Ariana Thompson-Lastad, PhD | Healthforce Center at UCSF

Assistant Adjunct Professor

M_Family Community Medicine

Ariana Thompson-Lastad, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health and the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and an affiliated faculty member at the UCSF Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health and Institute for Health Policy Studies. She conducts qualitative, mixed-methods and community-engaged research focused on advancing in health equity in primary care, with a focus on integrative health. Her health care workforce research includes ongoing studies with California midwives, as well as multiple NIH-funded projects with community health centers.

Publications

Group-Based Integrative Pain Management: Feasibility of a Factorial Randomized Trial in Safety-Net Primary Care.

Journal of primary care & community health

Thompson-Lastad A, Wennik J, Swedlow P, Wu J, Hartogensis W, Jackson JLN, Chao MT

Frequency of Attendance to a Behavioral Intervention on Health-related Outcomes in a Multicomponent Food as Medicine Intervention.

Journal of nutrition education and behavior

Radtke MD, Xiao L, Chen WT, Chen S, Emmert-Aronson B, Thompson-Lastad A, Markle E, Rosas LG, Tester J

"It's a Really Big Privilege to be Able to Take Care of Ourselves": A Mixed Methods Study of Integrating Mindfulness for Mental Health into a Job Training Program for Low-Income Emerging Adults.

Global advances in integrative medicine and health

Chiu DT, Fein F, Thompson-Lastad A, Hartogensis W, Christian-Afflu SN, Ekman E, Chao MT

Integrating Adverse Childhood Experiences and Social Risks Screening in Adult Primary Care.

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM

Gill I, Thompson-Lastad A, Ruvalcaba D, Gottlieb LM, Hessler Jones D

Evaluating Feasibility and Acceptability of a Telehealth Integrative Pain Management Program Among Primary Care Safety-Net Patients.

Global advances in integrative medicine and health

Bahl S, Ritter V, Thompson-Lastad A, Ruvalcaba D, Jackson J, Fernando CM, Turchin C, Finch MA, Soldaini A, Swedlow P, Wennik J, Chao MT

Implementing Food as Medicine During COVID-19: Produce Prescriptions and Integrative Group Medical Visits in Federally Qualified Health Centers.

Global advances in integrative medicine and health

Thompson-Lastad A, Ruvalcaba D, Chen WT, Espinosa PR, Chiu DT, Xiao L, Rosas LG, Chen S

"May we be the bridge and boat to cross the water": Community-engaged research on metta meditation.

The American journal of orthopsychiatry

Thompson-Lastad A, Hussein SN, Harrison JM, Zhang XJ, Ikeda MP, Chao MT, Adler SR, Weng HY

Food as medicine, community as medicine: Mental health effects of a social care intervention.

Health services research

Thompson-Lastad A, Chiu DT, Ruvalcaba D, Chen WT, Tester J, Xiao L, Emmert-Aronson BO, Chen S, Rosas LG

Incorporating Structural Competency into Clinical Ethics: Piloting New Bioethics Education.

The Journal of clinical ethics

Kolmes S, Thompson-Lastad A, Dirksen K, Tabari K, Holmes SM

Social Capital and Cultural Health Capital in Primary Care: The Case of Group Medical Visits.

Sociology of health & illness

Thompson-Lastad A, Harrison JM, Shim JK

Group-Based Integrative Pain Management in Primary Care: A Study Protocol for Multilevel Interventions to Address Health Disparities.

Global advances in integrative medicine and health

Chao MT, Thompson-Lastad A, Swedlow P, Prathikanti S, Hartogensis W, Wolfe-Modupe F, Wennik J

The Effectiveness of Recipe4Health: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation.

American journal of preventive medicine

Rosas LG, Chen S, Xiao L, Baiocchi M, Ng E, Emmert-Aronson BO, Chen WT, Thompson-Lastad A, Martinez E, Perez J, Melendez E, Markle E, Radtke MD, Tester J

Mindfulness-Based Group Medical Visits: Strategies to Improve Equitable Access and Inclusion for Diverse Patients in Cancer Treatment.

Global advances in integrative medicine and health

Mishra KK, Leung IC, Chao MT, Thompson-Lastad A, Pollak C, Dhruva A, Hartogensis W, Lister M, Cheng SW, Atreya CE

Determinants of implementation for group medical visits for patients with chronic pain: a systematic review.

Implementation science communications

Roth I, Tiedt M, Brintz C, Thompson-Lastad A, Ferguson G, Agha E, Holcomb J, Gardiner P, Leeman J

Postpartum care for parent-infant dyads: A community midwifery model.

Birth (Berkeley, Calif.)

Thompson-Lastad A, Harrison JM, Taiwo TK, Williams C, Parimi M, Wilborn B, Chao MT

From Apathy to Structural Competency and the Right to Health: An Institutional Ethnography of a Maternal and Child Wellness Center.

Health and human rights

Downey MM, Thompson-Lastad A

Addressing food insecurity and chronic conditions in community health centres: protocol of a quasi-experimental evaluation of Recipe4Health.

BMJ open

Rosas LG, Chen S, Xiao L, Emmert-Aronson BO, Chen WT, Ng E, Martinez E, Baiocchi M, Thompson-Lastad A, Markle EA, Tester J

Working Toward Integrative Health Equity: Reflections from Acupuncture Implementation Within a Pediatric Primary Care Safety-Net Clinic.

Integrative medicine reports

Matthews J, Villanueva K, Yee S, Thompson-Lastad A

Beyond Professional Licensure: A Statement of Principle on Culturally-Responsive Healthcare.

Global advances in health and medicine

Ijaz N, Steinberg M, Flaherty T, Neubauer T, Thompson-Lastad A

"Housing Is Health Care": Treating Homelessness in Safety-net Hospitals.

Medical anthropology quarterly

Hanssmann C, Shim JK, Yen IH, Fleming MD, Van Natta M, Thompson-Lastad A, Rasidjan MP, Burke NJ

Managing the "hot spots": Health care, policing, and the governance of poverty in the US.

American ethnologist

Fleming MD, Shim JK, Yen I, Dubbin L, Thompson-Lastad A, Hanssmann C, Burke NJ

Adaptations to Acupuncture and Pain Counseling Implementation in a Multisite Pragmatic Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)

Ho EY, Thompson-Lastad A, Lam R, Zhang X, Thompson N, Chao MT

Social Literacy: Nurses' Contribution Toward the Co-Production of Self-Management.

Global qualitative nursing research

Dubbin L, Burke N, Fleming M, Thompson-Lastad A, Napoles TM, Yen I, Shim JK

Experiences of Advanced Breast Cancer Among Latina Immigrants: A Qualitative Pilot Study.

Journal of immigrant and minority health

Glaser J, Coulter YZ, Thompson-Lastad A, Castro-Smyth L, Serrano E, Adler SR

Group Medical Visits and Clinician Wellbeing.

Global advances in health and medicine

Thompson-Lastad A, Gardiner P

Patient Engagement, Chronic Illness, and the Subject of Health Care Reform.

Medical anthropology

Fleming MD, Shim JK, Yen I, Thompson-Lastad A, Burke NJ

A crack in the wall: Chronic pain management in integrative group medical visits.

Social science & medicine (1982)

Thompson-Lastad A, Rubin S

Structural Competency: Curriculum for Medical Students, Residents, and Interprofessional Teams on the Structural Factors That Produce Health Disparities.

MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources

Neff J, Holmes SM, Knight KR, Strong S, Thompson-Lastad A, McGuinness C, Duncan L, Saxena N, Harvey MJ, Langford A, Carey-Simms KL, Minahan SN, Satterwhite S, Ruppel C, Lee S, Walkover L, De Avila J, Lewis B, Matthews J, Nelson N

The Quadruple Aim as a Framework for Integrative Group Medical Visits.

Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)

Roth I, Thompson-Lastad A, Thomas AU

Acupressure and Therapeutic Touch in Childhood Cancer to Promote Subjective and Intersubjective Experiences of Well-being During Curative Treatment.

Global advances in health and medicine

Hu H, Shear D, Thakkar R, Thompson-Lastad A, Pinderhughes H, Hecht FM, Lown EA

Patient engagement at the margins: Health care providers' assessments of engagement and the structural determinants of health in the safety-net.

Social science & medicine (1982)

Fleming MD, Shim JK, Yen IH, Thompson-Lastad A, Rubin S, Van Natta M, Burke NJ

Does CenteringPregnancy Group Prenatal Care Affect the Birth Experience of Underserved Women? A Mixed Methods Analysis.

Journal of immigrant and minority health

Liu R, Chao MT, Jostad-Laswell A, Duncan LG

Latino Parents' Insight on Optimal Sleep for Their Preschool-Age Child: Does Context Matter?

Academic pediatrics

Martinez SM, Thompson-Lastad A

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