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Randall S. Stafford, MD, PhD

  • Associate Professor of Medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, SCPKU Fellow April-June 2014
  • Stanford Health Policy Associate

Stanford Prevention Research Center
Stanford University
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Palo Alto, CA 94304-1825

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Biography

Randall Stafford is an associate professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center and a fellow at CHP/PCOR. He is an epidemiologist, health services researcher and primary-care internist. His research focuses on patient and physician interventions to improve chronic disease prevention, and the mechanisms by which physicians adopt new prevention practices. Many of his published studies have documented and raised concerns about the so-called "quality gap" -- the healthcare system's failure to consistently implement clinically proven therapies -- and have helped shape policy initiatives aimed at improving medical care. His research has also focused on drug costs and patterns of medication prescribing. At the Stanford Prevention Research Center, he directs the Program on Prevention and Outcomes Practices. He maintains clinical responsibilities at Stanford's Preventive Cardiology and Internal Medicine clinics, and serves on Stanford Medical School's faculty Senate.

From 1994 to 2001 he served on the faculty at Harvard University Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospital's Institute for Health Policy, where he was principal investigator on several federally funded projects that assessed and sought to improve physician practices. As assistant director of primary care operations improvement at Massachusetts General, he led several projects aimed at improving the quality of outpatient care at the hospital. He joined the Stanford faculty in 2001.

Stafford earned a BA in sociology from Reed College, an MS in health administration from Johns Hopkins University, an MD from UC-San Francisco and a PhD in epidemiology from UC-Berkeley. He completed an internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and a fellowship in epidemiology at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

publications

Abstracts
December 2002

Secondary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease: Lipid Management as a Priority for Improvement

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December 2002

National Patterns in the Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections in Women by Ambulatory Care Physicians

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