37(12):3214-3216.
Garcia ME, Coffman J, Jordan A, Martin M. PMID: 35102480; PMCID: PMC9485405.
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Prevalence and Sociodemographic Correlates of Unmet Need for Mental Health Counseling Among Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Psychiatr Serv. 2022 02 01; 73(2):206-209.
Nagata JM, Ganson KT, Bonin SL, Twadell KL, Garcia ME, Langrock O, Vittinghoff E, Tsai AC, Weiser SD, Abdel Magid HS. PMID: 34189929; PMCID: PMC8716612.
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Accuracy of Primary Care Medical Home Designation in a Specialty Mental Health Clinic. Psychiatr Q. 2021 06; 92(2):601-607.
Garcia ME, Goldman EL, Thomas M, Chan S, Mitsuishi F, Schillinger D, Mangurian C. PMID: 32829448; PMCID: PMC8774075.
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Primary Care Physician Recognition and Documentation of Depressive Symptoms Among Chinese and Latinx Patients During Routine Visits: A Cross-Sectional Study. Health Equity. 2021; 5(1):236-244.
Garcia ME, Hinton L, Gregorich SE, Livaudais-Toman J, Kaplan CP, Feldman M, Karliner L. PMID: 33937610; PMCID: PMC8082035.
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Unmet Mental Health Need Among Chinese and Latino Primary Care Patients: Intersection of Ethnicity, Gender, and English Proficiency. J Gen Intern Med. 2020 04; 35(4):1245-1251.
Garcia ME, Hinton L, Gregorich SE, Livaudais-Toman J, Kaplan C, Karliner L. PMID: 31667737; PMCID: PMC7174511.
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Language-Concordant Primary Care Physicians for a Diverse Population: The View from California. Health Equity. 2019; 3(1):343-349.
Garcia ME, Bindman AB, Coffman J. PMID: 31312781; PMCID: PMC6626968.
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Which Complex Patients Should Be Referred for Intensive Care Management? A Mixed-Methods Analysis. J Gen Intern Med. 2018 09; 33(9):1454-1460.
Garcia ME, Uratsu CS, Sandoval-Perry J, Grant RW. PMID: 29797217; PMCID: PMC6109006.
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Collaborative Care for Depression among Patients with Limited English Proficiency: a Systematic Review. J Gen Intern Med. 2018 03; 33(3):347-357.
Garcia ME, Ochoa-Frongia L, Moise N, Aguilera A, Fernandez A. PMID: 29256085; PMCID: PMC5834967.
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Nonpsychiatric Outpatient Care for Adults With Serious Mental Illness in California: Who Is Being Left Behind? Psychiatr Serv. 2017 Jul 01; 68(7):689-695.
Garcia ME, Schillinger D, Vittinghoff E, Creasman JM, Knapp P, Newcomer JW, Mangurian C. PMID: 28245706; PMCID: PMC10975499.
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Capsule Commentary on Kroll et al., Benzodiazepines Are Prescribed More Frequently to Patients Already at Risk for Benzodiazepine-Related Adverse Events in Primary Care. J Gen Intern Med. 2016 09; 31(9):1078.
Garcia ME. PMID: 27279100; PMCID: PMC4978691.
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Intergenerational education mobility and depressive symptoms in a population of Mexican origin. Ann Epidemiol. 2016 07; 26(7):461-466.
Ward JB, Haan MN, Garcia ME, Lee A, To TM, Aiello AE. PMID: 27346705; PMCID: PMC4995110.
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Diabetes Mellitus as a Risk Factor for Development of Depressive Symptoms in a Population-Based Cohort of Older Mexican Americans. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2016 Mar; 64(3):619-24.
Garcia ME, Lee A, Neuhaus J, Gonzalez H, To TM, Haan MN. PMID: 27000334; PMCID: PMC5695573.
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Community Health Workers: A Missing Piece of the Puzzle for Complex Patients With Diabetes? J Gen Intern Med. 2015 Jul; 30(7):878-9.
Garcia ME, Grant RW. PMID: 25862191; PMCID: PMC4471024.
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Association of maternal depression and infant nutritional status among women living with HIV in Tanzania. Matern Child Nutr. 2016 07; 12(3):603-13.
Kaaya S, Garcia ME, Li N, Lienert J, Twayigize W, Spiegelman D, Smith Fawzi MC. PMID: 25382710; PMCID: PMC6240341.
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"I didn't know that ..." patient perceptions of print information, education, and communication related to HIV/AIDS treatment. Tanzan J Health Res. 2011 Apr; 13(2):89-96.
Stone CA, Siril H, Nampanda E, Garcia ME, Tito J, Nambiar D, Chalamilla G, Kaaya SF. PMID: 25566605; PMCID: PMC5463737.
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Health-care worker engagement in HIV-related quality improvement in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Int J Qual Health Care. 2011 Jun; 23(3):231-8.
Garcia ME, Li MS, Siril H, Hawkins C, Kaaya S, Ismail S, Chalamilla G, Mdingi SG, Hirschhorn LR. PMID: 21441571; PMCID: PMC3092691.
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Stress, motivation and professional satisfaction among health care workers in HIV/AIDS care and treatment centers in urban Tanzania: a cross-sectional study. East Afr J Public Health. 2011 Mar; 8(1):17-24.
Siril H, Hirschhorn LR, Hawkins C, Garcia ME, Li MS, Ismail S, Mdingi SG, Chalamilla G, Fawzi W, Kaaya S. PMID: 22066277; PMCID: PMC3580277.
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| 2011 | 3 |
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| 2015 | 1 |
| 2016 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 |
| 2021 | 3 |
| 2022 | 4 |
| 2023 | 4 |
| 2024 | 7 |
| 2025 | 3 |
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