Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco
3333 California Street Suite 265, Box 0936
San Francisco, CA 94118
Email:
michael.cabana@ucsf.edu
Phone: 415-476-2705
Fax: 415-476-0705
Assistant: Jenny Lam
Email:
lamjen@peds.ucsf.edu
Phone: 415-476-5473
Link to: Department of Pediatrics
Pub Med Search: Cabana MD
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Michael Cabana is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and a core faculty member of the
Philip R. Lee
Institute for Health Policy Studies. He also serves as the Director of the Division of General Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Dr. Cabana's research interests include understanding variation in physician practice as it relates to quality of care, particularly in asthma. His work has focused on quality improvement, physician use of clinical practice guidelines, primary care referrals to subspecialists for asthma, as well as the primary prevention of asthma. He is the recipient of the 2006 Nemours Foundation Child Health Services Research Award.
Dr. Cabana completed his undergraduate medical training through the combined program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Wharton School of Business, where he earned a Masters Degree in Public Policy and Management. Dr. Cabana trained in pediatrics at the Harriet Lane Service at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. He continued at Johns Hopkins as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, where he completed his Masters in Public Health at the same institution. In 2005, Dr. Cabana joined the faculty at UCSF.
Dr. Cabana is co-Director of the Physician Asthma Care Education (PACE) Program. The PACE program was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to improve physician asthma counseling and communication. Dr. Cabana is currently the principal investigator for the Enhancing Pediatric Asthma Management Study (R-01 HL70771) and the Trial of Infant Probiotic Supplementation (R-01 HL80074).
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