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  • 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Thomas Bodenheimer is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on health professions and medicine, with an emphasis on the subfields of general health professions, economics and econometrics, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, epidemiology, and public health, environmental, and occupational health.

Their work encompasses key topics including primary care and health outcomes, healthcare policy and management, diabetes management and education, healthcare cost, quality, and practices, chronic disease management strategies, interprofessional education and collaboration, and innovations in medical education.

Recent papers authored by Thomas Bodenheimer include:

  • Revitalizing Primary Care, Part 2: Hopes for the Future (2022) published in The Annals of Family Medicine
  • Revitalizing Primary Care, Part 1: Root Causes of Primary Care's Problems (2022) published in The Annals of Family Medicine
  • Integrating Physical Therapists Into Primary Care Within A Large Health Care System (2021) published in The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Other notable papers in their research network include:

  • Revitalizing the U.S. Primary Care Infrastructure (2021) published in New England Journal of Medicine
  • Process evaluation of a medical assistant health coaching intervention for type 2 diabetes in diverse primary care settings (2021) published in Translational Behavioral Medicine

Thomas Bodenheimer frequently collaborates with several co-authors in their research publications. These include Taylor L. Clark, Addie L. Fortmann, Athena Philis-Tsimikas, Haley Sandoval, and Linda C. Gallo.

Their research is published in venues such as The Annals of Family Medicine, The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine, Translational Behavioral Medicine, and Families Systems & Health.

In 2008, Thomas Bodenheimer was recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).

Best Publications

  • Patient Self-management of Chronic Disease in Primary Care

    Thomas Bodenheimer;Kate Lorig;Halsted Holman;Kevin Grumbach

  • Improving Primary Care for Patients With Chronic Illness

    Thomas Bodenheimer;Edward H. Wagner;Kevin Grumbach

  • Improving primary care for patients with chronic illness: the chronic care model, Part 2

    Thomas Bodenheimer;Edward H. Wagner;Kevin Grumbach

  • From Triple to Quadruple Aim: Care of the Patient Requires Care of the Provider

    Thomas Bodenheimer;Christine Sinsky

  • Coordinating Care — A Perilous Journey through the Health Care System

    Thomas Bodenheimer

  • Uneasy alliance--clinical investigators and the pharmaceutical industry.

    Thomas Bodenheimer

  • Can health care teams improve primary care practice

    Kevin Grumbach;Thomas Bodenheimer

  • Primary Care: Current Problems And Proposed Solutions

    Thomas Bodenheimer;Hoangmai H. Pham

  • Confronting The Growing Burden Of Chronic Disease: Can The U.S. Health Care Workforce Do The Job?

    Thomas Bodenheimer;Ellen Chen;Heather D. Bennett

  • External Incentives, Information Technology, and Organized Processes to Improve Health Care Quality for Patients With Chronic Diseases

    Lawrence Casalino;Robin R. Gillies;Stephen M. Shortell;Julie A. Schmittdiel

  • The 10 Building Blocks of High-Performing Primary Care

    Thomas Bodenheimer;Amireh Ghorob;Rachel Willard-Grace;Kevin Grumbach

  • Primary care--will it survive?

    Thomas Bodenheimer

  • In Search of Joy in Practice: A Report of 23 High-Functioning Primary Care Practices

    Christine A. Sinsky;Rachel Willard-Grace;Andrew M. Schutzbank;Thomas A. Sinsky

  • THE ULTRASTRUCTURE OF MAUTHNER CELL SYNAPSES AND NODES IN GOLDFISH BRAINS.

    J. David Robertson;Thomas S. Bodenheimer;David E. Stage

  • High and rising health care costs. Part 2: technologic innovation.

    Thomas Bodenheimer

  • The American health care system--the movement for improved quality in health care.

    Thomas Bodenheimer

  • High and Rising Health Care Costs. Part 1: Seeking an Explanation

    Thomas Bodenheimer

  • A Primary Care Home for Americans: Putting the House in Order

    Kevin Grumbach;Thomas Bodenheimer

  • Goal-setting for behavior change in primary care: An exploration and status report

    Thomas Bodenheimer;Margaret A. Handley

  • Primary care: proposed solutions to the physician shortage without training more physicians.

    Thomas S. Bodenheimer;Mark D. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin Grumbach
Kevin Grumbach University of California, San Francisco
Stephen M. Shortell
Stephen M. Shortell University of California, Berkeley
Thomas G. Rundall
Thomas G. Rundall University of California, Berkeley
Steffie Woolhandler
Steffie Woolhandler City University of New York
David U. Himmelstein
David U. Himmelstein City University of New York
Barbara Starfield
Barbara Starfield Johns Hopkins University
Hubertus J. M. Vrijhoef
Hubertus J. M. Vrijhoef Maastricht University
Edward H. Wagner
Edward H. Wagner Kaiser Permanente
James C. Robinson
James C. Robinson University of California, Berkeley
Ellen Nolte
Ellen Nolte London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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