Faculty

  • Alicia Fernandez, MD

    Director of the LCOE, Associate Dean of Population Health and Health Equity, Professor, Department of Medicine

    Alicia Fernández, MD is a Professor of Medicine at UCSF in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. Dr. Fernández has expertise in health and health care disparities, with a strong focus on diabetes, Latinx health, immigrant health, and language barriers. In addition to being the Director of the LCOE, she is also the co-director of two LCOE programs: FUEGO and PROF-PATH. She also serves as a faculty mentor for the UCSF ALAS program.

  • Sarah Alba-Nguyen, MD, MPH

    Associate Professor of Medicine
    Department of Medicine

    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.

     

  • Amy Beck, MD, MPH

    Affiliated Faculty, LCOE, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics

    Amy Beck MD MPH is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. She practices general pediatrics and is the Co-Director of the pediatric obesity clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Her research focuses on obesity prevention in Latinx infants and toddlers and innovative approaches to treat obesity in Latinx children.  

  • Denise Connor, MD

    Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine
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    Denise M. Connor, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine and the Gold-Headed Cane Endowed Teaching Chair in Internal Medicine at UCSF with her clinical home in the Hospital Medicine Division at the SFVA. She directs the School of Medicine’s Diagnostic Reasoning course, emphasizing the roles of patients and colleagues in the reasoning process. Dr. Connor is devoted to promoting equity and inclusion in medical education and is the Director of UCSF’s Anti-Oppression/Social Justice curriculum. 

    Dr. Connor pairs her scholarly interests in clinical reasoning and curriculum design with a focus on promoting diversity, equity and inclusion within medical education. Dr. Connor is a member of the LCOE Administrative Core Faculty and the co-director of the Academic and Leadership Academy (ALAS) Program.

  • Triveni Defries, MD, MPH

    Affiliated Faculty, LCOE, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
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    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.

     

  • Katherine Flores, MD

    Director, UCSF Fresno Latino Center for Medical Education and Research, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine
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    Dr. Katherine Flores is a former farmworker and an alum of Stanford University and UC Davis School of Medicine. She is an Associate Clinical Professor with the UCSF School of Medicine and Director of the UCSF Fresno Latino Center for Medical Education and Research. For over 30 years, she has been passionate in developing and advocating for pipeline programs that recruit and retain underserved and underrepresented youth into health careers. In collaboration with health and education partners, she initiated the Doctors Academy in Fresno County, which is a longitudinal, comprehensive health pathway program that serves youth from disadvantaged backgrounds. She also serves with several organizations that support health workforce development such as the California Endowment Board of Directors, the California Blue Shield Foundation Board of Directors, the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development Song Brown Workforce Commission and serves as the Director of the California Health Professions Consortium. Additionally, she maintains a bilingual family medicine practice in Fresno, California. 

  • Raul Gutierrez, MD, MPH

    LCOE Director of Family and Child Health Initiatives, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics

    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.  

  • Michelle Guy, MD

    Professor, Department of Medicine , Director of Diversity, Graduate Medical Education
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    Michelle Guy, MD is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine. She is Director of Diversity of Graduate Medical Education and a Dean's Diversity Leader. Dr. Guy is a member of the LCOE Administrative Core Faculty and is the co-director of the resident mentoring program, SALUD.

  • Beth Harleman, MD

    Vice Chief of Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, Professor, Department of Medicine
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    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. 

  • Meshell Johnson, MD

    Professor, Department of Medicine, Associate Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Department of Medicine
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    Meshell Johnson, MD is a Professor of Medicine in the UCSF School of Medicine. She is a member of the LCOE Administrative Core Faculty, a mentor with the resident mentoring program, SALUD, and a co-lead with the faculty program, FUEGO. 

  • Tomas Magana, MD, MA, FAAP

    Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Volunteer)
    Founder & Director, FACES

    Tomás A. Magaña, MD, MA, FAAP is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF School of Medicine, and Founder and Director of FACES. He is a leading expert in the design and implementation of health workforce pipeline programs for youth. Dr. Magaña is a board-certified pediatrician with clinical expertise in the care of vulnerable children and adolescents, including those impacted by the juvenile justice and foster care systems, immigration and community violence. Dr. Magaña is a member of the LCOE Administrative Core Faculty and is the Director of the LCOE Aspiring Physicians Program at SFSU.
     

  • Marlene Martin, MD

    Assistant Professor, Medicine, LCOE Director of Addiction Initiatives
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    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.

  • William Martinez, PhD

    Affiliated Faculty, LCOE, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
    Department of Psychiatry

    William Martinez, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco and Director of the Child and Adolescent Services clinic in the Division of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychiatry at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. He is currently the co-chair of the steering committee for the UCSF Health and Human Rights Initiative and principal investigator of the Fuerte program, a school-based group prevention program targeting newcomer Latin American immigrant youth at risk of behavioral health concerns due to immigration-related stressors and psychological trauma. His overall clinical and research aims are concentrated on reducing behavioral health disparities among ethnic minority youth, with a specific focus on Latinx and immigrant populations.

  • Alma Martinez, MD, MPH

    Professor of Pediatrics
    Department of Medicine

    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 Rincon, PhD

    Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff Office of Diversity and Outreach

    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.

  • Leticia Rolon, MD

    Associate Professor, Department of Medicine

    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.

  • Luis Alberto Rubio, MD, MHS

    Affiliated Faculty, LCOE, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

    Luis Alberto Rubio, MD, MHS is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at UCSF. His clinical practice includes HIV primary care at ZSFG Ward 86, UCSF Infectious Disease Clinic, and attends on the Inpatient General ID services at UCSF and ZSFG. His interests include serving populations disproportionately impacted by infectious diseases such as HIV, COVID-19, and TB.

  • Manuel Tapia, MD, MPH

    Associate Professor, Family and Community Medicine, LCOE Director of Workforce Initiatives
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    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.

  • Arianne Teherani, PhD

    Professor, Medicine
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    Arianne Teherani, PhD is Evaluation Lead of the LCOE Evaluation Core. She is Professor of Medicine and Education Scientist in the Center for Faculty Educators. She is Director for Program Evaluation and Education Continuous Quality Improvement for the School of Medicine and is Founding Co-Director of the Center for Climate, Health, and Equity. She is a leading international researcher in the areas of educational equity and justice, professionalism, and education for climate change, justice, and health. Dr. Teherani leads the Equity and Justice in Education works in progress series. 

  • Peter Ureste, MD

    Assistant Clinical Professor
    Department of Psychiatry

    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. 

  • Kelechi Uwaezuoke, DrPH

    Liaison of SFSU BUILD Program, LCOE SFSU Aspiring Physicians Program
    Kelechi Uwaezuoke is the Assistant Director for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnerships at SF BUILD at San Francisco State University. Her research interests include exploring the educational experiences of historically under-represented premed students in the UC system, the role of pipeline programs in increasing health workforce diversity and program evaluation as a means of identifying best practices for increasing educational equity and sustainable institutional change. She has extensive experience working with historically underrepresented and disadvantaged students pursuing careers in health and marginalized communities to address health inequities. She has spent the last decade managing and evaluating programs that impact students and communities of color throughout the state of California. Dr. Uwaezuoke is the San Francisco State University SF BUILD Liaison to the LCOE APP program.