Courtney Lyles, PhD
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Courtney Lyles, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations. A trained health services researcher, she uses quantitative and qualitative methods to examine quality of care, health behavior, and health outcomes. Her research focuses on harnessing health information technology to improve patient-provider communication for chronic disease self-management to ultimately reduce disparities in health and healthcare outcomes. She currently leads an R00 and R01 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to engage patients in using platforms such as adaptive text messaging and online patient portals, including leveraging user-centered design and implementation science principles to create as well as spread technologies that are relevant for diverse patient populations.