Alicia Fernandez, MD

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

Publications

JAMA Health Forum

Physician–Public Health Practitioners—The Missing Academic Medicine Career Track

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS; Alicia Fernandez, MD

Health Literacy and Power.

Health literacy research and practice

Paasche-Orlow MK, Schillinger D, Weiss BD, Bickmore T, Cabral H, Chang P, Bailey SC, Dewalt DA, Fernandez A, Fransen M, Leung A, McCaffery K, Meade CD, McCormack LA, Protheroe J, Parker R, Rothman R, Rubin D, Rudd R, Sørensen K, Von Wagner C, Wolf MS, Yin HS, Ownby RL

Research in the Sociology of Health Care

"It's not the doctor - it's me." How self-blame obscures language and other structural barriers to diabetes care mong low-income Latinos with limited English Proficiency.

Chaufan C, Fielding H, Chesla C, Fernandez A.

Educacion Medica

Residentes de primer ano de Medicina Interna: distribucion horaria de las tareas

Majdalani M, Mejia R, Fayanas R, Fernandez A, Perez-Stable EJ

Heart Failure

Anticoagulation in Patients with Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation

Fernandez A and Goldschlager N