Professor, Family and Community Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine

Preventive Medicine

Thomas S. Bodenheimer is an expert in the field of Preventive Medicine. He studied medicine at Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a one of the best medicals schools. Harvard Medical School is ranked 1/12 in Research/PrimaryCare. He received 2 awards: "Elected Member" and "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Thomas S. Bodenheimer, MD is a published physician. He published 100 publications, including: 'A radical alternative to national health insurance.'

Publications

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• Health coaching by medical assistants to improve control of diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia in low-income patients: a randomized controlled trial.
• The Panel Management Questionnaire: A Tool to Measure Panel Management Capability.
• Expanding the Roles of Medical Assistants: Who Does What in Primary Care?
• Does health coaching change patients' trust in their primary care provider?
• Diabetes Peer Coaching: Do "Better Patients" Make Better Coaches?
• The Emerging Primary Care Workforce: Preliminary Observations From the Primary Care Team: Learning From Effective Ambulatory Practices Project.
• How Primary Care Practices Can Improve Continuity of Care.
• Peer Coaching to Improve Diabetes Self-Management: Which Patients Benefit Most?
• Estimating a reasonable patient panel size for primary care physicians with team-based task delegation.
• Facilitating improvement in primary care: the promise of practice coaching.
• Health coaching to improve hypertension treatment in a low-income, minority population.
• Care management of patients with complex health care needs.
• Hospital-physician portals: the role of competition in driving clinical data exchange.
• The impact of health coaching on medication adherence in patients with poorly controlled diabetes, hypertension, and/or hyperlipidemia: a randomized controlled trial.
• Team structure and culture are associated with lower burnout in primary care.
• The 10 building blocks of high-performing primary care.
• How do peer coaches improve diabetes care for low-income patients?: a qualitative analysis.
• In search of joy in practice: a report of 23 high-functioning primary care practices.
• Health coaching.
• The specialist-generalist income gap: can we narrow it?
• North Carolina medicaid: a fruitful payer-practice collaboration.
• Coordinating care--a perilous journey through the health care system.
• Primary care: can it solve employers' health care dilemma?
• Coordinating care: a major (unreimbursed) task of primary care.
• A 63-year-old man with multiple cardiovascular risk factors and poor adherence to treatment plans.
• The teamlet model of primary care.
• What now? Practical advice on how to reduce medical and pharmacy costs.
• The primary care-specialty income gap: why it matters.
• Making systemwide improvements in health care: Lessons from Jönköping County, Sweden.
• Electronic technology: a spark to revitalize primary care?
• The not-so-sad history of Medicare cost containment as told in one chart.
• Primary care in the United States. Innovations in primary care in the United States.
• Employers' efforts to measure and improve hospital quality: determinants of success.
• Improving timely access to primary care: case studies of the advanced access model.
• External incentives, information technology, and organized processes to improve health care quality for patients with chronic diseases.
• The movement for universal health insurance: finding common ground.
• Patient self-management of chronic disease in primary care.
• As good as it gets? Chronic care management in nine leading US physician organisations.
• Improving primary care for patients with chronic illness: the chronic care model, Part 2.
• Improving primary care for patients with chronic illness.
• A primary care home for Americans: putting the house in order.
• Primary care--will it survive?
• Specialty-service lines: salvos in the new medical arms race.
• Using action plans to help primary care patients adopt healthy behaviors: a descriptive study.
• Behavior-change action plans in primary care: a feasibility study of clinicians.
• Effect of primary health care orientation on chronic care management.
• Can money buy quality? Physician response to pay for performance.
• The political divide in health care: a liberal perspective.
• Planned visits to help patients self-manage chronic conditions.
• Helping patients improve their health-related behaviors: what system changes do we need?
• Brief report: The prevalence and use of chronic disease registries in physician organizations. A national survey.
• An empirical assessment of high-performing medical groups: results from a national study.
• The action plan project: discussing behavior change in the primary care visit.
• Practice-based research in primary care: facilitator of, or barrier to, practice improvement?
• High and rising health care costs. Part 4: can costs be controlled while preserving quality?
• High and rising health care costs. Part 3: the role of health care providers.
• High and rising health care costs. Part 2: technologic innovation.
• High and rising health care costs. Part 1: seeking an explanation.
• Nurses as leaders in chronic care.
• The use of patient and physician reminders for preventive services: results from a National Study of Physician Organizations.
• What are the facilitators and barriers in physician organizations' use of care management processes?
• Insuring the uninsured: will the 2004 election provide an answer?
• Organizational factors affecting the adoption of diabetes care management processes in physician organizations.
• Can health care teams improve primary care practice?
• Strategies to improve diabetes care.
• Interventions to improve chronic illness care: evaluating their effectiveness.
• Two advertisements for TV drug ads.
• Preparing primary care for the future - perspectives from the Netherlands, England, and USA.
• From evidence-based medicine to evidence-based health: the example of asthma.
• Improving population health through team-based panel management: comment on "Electronic medical record reminders and panel management to improve primary care of elderl...
• Redesigning after-hours primary care.
• Lessons from the trenches--a high-functioning primary care clinic.
• Building blocks of the patient-centered medical/health home: comment on "colorectal cancer screening among ethnically diverse, low-income patients".
• The effectiveness of peer health coaching in improving glycemic control among low-income patients with diabetes: protocol for a randomized controlled trial.
• Introducing the "teamlet": initiating a primary care innovation at san francisco general hospital.
• Moving from evidence-based medicine to evidence-based health.
• Health coaching for patients with chronic illness.
• Lessons from my left foot.
• Low-cost lessons from Grand Junction, Colorado.
• Controlling hypertension requires a new primary care model.
• Health coaching in the teamlet model: a case study.
• Using the Teamlet Model to improve chronic care in an academic primary care practice.
• Why pharmacists belong in the medical home.
• Primary care: current problems and proposed solutions.
• Transforming primary care: from past practice to the practice of the future.
• The effectiveness of health coaching, home blood pressure monitoring, and home-titration in controlling hypertension among low-income patients: protocol for a randomiz...
• The health care problem no one's talking about.
• Follow the money--controlling expenditures by improving care for patients needing costly services.
• The political economy of U.S. primary care.
• Goal-setting for behavior change in primary care: an exploration and status report.
• A lifeline for primary care.
• Confronting the growing burden of chronic disease: can the U.S. health care workforce do the job?
• The future of primary care--the community responds.
• The future of primary care: transforming practice.
• Perspective roundtable: redesigning primary care.
• Primary care's eroding earnings: is congress concerned?
• Hospitalists and care transitions: the divorce of inpatient and outpatient care.
• Dr bodenheimer responds.
• A radical alternative to national health insurance.

Schools

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• Harvard Medical School

• Boston City Hospital

• University Ca

Doctors Specialties

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• Internal Medicine
• Preventive Medicine

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Elected Member
• Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare

Education

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• UCSF
• Boston University Medical Center
• Harvard Medical School

Hospital

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• UCSF Medical Center

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