Lisa V. Rubenstein is an adjunct physician policy researcher at RAND, a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy, and professor emeritus of medicine and public health at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is a former Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, past president of the Society of General Internal Medicine, and former board member of AcademyHealth.
Rubenstein focuses on research aimed at supporting health care delivery system redesign using evidence-based quality improvement and implementation methods. With RAND and UCLA collaborators, she implemented and evaluated collaborative care for depression across multiple managed or networked health care systems. Her work has also focused on primary care models such as the patient-centered medical home, and on care for complex multi-morbidity patients, access management, and use of virtual video or telephone care modalities within these models. She leads a RAND and Veterans Health Administration team on improving primary care team efficiency relative to the quality as well as quantity of care produced. She mentors young researchers and previously directed post-graduate fellowship programs in general health services research, quality improvement and implementation research, and women’s health.
Rubenstein received the VA's Under Secretary for Health Award, is the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health 2013 Alumni Hall of Fame Honoree and received the Society of General Internal Medicine John M. Eisenberg National Award for Career Achievement in Research. Rubenstein received her M.D. from the Albert Einstein School of Medicine and her M.S.P.H. from UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
M.D., Albert Einstein School of Medicine, New York; M.S.P.H., University of California, Los Angeles; B.A., Sarah Lawrence College
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Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Public Health, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
