• Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
• Associate Professor, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco
• Executive Steering Committee Member, Center for Excellence in Primary Care, University of California, San Francisco

• University of California, Berkeley; BA
• University of California, Berkeley; MPH
• University of California, Davis; MD
• Residency; University of California, Davis; Family and Community Medicine
• Postdoctoral Fellow; University of California, San Francisco; Department of Family and Community Medicine; Primary Care Research
• Postdoctoral Fellow; University of California, San Francisco; Institute for Health Policy Studies; Health Services Research and Health Policy

• Primary Care, Health Policy & Health Services Research
  Dr. Rittenhouse's principal research interest lies at the intersection of social policy and clinical quality, particularly with regard to the organization, delivery and financing of primary care. She has published in peer-reviewed journals on topics ranging from trends in the use of prenatal care attributable to changes in Medicaid policy; influences on medical students’ choice to pursue primary care careers; predicting physician supply; measurement and reporting of health care quality; and innovations in primary care delivery. She has been recognized in the United States and Europe as a leading researcher on these topics. She is the recipient of a Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Rittenhouse is currently co-investigator for three large national studies of physician practices funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the California HealthCare Foundation, and The Commonwealth Fund. These include the National Study of Physician Organizations and Management of Chronic Illness (NSPO) II; An In-Depth Examination of High and Low Performers in the NSPO; and the National Study of Small and Medium-Sized Physician Practices. She is Principal Investigator for the evaluation of federal efforts to restore, expand and improve primary care services in Greater New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Dr. Rittenhouse took the lead on one of six commissioned papers as part of an initiative of the Society of General Internal Medicine, the Academic Pediatric Association, and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine to develop a policy-relevant research agenda to advance the PCMH model. The effort was jointly sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She is an active member of The Commonwealth Fund’s PCMH Evaluators Collaborative. She has recently published on the topic of the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) in both the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association, and has been invited to speak to members of the U.S. Congress on the role of the PCMH in health reform.

• Murray M, Bodenheimer T, Rittenhouse DR, Grumbach K. Improving timely access to primary care: case studies of the advanced access model. JAMA. 2003;289:1042-46.
• Rittenhouse DR, Mertz E, Keane D, Grumbach K. No exit: an evaluation of measures of physician attrition. Health Serv Res. 2004;39:1571-1588.
• Rittenhouse DR, Casalino LP, Gillies RR, Shortell SM, Lau B. Measuring the medical home infrastructure in large medical groups. Health Aff (Millwood). 2008;27:1246-1258.
• Rittenhouse DR, Shortell SM. The patient-centered medical home: will it stand the test of health reform? JAMA. 2009;301:2038-2040.
• Rittenhouse DR, Shortell SM, Fisher ES, Primary Care and Accountable Care: Two Essential Elements of Delivery System Reform. N Engl J Med. 2009;361:2301-2303

Department of Family and Community Medicine
Parnassus Heights
Box 0900
500 Parnassus Avenue, MU3E
San Francisco, CA 94143-0900

ph 415-514-9249

Rittenhouse@fcm.ucsf.edu