Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is an American epidemiologist and physician. She is the 17th Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (

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) and the JAMA Network. She is Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Professor of Medicine at

University of California, San Francisco The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It cond ...

. She is a general internist and attending physician at

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. Bibbins-Domingo is a recognized expert in prevention and health equity and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed original research articles. She is a cardiovascular disease epidemiologist whose work focuses on clinical and public health approaches to prevention, particularly in young adults. She served as the chair, vice-chair, and member of the

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from 2010-2017. At UCSF she served as the inaugural Vice Dean for Population Health and Health Equity in the

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, and was the Chair of the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics from 2017-2022. In 2006, Bibbins-Domingo co-founded the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, a research center focused on advancing health equity and reducing health disparities in the San Francisco Bay Area, nationally, and globally. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo 07

Bibbins-Domingo was a trustee of

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from 2018-2022.

Early life and college

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo was born in

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while her father was stationed in the country. Bibbins-Domingo attended Eleanor Roosevelt, a public science tech high school in Maryland. She graduated from

in 1987 with a degree in molecular biology and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. She then received a PhD in biochemistry, an MD, and a Masters in Clinical Research from the

. Her Ph.D. advisor was

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. Bibbins-Domingo also studied

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at the

University of Ibadan The University of Ibadan (UI) is a public research university in Ibadan, Nigeria. The university was founded in 1948 as University College Ibadan, one of many colleges within the University of London. It became an independent university in 196 ...

Career

Bibbins-Domingo is an NIH funded investigator who uses observational studies, simulation models, and pragmatic trials to understand the development of cardiovascular risk and examine the impact of clinical and public health approaches to cardiovascular disease prevention. Her work published in the ''New England Journal of Medicine'' highlighted the high rate of incident heart failure among African American men and women before age 50 She has also published on the impact or adolescent obesity on future rates of cardiovascular disease in young adults. She has led two NIH center grants focused on disparities in diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and stroke in young adulthood. Her work has examined the population health impact of policy approaches to reduce consumption of salt and sugary beverages. in the US and in other countries. These publications helped inform policy changes and public health interventions, including taxation of sugary beverages and interventions aimed at population-wide reductions in dietary sodium. Bibbins-Domingo published a series of cost-effectiveness analyses on the PCSK-9 inhibitor medications in ''JAMA'' and ''Annals of Internal Medicine''. In 2016, she was named chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and led the US Preventive Services Task Force during several high profile recommendations on breast cancer, colon cancer, and prostate cancer. six years after she became a member of the task force. In 2017, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force changed their recommendation on PSA testing for prostate cancer and Bibbins-Domingo appeared on PBS in 2017 to describe this decision.

Honors and awards

Bibbins-Domingo is an inducted member of the

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, the

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, and the

National Academy of Medicine The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), formerly called the Institute of Medicine (IoM) until 2015, is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The National Academy of Medicine is a part of the National Academies of Sciences, En ...

. In 2017, Bibbins-Domingo received the UCSF Chancellor’s Award for Public Service. In the same year she was selected to deliver the Ancel Keyes Lecture by the

American Heart Association The American Heart Association (AHA) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that funds cardiovascular medical research, educates consumers on healthy living and fosters appropriate cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability and death ...

Epidemiology Council. Bibbins-Domingo has received mentoring awards from the

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and UCSF Phillip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. While at Princeton, Bibbins-Domingo received the Moses Taylor Pyne Prize as a senior.

Personal life

Bibbins-Domingo's son,

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played college basketball for Georgetown and the

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. He graduated from the

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in 2017 and has played professional basketball in the

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. He is currently a small forward for the

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. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is married to Patrick Domingo.

Works

* ''Disease Prevention, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America'', The Clinics Internal Medicine series, co-authored with Michael P. Pignone MD, Elsevier, 2017,

References

External links

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