Anjana Sharma, MD, MAS

Associate Professor,

Family Community Medicine

+1 628 206-4943

I have developed deep expertise in patient and community engagement in healthcare settings to improve quality and safety outcomes.

Specifically, I have skills in building and maintaining representative and ethical patient advisory councils, mixed-methods research, implementation science, quality improvement, community-engaged research, and reproductive health. Most of my work has focused on the public healthcare network, serving patients that our society has structurally and historically disinvested and marginalized.

My research portfolio seeks to develop research that will transform healthcare delivery structures into participatory, vibrant locations of well-being, healing, and justice. I currently am studying how patients can inform ambulatory patient safety improvement work, and the prevalence and impact of patient and community engagement in primary care.

I can provide expert consultation on developing patient/community advisory boards for clinical care or research activities that are patient- and community co-created. I am involved in residency education regarding community engagement competencies and engaging patients and community partners in residency education.

Publications:

Championing Hypertension Remote Monitoring for Equity and Dissemination (CHARMED): A multi-site factorial randomized controlled trial protocol.

Contemporary clinical trials

Lyles CR, Khoong EC, Stern RJ, Abtahi N, Sharma AE, Pletcher MJ, Xia F, Garcia F, Shah ND, Tieu L, Sarkar U, CHARMED consortium

Achieving Chronic Care Equity by Leveraging the Telehealth Ecosystem (ACCTIVATE): A Multilevel Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol.

Medical research archives

Omomukuyo A, Ramirez A, Davis A, Velasquez A, Najmabadi AL, Kong M, Willard-Grace R, Brown W, Broderick A, Suomala K, McCulloch CE, Franco N, Sarkar U, Lyles W C, Tran AS, Sharma AE, Tuot DS

Patient and caregiver perspectives on causes and prevention of ambulatory adverse events: multilingual qualitative study.

BMJ quality & safety

Sharma AE, Tran AS, Dy M, Najmabadi AL, Olazo K, Huang B, Sarkar U, PARTNRS Study Stakeholder Advisory Research Council

What do patients and families observe about pediatric safety?: A thematic analysis of real-time narratives.

Journal of hospital medicine

Studenmund C, Lyndon A, Stotts JR, Peralta-Neel C, Sharma AE, Bardach NS

Implementing team-based telemedicine workflows in safety-net primary care.

The American journal of managed care

Kong M, Willard-Grace R, Khoong E, Sharma A, Mukerjee M, Su G, Tuot D

Language-Specific Challenges and Solutions for Equitable Telemedicine Implementation in the Primary Care Safety Net During COVID-19.

Journal of general internal medicine

Sharma AE, Lisker S, Fields JD, Aulakh V, Figoni K, Jones ME, Arora NB, Sarkar U, Lyles CR

Emotional safety is patient safety.

BMJ quality & safety

Lyndon A, Davis DA, Sharma AE, Scott KA

COVID-19-Associated Misinformation Across the South Asian Diaspora: Qualitative Study of WhatsApp Messages.

JMIR infodemiology

Sharma AE, Khosla K, Potharaju K, Mukherjea A, Sarkar U

Medication adverse events in the ambulatory setting: A mixed-methods analysis.

American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

Wong J, Lee SY, Sarkar U, Sharma AE

Centering Health Equity in Telemedicine.

Annals of family medicine

Lyles CR, Sharma AE, Fields JD, Getachew Y, Sarkar U, Zephyrin L

System-level factors associated with telephone and video visit use: Survey of safety-net clinicians during the early phase of COVID-19.

JMIR formative research

Sharma AE, Khoong EC, Sierra M, Rivadeneira NA, Nijagal MA, Su G, Lyles CR, Defries T, Tuot D, Sarkar U

Family Input for Quality and Safety (FIQS): Using mobile technology for in-hospital reporting from families and patients.

Journal of hospital medicine

Bardach NS, Stotts JR, Fiore DM, Sarkar U, Sharma AE, Boscardin WJ, Avina L, Peralta-Neel C, Rosenbluth G

A Qualitative Analysis of Outpatient Medication Use in Community Settings: Observed Safety Vulnerabilities and Recommendations for Improved Patient Safety.

Journal of patient safety

Lyson HC, Sharma AE, Cherian R, Patterson ES, McDonald KM, Lee SY, Sarkar U

"How Can We Talk about Patient-centered Care without Patients at the Table?" Lessons Learned from Patient Advisory Councils.

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM

Sharma AE, Willard-Grace R, Willis A, Zieve O, Dubé K, Parker C, Potter MB

Anjana Sharma, MD, MAS

Championing Hypertension Remote Monitoring for Equity and Dissemination (CHARMED): A multi-site factorial randomized controlled trial protocol.

Achieving Chronic Care Equity by Leveraging the Telehealth Ecosystem (ACCTIVATE): A Multilevel Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol.

Patient and caregiver perspectives on causes and prevention of ambulatory adverse events: multilingual qualitative study.

What do patients and families observe about pediatric safety?: A thematic analysis of real-time narratives.

Implementing team-based telemedicine workflows in safety-net primary care.

Language-Specific Challenges and Solutions for Equitable Telemedicine Implementation in the Primary Care Safety Net During COVID-19.

Emotional safety is patient safety.

COVID-19-Associated Misinformation Across the South Asian Diaspora: Qualitative Study of WhatsApp Messages.

Medication adverse events in the ambulatory setting: A mixed-methods analysis.

Centering Health Equity in Telemedicine.

System-level factors associated with telephone and video visit use: Survey of safety-net clinicians during the early phase of COVID-19.

Family Input for Quality and Safety (FIQS): Using mobile technology for in-hospital reporting from families and patients.

The Abrupt Expansion of Ambulatory Telemedicine: Implications for Patient Safety.

Warfarin Monitoring in Safety-Net Health Systems: Analysis by Race/Ethnicity and Language Preference.

A Root Cause Analysis of Barriers to Timely Colonoscopy in California Safety-Net Health Systems.

Patient and caregiver factors in ambulatory incident reports: a mixed-methods analysis.

Using incident reporting to understand and characterize sexual harassment of physicians by patients.

A Qualitative Analysis of Outpatient Medication Use in Community Settings: Observed Safety Vulnerabilities and Recommendations for Improved Patient Safety.

Clinician experience with telemedicine at a safety-net hospital network during COVID-19: a cross-sectional survey.

Recommendations From the Twitter Hashtag #DoctorsAreDickheads: Qualitative Analysis.

What Safety Events Are Reported For Ambulatory Care? Analysis of Incident Reports from a Patient Safety Organization.

Birth Control Connect: a randomized trial of an online group to disseminate contraceptive information.

Sharing Stories, Searching for Solutions: Sexual Harassment of Physicians by Patients.

Patient Engagement in Community Health Center Leadership: How Does it Happen?

Community Education and Engagement in Family Planning: Updated Systematic Review.

Patient Engagement In Health Care Safety: An Overview Of Mixed-Quality Evidence.

How Is Family Medicine Engaging Patients at the Practice-Level?: A National Sample of Family Physicians.

The impact of patient advisors on healthcare outcomes: a systematic review.

Engaging patients in primary care practice transformation: theory, evidence and practice.

The Impact of the Patient-Centered Medical Home on Health Disparities in Adults: A Systematic Review of the Evidence

"How Can We Talk about Patient-centered Care without Patients at the Table?" Lessons Learned from Patient Advisory Councils.

Engaging Patients as Partners in Practice Improvement: A Survey of Community Health Centers

What Happens After Health Coaching? Observational Study 1 Year Following a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Patient Advisory Councils: Giving Patients a Seat at the Table.

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