• Director of Research
• Director, Evidence Based Medicine, UCSF Family Medicine Residency Program

• AB, Stanford University
• MD, University of California, San Diego
• MPH, University of Washington
• PhD, University of Washington
• Residency in Family Medicine, UCSF, Sonoma County Community Hospital
• Fellowship, University of Washington, Epidemiology

• The doctor-patient relationship, especially patient-physician trust
• Female, adult, urinary incontinence
• Evidence-based medicine

• Thom DH, Tirado MD. Cultural competency of health care providers: validation of a new measure. Medical Research and Review 2006;63(5):636-55.
• Thom DH, Tirado MD. Cultural competency of health care providers: validation of a new measure. Medical Research and Review 2006;63(5):636-55.
• Huang AJ, Brown JS, Kanaya AM, Creasman J, Van Den Eeden SK, Thom DH. Quality-of-Life impact and treatment for urinary incontinence in ethnically-diverse older women. Archives of Internal Medicine 2006;166:2000-6.
• Stepanikova I, Mollborn SB, Cook KS, Kramer RM, Thom DH. Patients’ race, ethnicity, language, and trust in a physician. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 2006;47(4):390-405.
• Thom DH. Invited Commentary: The contribution of the Boston Area Community Health (BACH) Survey to the epidemiology of urinary incontinence. American Journal of Epidemiology 2008;167:400-3.

Department of Family and Community Medicine
San Francisco General Hospital
Box SFGH-B80 WD83
1001 Potrero Avenue
Bldg 80, Ward 83
San Francisco, CA 94110

ph 415-206-6523

dthom@fcm.ucsf.edu