Clarence H Braddock III, MD, MPH

Clinical Focus

• Internal Medicine

Administrative Appointments

• Medical Director, Quality, Stanford Hospital & Clinics (2007 - present)
• Associate Dean for Medical Education, Stanford School of Medicine (2007 - present)
• Associate Chair for Organizational Improvement, Department of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine (2007 - present)
• Associate Chief for Academic and Faculty Affairs, Division of GIM, Stanford University (2003 - present)
• Director, Clinical Ethics, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (2003 - present)
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Honors and Awards

• Outstanding Clinician-Educator, Society of General Internal Medicine, Calif Region (2008)
• Department of Medicine David Rytand Teaching Award, Stanford University (2006)
• Kaiser Foundation Award for Excellence in Preclinical Teaching, Stanford University (2005)
• Division of GIM Teaching Award, Stanford University (2004)
• Mervin J. Goldman Teaching Award, UCSF (1992)

Professional Education

Community & International Work

• Cultural Competence Education 

Web Site Links

• National Consortium for Multicultural Education

Current Research Interests

Prior to moving to Stanford, Dr. Braddock was an Associate Professor in the University of Washington School of Medicine, where he was also Director of the Bioethics Education Project, an initiative to expand and integrate more ethics education into the curriculum. In this capacity he developed a web-based ethics curriculum, interactive on-line case discussion tools, and several new clerkship-based ethics case discussion experiences. Several of these innovations have been published in journals such as Academic Medicine and presented at national meetings.

In addition to work in the area of medical ethics education, Dr. Braddock has research interests in physician-patient communication and informed decision making, with research funded by the Bayer Institute for Healthcare Communication, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and National Institute on Aging. He developed an assessment scale of the quality of informed decision making in clinical practice, using it to show that rarely involve patients in routine yet important clinical decisions. Results of this widely cited work have been published in JAMA, Journal of General Internal Medicine, Journal of Clinical Ethics, and the American Journal of Medicine, as well as a book chapters on Informed Consent. Dr. Braddock is recognized as a national expert on informed decision making and doctor-patient communication, having given numerous invited lectures on informed decision making, as well as workshops at national meetings, and is frequently interviewed for the print, radio, and television media.

Publications

• Assessing medical students' skills in working with interpreters during patient encounters: a validation study of the Interpreter Scale. Lie D, Bereknyei S, Braddock CH, Encinas J, Ahearn S, Boker JR. Acad Med. 2009; 84 (5): 643-50
• An approach to enhance communication about screening mammography in primary care. Nekhlyudov L, Braddock CH. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2009; 18 (9): 1403-12
• Learning outcomes of a web module for teaching interpreter interaction skills to pre-clerkship students. Lie D, Bereknyei S, Kalet A, Braddock C. Fam Med. 2009; 41 (4): 234-5
• High quality care and ethical pay-for-performance: a Society of General Internal Medicine policy analysis. Wharam JF, Paasche-Orlow MK, Farber NJ, Sinsky C, Rucker L, Rask KJ, Figaro MK, Braddock C, Barry MJ, Sulmasy DP. J Gen Intern Med. 2009; 24 (7): 854-9
• Do patients' communication behaviors provide insight into their preferences for participation in decision making? Hudak PL, Frankel RM, Braddock C, Nisenbaum R, Luca P, McKeever C, Levinson W. Med Decis Making. 2008 May-Jun; 28 (3): 385-93