Mary Catherine Beach, M.D., M.P.H., is an Associate Professor in the School of Medicine, with a joint appointment in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Beach is a Core Faculty Member of the Berman Bioethics Institute and Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research. Dr. Beach received her B.A. from Barnard College, her M.D. from The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and her M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins. She has completed the Greenwall Fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy as well as a fellowship in the Division of General Internal Medicine. In 2001, Dr. Beach was a Congressional Health Policy Fellow in the office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, where she worked on such issues as the patients’ rights, mental health parity, human subject protection, genetic discrimination, human cloning and stem cell research. Dr. Beach is a recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar Award and a K-08 Award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She is currently conducting research on the theoretical foundations of respect and the impact of physician attitudes and patient-physician communication on patients in the primary care setting, in the treatment of HIV, and in the treatment of sickle cell disease.

Bioethics, Patient-Physician Communication, Respect, Health Disparities; Sickle Cell Disease; HIV

Morse DS, McDaniel SH, Candib LM, Beach MC. “Enough about me, let’s get back to you:” Physician Self-Disclosure in Primary Care Encounters. Annals of Internal Medicine (in press)

Tello MA, Yeh H, Keller JM, Beach MC, Anderson JR, Moore RD. HIV Women’s Health: A Study of Gynecologic Healthcare Service Utilization in a U.S. Urban HIV Clinic Population. Journal of Women’s Health (in press)

Ho M, Yao G, Lee K, Beach MC, Green AR. Cross-Cultural Medical Education: Can Patient-Centered Cultural Competency Training Be Effective in non-Western Countries? Medical Teacher (in press)

Lanzkron S, Strouse JJ, Wilson RF, Beach MC, Haywood C, Park H, Witkop C, Bass EB, Segal JB. Hydroxyurea for Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease in Adults: A Systematic Review. Annals of Internal Medicine 2008 May 5. [Epub ahead of print]

Ratanawongsa N, Roter D, Beach MC, Laird SL, Larson SM, Carson K, Cooper LA. Physician Burnout and Patient-Physician Communication during Primary Care Encounters. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2008 Jul 10. [Epub ahead of print]

Roter DL, Larson SM, Beach MC, Cooper LA. Interactive and evaluative correlates of dialogue sequence: a simulation study applying the RIAS to turn taking structures. Patient Education and Counseling 2008 Apr;71(1):26-33. Epub 2008 Feb 21

Beach MC, Duggan P, Moore RD. Is patients’ preferred involvement in health decisions related to outcomes for patients with HIV? Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2007 Aug;22(8):1119-24. Epub 2007 May 19.

Gozu A, Beach MC, Price EG, Gary TL, Robinson KA, Palacio A, Smarth C, Jenkes MW, Feuersein CJ, Bass EB, Powe NR, Cooper LA. Self-administered instruments to measure cultural competence of health professionals: A systematic review. Teaching and Learning in Medicine 2007 Spring;19(2):180-90

Beach MC, Duggan P, Cassell CK, Geller G. What does ‘respect’ mean? Exploring the moral obligations of health professionals to respect patients. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2007 May;22(5):692-5

Beach MC, Rosner M, Cooper LA, Duggan P, Shatzer J. Can patient-centered attitudes reduce racial/ethnic disparities in care? Academic Medicine 2007 Feb;82(2):193-8

Beach MC, Saha S, Cooper LA. Patient centeredness and cultural competence: Their relationship and role in healthcare quality. The Commonwealth Fund Report. October 2006

Beach MC, Roter DL, Wang N, Duggan P, Cooper LA. Are physicians’ attitudes of respect accurately perceived by patients and associated with measurable differences in their communication behaviors? Patient Education and Counseling 2006 Sep;62(3):347-354. Epub 2006 Jul 21

Beach MC, Keruly J, Moore RD. Is the quality of the patient-provider relationship associated with better adherence and improved health outcomes for patients with HIV? Journal of General Internal Medicine 2006 Jun;21(6):661-5

Beach MC, Gary TL, Price EG, Robinson KA, Gozu A, Palacio A, Smarth C, Jenkes MW, Feuersein CJ, Bass EB, Powe NR, Cooper LA. Improving health care quality for racial/ethnic minorities: A systematic review of the best evidence regarding provider and organization interventions. BMC Public Health. 2006 April;6:104 (Epub ahead of print)

Beach MC, Hill-Briggs F, Cooper LA. Racial and ethnic differences in receipt and use of health information in encounters between patients and physicians. Medical Care 2006;44(2):97-9

Kutner JS, Westfall JM, Morrison EH, Beach MC, Jacobs EA, Rosenblatt RA. Facilitating collaboration among academic generalist disciplines: A call to action. Ann Fam Med. 2006 Mar-Apr;4(2):172-6.

Beach MC, Inui T. Relationship-centered care: A constructive reframing. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2006 Jan;21 Suppl 1:S3-8

Cooper LA, Beach MC, Johnson R, Inui T. Delving below the surface: Understanding how race and ethnicity influences relationships in healthcare. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2006 Jan;21 Suppl 1:S21-7

Duggan PD, Geller G, Cooper LA, Beach MC. The moral nature of patient-centeredness: Is it ‘just the right thing to do?’ Patient Education and Counseling 2005 Dec 12; [Epub ahead of print]

Beach MC, Sugarman J, Johnson RL, Arbelaez JJ, Duggan PD, Cooper LA. Do patients treated with dignity report higher satisfaction, adherence and receipt of preventive care? Annals of Family Medicine. 2005 Jul-Aug;3(4):331-8

Reed D, Price EG, Windish DM, Wright SM, Gozu A, Hsu EB, Beach MC, Kern D, Bass EB. Challenges in systematic reviews of educational intervention studies. Annals of Internal Medicine. 2005 Jun 21;142(12 Pt 2):1080-9

Beach MC. Physician self-disclosure and lower satisfaction among primary care patients: What should we do now? Medical Encounter. 2005;19:30-31

Price EG, Beach MC, Gary TL, Gozu A, Robinson KA, Palacio A, Smarth C, Jenkes MW, Feuersein CJ, Bass EB, Powe NR, Cooper LA. A methodologic review of studies evaluating cultural competence training of health professionals. Academic Medicine 2005 June;80(6):578-586

Beach MC, Price EG, Gary TL, Gozu A, Robinson KA, Palacio A, Smarth C, Jenkes MW, Feuersein CJ, Bass EB, Powe NR, Cooper LA. Cultural competence: A systematic review of health care provider educational interventions. Medical Care 2005 April;43(4):356-373

Beach MC, Halpern J, Meredith L, Wells K, Ford DE. Physicians’ conceptions of responsibility to individual patients and social justice in health care. Annals of Family Medicine 2005 Jan-Feb;3(1):53-9

Beach MC, Faden R. Commentary: Evidence-based medicine and ethics. Clinical Evidence. 2005

Beach MC, Saha S. Free to be you and me? Balancing professionalism, culture, and self-expression. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2005:20(3):312-313.

Beach MC, Cooper LA, Robinson KA, Price EG, Gary TL, Jenkes MW, Gozu A, Smarth C, Palacio A, Feuersein CJ, Bass EB, Powe NR. Strategies for Improving Minority Healthcare Quality: Evidence Report/Technology Assessment No. 90. (Prepared by Johns Hopkins University Evidence-based Practice Center, Baltimore, MD.) AHRQ Publication No. 04-E008-02. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. January 2004.

Beach MC, Roter D, Frankel R, Levinson W, Rubin H, Ford DE. Is physician self-disclosure related to patient evaluation of office visits? Journal of General Internal Medicine 2004;19(4): 905-910

Beach MC, Roter D, Levinson W, Ford DE, Frankel R. What do doctors tell patients about themselves? A qualitative analysis of physician self-disclosure. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2004; 2004;19(4): 911-916

Johnson RL, Saha S, Arbelaez JJ, Beach MC, Cooper LA. What explains racial and ethnic differences in patient ratings of cultural competence? Journal of General Internal Medicine 2004;19(2):101-110.

Beach MC, Asch DA, Jepson C, Hershey JC, Baron J, Ubel PA. Public response to cost-quality tradeoffs in clinical decisions. Medical Decision Making 2003;23(5):369-78.

Beach MC, Morrison RS. The impact of do-not-resuscitate orders on physician decision making. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2002;50(12):2057-61.

Beach MC, Roter DL. Interpersonal expectation in the patient- physician relationship. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2000;15(11):825-827.