Sarah Alba-Nguyen, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, where she also serves as Associate Residency Program Director and departmental Director for GME Diversity. She is a member of the LCOE Administrative Core Faculty and is the co-director of two LCOE programs, the Academic and Leadership Academy (ALAS) and the Resident Mentoring Program (SALUD). Dr. Alba-Nguyen is a clinical faculty member in the UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine, where she attends on the direct patient care, teaching, and consulting medicine services.

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS is a Clinical Professor and Vice Dean for Population Health and Health Equity in the UCSF School of Medicine. She is a member of the LCOE Administrative Core Faculty and the co-director of the faculty and fellow development program, FUEGO.

Triveni DeFries, MD MPH, is a general internist and addiction medicine specialist. She is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital, and is and Associate Medical Director of its primary care clinic. She brings experience in asylum medicine and immigrant rights, specifically training on performing forensic evaluations for people seeking asylum in the U.S., and is the co Medical Director of the UCSF Human Rights Clinic.

Dr. Raul Gutierrez is an associate clinical professor at UCSF with over 10 years of experience working with immigrant children.  He is the co-founder and co-director of the BRIDGES clinic, a multidisciplinary team committed to a holistic and community-supported approach to wellness among recently immigrated children and their families located within the Children's Health Center at Zuckerberg San Francisco General. He serves as the co-director of pediatrics with the UCSF Health and Human Rights Initiative as well as the Center of Excellence for Immigrant Child Health and Wellbeing with Benioff Children's Hospitals. He also serves as the co-chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Immigrant Child and Family Health. In 2021, he became the director of the Pediatric Leaders Advancing Health Equity (PLUS) residency program within the Department of Pediatrics.  

Beth Harleman, MD is Professor of Medicine and Vice Chief of Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. A clinician-educator, Beth has extensive experience developing and delivering curricula to a wide range of learners. Her focus in medical education is on the development of the physician identity, particularly at transition points in training. She is a co-lead for the FUEGO faculty program. 

Fatima Karaki is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.  She is the founding director of the Refugee and Asylum seeker Health Initiative, an organization at UCSF that aims to foster academic activity and research in refugee health.  She serves as founding member and board member of the North American Society of Refugee Health Providers (NASRHP), and is co-chair of the NASRHP research subcommittee.   Her research focuses primarily on needs assessment and quality improvement in refugee healthcare, particularly in the context of the Syrian refugee crisis.  She has extensive volunteer experience providing medical relief in refugee camps in the Middle East, Europe, and South Asia. 

Catherine Lucey, MD is a Professor of Medicine and the Vice Dean of Education at the UCSF School of Medicine. Dr. Lucey directs the undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education programs of the School of Medicine and the Office of Medical Education. She is a member of the LCOE Administrative Core Faculty and is a mentor for the Academic and Leadership Academy Summer (ALAS) program.

Marlene Martin, MD, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF and a hospitalist at San Francisco General Hospital. She is driven to improve care for immigrant and Latinx populations in the safety net. Drawn to medicine to address health inequities and social injustices, her interests lie in systems improvement with a focus on addiction medicine, community engagement, and care transitions. Dr. Martin is Director of the Addiction Care Team and a coach for the UCSF San Joaquin PRIME.

Alma Martinez, MD, MPH is a Professor of Pediatrics at the UCSF School of Medicine. She is a member of the LCOE Administrative Core Faculty and is the co-director of both the PROF-PATH and Clínica Martín-Baró programs.

Alejandra Rincón, PhD is the Chief of Staff in the UCSF Office of Diversity and Outreach. She is the Curriculum Lead within the LCOE Curriculum Core.

Dr. Leticia Rolon is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco and board-certified nephrologist who cares forpatients with the goal to treat and prevent kidney diseases from progressing to end stage renal disease. Dr. Rolon earned her medical degree at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. During her undergraduate career at UCLA, she was a Regents Scholar, and upon graduation from medical school, she completed both residency training in internal medicine and nephrology fellowship at UCSF. Upon joining the faculty at UCSF, she was selected as a John A. Watson Faculty Scholar. She has a passion for medical education, and works on curriculum development and implementation as Assistant Director for the Renal, Endocrine, GI and Nutrition course in the UCSF Bridges curriculum, as well as Associate Director for the new UCSF-SanJoaquin Valley PRIME curriculum. She also works with the UCSF Residency Diversity Committee and is the faculty advisor for the Latinx Medical Student Association and Medical Spanish elective. Dr. Rolon is a member of the American Society of Nephrology andthe European Renal Association -European Dialysis and Transplant Association.

Manuel Tapia, MD, MPH is an Assistant Clinical Professor in Family & Community Medicine at UCSF School of Medicine. His area of expertise is in Community Engagement and in the Development, Sustainability, and Evaluation of Pipeline, Outreach and Pathway programs for underrepresented groups in medicine. Dr. Tapia is a member of the LCOE Administrative Core Faculty and he serves as the Medical Director/Faculty Advisor for the student-run Clínica Martín-Baró. His clinical practice is based in primary care at Southeast Health Center, Bayview/Hunter's Point and he performs his teaching duties at San Francisco General with the Family & Community Medicine Residency Program.

Peter Ureste, MD is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. He provides inpatient psychiatric care to individuals with serious mental illness at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. He also serves as a faculty member for the PROF-PATH program.