Jennifer Barton, MD
University of California San Francisco
3333 California Street
Suite 270
San Francisco,
CA
USA
4143
Email:
Jennifer.Barton@ucsfmedctr.org
Biographical Sketch: Jennifer Barton, MD, is an academic rheumatologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF. Her research focus is on health communication and rheumatic diseases. Dr. Barton has received a career development award from the American College of Rheumatology as well as a Hellman Family Early Career Award to study patient-physician discordance around assessment of disease severity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). She was also a co-investigator on an ACR grant to examine disparities in utilization and outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis, and later a co-investigator on a grant funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to develop a low literacy medication summary guide and decision aid tool for vulnerable populations with RA. She works as a clinical rheumatologist serving vulnerable populations at San Francisco General Hospital.
Papers:
POOR QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION AMONG DIVERSE COHORT OF ADULTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: RACE/ETHNICITY, LANGUAGE AND FATIGUE ASSOCIATED WITH RATINGS
ARE PATIENTS' VIEWS AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INSTRUMENTS THAT ASSESS SHARED DECISION MAKING OUTCOMES?: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW TO INFORM RHEUMATOLOGY PRACTICE AND RESEARCH