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Sara Ackerman, PhD

TitleAssociate Professor
InstitutionUniversity of California San Francisco
DepartmentSocial Behavioral Sciences
Address3333 California Street
San Francisco CA 94118
Phone415-502-1760
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    University of North Carolina, Chapel HillPhDAnthropology
    University of North Carolina, Chapel HillMPHHealth Behavior & Education
    Smith CollegeBAPsychology
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    American Medical Informatics Association2013Diana Forsythe Award

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    1. Fontil V, Lyles CR, Schillinger D, Handley MA, Ackerman S, Gourley G, Bibbins-Domingo K, Sarkar U. Safety-net institutions in the US grapple with new cholesterol treatment guidelines: a qualitative analysis from the PHoENIX Network. Risk Manag Healthc Policy. 2018; 11:99-108. PMID: 30034258.
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    2. Ackerman SL, Gleason N. Transitioning Patients From Specialty Care to Primary Care: What We Know and What We Can Do. J Ambul Care Manage. 2018 Jun 19. PMID: 29923847.
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    3. Gleason N, Ackerman S, Shipman SA. eConsult-Transforming Primary Care or Exacerbating Clinician Burnout? JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Apr 12. PMID: 29801083.
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    4. Ackerman SL, Gourley G, Le G, Williams P, Yazdany J, Sarkar U. Improving Patient Safety in Public Hospitals: Developing Standard Measures to Track Medical Errors and Process Breakdowns. J Patient Saf. 2018 Mar 14. PMID: 29543667.
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    5. Ackerman SL, Koenig BA. Understanding variations in secondary findings reporting practices across U.S. genome sequencing laboratories. AJOB Empir Bioeth. 2018 Jan-Mar; 9(1):48-57. PMID: 29131714.
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    6. Sara L. Ackerman, Katherine Weatherford Darling, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Robert A. Hiatt, Janet K. Shim.The Ethics of Translational Science: Imagining Public Benefit in Gene-Environment Interaction Research. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society . 2017; 3:351-374.
    7. Ackerman SL, Sarkar U, Tieu L, Handley MA, Schillinger D, Hahn K, Hoskote M, Gourley G, Lyles C. Meaningful use in the safety net: a rapid ethnography of patient portal implementation at five community health centers in California. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2017 Sep 01; 24(5):903-912. PMID: 28340229.
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    8. Clarity C, Gourley G, Lyles C, Ackerman S, Handley MA, Schillinger D, Sarkar U, Conigliaro J. Implementation Science Workshop: Barriers and Facilitators to Increasing Mammography Screening Rates in California's Public Hospitals. J Gen Intern Med. 2017 Jun; 32(6):697-705. PMID: 28188571.
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    9. Hemmat S, Schillinger D, Lyles C, Ackerman S, Gourley G, Vittinghoff E, Handley M, Sarkar U. Performance Measurement and Target-Setting in California's Safety Net Health Systems. Am J Med Qual. 2018 Mar/Apr; 33(2):132-139. PMID: 28555507.
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    10. Ayakaka I, Ackerman S, Ggita JM, Kajubi P, Dowdy D, Haberer JE, Fair E, Hopewell P, Handley MA, Cattamanchi A, Katamba A, Davis JL. Identifying barriers to and facilitators of tuberculosis contact investigation in Kampala, Uganda: a behavioral approach. Implement Sci. 2017 03 09; 12(1):33. PMID: 28274245.
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    11. Gottlieb L, Ackerman S, Wing H, Manchanda R. Understanding Medicaid Managed Care Investments in Members' Social Determinants of Health. Popul Health Manag. 2017 Aug; 20(4):302-308. PMID: 28099060.
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    12. Gottlieb LM, Quiñones-Rivera A, Manchanda R, Wing H, Ackerman S. States' Influences on Medicaid Investments to Address Patients' Social Needs. Am J Prev Med. 2017 Jan; 52(1):31-37. PMID: 27659123.
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    13. Gleason N, Prasad PA, Ackerman S, Ho C, Monacelli J, Wang M, Collado D, Gonzales R. Adoption and impact of an eConsult system in a fee-for-service setting. Healthc (Amst). 2017 Mar; 5(1-2):40-45. PMID: 27469441.
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    14. Ackerman SL, Darling KW, Lee SS, Hiatt RA, Shim JK. .Accounting for complexity: Gene-environment interaction research and the politics of quantification. Science, Technology, & Human Values. 2016; 41(2):194-218.
    15. Darling KW, Ackerman SL, Hiatt RH, Lee SS, Shim JK. 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. PMID: 26994357; PMCID: PMC4815914 [Available on 04/01/17].
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    16. Garg SK, Lyles CR, Ackerman S, Handley MA, Schillinger D, Gourley G, Aulakh V, Sarkar U. Qualitative analysis of programmatic initiatives to text patients with mobile devices in resource-limited health systems. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2016 Feb 06; 16:16. PMID: 26851941; PMCID: PMC4744448.
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    17. Ackerman SL, Boscardin C, Karliner L, Handley MA, Cheng S, Gaither TW, Hagey J, Hennein L, Malik F, Shaw B, Trinidad N, Zahner G, Gonzales R. The Action Research Program: Experiential Learning in Systems-Based Practice for First-Year Medical Students. Teach Learn Med. 2016; 28(2):183-91. PMID: 27064720; PMCID: PMC4916837 [Available on 04/01/17].
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    18. Cattamanchi A, Miller CR, Tapley A, Haguma P, Ochom E, Ackerman S, Davis JL, Katamba A, Handley MA. Health worker perspectives on barriers to delivery of routine tuberculosis diagnostic evaluation services in Uganda: a qualitative study to guide clinic-based interventions. BMC Health Serv Res. 2015 Jan 22; 15:10. PMID: 25609495; PMCID: PMC4307676.
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    19. Shim JK, Darling KW, Ackerman SL, Lee SS, Hiatt RA.Reimagining Race and Ancestry: Biomedicalizaing Difference in Post-Genomic Subjects. In Bell SE, Figert AE (eds), Reimagining (Bio)Medicalization, Pharmaceuticals and Genetics: Old Critiques and New Engagements. 2015.
    20. Ackerman S, Gleason N, Gonzales R. Using Rapid Ethnography to Support the Design and Implementation of Health Information Technologies. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2015; 215:14-27. PMID: 26249181.
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    21. Shim JK, Ackerman SL, Darling KW, Hiatt RA, Lee SS. 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. PMID: 25378251; PMCID: PMC4443814.
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    22. Shim JK, Darling KW, Lappe MD, Thomson LK, Lee SS, Hiatt RA, Ackerman SL. Homogeneity and heterogeneity as situational properties: producing--and moving beyond?--race in post-genomic science. Soc Stud Sci. 2014 Aug; 44(4):579-99. PMID: 25272613; PMCID: PMC4391627.
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    23. Wu E, Barnes DE, Ackerman SL, Lee J, Chesney M, Mehling WE. Preventing Loss of Independence through Exercise (PLIÉ): qualitative analysis of a clinical trial in older adults with dementia. Aging Ment Health. 2015; 19(4):353-62. PMID: 25022459.
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    24. Ackerman SL, Gleason N, Monacelli J, Collado D, Wang M, Ho C, Catschegn-Pfab S, Gonzales R. When to repatriate? Clinicians' perspectives on the transfer of patient management from specialty to primary care. J Gen Intern Med. 2014 Oct; 29(10):1355-61. PMID: 24934146; PMCID: PMC4175642.
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    25. Eng JA, Hunter CJ, Handley MA, Boscardin CK, Gonzales R, Ackerman SL. Patient attitudes about specialty follow-up care by telephone. Am J Manag Care. 2014 Feb; 20(2):164-7. PMID: 24738534; PMCID: PMC4207649.
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    26. Ackerman SL, Gonzales R, Stahl MS, Metlay JP. One size does not fit all: evaluating an intervention to reduce antibiotic prescribing for acute bronchitis. BMC Health Serv Res. 2013 Nov 04; 13:462. PMID: 24188573; PMCID: PMC4228248.
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    27. Ackerman S, Auer R, Gonzales R. Cultural capital: accounting for power in patient-physician interactions. JAMA Intern Med. 2013 Mar 11; 173(5):393-4. PMID: 23479112.
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    28. Gonzales R, Ackerman S, Handley M. Can implementation science help to overcome challenges in translating judicious antibiotic use into practice? Arch Intern Med. 2012 Oct 22; 172(19):1471-3. PMID: 23007141.
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    29. Ackerman SL, Tebb K, Stein JC, Frazee BW, Hendey GW, Schmidt LA, Gonzales R. Benefit or burden? A sociotechnical analysis of diagnostic computer kiosks in four California hospital emergency departments. Soc Sci Med. 2012 Dec; 75(12):2378-85. PMID: 23063214.
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    30. Ackerman S, Gonzales R. The context of antibiotic overuse. Ann Intern Med. 2012 Aug 07; 157(3):211-2. PMID: 22868840.
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    31. Gonzales R, Handley MA, Ackerman S, O'sullivan PS. A framework for training health professionals in implementation and dissemination science. Acad Med. 2012 Mar; 87(3):271-8. PMID: 22373617; PMCID: PMC3307591.
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    32. Ackerman, S. Gonzales, R.California HealthCare Foundation Case Study. The Kiosk Will See You Now: Lessons from an ED Experiment. 2012.
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    33. Ackerman SL, Lown EA, Dvorak CC, Dunn EA, Abrams DI, Horn BN, Degelman M, Cowan MJ, Mehling WE. Massage for children undergoing hematopoietic cell transplantation: a qualitative report. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2012; 2012:792042. PMID: 22474526; PMCID: PMC3296156.
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    34. Ackerman SL. Plastic paradise: transforming bodies and selves in Costa Rica's cosmetic surgery tourism industry. Med Anthropol. 2010 Oct; 29(4):403-23. PMID: 21082485.
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    35. Thomas JC, Eng E, Ackerman S, Earp JA, Ellis H, Carpenter C. .Evidence-Based Practice Manual (Yeager K, Roberts AR, eds). Establishing collaborations that engender trust in the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. 2004.
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    36. Daniel, M., Ackerman, S. .Encyclopedia of Public Health, Volume 1. Lester Breslow, L. W. Green, W. Keck, J. Last, L. Lave, and M. McGinnis (eds). American Indians and Alaska Natives. 2002; 1.
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