Kathryn Phillips, PhD
Professor, Health Economics and Health Services Research, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF
Director, Center for Personalized Medicine, UCSF
Email: phillipsk@pharmacy.ucsf.edu
Biosketch:
Kathryn A. Phillips, PhD, is a tenured Professor of Health Economics and Health Services Research and the Director of the Center for Personalized Medicine at UCSF. She holds appointments in the UCSF School of Pharmacy, the UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies, and the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Phillips holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard, and the University of Texas at Austin, and previously spent eight years working for the federal government in Texas and Washington, D.C.
Dr. Phillips conducts cross-disciplinary research across the basic, clinical, and social sciences and also across academia, industry, and government. She has served as an adviser to many government and industry groups as well as for start-up companies and venture capital firms. As the director of the UCSF Center on Translational and Policy Research on Personalized Medicine, Dr. Phillips leads an NIH research program on personalized medicine for colorectal and breast cancer as well as several foundation funded studies on personalized medicine. She has published 100 peer-reviewed articles in policy and clinical journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, and Health Affairs, and currently serves on the editorial board for four journals.
Areas of Interest:
- Personalized medicine, including pharmacogenomics and targeted therapies
- Utilization and cost-effectiveness of care
- Cancer screening and targeted cancer therapies
- Cross-disciplinary research across basic, clinical, and social science
- Women’s reproductive health (particularly economics and policy analysis)
- Methodological approaches including cost-effectiveness analysis, secondary dataset analysis, systematic literature review, and quantitative preference measurement
Publications on PubMed
Updated January 2009