Veronica Yank, MD

I am a primary care physician-investigator. My research focuses on informal (family/friend) caregivers and on improving care to prevent and manage chronic conditions in primary care, community, and home-based settings, particularly conditions associated with older adults, heavy caregiver burden (e.g., dementia), or elevated cardiovascular disease risk (e.g., chronic kidney disease).

Currently, I lead an ongoing hybrid effectiveness-implementation randomized controlled trial of an online self-management and skills-building workshop for geographically isolated and under-resourced family caregivers of people living with dementia in rural regions across the U.S. I also lead a community partnership project to improve primary care access and quality for ethnically and linguistically diverse adult patients with disabilities.

I also serve as a research and career mentor to trainees and faculty as:
- Associate Director of the UCSF National Clinician Scholars Program
- Site Director of the UCSF Primary Care Research Fellowship
- Core faculty of the UCSF Multiethnic Health Equity Research Center
- Supervisor for San Francisco State undergraduate students in public health degree program