Veronica Yank, MD

Veronica Yank
Associate Program Director: Medicine

I am a primary care physician-investigator. My research focuses on informal (family/friend) caregivers and on improving care to prevent and manage chronic conditions in primary care, community, and home-based settings, particularly conditions associated with older adults, heavy caregiver burden (e.g., dementia), or elevated cardiovascular disease risk (e.g., chronic kidney disease).

Currently, I lead an ongoing hybrid effectiveness-implementation randomized controlled trial of an online self-management and skills-building workshop for geographically isolated and under-resourced family caregivers of people living with dementia in rural regions across the U.S. I also lead a community partnership project to improve primary care access and quality for ethnically and linguistically diverse adult patients with disabilities.

I also serve as a research and career mentor to trainees and faculty as:
- Associate Director of the UCSF National Clinician Scholars Program
- Site Director of the UCSF Primary Care Research Fellowship
- Core faculty of the UCSF Multiethnic Health Equity Research Center
- Supervisor for San Francisco State undergraduate students in public health degree program

Publications

Global rural health disparities in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: State of the science.

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

Wiese LAK, Gibson A, Guest MA, Nelson AR, Weaver R, Gupta A, Carmichael O, Lewis JP, Lindauer A, Loi S, Peterson R, Radford K, Rhodus EK, Wong CG, Zuelsdorff M, Saidi LG, Valdivieso-Mora E, Franzen S, Pope CN, Killian TS, Shrestha HL, Heyn PC, Ng TKS, Prusaczyk B, John S, Kulshreshtha A, Sheffler JL, Besser L, Daniel V, Tolea MI, Miller J, Musyimi C, Corkey J, Yank V, Williams CL, Rahemi Z, Park J, Magzamen S, Newton RL, Harrington C, Flatt JD, Arora S, Walter S, Griffin P, Babulal GM