Albert S. Chan, M.D., M.S., FAAFP

Redwood Shores Health Center
290 Redwood Shores Parkway
Redwood City, California 94065-1173
Phone: (650) 598-3160
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Appointment Hours
Monday Tuesday Wednesdays Thursday Fridays
7 a.m.-
12 p.m.
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1-6 p.m.
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7 a.m.-
12 p.m.

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Department: Family Medicine
Specialty: Family Medicine, Board Certified
* Open, physician is currently accepting new patients
Affiliation: Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Education/training:
Medical education: University of California at San Diego, 1999
Internship: San Jose Medical Center; Stanford University School of Medicine
Residency: San Jose Medical Center; Stanford University School of Medicine
Fellowship(s): Stanford University School of Medicine, Biomedical Informatics; University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, Family and Community Medicine Research Fellowship
Professional interests: Using computers to improve medical care and empower patients, patient-centered decision support, personal health records, online disease management, optimization of clinician use of electronic medical records. Electronic Medical Record Physician Champion for the Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group; Medical Director, PAMFOnline; Chair, Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group Leadership Development Committee; Study Physician, EMPOWER-D (Engaging and Motivating Patients Online With Enhanced Resources—for Diabetes)
Additional languages spoken: Cantonese(Basic)
Mandarin(Basic)
Community activities: Co-chair of the California Health and Human Services Agency's Patient Engagement Work Group; Board of Directors, Los Altos Community Foundation; Former Co-Chair, Certification Commission for Heath Information Technology (CCHIT) - Personal Health Records Work Group; Adjunct Clinical Instructor at the Stanford University School of Medicine; Member, American Medical Informatics Association, American Academy of Family Practice
Personal interests: Dr. Chan is married with three children - a son and twin girls. He enjoys spending time with his family, playing with computers, sports (real and fantasy), cooking and international travel.
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News and Publications

News:

Health Care 2.0

Online Records Get Personalized, Health Data Management

Publications:

Lin N.D, Martins S.B., Chan A.S., Coleman R.W., Bosworth H.B., Oddone E.Z., Shankar R.D., Musen M.A. Hoffman B.B., Goldstein MK, Identifying barriers to hypertension guideline adherence using clinician feedback at the point of care. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2006; 494-8.

Rabinowitz M, Myers L, Banjevic M, Chan A, Sweetkind-Singer J, Haberer J, McCann K, Wolkowicz R. Accurate prediction of HIV-1 drug response from the reverse transcriptase and protease amino acid sequences using sparse models created by convex optimization. Bioinformatics. 2006 Mar 1;22(5):541-9. Epub 2005 Dec 20

Rabinowitz M, Banjevic M, Chan AS, Myers L, Wolkowicz R, Haberer J, Singer J. Use of the l1 norm for selection of sparse parameter sets that accurately predict drug response phenotype from viral genetic sequences.AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2005:505-9.

Chan AS, Shankar RD, Martins SB, Coleman RW, Hoffman BB, Goldstein MK, Leveraging Point-of-Care Clinician Feedback to Study Barriers to Guideline Adherence. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2005; 915

Chan, A., S. Martins, et al. (2005). Post Fielding Surveillance of a Guideline-Based Decision Support System. K. Henriksen, J. B. Battles, E. S. Marks and D. I. Lewin (Eds). Advances in Patient Safety: From Research to Implementation. Vol. 1. Research Findings AHRQ Publication Number 05-0021-1. Rockville, MD 20850, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. 1: 331-339.

Chan AS, Captology: The Use of Persuasive Technologies in Healthcare Applications, In: Demiris G, editor: e-Health: Current Status and Future Trends in the EU and the US, Vol 106: Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, IOS Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2004.

Chan AS, Coleman RW, Martins SB, Advani A, Musen MA, Bosworth HB, Oddone EZ, Shlipak MG, Hoffman BB, Goldstein MK. Evaluating provider adherence in a trial of a guideline-based decision support system for hypertension. Medinfo. 2004;11(Pt 1):125-9.



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