Sarah Dobbins, PhD, MPH, PMHNP

Title(s)Assistant Professor, Community Health Systems
SchoolSchool of Nursing
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    University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CAPhD06/2021Nursing
    University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CAMS06/2018Nursing
    University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PAMPH08/2009Public Health
    Marlboro College, Marlboro, VTBA05/2007Biology
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    University of California, San Francisco2018  - 2021T32 Training Grant in Biobehavioral Symptom Science
    University of California, San Francisco2019  - 2019John A. Hartford Center for Gerontological Excellence Scholarship
    University of California, San Francisco2016  - 2018Osher Scholarship
    University of California, San Francisco2016  - 2016Nursing Alumni Scholarship

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    1. Upstream nurse-community partnership strategies to improve social determinants of health: A scoping review. Nurs Outlook. 2026 Jun 08; 74(4):102818. LeClair J, Atkinson R, Yang P, Peterson K, Kneipp S, Dobbins S. PMID: 42258899.
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    2. Insights into KIF11 pathogenesis in microcephaly-lymphedema-chorioretinopathy syndrome from a lymphatic perspective. JCI Insight. 2026 Feb 09; 11(3). Ogmen K, Dobbins SE, Behncke RY, Martinez-Corral I, Brown RC, Meier M, Ulferts S, Hansmeier NR, Sackey E, Alqahtani A, Karapouliou C, Grigoriadis D, Del Rey Jimenez JC, Oberlin M, Williams D, Ekici A, Karaer K, Jeffery S, Mortimer P, Gordon K, Okuda KS, Hogan BM, Mäkinen T, Hägerling R, Mansour S, Martin-Almedina S, Ostergaard P. PMID: 41427784; PMCID: PMC12893108.
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    3. Continued Homelessness and Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 08 01; 7(8):e2427956. Dobbins SK, Garcia CM, Evans JL, Valle K, Guzman D, Kushel MB. PMID: 39145977; PMCID: PMC11327886.
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    4. The Howard Street Method: A Community Pharmacy-led Low Dose Overlap Buprenorphine Initiation Protocol for Individuals Using Fentanyl. J Addict Med. 2023 Jul-Aug 01; 17(4):e255-e261. Noel M, Abbs E, Suen L, Samuel L, Dobbins S, Geier M, Soran CS. PMID: 37579105.
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    5. Antiracist symptom science: A call to action and path forward. Nurs Outlook. 2022 Nov-Dec; 70(6):794-806. Salomon RE, Dobbins S, Harris C, Haeusslein L, Lin CX, Reeves K, Richoux S, Roussett G, Shin J, Dawson-Rose C. PMID: 36400578; PMCID: PMC10916506.
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    6. Engagement in HIV care and viral suppression following changes in long-term opioid therapy for treatment for chronic pain. AIDS Behav. 2022 Oct; 26(10):3220-3230. Silvis J, Rowe CL, Dobbins S, Haq N, Vittinghoff E, McMahan VM, Appa A, Coffin PO. PMID: 35380287; PMCID: PMC11230622.
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    7. Education Mediates Racial Disparities in Cognitive Impairment Among Older Adults With Schizophrenia. Clin Gerontol. 2023 Jan-Feb; 46(1):66-79. Dobbins S, Hubbard E, Leutwyler H. PMID: 33579181; PMCID: PMC8610378.
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    8. Phenome-wide association analysis of LDL-cholesterol lowering genetic variants in PCSK9. BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2019 10 29; 19(1):240. Schmidt AF, Holmes MV, Preiss D, Swerdlow DI, Denaxas S, Fatemifar G, Faraway R, Finan C, Valentine D, Fairhurst-Hunter Z, Hartwig FP, Horta BL, Hypponen E, Power C, Moldovan M, van Iperen E, Hovingh K, Demuth I, Norman K, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Demuth J, Bertram L, Lill CM, Coassin S, Willeit J, Kiechl S, Willeit K, Mason D, Wright J, Morris R, Wanamethee G, Whincup P, Ben-Shlomo Y, McLachlan S, Price JF, Kivimaki M, Welch C, Sanchez-Galvez A, Marques-Vidal P, Nicolaides A, Panayiotou AG, Onland-Moret NC, van der Schouw YT, Matullo G, Fiorito G, Guarrera S, Sacerdote C, Wareham NJ, Langenberg C, Scott RA, Luan J, Bobak M, Malyutina S, Pajak A, Kubinova R, Tamosiunas A, Pikhart H, Grarup N, Pedersen O, Hansen T, Linneberg A, Jess T, Cooper J, Humphries SE, Brilliant M, Kitchner T, Hakonarson H, Carrell DS, McCarty CA, Lester KH, Larson EB, Crosslin DR, de Andrade M, Roden DM, Denny JC, Carty C, Hancock S, Attia J, Holliday E, Scott R, Schofield P, O'Donnell M, Yusuf S, Chong M, Pare G, van der Harst P, Said MA, Eppinga RN, Verweij N, Snieder H, Lifelines Cohort authors, Christen T, Mook-Kanamori DO, ICBP Consortium, Gustafsson S, Lind L, Ingelsson E, Pazoki R, Franco O, Hofman A, Uitterlinden A, Dehghan A, Teumer A, Baumeister S, Dörr M, Lerch MM, Völker U, Völzke H, Ward J, Pell JP, Meade T, Christophersen IE, Maitland-van der Zee AH, Baranova EV, Young R, Ford I, Campbell A, Padmanabhan S, Bots ML, Grobbee DE, Froguel P, Thuillier D, Roussel R, Bonnefond A, Cariou B, Smart M, Bao Y, Kumari M, Mahajan A, Hopewell JC, Seshadri S, METASTROKE Consortium of the ISGC, Dale C, Costa RPE, Ridker PM, Chasman DI, Reiner AP, Ritchie MD, Lange LA, Cornish AJ, Dobbins SE, Hemminki K, Kinnersley B, Sanson M, Labreche K, Simon M, Bondy M, Law P, Speedy H, Allan J, Li N, Went M, Weinhold N, Morgan G, Sonneveld P, Nilsson B, Goldschmidt H, Sud A, Engert A, Hansson M, Hemingway H, Asselbergs FW, Patel RS, Keating BJ, Sattar N, Houlston R, Casas JP, Hingorani AD. PMID: 31664920; PMCID: PMC6820948.
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    9. "Looking Forward": a qualitative evaluation of a physical activity program for middle-aged and older adults with serious mental illness. Int Psychogeriatr. 2020 12; 32(12):1449-1456. Dobbins S, Hubbard E, Leutwyler H. PMID: 31455434; PMCID: PMC7047554.
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    10. Play provides social connection for older adults with serious mental illness: A grounded theory analysis of a 10-week exergame intervention. Aging Ment Health. 2020 04; 24(4):596-603. Dobbins S, Hubbard E, Flentje A, Dawson-Rose C, Leutwyler H. PMID: 30586998; PMCID: PMC6597314.
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    11. Genome-wide association analysis identifies a meningioma risk locus at 11p15.5. Neuro Oncol. 2018 10 09; 20(11):1485-1493. Claus EB, Cornish AJ, Broderick P, Schildkraut JM, Dobbins SE, Holroyd A, Calvocoressi L, Lu L, Hansen HM, Smirnov I, Walsh KM, Schramm J, Hoffmann P, Nöthen MM, Jöckel KH, Swerdlow A, Larsen SB, Johansen C, Simon M, Bondy M, Wrensch M, Houlston RS, Wiemels JL, Wiemels JL. PMID: 29762745; PMCID: PMC6176799.
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    12. The Applicability of Resilience Training to the Mitigation of Trauma-Related Mental Illness in Military Personnel [Formula: see text]. J Am Psychiatr Nurses Assoc. 2018 Jan/Feb; 24(1):23-34. Thompson SR, Dobbins S. PMID: 29139325.
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    13. Genetic Predisposition to Multiple Myeloma at 5q15 Is Mediated by an ELL2 Enhancer Polymorphism. Cell Rep. 2017 Sep 12; 20(11):2556-2564. Li N, Johnson DC, Weinhold N, Kimber S, Dobbins SE, Mitchell JS, Kinnersley B, Sud A, Law PJ, Orlando G, Scales M, Wardell CP, Försti A, Hoang PH, Went M, Holroyd A, Hariri F, Pastinen T, Meissner T, Goldschmidt H, Hemminki K, Morgan GJ, Kaiser M, Houlston RS. PMID: 28903037; PMCID: PMC5608969.
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    14. Correspondence: SEMA4A variation and risk of colorectal cancer. Nat Commun. 2016 Mar 10; 7:10611. Kinnersley B, Chubb D, Dobbins SE, Frampton M, Buch S, Timofeeva MN, Castellví-Bel S, Farrington SM, Forsti A, Hampe J, Hemminki K, Hofstra RM, Northwood E, Palles C, Pinheiro M, Ruiz-Ponte C, Schafmayer C, Teixeira MR, Westers H, van Wezel T, Timothy Bishop D, Tomlinson I, Dunlop MG, Houlston RS. PMID: 26961734; PMCID: PMC4792923.
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    15. Nurses in Supportive Housing are Associated With Decreased Health Care Utilization and Improved HIV Biomarkers in Formerly Homeless Adults. J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2016 Jul-Aug; 27(4):444-54. Dobbins SK, Cruz M, Shah S, Abt L, Moore J, Bamberger J. PMID: 26861866.
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    16. Misclassification of acute respiratory distress syndrome after traumatic injury: The cost of less rigorous approaches. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015 Sep; 79(3):417-24. Hendrickson CM, Dobbins S, Redick BJ, Greenberg MD, Calfee CS, Cohen MJ. PMID: 26307875; PMCID: PMC4552075.
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    17. A new GWAS and meta-analysis with 1000Genomes imputation identifies novel risk variants for colorectal cancer. Sci Rep. 2015 May 20; 5:10442. Al-Tassan NA, Whiffin N, Hosking FJ, Palles C, Farrington SM, Dobbins SE, Harris R, Gorman M, Tenesa A, Meyer BF, Wakil SM, Kinnersley B, Campbell H, Martin L, Smith CG, Idziaszczyk S, Barclay E, Maughan TS, Kaplan R, Kerr R, Kerr D, Buchanan DD, Buchannan DD, Win AK, Hopper J, Jenkins M, Lindor NM, Newcomb PA, Gallinger S, Conti D, Schumacher F, Casey G, Dunlop MG, Tomlinson IP, Cheadle JP, Houlston RS. PMID: 25990418; PMCID: PMC4438486.
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    18. Identification of susceptibility loci for colorectal cancer in a genome-wide meta-analysis. Hum Mol Genet. 2014 Sep 01; 23(17):4729-37. Whiffin N, Hosking FJ, Farrington SM, Palles C, Dobbins SE, Zgaga L, Lloyd A, Kinnersley B, Gorman M, Tenesa A, Broderick P, Wang Y, Barclay E, Hayward C, Martin L, Buchanan DD, Win AK, Hopper J, Jenkins M, Lindor NM, Newcomb PA, Gallinger S, Conti D, Schumacher F, Casey G, Liu T, Swedish Low-Risk Colorectal Cancer Study Group, Campbell H, Lindblom A, Houlston RS, Tomlinson IP, Dunlop MG. PMID: 24737748; PMCID: PMC4133584.
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    19. Hospital-based violence intervention: risk reduction resources that are essential for success. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2013 Apr; 74(4):976-80; discussion 980-2. Smith R, Dobbins S, Evans A, Balhotra K, Dicker RA. PMID: 23511134.
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    20. Using trauma center data to identify missed bicycle injuries and their associated costs. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2012 Dec; 73(6):1602-6. Lopez DS, Sunjaya DB, Chan S, Dobbins S, Dicker RA. PMID: 23032807.
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    21. The TERT variant rs2736100 is associated with colorectal cancer risk. Br J Cancer. 2012 Sep 04; 107(6):1001-8. Kinnersley B, Migliorini G, Broderick P, Whiffin N, Dobbins SE, Casey G, Hopper J, Sieber O, Lipton L, Kerr DJ, Dunlop MG, Tomlinson IP, Houlston RS, Colon Cancer Family Registry. PMID: 22878375; PMCID: PMC3464867.
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    22. Racial variation in timing of pyeloplasty: prenatal versus postnatal diagnosis. J Urol. 2011 Dec; 186(6):2386-91. Routh JC, Pennison M, Rosoklija I, Dobbins S, Kokorowski PJ, Hubert KC, Huang L, Nelson CP. PMID: 22014821; PMCID: PMC3826789.
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    23. A genome-wide association study of Hodgkin's lymphoma identifies new susceptibility loci at 2p16.1 (REL), 8q24.21 and 10p14 (GATA3). Nat Genet. 2010 Dec; 42(12):1126-1130. Enciso-Mora V, Broderick P, Ma Y, Jarrett RF, Hjalgrim H, Hemminki K, van den Berg A, Olver B, Lloyd A, Dobbins SE, Lightfoot T, van Leeuwen FE, Försti A, Diepstra A, Broeks A, Vijayakrishnan J, Shield L, Lake A, Montgomery D, Roman E, Engert A, von Strandmann EP, Reiners KS, Nolte IM, Smedby KE, Adami HO, Russell NS, Glimelius B, Hamilton-Dutoit S, de Bruin M, Ryder LP, Molin D, Sorensen KM, Chang ET, Taylor M, Cooke R, Hofstra R, Westers H, van Wezel T, van Eijk R, Ashworth A, Rostgaard K, Melbye M, Swerdlow AJ, Houlston RS. PMID: 21037568; PMCID: PMC4268499.
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