Rena Fox, MD

Education
2018 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
Clinician-Educator Fellowship, 2001 - General Internal Medicine, UCSF
Internship and Residency, 2000 - Internal Medicine, University of Washington
M.D., 1997 - School of Medicine, University of California San Diego
Post-Baccalaureate, 1992 - , Bryn Mawr College
B.A., 1991 - Human Biology, Stanford University
Honors and Awards
  • UCSF Master Clinician, UCSF Department of Medicine, 2024
  • UCSF Health Team PRIDE Award Winner for UCSF HCV Project ECHO, UCSF, 2019
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, The Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, UCSF Academy of Medical Educators, 2013
  • Robert H. Crede Award for Clinical Care, UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine, 2010
  • Top 10% Research Poster, EASL (European Association for the Study of the Liver), 2008
  • The Jan Albrecht Commitment to Clinical Research in Liver Diseases Award, AASLD, 2003
  • Outstanding Resident of the Year, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, 2000
Websites
Publications

  1. Choi HH, Kim S, Shum DJ, Huang CY, Shui A, Fox RK, Khalili M.. Assessing Adherence to US LI-RADS Follow-up Recommendations in Vulnerable Patients Undergoing Hepatocellular Carcinoma Surveillance. Radiology. Imaging cancer 2024. PMID: 38214600


  2. Chu JN, Goldman ML, Brandman D, Sohn JH, Islam K, Ross LA, Fox RK.. Underrecognition and Suboptimal Quality of Care for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Cirrhosis in Primary Care Patients with Diabetes Mellitus. The American journal of medicine 2023. PMID: 37890572


  3. Fox RK, Chu JN, Goldman ML, Islam KB, Brandman D.. Prospective study of a case-finding algorithm to detect NAFLD with advanced fibrosis in primary care patients. Hepatology communications 2023. PMID: 36724121


  4. Islam KB, Brandman D, Chu JN, Goldman ML, Fox RK.. Primary Care Providers and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Needs Assessment Survey. Digestive diseases and sciences 2022. PMID: 36178567


  5. Hiatt RA, Sibley A, Venkatesh B, Cheng J, Dixit N, Fox R, Ling P, Nguyen T, Oh D, Palmer NR, Pasick RJ, Potter MB, Somsouk M, Vargas RA, Vijayaraghavan M, Ashworth A.. From Cancer Epidemiology to Policy and Practice: the Role of a Comprehensive Cancer Center. Current epidemiology reports 2022. PMID: 35342686


  6. Mukhtar NA, Fox RK.. Hepatitis C Virus Cure and Obesity: Watch the Weight. Journal of general internal medicine 2020. PMID: 32632793


  7. Zavala VA, Bracci PM, Carethers JM, Carvajal-Carmona L, Coggins NB, Cruz-Correa MR, Davis M, de Smith AJ, Dutil J, Figueiredo JC, Fox R, Graves KD, Gomez SL, Llera A, Neuhausen SL, Newman L, Nguyen T, Palmer JR, Palmer NR, Pérez-Stable EJ, Piawah S, Rodriquez EJ, Sanabria-Salas MC, Schmit SL, Serrano-Gomez SJ, Stern MC, Weitzel J, Yang JJ, Zabaleta J, Ziv E, Fejerman L.. Cancer health disparities in racial/ethnic minorities in the United States. British journal of cancer 2020. PMID: 32901135


  8. Coffin PO, Santos GM, Behar E, Hern J, Walker J, Matheson T, Kinnard EN, Silvis J, Vittinghoff E, Fox R, Page K.. Randomized feasibility trial of directly observed versus unobserved hepatitis C treatment with ledipasvir-sofosbuvir among people who inject drugs. PloS one 2019. PMID: 31158245


  9. Fox RK, Taddei TH, Kaplan DE.. Aspirin Use and Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Hepatitis B. JAMA internal medicine 2019. PMID: 30882884


  10. Kaplan DE, Chapko MK, Mehta R, Dai F, Skanderson M, Aytaman A, Baytarian M, D'Addeo K, Fox R, Hunt K, Pocha C, Valderrama A, Taddei TH, VOCAL Study Group.. Healthcare Costs Related to Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Among Veterans With Cirrhosis in the United States. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2017. PMID: 28756056


  11. Serper M, Taddei TH, Mehta R, D'Addeo K, Dai F, Aytaman A, Baytarian M, Fox R, Hunt K, Goldberg DS, Valderrama A, Kaplan DE, VOCAL Study Group.. Association of Provider Specialty and Multidisciplinary Care With Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Mortality. Gastroenterology 2017. PMID: 28283421


  12. Fox R.. Going Viral: Why Eliminating the Burden of Hepatitis C Requires Enhanced Cooperation Between Specialists and Primary Care Providers. Digestive diseases and sciences 2016. PMID: 27619392


  13. Goldberg DS, Taddei TH, Serper M, Mehta R, Dieperink E, Aytaman A, Baytarian M, Fox R, Hunt K, Pedrosa M, Pocha C, Valderrama A, Kaplan DE.. Identifying barriers to hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance in a national sample of patients with cirrhosis. Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 2016. PMID: 27531119


  14. Kaplan DE, Dai F, Skanderson M, Aytaman A, Baytarian M, D'Addeo K, Fox R, Hunt K, Knott A, Mehta R, Pedrosa M, Pocha C, Valderrama A, Taddei T, VOCAL Study Group.. Recalibrating the Child-Turcotte-Pugh Score to Improve Prediction of Transplant-Free Survival in Patients with Cirrhosis. Digestive diseases and sciences 2016. PMID: 27405990


  15. Fox RK, Muniraj T.. Pharmacologic Therapies in Gastrointestinal Diseases. The Medical clinics of North America 2016. PMID: 27235617


  16. Chahal HS, Marseille EA, Tice JA, Pearson SD, Ollendorf DA, Fox RK, Kahn JG.. Cost-effectiveness of Early Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus Genotype 1 by Stage of Liver Fibrosis in a US Treatment-Naive Population. JAMA internal medicine 2016. PMID: 26595724


  17. Kaplan DE, Dai F, Aytaman A, Baytarian M, Fox R, Hunt K, Knott A, Pedrosa M, Pocha C, Mehta R, Duggal M, Skanderson M, Valderrama A, Taddei TH, VOCAL Study Group.. Development and Performance of an Algorithm to Estimate the Child-Turcotte-Pugh Score From a National Electronic Healthcare Database. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2015. PMID: 26188137


  18. Fox RK.. Toward the Effective Co-management of Patients with Cirrhosis by Primary Care Providers and Specialists. Digestive diseases and sciences 2015. PMID: 25986522


  19. Belperio PS, Fox RK, Backus LI.. The State of Hepatitis C Care in the VA. Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS 2015. PMID: 30766108


  20. Shah AD, Fox RK, Rushakoff RJ.. Falsely Decreased HbA1c in a Type 2 Diabetic Patient Treated with Dapsone. Endocrine practice : official journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 2014. PMID: 25100400


  21. Fox RK.. When to consider liver transplant during the management of chronic liver disease. The Medical clinics of North America 2013. PMID: 24266919


  22. Fox RK.. Hepatitis B--more treatments, more testing, not enough data. Journal of general internal medicine 2011. PMID: 21267669


  23. Bräu N, Fox RK, Xiao P, Marks K, Naqvi Z, Taylor LE, Trikha A, Sherman M, Sulkowski MS, Dieterich DT, Rigsby MO, Wright TL, Hernandez MD, Jain MK, Khatri GK, Sterling RK, Bonacini M, Martyn CA, Aytaman A, Llovet JM, Brown ST, Bini EJ, North American Liver Cancer in HIV Study Group.. Presentation and outcome of hepatocellular carcinoma in HIV-infected patients: a U.S.-Canadian multicenter study. Journal of hepatology 2007. PMID: 17692986


  24. Fox RK, Currie SL, Evans J, Wright TL, Tobler L, Phelps B, Busch MP, Page-Shafer KA.. Hepatitis C virus infection among prisoners in the California state correctional system. Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2005. PMID: 15983913


  25. Seligman HK, Fox RK.. Treatment of acute hepatitis C with interferon alfa-2b. The New England journal of medicine 2002. PMID: 11936120