James Kahn, MD
Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Research Interests
Dr. Kahn’s research activities focus on HIV disease modeling, medical informatics and consumer-based research. In the past Dr. Kahn conducted Phase 1 through Phase 3 protocols and launched two significant clinical research projects: the Post-Exposure Prevention (PEP) project and the Primary HIV Infection (Options Project). In both cases Dr. Kahn identified and mentored the clinical directors of those projects, Drs. Michelle Roland and Rick Hecht (respectively). Dr. Kahn is a lead investigator of the CFAR-sponsored Network for Integrated Clinical Study (CNICS), an effort to link NIH CFARs into a comprehensive electronic medical record system for clinical research and he received an NIH Road map initiative on the feasibility of integrating and expanding clinical research networks. Dr. Kahn’s present work is focused on utilizing sophisticated electronic health record systems to store and retrieve data from various platforms for research. The primary health record system under Dr. Kahn’s leadership is the health electronic medical record, HERO, (Health Education Record Organizer), which is the patient database at the Ward 86 clinic at San Francisco General Hospital. This work is supported by peer-reviewed NIH and AHRQ grants and has contributed to leading articles about empowering patients through access to information and personal health records. Dr. Kahn and his group has integrated an enterprise level XRM tool into the electronic health record and is now investigating the role of mobile phones and specifically short messages texts (SMS) to improve healthcare. Dr. Kahn is the clinical leader on a series of modeling papers of the HIV epidemic with ongoing collaborations among world leaders. Dr. Kahn also leads and studies the implementation of mentoring programs for early career and mid-career translational scientists at UCSF.
Select Publications
| 1) | Kahn J, Greenblatt RM. Mentoring Early Career Scientists for HIV Research Careers. AJPH 2009 April S1:37-42. |
| 2) | Kahn J, Akulah V, Boswell A. What It Takes: Characteristics of the Ideal Personal Health Record. Health Affairs 2009 28(2); 369-76. |
| 3) | Feldman MD, Huang L, Guglielmo BJ, Jordan R, Kahn J, Creasman J, Wiener-Kronish JP, Lee KA, Tehrani A, Yaffe K, Brown JS. Training the Next Generation of Research Mentors: The University of California, San Francisco, Clinical & Translational Science Institute Mentor Development Program. Clin Transl Sci. 2009 Jun 1;2(3):216-221. |
| 4) | Kahn JS, Hilton JF, Nunnery TV, Leasure S, Bryant KM, Hare CB, Thom DH. Personal Health Records in a Public Hospital: Experience at the HIV/AIDS clinic at San Francisco General Hospital. JAMIA 2010 1;17(2):224-8. |
| 5) | Kahn JG, Yang J, Kahn JS. The potential roles of mHealth in developing economies: Can they be realized? Health Affairs 2010 2:254-61 [DOI:10.1377/hlthaff] |
| 6) | Smith, RJ, Okano JT, Kahn JS, Bodine EN, Blower S. Evolutionary dynamics of complex networks of HIV drug-resistant strains in San Francisco: implications for global public health. Science. 2010 Feb 327: 697-701; published online 14 January 2010 [DOI: 10.1126/science] |
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Education & Training
AB University of California, Berkeley, 1978
MD, University of California, San Francisco 1982
Internship and Junior Medical Residency, Osler Medical Service, Johns Hopkins, 1982-84.
Senior Medical Residency, UCSF Primary Care Program, 1984-5.
Medical Oncology Fellowship, University of California at San Francisco, 1985-1987.
Clinical Epidemiology Fellowship, UCSF, 1985-87
Certified Profes6sional in Health Information Technology (CPHIT)
Certified Professional in Electronic Health Records (CPEHR)
Health IT Certification JAMA 10x10
HIV/AIDS Division Faculty
Oliver Bacon, MD
George Beatty, MD, MPH
Gabriel Chamie, MD
Katerina Christopoulos, MD, MPH
Susa Coffey, MD
Steven G. Deeks, MD
Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH
Elvin H. Geng, MD
Brad Hare, MD
Hiroyu Hatano, MD
Diane Havlir, MD
Rick Hecht, MD
Laurence Huang, MD
Peter Hunt, MD
Mark Jacobson, MD
Vivek Jain, MD
James Kahn, MD
Teri Liegler, PhD
Royce Lin, MD
Annie Luetkemeyer, MD
Paula Lum, MD, MPH
Meg Newman, MD
Chris Pilcher, MD
Elise D. Riley, PhD, MPH
Jacqueline Tulsky, MD
Sheri D. Weiser, MD
Dan Wlodarczyk, MD
Affiliated Faculty
John Baker, MD
Paul Baum, MD, PhD
Edwin Charlebois, PhD
Peter Chin-Hong, MD
Deborah Cohan, MD
Grant Colfax, MD, MPH
Tri Do, MD
Ruth Greenblatt, MD
Sandra Hernandez, MD
Cheryl Jay, MD
Nnemdi Kamanu, MD
Dan Karasic, MD
Jeffrey D. Klausner, MD, MPH
Jeffrey Martin, MD, MPH
Toby Maurer, MD
Joseph M. McCune, MD, PhD
Michelle Roland
Theodore Ruel, MD
Robin Serrahn, MD
Mark Smith, MD, MBA
Serena Spudich, MD
Padmini Srikantiah, MD
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