For the past two years, Family Medicine has participated in an annual review by the Dean's Office of the School of Medicine to document our activities and commitment to equity and diversity inclusion (EDI). Read more about UCLA's commmitment to EDI initiatives, educational resources, and programs.
Our own Dr. Marissa Vasquez threw out the ceremonial first pitch in celebraton of Hispanic Heritage Month at a recent Dodgers game.
As the presenting sponsor of Hispanic Heritage Month with the Los Angeles Dodgers, we are proud that our own Dr. Marissa Vasquez, the head team physician for the Los Angeles Dodgers and first Latina head physician in MLB history, had the honor of throwing out the first pitch at a recent Dodger game. Go Dodgers!
"It's a preventable catastrophe," says Dr. Yelba Castellon-Lopez
Dr. Castellon-Lopez, assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine, spoke with the Los Angeles Times in a recent article on why people have waited to get the vaccine for COVID-19.
Learn more about the UCLA-led coalition that seeks to increase vaccination in at-risk communities across Los Angeles and California.
Welcome to Our New Fellows
The department's fellowship program in Addiction Medicine welcomes Drs. Amy Richards and Angela Sepulveda (top), both graduates of our Family Medicine Residency Training Program. We also welcome three new Sports Medicine Fellows Drs. Brian Donohoe, Sherilyn DeStefano, and Lauren Oberle (bottom). Both our Addiction and Sports Medicine Fellowship programs are committed to recruiting outstanding primary care physicians to train in our unique and challenging interdisciplinary environment.
CBAM is going mobile!
The Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine's new mobile clinic is now ready for deployment as part of the HIV Prevention Trials Network with collaborating sites in Houston, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., and the Bronx.
Dr. Mary Marfisee
Dr. Mary Marfisee, Program Director of the Department's Student-Run Homeless Clinic has been named Clinical Programs Director for the new UCLA Health Homeless Healthcare Collaborative being coordinated by the UCLA Health Office of Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Together with former Family Medicine chair Dr. Patrick Dowling, Dr. Marfisee was instrumental in launching the new collaborative in partnership with the Department of Emergency Medicine and the UCLA HEDI office.
