Clarence H Braddock III, MD, MPH

Clinical Focus

• Internal Medicine

Administrative Appointments

• Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education, Stanford School of Medicine (2007 - present)
• Director, Stanford Center for Medical Education Research and Innovation, Stanford School of Medicine (2011 - present)
• Director, Clinical Ethics, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (2003 - present)
• Associate Chief for Academic and Faculty Affairs, Division of GIM, Stanford University (2003 - present)
• Associate Chair for Organizational Improvement, Department of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine (2007 - present)

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

Postdoctoral Advisees

Graham Abra

Community and International Work

• Cultural Competence Education 

Internet Links

• National Consortium for Multicultural Education

Current Research Interests

Dr. Braddock, a board-certified internist, is Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Braddock is Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education and Director of the Stanford Center for Medical Education Research and Innovation.

Dr. Braddock has been a national leader in medical education curriculum development and innovation, particularly in bioethics and doctor-patient communication. He launched the Bioethics Education Project at University of Washington, an initiative to expand ethics and professionalism education. Dr. Braddock came to Stanford in 2003 to launch the Practice of Medicine program at Stanford, an initiative to integrate ethics, professionalism, doctor-patient communication, and population health into the pre-clerkship medical school curriculum. He is Director of the National Consortium for Multicultural Education for Health Professionals, a group of eighteen medical schools funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to develop curriculum in cultural competence and healthcare disparities. He is currently Co-PI on a curriculum intervention initiative in social and behavioral science being conducted jointly between Stanford and UCSF.

Dr. Braddock’s research interests are in physician-patient communication and informed decision-making, having developed an assessment scale of the quality of informed decision making in clinical practice and applying it in a wide variety of published studies. In addition, he has an active medical education research program in such areas as bioethics, doctor-patient communication, cultural competence, health disparities, quality improvement, and social-behavioral science. He just completed a major quality improvement initiative funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, studying in-situ simulation and its impact on patient outcomes and interdisciplinary teamwork at Stanford Hospital.

Dr. Braddock is Director of Clinical Ethics in the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, and Chair of the Ethics Committee at Stanford Hospital. He is also a member of Ethics Committees for the Society of General Internal the American College of Physicians. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the American Board of Internal Medicine and the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making.

Dr. Braddock earned his undergraduate degree at Stanford University and MD at the University of Chicago. He completed residency training in the US Navy and received his MPH in Health Care Ethics from the University of Washington.

Publications

• Does cultural competency training of health professionals improve patient outcomes? A systematic review and proposed algorithm for future research. Lie DA, Lee-Rey E, Gomez A, Bereknyei S, Braddock CH. J Gen Intern Med. 2011; 26 (3): 317-25
• Measuring Informed Decision Making about Prostate Cancer Screening in Primary Care. Leader A, Daskalakis C, Braddock CH, Kunkel EJ, Cocroft JR, Bereknyei S, Riggio JM, Capkin M, Myers RE. Med Decis Making. 2011
• Mediated decision support in prostate cancer screening: a randomized controlled trial of decision counseling. Myers RE, Daskalakis C, Kunkel EJ, Cocroft JR, Riggio JM, Capkin M, Braddock CH. Patient Educ Couns. 2011; 83 (2): 240-6
• New elements for informed decision making: A qualitative study of older adults' views. Price EL, Bereknyei S, Kuby A, Levinson W, Braddock CH. Patient Educ Couns. 2011
• The emerging importance and relevance of shared decision making to clinical practice. Braddock CH, Med Decis Making. 2010 Sep-Oct; 30 (5 Suppl): 5S-7S