Awards & Recognition

Year	Award/Honor
2021	Innovation Award, World Health Organization
2019	Appointee, Co-Chair of the General Populations Prevention Sub-Committee of The National Clinical Care Commission, US Health & Human Services
2017	Heroes and Hearts Award, City and County of San Francisco
2017	Best Paper of the Year Award: “Beyond the Great Recession: Was the Foreclosure Crisis Harmful to the Health of Individuals with Diabetes?” Am J Epidemiology.
2016	Visiting Professor in Primary Care, UCSF Fresno
2016	UCSF Institute for Health Policy’s Health Services and Policy Research Career Mentoring Award
2016	James L. Irvine Leadership Award, for Leadership in Promoting Organizational and Public Health Literacy in California
2016	Best Paper of the Year Award, Gary Friedman Prize, for “Impact of a Pharmacy Benefit Change on Mail Order Pharmacy among Diabetes Patients.” Health Serv Res.
2015	Grand Prize Winner, Real Media Film Festival for Diabetes Prevention Film, Thin Line
2015	Youth Advocacy Champion for Health Award (for The Bigger Picture Campaign) Latino Coalition for a Healthy California
2014	Everyday Health Champion, Everyday Health (digital health journal with 43 million subscribers). Award recognizes individuals making measurable differences in health, health care, food and device safety, and condition awareness.
2014	University Community Partnerships Excellence in Partnership Award for The Bigger Picture
2014	Victor and Betty Rosenfield Memorial Diabetes Visiting Professor, Providence Health System, Portland, Oregon
2013	Featured Physician Leader, Service-Minded Physician
2013	APHA Everett M Rogers Award for Outstanding Contributions to Health Communication Research and Practice
2013	Nominee, UCSF Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award
2013	Inducted, Association of American Physicians, April 2013
2013	Nominee, UCSF Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award
2013	2013- Inducted, Association of American Physicians, April 2013
2012	Member, Strategic Planning Task Group, National Diabetes Education Program, NIDDK & CDC
2008	Member, American Public Health Association
2010	Outstanding Mentor in Clinical Research, Bay Area Clinical Research Symposium (UCSF, Kaiser DOR, Stanford University, Sutter Health, Palo Alto Medical Research Institute)
2010	CDC/NIH National Diabetes Education Program Frank Vinicor Award for Diabetes-Related Media Communications (Radio Bilingue)
2009	Quality Leader Award, CA Association of Public Hospital System/Safety Net Institute
2009	Meiklejohn Visiting Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine
2009	Engel Career Award for Communication Research, American Association of Communication in Healthcare
2008	National Patient Safety Foundation Researcher Award for Health Literacy, Quality and Safety
2005-06	Visiting Scholar, University of Chile School of Public Health
2005	Outstanding Research Paper-of-the-Year Award, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
2005	AMA Ethical Force Program’s Patient-Centered Communication Initiative on behalf of SFGH
2004	Contributor, IOM Report on Health Literacy, 2004
2004	Safety Net Research Achievement Certificate, National Association of Public Hospitals
2004	Nominee, Outstanding Teacher, UCSF Kaiser Award
2002-04	Medicine as a Profession Advocacy Award, Soros Open Society Institute for advocacy work with California Literacy, Inc
2000-01	Fellow, US Public Health Service Primary Care Policy Fellowship, Washington, DC

Dr. Schillinger is credited with making a number of discoveries in primary care and health communication, including:

Demonstrating that comprehensive primary care reduces hospitalizations among patients with chronic disease
Identifying that different levels of health literacy are associated with diabetes control, complications and overall mortality
Determining the value of the clinical communication tool known as “the teach-back method” and popularizing its use
Demonstrating the benefits of visual forms of communication for the quality and safety of medical care
Developing a multilingual automated telephony system that improves self-management and quality of life among people with diabetes
Developing and disseminating a comprehensive framework for effective communication with socioeconomically vulnerable and ethnically diverse patients
Developing a new measure of health literacy through the use of computational linguistics
Discovering new ways to increase public health literacy by harnessing The Arts