Diane Rittenhouse, MD, MPH is Assistant Professor in Residence in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the
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Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. She also serves on the Executive Steering Committee for the Center for Excellence in Primary Care at UCSF.
Dr. Rittenhouse’s principal research interest is in the organization, delivery and financing of primary care, with a focus on underserved populations. She has received a Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study care management for chronic illness and preventive care for Medicaid beneficiaries. Dr. Rittenhouse has published in peer-reviewed journals on topics ranging from trends in the use of prenatal care attributable to changes in Medicaid policy; influences on medical students’ choice to pursue primary care careers; predicting physician supply; measurement and reporting of health care quality; and innovations in primary care delivery.
Dr. Rittenhouse is the Health Systems/Health Policy Curriculum Content Director for the UCSF School of Medicine, responsible for the development and integration of a new comprehensive 4-year health policy curriculum for the medical school. She is also Director of the School of Medicine’s Area of Concentration “The Health Care System and the Physician Leader.” She has received awards from the UCSF School of Medicine for her teaching and curriculum development work.
Dr. Rittenhouse received her MD from the University of California, Davis, and her Masters in Public Health with an emphasis in health policy and management from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to her medical training she worked for both the California Statewide Office of Health Planning and Development and for the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health in Washington, D.C.
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