Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH

Chief of Pediatrics, ZSFG; Vice Dean, Academic Affairs
Healthforce Center at UCSF
[email protected]
+1 628 206-8505

Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH, is a Professor, Chief of Pediatrics at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Medicine at UCSF. She obtained her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Michigan and an MPH in Epidemiology at UC Berkeley. Her scholarly work has focused on Latino health, acculturation, immigrant health, health disparities, faculty misconduct, and faculty development. She has served in national leadership roles for the Society for Pediatric Research and American Pediatric Society. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Publications

Asperger's syndrome - about time to rename it?

Pediatric research

Bearer C, Abman SH, Agostoni C, Ballard P, Bliss J, de Boode WP, Canpolat FE, Chalak L, Cilio MR, Dammann O, Davis J, El-Metwally D, Ferriero D, Ford S, Fuentes-Afflick E, Gano D, Giussani D, Gonzalez F, Gunn A, Hogeveen M, Huang AY, Kaplan J, Klebanoff M, Lachman P, Mak R, Malhotra A, Miller S, Mitchell WB, Molloy E, Mulkey SB, Roland D, Sampath V, Sant'Anna G, Schaff P, Singer LT, Stroustrup A, Tingay D, Tiribelli C, Toldi G, Tryggestad J, Valente EM, Wilson-Costello D, Zupancic J

Impact of COVID-19 on Medical School Faculty.

Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry

Binder R, Garcia P, Friedli A, Fuentes-Afflick E

Race and Genetic Ancestry in Medicine—A Time for Reckoning With Racism.

Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey

Luisa N. Borrell, Jennifer R. Elhawary, Elena Fuentes-Afflick, Jonathan Witonsky, Nirav Bhakta, Alan H. B. Wu, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, José R. Rodríguez-Santana, Michael A. Lenoir, James R. Gavin, Rick A. Kittles, Noah A. Zaitlen, David S. Wilkes, Neil R. Powe, Elad Ziv, Esteban G. Burchard

Toward the elimination of bias in Pediatric Research.

Pediatric research

Bearer C, Agostoni C, Anand KJS, Ambalavanan N, Bhandari V, Bliss JM, Bloomfield F, Bonifacio SL, Buhimschi I, Cilio MR, Coppes M, Czinn SJ, El-Khuffash A, Embleton N, Felderhoff-Müser U, Ferriero DM, Florin T, Fuentes-Afflick E, Gardner W, Gospe SM, Gunn A, Gressens P, Guissani D, Haiden N, Hauptman M, Kim KS, Klebanoff M, Lachman P, Lanphear B, Ozen S, Roehr C, Roland D, Rosenblum N, Schwarz M, Staiano A, Stroustrup A, Valente EM, Wilson-Costello D, Wynn J, Molloy E

The Road to Tolerance and Understanding.

The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine

Szilagyi PG, Dreyer BP, Fuentes-Afflick E, Coyne-Beasley T, First L