Lars Osterberg, MD, MPH
Key Documents
Contact Information
- Academic Offices
Personal Information Email Tel (650) 493-5000 Tel (650) 723-1536Alternate Contact Kim Osborn Email Tel Work 723-1536
Professional Overview
Administrative Appointments
- Co-Medical Director, Arbor Free Clinic (1999 - present)
- Director, Hypertension Clinic, VA Hospital, Palo Alto (2001 - present)
- Chief, General Internal Medicine, VA Hospital, Palo Alto (2001 - present)
- Director, Educators-4-CARE, Stanford University School of Medicine (2008 - present)
Honors and Awards
- Kaiser Clinical Teaching Award, Stanford University School of Medicine (2009)
- Community Award, Cingular Wireless (2006)
- Community Service Award, American College of Physicians (2005)
- Lance Armstong Compassion in Medicine Award, Stanford University School of Medicine (2004)
- Kaiser Award, Clinical Teaching, Stanford University School of Medicine (2001)
Professional Education
| MPH: | UC Berkeley, Public Health (2005) |
| Resident: | Internal Medicine, Stanford University Hospital (1994) |
| MD: | UC Davis, Medicine (1991) |
| BS: | Bioengineering, UC Berkeley (1985) |
| Certificate: | University of Lund, Sweden, Bioengineering (1983) |
Community and International Work
Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
Patient Adherence to Medications
Medical Education
Innovative Methods of Caring for Patients
Publications
- Understanding forgiveness: minding and mining the gaps between pharmacokinetics and therapeutics. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2010; (4): 457-9
- Electronic monitoring of patient adherence to oral antihypertensive medical treatment: a systematic review. J Hypertens. 2009; (8): 1540-51
- Electronic monitors of drug adherence: tools to make rational therapeutic decisions. J Hypertens. 2009; (11): 2295
- Planning services for the homeless in the San Francisco peninsula. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2007; (4): 749-56
- Adherence to Medication NEJM. 2005: 487-497
