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.  

Publications: 

Academic Health Centers and Humanitarian Crises: One Health System's Response to Unaccompanied Children at the Border.

Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Devaskar SU, Cunningham CK, Steinhorn RH, Haq C, Spisso J, Dunne W, Gutierrez JR, Kivlahan C, Bholat M, Barakat S, de Leon Siantz ML, Romero S, Lefteris CT, Gaffney S, Deville J, Lerner C, Liu J, Kuelbs CL, Kukreja S, Golden C, Nelson Z, Elton K, Byington CL

Impact of Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric on Latinx Families' Perceptions of Child Safety and Health Care Access.

The Journal of emergency medicine

Caballero E, Gutierrez R, Schmitt E, Castenada J, Torres-Cacho N, Rodriguez RM