Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS

Vice Dean, Chair and Professor
M_Epidemiology & Biostatistics
+1 415 502-4106

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS is the Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She is currently the 17th Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the JAMA Network.

Dr. Bibbins-Domingo has previously served as the inaugural Vice Dean for Population Health and Health Equity in the UCSF School of Medicine. She also chaired the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics from 2017-2022. Dr. Bibbins-Domingo co-founded the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital that generates actionable research to increase health equity and reduce health disparities in at-risk populations in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and nationally.

Dr. Bibbins-Domingo is a general internist, cardiovascular disease epidemiologist, and a national leader in prevention and interventions to address health disparities. She had been a long-standing NIH-funded researcher who used observational studies, pragmatic trials, and simulation modeling to examine effective clinical, public health, and policy interventions aimed at prevention.

Dr. Bibbins-Domingo was a member of the US Preventive Services Task Force from 2010-2017 and led the Task Force as the vice-chair and chair from 2014-2017. She is an inducted member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Publications

Predatory Journals: What Can We Do to Protect Their Prey?

Deutsches Arzteblatt international

Laine C, Babski D, Bachelet VC, Bärnighausen TW, Baethge C, Bibbins-Domingo K, Frizelle F, Gollogy L, Kleinert S, Loder E, Monteiro J, Rubin EJ, Sahni P, Wee CC, Yoo JH, Zakhama L, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)

Untitled Publication

La Tunisie medicale

Laine C, Babski D, Bachelet VC, Barnighausen TW, Baethge C, Bibbins-Domingo K, Frizelle F, Gollogy L, Kleinert S, Loder E, Monteiro J, Rubin EJ, Sahni P, Wee CC, Yoo JH, Zakhama L

Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War.

International journal of public health

Abbasi K, Ali P, Barbour V, Bibbins-Domingo K, Olde Rikkert MGM, Haines A, Helfand I, Horton R, Mash B, Mitra A, Monteiro C, Naumova EN, Rubin EJ, Ruff T, Sahni P, Tumwine J, Yonga P, Zielinski C

Reducing the Risks of Nuclear War.

Public health reviews

Abbasi K, Ali P, Barbour V, Bibbins-Domingo K, Olde Rikkert MGM, Haines A, Helfand I, Horton R, Mash B, Mitra A, Monteiro C, Naumova EN, Rubin EJ, Ruff T, Sahni P, Tumwine J, Yonga P, Zielinski C

Reducing the risks of nuclear war.

BMJ (Clinical research ed.)

Abbasi K, Ali P, Barbour V, Bibbins-Domingo K, Olde Rikkert MGM, Haines A, Helfand I, Horton R, Mash B, Mitra A, Monteiro C, Naumova EN, Rubin EJ, Ruff T, Sahni P, Tumwine J, Yonga P, Zielinski C

Proceedings From a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Workshop to Control Hypertension.

American journal of hypertension

Commodore-Mensah Y, Loustalot F, Himmelfarb CD, Desvigne-Nickens P, Sachdev V, Bibbins-Domingo K, Clauser SB, Cohen DJ, Egan BM, Fendrick AM, Ferdinand KC, Goodman C, Graham GN, Jaffe MG, Krumholz HM, Levy PD, Mays GP, McNellis R, Muntner P, Ogedegbe G, Milani RV, Polgreen LA, Reisman L, Sanchez EJ, Sperling LS, Wall HK, Whitten L, Wright JT, Wright JS, Fine LJ

Community-Academic Partnerships to Address Covid-19 Inequities: Lessons from the San Francisco Bay Area

NEJM Catalyst

Jessica Fields, J Raul Gutierrez, Carina Marquez, Kim Rhoads, Margot Kushel, Alicia Fernández, Gabriel Chamie, Francine Rios-Fetchko, Elizabeth Imbert, Cynthia Nagendra, Eva Pardo, Ghilamichael Andemeskel, Susana Rojas, Jon Jacobo, Valerie Tulier-Laiwa, Monique LeSarre, Gerald Green, Michael Shaw, Chris Iglesias, Jane Garcia, Aaron Ortiz, Giuliana Martinez, Andrés Aranda-Díaz, Gwendolyn Westbrook, J. Michelle Pierce, Calder Lorenz, Donna Hilliard, Isela Ford, Naveena Bobba, Kimi Watkins-Tartt, Diane Havlir, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

Genetic Determinants of Telomere Length in African American Youth.

Scientific reports

Zeiger AM, White MJ, Eng C, Oh SS, Witonsky J, Goddard PC, Contreras MG, Elhawary JR, Hu D, Mak ACY, Lee EY, Keys KL, Samedy LA, Risse-Adams O, Magaña J, Huntsman S, Salazar S, Davis A, Meade K, Brigino-Buenaventura E, LeNoir MA, Farber HJ, Bibbins-Domingo K, Borrell LN, Burchard EG

Breastfeeding associated with higher lung function in African American youths with asthma.

The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma

Oh SS, Du R, Zeiger AM, McGarry ME, Hu D, Thakur N, Pino-Yanes M, Galanter JM, Eng C, Nishimura KK, Huntsman S, Farber HJ, Meade K, Avila P, Serebrisky D, Bibbins-Domingo K, Lenoir MA, Ford JG, Brigino-Buenaventura E, Rodriguez-Cintron W, Thyne SM, Sen S, Rodriguez-Santana JR, Williams K, Kumar R, Burchard EG

Air Pollution and Lung Function in Minority Youth with Asthma in the GALA II (Genes-Environments and Admixture in Latino Americans) and SAGE II (Study of African Americans, Asthma, Genes, and Environments) Studies.

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine

Neophytou AM, White MJ, Oh SS, Thakur N, Galanter JM, Nishimura KK, Pino-Yanes M, Torgerson DG, Gignoux CR, Eng C, Nguyen EA, Hu D, Mak AC, Kumar R, Seibold MA, Davis A, Farber HJ, Meade K, Avila PC, Serebrisky D, Lenoir MA, Brigino-Buenaventura E, Rodriguez-Cintron W, Bibbins-Domingo K, Thyne SM, Williams LK, Sen S, Gilliland FD, Gauderman WJ, Rodriguez-Santana JR, Lurmann F, Balmes JR, Eisen EA, Burchard EG

Genetic ancestry influences asthma susceptibility and lung function among Latinos.

The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology

Pino-Yanes M, Thakur N, Gignoux CR, Galanter JM, Roth LA, Eng C, Nishimura KK, Oh SS, Vora H, Huntsman S, Nguyen EA, Hu D, Drake KA, Conti DV, Moreno-Estrada A, Sandoval K, Winkler CA, Borrell LN, Lurmann F, Islam TS, Davis A, Farber HJ, Meade K, Avila PC, Serebrisky D, Bibbins-Domingo K, Lenoir MA, Ford JG, Brigino-Buenaventura E, Rodriguez-Cintron W, Thyne SM, Sen S, Rodriguez-Santana JR, Bustamante CD, Williams LK, Gilliland FD, Gauderman WJ, Kumar R, Torgerson DG, Burchard EG

Genome-wide association study of cardiac structure and systolic function in African Americans: the Candidate Gene Association Resource (CARe) study.

Circulation. Cardiovascular genetics

Fox ER, Musani SK, Barbalic M, Lin H, Yu B, Ogunyankin KO, Smith NL, Kutlar A, Glazer NL, Post WS, Paltoo DN, Dries DL, Farlow DN, Duarte CW, Kardia SL, Meyers KJ, Sun YV, Arnett DK, Patki AA, Sha J, Cui X, Samdarshi TE, Penman AD, Bibbins-Domingo K, Bužková P, Benjamin EJ, Bluemke DA, Morrison AC, Heiss G, Carr JJ, Tracy RP, Mosley TH, Taylor HA, Psaty BM, Heckbert SR, Cappola TP, Vasan RS

Genetic association for renal traits among participants of African ancestry reveals new loci for renal function.

PLoS genetics

Liu CT, Garnaas MK, Tin A, Kottgen A, Franceschini N, Peralta CA, de Boer IH, Lu X, Atkinson E, Ding J, Nalls M, Shriner D, Coresh J, Kutlar A, Bibbins-Domingo K, Siscovick D, Akylbekova E, Wyatt S, Astor B, Mychaleckjy J, Li M, Reilly MP, Townsend RR, Adeyemo A, Zonderman AB, de Andrade M, Turner ST, Mosley TH, Harris TB, Rotimi CN, Liu Y, Kardia SL, Evans MK, Shlipak MG, Kramer H, Flessner MF, Dreisbach AW, Goessling W, Cupples LA, Kao WL, Fox CS