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