Ulrike Muench, RN, PhD, FAAN

Associate Professor
Social Behavioral Sciences
+1 415 502-3165

Dr. Muench is an Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Nursing, and affiliated faculty at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and Healthforce Center. As a nurse, nurse practitioner, and health services researcher, her program of research is centered on the nursing workforce. She has over a decade of experience conducting studies on the nursing labor market, examining prescribing patterns in primary care and the nursing home, and assessing the contributions of nurse practitioners across diverse settings and populations. Her research interests include populations living with opioid use disorder, serious mental illness, older adults with dementia, and those experiencing chronic pain.

She has expertise working with large Medicare administrative claims data, the electronic medical record, and numerous large survey data, including the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), Current Population Survey (CPS), American Community Survey (ACS), American Time Use Survey (ATUS), National Sample Survey or Registered Nurses (NSSRN) and many others. Her research has been published in leading health care journals, including JAMA, NEJM, and Health Affairs.

Dr. Muench trained as a registered nurse in the UK and completed her nurse practitioner training in Adult and Women’s health at Yale University. Her doctoral degree is also from Yale with a focus on health policy and health care systems. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University before joining UCSF.

Publications: 

CLINICIAN TYPE AND SETTING OF CARE DELIVERED TO MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES WITH DEMENTIA IN THE U.S.

Innovation in Aging

Donovan Maust, Rachel Davis, Ulrike Muench, Steven Marcus, Joanne Spetz

A conceptual model for assessing the risk of unidentified pain.

The journal of pain

Boon JT, Failla MD, Anderson AR, Melnyk BM, Bruehl S, Von Ah D, Muench U, McElfresh J, Carter M, Monroe TB

Differences in setting of initial dementia diagnosis among fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries.

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

White EM, Bayer T, Kosar CM, Santostefano CM, Muench U, Oh H, Gadbois EA, Gozalo PL, Rahman M

Patterns of Migration Following Dementia Diagnosis.

JAMA network open

Rahman M, Thapa BB, Santostefano C, Gozalo P, Muench U, Kosar CM, Oh H, White E, Mor V

Nurse Practitioner Care, Scope of Practice, and End-of-Life Outcomes for Nursing Home Residents With Dementia.

JAMA Health Forum

Kosar CM, Thapa BB, Muench U, Santostefano C, Gadbois EA, Oh H, Gozalo PL, Rahman M, White EM

Advanced practice clinician care and end-of-life outcomes for community- and nursing home-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries with dementia.

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

Oh H, White EM, Muench U, Santostefano C, Thapa B, Kosar C, Gadbois EA, Osakwe ZT, Gozalo P, Rahman M

New psychotropic medication use among Medicare beneficiaries with dementia after hospital discharge.

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Growdon ME, Gan S, Yaffe K, Lee AK, Anderson TS, Muench U, Boscardin WJ, Steinman MA

Workforce Trends of Underrepresented Minority Nurses in the United States Over the Last Decade: Progress Towards Equal Representation?

Policy, politics & nursing practice

Hynson E, Bloomer J, Samson Z, Price K, Tran D, Muench U

Physician and Nurse Practitioner Teamwork and Job Satisfaction: Gender and Profession.

The Journal for Nurse Practitioners

Lusine Poghosyan, Jessica M. Brooks, Jianfang Liu, Yuna Lee, Ani Bilazarian, Ulrike Muench

Climate Change, Public Health, Health Policy, and Nurses Training.

American journal of public health

Harris OO, Bialous SA, Muench U, Chapman S, Dawson-Rose C

A longitudinal cohort study of opioid prescriptions associated with nonsurgical dental visits among Oregon and New York state Medicaid beneficiaries, 2014-2016.

Journal of the American Dental Association (1939)

Obadan-Udoh E, Jura M, Wang S, Werts M, Martiniano R, Muench U, Mertz E

Pain treatment and functional improvement in home health care: Relationship with dementia.

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Wang J, Cato K, Conwell Y, Yu F, Heffner K, Caprio TV, Nathan K, Monroe TB, Muench U, Li Y

The Association Between Scope of Practice Regulations and Nurse Practitioner Prescribing of Buprenorphine After the 2016 Opioid Bill.

Medical care research and review : MCRR

Nguyen T, Muench U, Andraka-Christou B, Simon K, Bradford WD, Spetz J

Hospital Admissions Associated With Cancer Pain in Older Adults With and Without Dementia.

Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses

Strassels SA, Moss KO, Mallow PJ, Tamer RM, Monroe TB, Williams NO, Levine AS, Muench U

Time trends in the regional distribution of physicians, nurses and midwives in Europe.

BMC health services research

Winkelmann J, Muench U, Maier CB

Pain Management in Home Health Care: Relationship With Dementia and Facility Admissions.

Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses

Wang J, Monroe TB, Simning A, Conwell Y, Caprio TV, Cai X, Temkin-Greener H, Muench U, Yu F, Ge S, Li Y

Scope-of-Practice for Nurse Practitioners and Adherence to Medications for Chronic Illness in Primary Care.

Journal of general internal medicine

Muench U, Whaley C, Coffman J, Spetz J

Financial Vulnerability and Worker Well-Being: A Comparison of Long-Term Services and Supports Workers With Other Health Workers.

Medical care research and review : MCRR

Muench U, Jura M, Spetz J, Mathison R, Herrington C

Preventable hospitalizations from ambulatory care sensitive conditions in nursing homes: evidence from Switzerland.

International journal of public health

Muench U, Simon M, Guerbaai RA, De Pietro C, Zeller A, Kressig RW, Z??iga F, INTERCARE Research Group

The Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues: Advancing Health Services Research, Policy, Regulation, and Practice.

Journal of nursing regulation

Squires A, Germack H, Muench U, Stolldorf D, Witkoski-Stimpfel A, Yakusheva O, Brom H, Harrison J, Patel E, Riman K, Martsolf G

Opioid-prescribing Outcomes of Medicare Beneficiaries Managed by Nurse Practitioners and Physicians.

Medical care

Muench U, Spetz J, Jura M, Guo C, Thomas C, Perloff J

Opioid prescribing patterns after dental visits among beneficiaries of Medicaid in Washington state in 2014 and 2015.

Journal of the American Dental Association (1939)

Obadan-Udoh E, Lupulescu-Mann N, Charlesworth CJ, Muench U, Jura M, Kim H, Schwarz E, Mertz E, Sun BC

Prescribing Practices by Nurse Practitioners and Primary Care Physicians: A Descriptive Analysis of Medicare Beneficiaries.

Journal of nursing regulation

Ulrike Muench, Jennifer Perloff, Cindy Parks Thomas, Peter I. Buerhaus

Does independent scope of practice affect prescribing outcomes, healthcare costs, and utilization?

Health Care Cost Institute Issue Brief

Muench U, Spetz J, Coffman J

Projections of the Long-Term Growth of the Registered Nurse Workforce: A Regional Analysis.

The Journal of nursing administration

Buerhaus PI, Auerbach DI, Staiger DO, Muench U

Policy solutions to address the foreign-educated and foreign-born health care workforce in the United States.

Health affairs (Project Hope)

Chen PG, Auerbach DI, Muench U, Curry LA, Bradley EH

The nursing workforce in an era of health care reform.

The New England journal of medicine

Auerbach DI, Staiger DO, Muench U, Buerhaus PI

Projections of the long-term growth of the registered nurse workforce: a regional analysis.

Nursing economic$

Buerhaus PI, Auerbach DI, Staiger DO, Muench U

The nursing workforce: a comparison of three national surveys.

Nursing economic$

Auerbach DI, Staiger DO, Muench U, Buerhaus PI

Nursing testimony before Congress, 1993-2011.

Policy, politics & nursing practice

Cohen SS, Muench U

Implementation of a lifestyle program in primary care by nurse practitioners.

Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

Whittemore R, Melkus GD, Alexander N, Zibel S, Visone E, Muench U, Magenheimer E, Wilborne S