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Michael A. Rodriguez, M.D., M.P.H.

Affiliations

Associate Professor, Family Medicine

Education:
Medical Degree:	M.D.
Degree:	M.P.H.

Contact Information:

Email Address:	mrodriguez@mednet.ucla.edu

Work Address:	Laboratory 924 Westwood Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90095 UNITED STATES
Work Address:	10880 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1800 Los Angeles, CA 90024 UNITED STATES

Direct Contact Information:

Fax Number:	310-794-6097 FAX
Work Phone Number:	310-794-0394 Office

Additional Information:

Michael A. Rodriguez, MD, MPH, is Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the George F. Kneller Endowed Chair in Family Medicine. Dr. Rodriguez completed his undergraduate training at the University of California, Berkeley, attended medical school at UCLA, and completed his residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He obtained his public health degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford University, and a Picker/Commonwealth Scholar at UCSF.

Dr. Rodriguez conducts research, works with direct service and advocacy organizations, and helps inform policy on violence prevention and the healthcare needs of vulnerable populations. He is a leading researcher in the areas of the role of the healthcare system in addressing abuse and the healthcare needs of ethnically diverse populations across the age spectrum. He has used qualitative and quantitative methods to develop conceptual frameworks for understanding cultural issues, barriers to help seeking, and for improving the health care response to domestic violence. He has also developed effective techniques to recruit vulnerable populations with substantial socioeconomic and racial/ethnic diversity. Dr. Rodriguez is currently PI of a cohort study of domestic violence, a study to examine the impact of domestic violence on the health related quality of life of pregnant Latinas attending a large health maintenance organization in Los Angeles. He is also PI of an investigation to examine clinician, patient and caregiver perspectives of the role of health care systems in addressing elder abuse and neglect in ethnically diverse populations.

Dr. Rodriguez has published and lectured widely on the topics of violence prevention, medical education, and cross-cultural medicine. Dr. Rodriguez has been a violence preve

Publications:

Rodriguez, M.A., Sheldon WR, Rao N. Factors that Influence Abused Women's Prefences for the Mandatory Reporting of Intimate Partner Violence by Medical Clinicians to Police.. Women & Health 2002; 35 (2-3): 135-47..

Rodriguez M.A., Winkelby M, Ahn D, Sunquist J, Kraemer H. Identification of Population Subject Groups of Children and Adolescence With High Asthma Prevalence; Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.. 2002; 156: 269-275.

Rodriguez, M.A., Nah G, McLoughlin E, Campbell J. Mandatory Reporting of Domestic Violence Injuries to the Police: What Do Emergency Department Patients Think?. JAMA 2001; 286: 580-583.

Rodriguez, M.A., Sheldon WR, Bauer HM, Perez-Stable EJ. The Factors Associated with Disclosure of Intimate Partner Abuse to Clinicians.. JFP 2001; 50: 338-344.

Rodriguez, M.A., Gorovitz E, Gun Violence: Prevention, politics, lawsuits, and physicians.. W J Med 2000; 11: 296-297.

Bauer HM, Rodriguez, M.A., Perez-Stable EJ. Prevalence and Determinants of Intimate Partner Abuse Among Public Health Hospital Primary Care Patients.. J Gen Intern Med 2000; November 15: 811-817.

Bauer H.B., Mooney D.R., Larkin H., O?Malley N., Schillinger D., Hyman A., Rodriguez, M.A. California?s Mandatory Reporting of Domestic Violence Injuries: Does the law go too far or not far enough?. W J Med 1999; Aug, 171(2): 118-24.

Rodriguez, M.A., McLoughlin, E., Bauer, H., Paredes, V. Grumbach, K., Mandatory Reporting of Domestic Violence to Police: Non-Conformity Among California Physicians.. AJPH. 1999; 89: 575-578.

Butler RN, Todd KH, Kellermann AL, Runyan CW, Lynn SG, Rodriguez, M.A., Zwerling C, Rivara FP. Injury Control Education in American Medical Schools.. Academic Medicine 1998; 73: 524-528.

Donsky J., Villela, T., Rodriguez, M.A., Grumbach, K. Teaching Community-Oriented Primary Care Through a Longitudinal Project.. Family Medicine 1998; 30(6): 424-30.

Bauer, H., Quiroga-Szkupinski, S., Rodriguez, M.A. Breaking the Code of Silence: Battered Women's Perspectives on Medical Care.. Arch of Fam. Med 1996; 5: 153-158.

Mooney, D.R., Rodriguez, M.A. Enhancing the Dialogue in California about Mandatory Reporting by Healthcare Workers of Intimate Violence: Focus on the Patient Perspective.. Hastings Womens' Law Journal 1996; 7(1): 1-27.

Bauer, HM Rodriguez, MA Letting compassion open the door: battered women's disclosure to medical providers.. Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees. . 1995; 4(4): 459-65.

Rodriguez, MA Brindis, CD Violence and Latino youth: prevention and methodological issues.. Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) . 1995; 110(3): 260-7.

Rodriguez, M.A. Domestic Violence.. Western Journal of Medicine 1994; July 161 (1): 60-61.

Bauer, HM Rodriguez, MA Quiroga, SS Flores-Ortiz, YG Barriers to health care for abused Latina and Asian immigrant women.. Journal of health care for the poor and underserved. . 2000; 11(1): 33-44.

Rodriguez, MA Bauer, HM McLoughlin, E Grumbach, K Screening and intervention for intimate partner abuse: practices and attitudes of primary care physicians.. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. . 1999; 282(5): 468-74.

Rodriguez, MA Craig, AM Mooney, DR Bauer, HM Patient attitudes about mandatory reporting of domestic violence. Implications for health care professionals.. The Western journal of medicine. . 1998; 169(6): 337-41.

Rodriguez, MA Bauer, HM Flores-Ortiz, Y Szkupinski-Quiroga, S Factors affecting patient-physician communication for abused Latina and Asian immigrant women.. The Journal of family practice. . 1998; 47(4): 309-11.

Fleming, SE Rodriguez, MA Influence of dietary fiber on fecal excretion of volatile fatty acids by human adults.. The Journal of nutrition. . 1983; 113(8): 1613-25.


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