2024 Washington University School of Medicine MD Commencement speaker
Dean Schillinger, MD
Andrew B. Bindman Professor in Primary Care and Health Policy, University of California San Francisco (UCSF)
Director, UCSF Health Communications Research Program
Co-director of an NIDDK Center for Diabetes Translational Research (DREAMS-CDTR)
Dean Schillinger, MD, is a general internist, primary care physician. He is a UCSF Professor of Medicine and serves as the Andrew B. Bindman Professor of Primary Care & Health Policy. He is an international research expert in chronic disease-related public health, health communication, dissemination science and health policy.
In 2006, Schillinger co-founded the UCSF Action Research Center for Health Equity, and he currently directs the UCSF Health Communications Research Program. He recently completed a term as Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital and previously served as Chief of the Diabetes Prevention and Control Program for California. He has published over 325 peer-reviewed scientific articles and contributed to methodologic discoveries involving community-engaged research, quasi-experimental studies, natural experiments and evaluations of mass media events and social media campaigns.