Anda Kuo, MD

HS Clinical Professor
Affiliated Faculty, LCOE
+1 628 206-8361

I am a professor in the Department of Pediatrics who is passionate about leveraging the expertise we have at UCSF and in our community to make child health and wellness a reality for all children the Bay Area. To achieve this vision, I helped to establish the cross-bay UCSF Center for Child and Community Health. I currently serve as the Department's Director of Health Equity and Community Engagement and am a senior advisor for the UCLA-UCSF ACEs Aware Family Resilience Network (UCAAN).

I believe our unique health professions-focused campus has an opportunity to explicitly develop leaders who will transform health throughout the life-course of individuals and communities. I had the incredible opportunity to be the Founding Director of the UCSF Pediatric Leadership for the Underserved (PLUS) residency program (2004-15) and served as the Associate Director of Curriculum for the UCSF Pathways to Health and Society (2011-15). From 2020-22 I was the co-Director of the CA ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative.

Accordingly, my interests are in community health, centering lived experience in our academic mission, collaborative leadership, and leadership development, particularly to improve the health of populations most burdened with inequities.

I am a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators (AME) and hold an Endowed Chair in Pediatric Education. I served as the Communication and Advocacy Champion until 2015. I continue to serve as an editor for the Center for Faculty Educators e-newsletter.

From 2012-15, I served as a First Five Commissioner for San Francisco. I also serve as a consultant with the American Academy of Pediatrics in areas of community pediatrics and advocacy competencies for trainees. From 2015-18, I joined the Board of the 3rd Street Youth Center and Clinic.

Some of the specific topics I have facilitated include: developing and articulating vision, negotiation, conflict management, empathic listening, time management, emotional intelligence, and personal leadership inventories. I am certified practitioner of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Clinically, I am grateful to see patients and teach medical students and residents at the County hospital, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

Publications: 

Clinician actions in response to Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) screening.

Preventive medicine reports

Scott Ashwood J, Malika N, Williamson S, Engel C, Machtinger E, Thompson N, Shekarchi A, Thyne S, McCaw B, Lightfoot M, Kuo A, Fein E, Benedict D, Gantz L, Perry R, Yap N, Eberhart N

Clinician and Staff Perspectives on Implementing Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) Screening in Los Angeles County Pediatric Clinics.

Annals of family medicine

Alvarado G, McBain R, Chen P, Estrada-Darley I, Engel C, Malika N, Machtinger E, McCaw B, Thyne S, Thompson N, Shekarchi A, Lightfoot M, Kuo A, Benedict D, Gantz L, Perry R, Kannan I, Yap N, Eberhart N

Patient and Caregiver Perspectives on Implementation of ACE Screening in Pediatric Care Settings: A Qualitative Evaluation.

Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners

Estrada-Darley I, Chen P, McBain R, Alvarado G, Engel C, Malika N, Kim D, Machtinger E, McCaw B, Thyne S, Thompson N, Shekarchi A, Lightfoot M, Kuo A, Benedict D, Gantz L, Perry R, Yap N, Eberhart N

The Power of Place: Travel to Explore Structural Racism and Health Disparities.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Marbin J, Lewis L, Kuo AK, Schudel C, Gutierrez JR

The Promise of Precision Population Health: Reducing Health Disparities Through a Community Partnership Framework.

Advances in pediatrics

Kuo AK, Summers NM, Vohra S, Kahn RS, Bibbins-Domingo K

Leadership Observation and Feedback Tool: A Novel Instrument for Assessment of Clinical Leadership Skills.

Journal of graduate medical education

Oza SK, van Schaik S, Boscardin CK, Pierce R, Miao E, Lockspeiser T, Tad-Y D, Aagaard E, Kuo AK

Meeting Optimization Program: A "Workshop in a Box" to Create Meetings That Are Transformational Tools for Institutional Change.

MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources

Kuo AK, Wilson E, Kawahara S, Horning D, Belger S, Lucey C

A multi-institutional medical educational collaborative: advocacy training in California pediatric residency programs.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Chamberlain LJ, Wu S, Lewis G, Graff N, Javier JR, Park JS, Johnson CL, Woods SD, Patel M, Wong D, Blaschke GS, Lerner M, Kuo AK, California Community Pediatrics and Legislative Advocacy Training Collaborative

Healthcare utilization and barriers for youth post-detention.

International journal of adolescent medicine and health

Golzari M, Kuo A

An innovative residency program designed to develop leaders to improve the health of children.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Kuo AK, Thyne SM, Chen HC, West DC, Kamei RK

E-portfolios for community projects: capturing the process.

Medical education

Henry D, Marquez C, Kuo AK

Evening continuity clinic: preserving primary care education in the face of duty hour limitations?

Ambulatory pediatrics : the official journal of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association

Kuo AK, Ma CT, Kamei RK