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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.
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine
Daniela Maristany, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. She practices primary care and hospital medicine. Within the LCOE, she is involved with the Academic and Leadership Academy Summer Program (ALAS) for second-year medical students. She also conducts medical education research about professionalism and is a Curricular Liaison to the School of Medicine’s Anti-Oppression Curriculum Initiative.
Stephanie holds a Master’s degree in Public Health with a concentration in Health Policy and Administration from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and a Bachelor’s degree in Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience with a minor in Psychology from Loyola University. For her master’s capstone project, she conducted a comprehensive policy surveillance study, analyzing laws related to Community Health Worker (CHW) programs across the United States.
Peter Chin-Hong is Associate Dean for Regional Campuses. He is a medical educator who specializes in treating infectious diseases, particularly infections that develop in patients who have suppressed immune systems, such as solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients. He directs the immunocompromised host infectious diseases program at UCSF.
Professor of Medicine, Director of Center for Vulnerable Populations
Margot Kushel, MD is a Professor of Medicine and Division Chief at the Division of Health Equity and Society at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center and Director of the UCSF Action Research Center for Health Equity (formerly Center for Vulnerable Populations) and UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. Margot's research focuses on reducing the burden of homelessness on health through examining efforts to prevent and end homelessness and mitigating the effects of housing instability on health care outcomes.
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.
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.
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.
Associate Vice Chancellor of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism
Dr. Nguyen, MD, is an Endowed Chair in General Internal Medicine and Professor of Medicine at UCSF, where he provides primary care to a diverse patient population and teaches students, clinicians, and researchers. He is Director of the Asian American Research Center on Health (ARCH), Co-Leader of the Cancer Control Program at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Co-Investigator in the Center for Aging in Diverse Communities. He currently co-chairs the UCSF Office of Research Task Force on Equity and Anti-Racism.
