MarkJ.PletcherMD

Internal Medicine • San Francisco, CA

Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine

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Office
1701 Divisadero St Fl 5
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone+1 415-353-7300

Fax+1 415-353-7901
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Education & Training

University of California (San Francisco)Residency, Internal Medicine, 1998 - 2001
University of California San Francisco School of MedicineClass of 1998

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 2000 - 2023

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition Program National Committee for Quality Assurance, 2013-2016
CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2012-2013

Clinical Trials

Impact of Extensive Consultation on Career Development Grant Outcomes Start of enrollment: 2008 Apr 01
Completed
Not Applicable
Vest Prevention of Early Sudden Death Trial and VEST Registry Start of enrollment: 2008 Jul 01
Completed
Not Applicable

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Email-Based Recruitment Into the Health eHeart Study: Cohort Analysis of Invited Eligible Patients.
Ng, M., Olgin, J., Marcus, G., Lyles, C., Pletcher, M.> ;Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2023 Dec 22
4 citations
Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection outcomes in vaccinated patients with chronic liver disease and cirrhosis: A National COVID Cohort Collaborative study.
Jin Ge, Jean C Digitale, Mark J Pletcher, Jennifer C Lai> ;Hepatology. 2023 Mar 1
18 citations
Factors Associated With Long COVID Symptoms in an Online Cohort Study.
Matthew S Durstenfeld, Michael J Peluso, Noah D Peyser, Feng Lin, Sara J Knight, Audrey Djibo, Rasha Khatib, Heather Kitzman, Emily O'Brien, Natasha Williams, Carmen I...> ;Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 2023 Feb 1
Improvement in Blood Pressure Control in Safety Net Clinics Receiving 2 Versions of a Scalable Quality Improvement Intervention: BP MAP A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized ...
Valy Fontil, Madelaine Faulkner Modrow, Rhonda M Cooper-DeHoff, Gregory Wozniak, Michael Rakotz, Jonathan Todd, Kristen Azar, Linda Murakami, Margaret Sanders, Alanna ...> ;Journal of the American Heart Association. 2023 Feb 7
1 citations
Risk Factors for Arrhythmic Death, Overall Mortality, and Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias Requiring Shock After Myocardial Infarction.
Christopher C Cheung, Jeffrey Olgin, Mark Pletcher, Eric Vittinghoff, Feng Lin, Trisha Hue, Byron K Lee, Lai, M.> ;The American Journal of Cardiology. 2023 Jan 15
10 citations
Unreported SARS-CoV-2 Home Testing and Test Positivity.
Soo Park, Gregory M Marcus, Jeffrey E Olgin, Thomas Carton, Rita Hamad, Mark J Pletcher> ;JAMA Network Open. 2023 Jan 3
1 citations
Association of daily physical activity with brain volumes and cervical spinal cord areas in multiple sclerosis.
Valerie J Block, Shuiting Cheng, Jeremy Juwono, Richard Cuneo, Gina Kirkish, Amber M Alexander, Mahir Khan, Amit Akula, Eduardo Caverzasi, Nico Papinutto, William A St...> ;Multiple Sclerosis. 2023 Mar 1
1 citations
Healthy hearts healthy minds: A randomized trial of online interventions to improve physical activity.
Louisa G Sylvia, Alexandra K Gold, Marina Rakhilin, Selen Amado, Madelaine Faulkner Modrow, Evan A Albury, Nevita George, Amy T Peters, Caitlin A Selvaggi, Nora Horick...> ;Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 2023 Jan 1
3 citations
The U.S. COVID-19 County Policy Database: a novel resource to support pandemic-related research.
Rita Hamad, Kristin A Lyman, Feng Lin, Madelaine F Modrow, Pelin Ozluk, Kristen M J Azar, Amie Goodin, Carmen R Isasi, Heather E Kitzman, Sara J Knight, Gregory M Marc...> ;BMC Public Health. 2022 Oct 10
20 citations
Worldwide physical activity trends since COVID-19 onset.
Geoffrey H Tison, Joshua Barrios, Robert Avram, Peter Kuhar, Bojan Bostjancic, Gregory M Marcus, Mark J Pletcher, Jeffrey E Olgin> ;The Lancet. Global Health. 2022 Oct 1
2 citations
Web-Based Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Well-being: Randomized Comparative Effectiveness Trial.
Louisa G Sylvia, Mitchell R Lunn, Juno Obedin-Maliver, Robert N McBurney, W Benjamin Nowell, Rachel L Nosheny, Richard A Mularski, Millie D Long, Peter A Merkel, Mark ...> ;Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2022 Sep 12
10 citations
Effectiveness of Standard vs Enhanced Self-measurement of Blood Pressure Paired With a Connected Smartphone Application: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Mark J Pletcher, Valy Fontil, Madelaine Faulkner Modrow, Thomas Carton, Alanna M Chamberlain, Jonathan Todd, Emily C O'Brien, Amy Sheer, Eric Vittinghoff, Soo Park, Ja...> ;JAMA Internal Medicine. 2022 Oct 1
8 citations
Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infection Outcomes in Vaccinated Patients with Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis: A National COVID Cohort Collaborative Study.
Jin Ge, Jean C Digitale, Mark J Pletcher, Jennifer C Lai> ;Medrxiv. 2022 Jul 8
The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study.
Julian Jakob, Odile Stalder, Tali Kali, Etienne Pruvot, Mark J Pletcher, Jamal S Rana, Stephen Sidney, Reto Auer> ;The American Journal of Medicine. 2022 Jul 1
1 citations
Clinical Decision Support for Newborn Weight Loss: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Valerie J Flaherman, Andrew Robinson, Jennifer Creasman, Charles E McCulloch, Ian M Paul, Mark J Pletcher> ;Hospital Pediatrics. 2022 Jun 1
12 citations
Digital platforms for clinical trials: The Eureka experience.
Noah D Peyser, Gregory M Marcus, Alexis L Beatty, Jeffrey E Olgin, Mark J Pletcher> ;Contemporary Clinical Trials. 2022 Apr 1
Use and diagnostic value of liver enzyme tests in the emergency department and subsequent heart failure diagnosis: a retrospective cohort study.
Elena Vasti, Jeffrey A Tabas, Ari Hoffman, Mark Pletcher> ;BMJ Open. 2022 Mar 30
3 citations
Remote Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cognition in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Proof-of-Concept Study.
Jennifer A Eastman, Allison R Kaup, Amber L Bahorik, Xochitl Butcher, Mouna Attarha, Gregory M Marcus, Mark J Pletcher, Jeffrey E Olgin, Deborah E Barnes, Kristine Yaffe> ;JMIR Formative Research. 2022 Feb 2
9 citations
Effectiveness of an Analytics-Based Intervention for Reducing Sleep Interruption in Hospitalized Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Nader Najafi, Andrew Robinson, Mark J Pletcher, Sajan Patel> ;JAMA Internal Medicine. 2022 Feb 1
3 citations
Making Every Step Count: Minute-by-Minute Characterization of Step Counts Augments Remote Activity Monitoring in People With Multiple Sclerosis.
Valerie J Block, Matthew Waliman, Zhendong Xie, Amit Akula, Riley Bove, Mark J Pletcher, Gregory M Marcus, Jeffrey E Olgin, Bruce A C Cree, Jeffrey M Gelfand, Roland G...> ;Frontiers in Neurology. 2022 Jan 1
12 citations
Prospective arrhythmia surveillance after a COVID-19 diagnosis.
Thomas A Dewland, Isaac R Whitman, Sithu Win, Jose M Sanchez, Jeffrey E Olgin, Mark J Pletcher, Lekshmi Santhosh, Uday Kumar, Sean Joyce, Vivian Yang, Janet Hwang, Kel...> ;Open Heart. 2022 Jan 1
4 citations
Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers, and COVID-19-related outcomes: A patient-level analysis of the PCORnet blood pressure control ...
Steven M Smith, Raj A Desai, Marta G Walsh, Ester Kim Nilles, Katie Shaw, Myra Smith, Alanna M Chamberlain, Catherine G Derington, Adam P Bress, Cynthia H Chuang, Dani...> ;American Heart Journal Plus. 2022 Jan 1
196 citations
Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccine Type and Adverse Effects Following Vaccination.
Alexis L Beatty, Noah D Peyser, Xochitl E Butcher, Jennifer M Cocohoba, Feng Lin, Jeffrey E Olgin, Mark J Pletcher, Gregory M Marcus> ;JAMA Network Open. 2021 Dec 1
7 citations
Opal: an implementation science tool for machine learning clinical decision support in anesthesia.
Andrew M. Bishara, Andrew D. Wong, Linshanshan Wang, Manu Chopra, Wudi Fan, Alan Lin, Nicholas Fong, Aditya Palacharla, Jon Spinner, Rachelle Armstrong, Mark J. Pletch...> ;Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing. 2021 Nov 27
18 citations
Cost-Effectiveness of Lipid-Lowering Treatments in Young Adults.
Ciaran N. Kohli-Lynch, Brandon K. Bellows, Yiyi Zhang, Bonnie Spring, Dhruv S. Kazi, Mark J. Pletcher, Eric Vittinghoff, Norrina B. Allen, Andrew E. Moran> ;Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2021 Nov 16
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Journal Articles

Wearable Cardioverter–Defibrillator After Myocardial Infarction
Mark J Pletcher, Jeffrey E Olgin, The New England Journal of Medicine
Lipid Screening in ChildrenLow-Value Care
Alan R Schroeder, Mark J Pletcher, JAMA
Identifying Heart Failure Using EMR-Based Algorithms
Mark J Pletcher, Geoffrey H Tison, Jeffrey E Olgin, Shannon M Dunlay, ScienceDirect

Lectures

Evidence-Based Diagnosis: Advanced Workshop on Evaluating & Using Medical Tests for Clinicians, Educators & Policy Makers
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California - 6/28/2012

Press Mentions

Old-Fashioned BP Cuffs as Effective as Bluetooth Devices to Monitor Hypertension, Shows US TrialAugust 17th, 2022
Phone Apps Just as Effective as Blood Pressure Cuffs: StudyAugust 17th, 2022
For Self-Measured Blood Pressure, Smartphone App No Better Than Standard DeviceAugust 15th, 2022
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Grant Support

An Economic Framework For Evaluating Biomarkers Used To Target CVD PreventionNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute2011
Opioid Prescribing Patterns In The U.S.Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality2006–2007
Serum Protemic Patterns Associated With AtherosclerosisNational Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute2005–2006

Hospital Affiliations

UCSF Medical CenterSan Francisco, California