Janelle M. Guirguis-Blake, MD

Janelle Guirguis-Blake, MD, received her medical degree from the Dartmouth-Brown combined medical program and trained in the family medicine residency program at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. She completed a health policy fellowship at Georgetown School of Medicine. Dr. Guirguis-Blake offers a broad spectrum of family practice and OB services and has a special interest in women's health and urban underserved medicine. Dr. Guirguis-Blake comes to Tacoma Family Medicine from Washington DC, where she served as the chief medical officer and program director for the United States Preventive Services Task Force and faculty member at Georgetown Medical School.

Araneta N, Nunes N, Guirguis-Blake, J. In pregnant women at risk of developing preeclampsia, is aspirin effective in preventing preeclampsia or mitigating the effects? Evidence-Based Practice. 2019 Mar;22(3):33-34. doi: 10.1097/EBP.0000000000000209.

Guirguis-Blake J, Keppel GA, Holmes J, Force RW, Kriegsman W, Baldwin LM. Prescription of high-risk medications among patients with chronic kidney disease: a cross-sectional study from the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho region Practice and Research Network. Fam Pract. 2018 Sep 18;35(5):589-594. doi: 10.1093/fampra/cmy001.

Lin CP, Guirguis-Blake J, Keppel GA, Dobie S, Osborn J, Cole AM, Baldwin LM. Using the diffusion of innovations theory to assess socio-technical factors in planning the implementation of an electronic health record alert across multiple primary care clinics. J Innov Health Inform. 2016 Apr 15;23(1):450-8. doi: 10.14236/jhi.v23i1.157.

Learn more about ongoing studies and medical research at the MultiCare Institute for Research & Innovation.