Christine Dehlendorf, MD, MAS

Associate Professor in Residence, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Family & Community Medicine, and Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Email: cdehlendorf@fcm.ucsf.edu

Biosketch:

Dr. Dehlendorf is an Associate Professor in Residence at the University of California, San Francisco, with appointments in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, and Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She is a family physician with advanced training in family planning and a Master’s Degree in Clinical Research. Her research program investigates disparities in contraceptive use and contraceptive counseling, including studies examining the relationship of patient race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status with variation in health care providers’ recommendations for contraceptive methods and with the quality of contraceptive counseling. One such study found that providers were more likely to recommend an intrauterine device – which is a highly effective, provider controlled method – to low income black and Hispanic women than they were to low income white women. In addition, she has analyzed several large databases, consisting of both administrative and survey data, in order to further our understanding of disparities in reproductive health outcomes. Currently, she is analyzing a cohort study investigating contraceptive counseling, which involved audiorecording over 300 contraceptive counseling visits and following women for six months after their visit to assess contraceptive continuation. In addition, she is investigating social influences on contraceptive use.

 

Areas of Interest:

  • Implementation science
  • Serving people with limited English proficiency, socioeconomically marginalized groups, and migrants/refugees
  • Clinic and decision aids
  • Contraceptive counseling
  • Family planning disparities
  • Integration of reproductive healthcare into primary care
  • Interdisciplinary research collaboration

 


For a complete list of publications, please click here: Publications on PubMed.

 

Updated July 2013

 

Citations:

  • Harper CC, Henderson JT, Raine TR, Goodman S, Darney PD, Thompson KM, Dehlendorf C, Speidel JJ. Evidence-based IUD practice: family physicians and obstetrician-gynecologists. Fam Med. 2012:44(9):637-45.