Wagahta Semere, MD
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Title(s) | Assistant Professor, Medicine |
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School | School of Medicine |
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Address | 1001 Potrero Ave San Francisco CA 94110
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Phone | 628-206-4963 |
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Biography Stanford University | BSE | 2005 | Biomechanical Engineering | University of Michigan Medical School | MD | 2010 | Medicine | Yale New Haven Hospital | Residency | 2013 | Internal Medicine | Yale New Haven Hospital | Chief Residency | 2014 | Internal Medicine | RWJF Clinical Scholars Program | MHS | 2016 | Health Services Research | University of California, San Francisco | | 2020 | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training |
UCSF | 2017 | | John A. Watson Faculty Scholar | Yale | 2013 | | Gold Humanism Society |
Overview I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF in the Division of General Internal Medicine and a primary care provider in the Richard H. Fine People’s Clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. I am trained in health services research, with a background in quantitative, qualitative, and community-based participatory research (CBPR) methods. My work is focused on developing strategies, informatics-based tools, and using CBPR and computer science to better engage racially/ethnically diverse patients and their caregivers with providers in chronic disease management.
My current work focuses on examining communication between culturally and linguistically diverse patients, their caregivers, and providers. I am analyzing over 400,000 secure messages exchanged over an online patient portal between more than 9,500 ethnically diverse diabetes patients with limited health literacy, their caregivers, and their providers. I have applied machine learning, natural language processing, and novel computational linguistics techniques to characterize secure message communication. As an example, through the application of natural language processing, I have worked with computational linguists to identify caregivers’ “hidden proxy” communication on behalf of patients. We have characterized a socially and medically vulnerable group of patients who rely on proxies. My research has been supported by an RWJF Clinical Scholar award, a UCSF John A. Watson Faculty Scholar award, a Center for Aging in Diverse Communities grant, and is now supported by an NIH KL2 award with which I am “Leveraging Secure Messaging for Diverse Diabetes Patients and their Caregivers.” I am particularly interested in leveraging technology-based platforms and clinical informatics methods to develop communication tools that promote safe and effective family-centered care.
Health Services Research, Biomedical Informatics, Health Disparities, Diabetes, Caregiving, Telehealth, Patient Portals, Natural Language Processing, Caregiver Proxies, Community-based Participatory Research, Vulnerable Populations, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations, Safety-Net Health Systems
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Challenges and Solutions to Employing Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to Measure Patients' Health Literacy and Physician Writing Complexity: The ECLIPPSE Study. J Biomed Inform. 2020 Dec 11; 103658.
Brown W, Balyan R, Karter AJ, Crossley S, Semere W, Duran ND, Lyles C, Liu J, Moffet HH, Daniels R, McNamara DS, Schillinger D. PMID: 33316421.
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Descriptive examination of secure messaging in a longitudinal cohort of diabetes patients in the ECLIPPSE study. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2020 Nov 24.
Cemballi AG, Karter AJ, Schillinger D, Liu JY, McNamara DS, Brown W, Crossley S, Semere W, Reed M, Allen J, Lyles CR. PMID: 33236117.
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An Untapped Potential in Primary Care: Semi-Structured Interviews with Clinicians on How Patient Portals Will Work for Caregivers in the Safety Net. J Med Internet Res. 2020 07 20; 22(7):e18466.
Casillas A, Cemballi AG, Abhat A, Lemberg M, Portz JD, Sadasivaiah S, Ratanawongsa N, Semere W, Brown A, Lyles CR. PMID: 32706709.
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Secure Messaging with Physicians by Proxies for Patients with Diabetes: Findings from the ECLIPPSE Study. J Gen Intern Med. 2019 11; 34(11):2490-2496.
Semere W, Crossley S, Karter AJ, Lyles CR, Brown W, Reed M, McNamara DS, Liu JY, Schillinger D. PMID: 31428986.
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Caregiving for Older Adults with Limited English Proficiency: Transitioning from Hospital to Home. J Gen Intern Med. 2019 09; 34(9):1744-1750.
Semere W, Nápoles AM, Gregorich S, Livaudais-Toman J, Karliner L. PMID: 31236893.
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Using the Children with Special Health Care Needs Screener with Immigrant Families: An Analysis of the National Survey of Children's Health. J Immigr Minor Health. 2019 Feb; 21(1):189-197.
Warden C, Yun K, Semere W. PMID: 29603087.
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Factors Associated with Refugee Acute Healthcare Utilization in Southern Connecticut. J Immigr Minor Health. 2018 Apr; 20(2):327-333.
Semere W, Agrawal P, Yun K, Di Bartolo I, Annamalai A, Ross JS. PMID: 28382427.
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Challenges in Identifying Refugees in National Health Data Sets. Am J Public Health. 2016 07; 106(7):1231-2.
Semere W, Yun K, Ahalt C, Williams B, Wang EA. PMID: 27196649.
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A pediatric surgery study: parent usage of the Internet for medical information. J Pediatr Surg. 2003 Apr; 38(4):560-4.
Semere W, Karamanoukian HL, Levitt M, Edwards T, Murero M, D'Ancona G, Donias HW, Glick PL. PMID: 12677566.
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The world wide web and robotic heart surgery. Heart Surg Forum. 2003; 6(6):E111-9.
Semere WG, Edwards TM, Boyd D, Barsoumian R, Murero M, Donias HW, Karamanoukian HL. PMID: 14721995.
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