Eliseo Pérez-Stable, MD
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Research is focused on health disparities with a special emphasis on Latino health care and cancer control. He is Co-PI of the NCI funded Redes En Accion National Latino Cancer Control Research and Education Network. He collaborates with new investigators from several institutions to help develop the tobacco control research agenda for minority populations in the US. Dr. Pérez-Stable also has an R01 grant from the Fogarty International Center/NIDA to strengthen capacity in tobacco control research and implement projects in Argentina. Dr. Pérez-Stable is Director of the UCSF Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations (MERC) and Director of the Center for Aging in Diverse Communities (CADC). MERC and CADC focus on health and health care disparities in African American, Asian American, and Latino populations with a special emphasis on cancer, cardiovascular disease, aging, and reproductive health.
University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, BS, 1974 Chemistry
University of Miami, Miami, FL, M.D., 1978, Medicine
1. Fernández A, Schillinger D, Grumbach K, Rosenthal A, Stewart AL, Wang F, Pérez-Stable EJ. Physician Language Ability and Cultural Competence: An Exploratory Study of Communication with Spanish-speaking Patients. J Gen Intern Med 2004: 19: 167-174. PMCID: 1492135.
2. Daniels NA, Nguyen TT, Gildengorin G, Pérez-Stable EJ. Adult immunization in university-based primary care and specialty practices. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2004; 52: 1007-1012.
3. Ramirez AG, Gallion KJ, Suarez L, Giachello AL, Marti JR, Medrano MA, Pérez-Stable EJ, Talavera GA Trapido E. A National Agenda for Latino Cancer Prevention and Control. Cancer 2005; 203: 2209-2215.
4. Karliner LS, Kaplan CP, Juarbe T, Pasick R, Pérez-Stable EJ. Poor patient comprehension of abnormal mammography results. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2005; May; 20(5):432-437. PMCID: 1490112.
5. Tong EK, Ong MK, Vittinghoff E, Pérez-Stable EJ. Nondaily smokers should be asked and advised to quit. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2006; 30: 23-30.
6. Flores ML, Barnoya J, Mejia R, Alderete E, Pérez-Stable EJ. Litigation in Argentina: Challenging the tobacco industry. Tobacco Control, 2006, 15: 90-96. PMCID: 2563559.
7. Karliner L, Napoles-Springer A, Bibbins-Domingo K, Schillinger D, Pérez-Stable EJ. Identification of Limited English Proficient Patients in Clinical Care. J Gen Intern Med. 2008 Oct;23(10):1555-60. Epub 2008 Jul 10. PMCID: 2533382. 8. Huang AJ, Pérez-Stable EJ, Kim SE, Wong S, Kaplan CP, Walsh JME, Iwaoka-Scott AY, Sawaya GF. Preferences for Human Papilloma virus Testing with Routine Cervical Cancer Screening in Diverse Older Women, J Gen Intern Med. 23(9):1324-9. Epub 2008 May 28. PMCID: 2518007.
9. Fejerman L, John EM, Huntsman S, Beckman K, Choudry S. Pérez-Stable EJ, Gonzalez Burchard E, Ziv E. Genetic ancestry and risk of breast cancer among US Latinas. Cancer Research 2008 Dec 1;68(23):9723-8. PMCID: 2674787.
10. Tong EK, Nguyen TT, Ong M, Vittinghoff E, Pérez-Stable EJ. Smoking Behaviors Among Immigrant Asian Americans: Rules for Smoke-Free Homes. Am J Prev Med. 2008 Jul;35(1):64-7. PMCID: 2441880.
11. Barrera AZ, Pérez-Stable EJ, Delucchi K, Muñoz RF. Global Reach of an Internet Smoking Cessation Intervention: Characteristics of 17,500 Spanish- and English-Speaking Smokers from 157 Countries. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2009; Mar;6(3):927-40. Epub 2009 Feb 26. PMCID: 2672395. 12. Smith AK, Sudore RL, Pérez-Stable EJ. Palliative care for Latino patients and their families: “Whenever we prayed, she wept”. JAMA 2009; 301 (10) 1047-1057. PMCID: 2782583.
13. Alderete E, Kaplan CP, Gregorich SE, Pérez-Stable EJ. Use of alternative tobacco products in multiethnic youth from Jujuy, Argentina. J Environ Public Health. 2010;2010:795265. Epub 2010 Mar 16. PMCID: 2841245.
14. Fejerman L, Romieu I, John E, Lazcano-Ponce E. Huntsman S, Beckman K, Pérez-Stable EJ, Gonzalez-Burchard E, Ziv E, Torres-Mejia G. European ancestry is positively associated with breast cancer risk in Mexican women. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention 2010; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2010 Mar 23. [Epub ahead of print].
15. Wong ST, Nordstokke D, Gregorich S, Pérez-Stable EJ. Measurement of social support across women from four ethnic groups: Evidence of factorial invariance. J Cross Cult Gerontol. 2010 Mar;25(1):45-58. PMCID: 2836242.