Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable
is a Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, at UCSF. Dr. Perez-Stables’ research theme is focused on Latino health care issues with an emphasis on cancer prevention topics. Since 1993, he has Co-Directed the Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations (MERC) with Eugene Washington, MD. They lead a team of multidisciplinary investigators focused on minority health with emphasis on cancer, reproductive health, patient-doctor communication, and cardiovascular disease. His research work includes a survey of California pediatricians and family physicians which compared their reported behavior in counseling parents of young children who smoke. He also completed an analysis of nicotine metabolism in White, Latino, African-American and Chinese-American smokers in collaboration with the laboratory of Neal Benowitz, M.D. He is also comparing psychological reactions, communication with the clinician, health related quality of life (HRQOL) measures, and delivery of health services by four ethnic groups with adjustments for socioeconomic factors and preliminary analyses indicate some significant ethnic differences in communication, HRQOL, and perception of abnormality. He is addressing the applicability of HRQOL measures across ethnicity and education, and is collaborating with John Wiencke, PhD, examining an association between lung cancer and a genetic marker that codes for an enzyme that metabolizes nitrosoamoines. The MERC is also one of five sites to participate in a Special Population Network funded by the NCI to address cancer prevention in Latino populations. This project completed a survey of Latino leaders to identify priorities in cancer for Latinos and is conducting a national survey of primary physicians. Dr. Perez-Stables and colleagues published several papers from the previous multi-site project (En Acción) including the first national survey comparing smoking behavior across 5 Latino groups of different national origin.
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