José Luis Calderón, M.D.

José Luis Calderon is an Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Health Science, Los Angeles.  He is director of the NIH funded Drew University Center of Cross-Cultural Epidemiologic Studies (DUCES), the UCLA/Drew Measurement Core, and the RCMI Translational Research Network, Minority Involvement in Clinical Research Opportunities (MICRO) Core.  He is currently President of the Association for the Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education (ABSAME), and Associate Editor for Health Communications for the Latino Med Journal.  He is a board member of the Association for the Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education, the Live a Difference Foundation, Washington, DC and the Hispano American Biomedical Society, NY, and the CF Faura Alzheimer’s Foundation, Carlsbad, CA. 

Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
1621 East 120th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90059
Phone: (323) 563-4966
Fax: (323) 563-4889
Email: jocalder@cdrewu.edu

Education

José Luis Calderón was conferred with a Bachelor of Science with honors from the University at Albany, NY in 1977 and an MD from Harvard Medical School in 1982.  After training in Family Medicine at the State University of New York’s Brooklyn Health Sciences Center he practiced family medicine in the Bronx and Brooklyn in underserved Latino and African-American communities until re-training in Neurology at New York University-Bellevue Hospital Medical Center in 1990.  He has completed graduate fellowships in Epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University and in Health Services Research at the Health Services Research Institute of the American Association of Medical Colleges, Washington, D.C. 

Research Interests

Area of research interest and teaching expertise are in the use of qualitative and quantitative (mixed) research methods in the implementation of cross-cultural studies with a concentration in health communication (linguistics, health literacy, language translation, and health information readability) and cultural diversity-competence with a focus on Latino and African American communities.  He has given numerous workshops and seminars in these areas nationally. 

Selected Publications

Birrer R, Calderón JL. Pneumothorax, Pneumomediatinum, and Pneumopericardium from Valsava While Smoking Marijauana, Journal of the New York State Medical Society, 1985

Devinsky O, Abramson K, Alper K, FitzGerald LS, Perrine K, Calderón JL, Luciano, D Post-ictal Psychosis: A case control series of 20 patients and 150 controls, Epilepsy Research 1995 March; 20(3): 247-53

Wolf KE, Calderón JL, Cultural Competence: The Underpinning of Quality Health Care and Education Services. CSHA, Vol. 28, No.2:4-6; Sept/Oct 1999

Calderón, JL, Baker RS, Wolf KE; Focus Groups: A Qualitative Method Complementing Quantitative Research for Studying Culturally Diverse Groups.  Journal of Education for Health 2000;13(1);19-21.

Calderón JL, Beltran R.  Pitfalls in Health Communication: Health Policy, Institutions, Structure and Process of healthcare. Medscape General Medicine 2004;6(1) http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/466016_5

Calderón JL, Beltran R. The Phoenix has risen but has failed to thrive: Hope on the Horizon for King-Drew Medical Center.  Journal of the National Medical Association 2004;96(2):160-162

Calderón JL; Zadshir A ; Norris K. A Survey of Kidney Disease and Risk Factor Information on the World  Wide Web. Medscape General Medicine. 2004;6  Available at: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/489230

Bazargan M, Bazargan S, Calderón, JL, Husaini BA, Baker RS.  Mammography screening and breast self-examination among minority women in public housing projects: The impact of physician recommendation. Cellular & Molecular Biology 2004;49(8):1213-8

Calderón JL, Zadshir A, Norris K. Structure and content of chronic kidney disease information on the World Wide Web: barriers to public understanding of a pandemic. Nephrol News Issues. 2004 Oct;18(11):76, 78-9, 81-4

Calderón JL, Pan D, Teklehaimenot S, Robinson P, Malek J, Shaheen M.  Multi-cultural Surveillance for Ectopic  Pregnancy: California 1991-2000.  Ethnicity and Disease 2005;15 (4):S5 20-24

Bazargan M, Norris K, Bazargan-Hejazi S, Akhanjee L, Safvati S, Calderón JL, Baker RS.  Use of Alternative Health Care in an Underserved population. Ethnicity and Disease 2005;15(4)

Calderón JL, Beltran R. Culture and Linguistics: two neglected variables in the health communication equation. Am J Med Qual  2005; 20: 179 - 181.

Baker RS, Bazargan M, Bazargan-Hejazi S, Calderón JL.  Access to Vision Care in an Urban Low Income Multi-ethnic Population.. Ophthalmic Epidemiology.  2005;12:1-12

Bazargan, M., Calderón JL, Heslin KC, Mendez C, Shaheen M, Ahdout JN, and Baker RS.  A profile of chronic mental and physical conditions among African-American and Latino children in urban public housing.  Ethnicity and Disease 2005;15(4):S5 3-9

Gollin LX, Harrigan RC, Calderón JL, Perez J, Easa D.  Improving Hawaiian and Filipino Involvement in Clinical Research Opportunities: Qualitative Findings from Hawai‘i.  Ethnicity & Disease 2005;15(4):S5 111-119

Calderón JL, Morales LS, Liu H, Hays RD. Variation in the Readability of Items within Surveys. Am J Med Qual.  2006;21:49-56.

Baker RS, Bazargan M, Calderón JL, Hays RD. Psychometric Performance of the National Eye Institute Visual Functioning Questionnaire in Latinos and non-Latinos. Ophthalmology 2006;133(8):1363-71

Calderón JL, Baker RS, Conde JG, Hays RD, Fabrega H, Fleming E, Norris K.  Ethno-medical Perspectives on Clinical Research Participation: A Qualitative Pilot Study.  Medscape General Medicine 206  2006;8(2):23  http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/525132

Calderón JL, Smith S, Baker R. (2007) ‘FONBAYS’: A simple method for enhancing readability of patient information. Annals of the Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education 2007;14(1):20-24

Calderón JL, Fleming E, Norris K.  Adapting NFK Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP) Surveys: Linguistics and Cultural Adaptation in English and Spanish. Journal of Kidney Diseases (In press)

Book Chapters

Calderón JL, Smith S. ‘Health Literacy: The Foundation of Quality Healthcare’. Textbook of Behavioral Sciences for Health Education: 2nd Edition. (Sahler, Carr, Eds.) Hogrefe & Huber, Cambridge, Massachusetts (In press 2007)

Published Non-Peer Reviewed Manuscripts

Beltran RA, Calderón JL.  What did the doctor say? La Consulta, California Latino Medical Association. 2003;3(2):1-2