Family Medicine

Grand Rounds Presentations

Date Speaker Title
November and December 2026 Cancelled due to University Holidays
October 23, 2026 Melissa Lewis, PhD Indigenous Health and Well-Being through Cultural Revitalization
September 25, 2026 Christine Dehlendorf, MD MAS Reproductive Health Care Is Family Medicine:
Advancing Equitable Access to Abortion and
Person-Centered Contraceptive Care
August 28, 2026 Mary M. Marfisee, MD MPH Teaching in The Streets: 36 Years of Medical
Education Among the Homeless
July 24, 2026 Christopher Nicholas, PhD Psychedelic-Assisted Treatment for Addiction:
From Mechanisms to Implementation
June 26, 2026 Michael J. Li, PhD Using Adaptive Behavioral Interventions to address
the methamphetamine-opioid co-epidemic in global
and US settings
Dates, speakers, and grand round topics
Date Speaker and Topic
May 22, 2026 Daniel Lee, MD
Clinical Professor, UCLA Family Medicine Associate Program Director,
UCLA Family Medicine Residency Program

Secilia Salem, MD
Resident Physician, UCLA Family Medicine

Title: The Life and Style of Lifestyle Medicine

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April 24, 2026 Shira Shavit, MD
Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF and Executive Director of the Transitions Clinic Network

Title: From Mass Incarceration to Community Health: Clinical Care and Policy Innovations from the Transitions Clinic Network

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March 2026 Due to Cesar Chavez Holiday, Grand Rounds is cancelled
February 27, 2026 Robert L. Phillips, Jr., M.D., M.S.P.H.
Executive Director - The Center for Professionalism & Value in Health Care

Title: The Critical Role of Primary Care for California

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January 23, 2026 Frederick Ferguson, MD, MS
HS Assistant Clinical Professor

Title: People, Purpose, and Partnerships: A Mission-Aligned Research Journey in Family Medicine

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December 2025 Due to conflict with UCLA Holidays, Grand Rounds is cancelled
November 2025 Due to conflict with UCLA Holidays, Grand Rounds is cancelled
October 24, 2025 Micah Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor, UCLA Department of Family Medicine

Title: Bridging Research, Education, and Art to Strengthen Communities

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September 26, 2025 Aurelia Nattiv, MD
Professor, UCLA Departments of Family Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery

Title: Bone Stress Injuries in Active and Athletic Young Adults: Evaluation & Management Strategies



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August 22, 2025 Laura Gottlieb, MD
MPH Professor, UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine

Title: What Can the Healthcare Sector Do About Social Adversity?

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July 25, 2025 Cancelled
June 27, 2025 Cancelled
May 23, 2025 Gloria Sanchez, MD
Harbor-UCLA Addiction Medicine, Medical Director of Addiction Medicine for the Family Medicine Clinic & Inpatient Consult Service, Associate Clinical Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Title:
Adolescents and SUD: How to Screen, Treat, and Save Lives in the Era of Fentanyl

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April 28,2025 Geoffrey Gusoff, MD MSPH
HS Assistant Clinical Professor, UCLA Department of Family Medicine

Title: Healing Systems: Structural Innovations in Home Care and Housing

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March 28, 2025 Cancelled - Due to the Cesar Chavez Holiday
February 28, 2025 Ann M. Hernandez, MD, MS, MPH
HS Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine

Title: Addressing Health Disparities Through Research and Mentorship

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January 24, 2025 Heather Schickedanz, MD
Chair, Department of Family Medicine, Harbor-UCLA
Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Chair, LA County Health Agency Geriatrics Workgroup

Title: Design and Implementation of Cognitive Health Screening in Diverse, Historically Marginalized Primary Care Patient

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November and December 2024 Cancelled - Due to University holidays
October 25, 2024 Timothy Chang, MD PhD; Mirella Diaz-Santos, PhD, and the UCLA Department of Neurology team at the UCLA Family Health Center
Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles

Topic: Piloting a Dementia Screening Toolkit (DST) in a Diverse Family Medicine Clinic: a Pre- and Post-Intervention Study

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September 27, 2024 Irfan M. Asif, MD
Chair and Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Alabama-Birmingham School of Medicine

Topic: Exercise as Medicine: A Prescription for Health in Primary Care

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August 23, 2024 Derjung Mimi Tarn, MD PhD
Professor of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles

Topic: Preventive Healthcare for Older Adults in the Primary Care Setting: Opportunities and Pitfalls of the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit

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July 26, 2024 Diane Rittenhouse, MD MPH
Senior Fellow, Mathematicae
Professor of Family Medicine and Health Policy, University of California San Francisco

Topic: Advancing Health Equity Through Primary Care Policy: Priorities and Recommendations for California

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June 28, 2024 Cancelled - There will be no Grand Rounds presentation in June.
May 24, 2024 Kurt Stange, MD PhD
Professor, Center for Community Health Integration, Departments of Family Medicine and Community Health and Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University

Topic: How Family Medicine and Primary Care Contributes to Population Health

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April 26, 2024 Timothy Tsai, DO MMCI
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford Health Care

Topic: Advancing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Primary Care

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March 22, 2024 Ruchi M. Fitzgerald, MD, FAAFP
Assistant Professor, Depts of Family Medicine and Psychiatry/Behavioral Sciences at Rush
University
Associate Program Director, Rush University Addiction Medicine Fellowship
Service Chief of Inpatient Addiction Medicine, PCC Community Wellness Center

Topic: The Project LIFE Program: Long Acting Injectable Buprenorphine to End Overdose Opportunities for Addressing Equity in Substance Use Disorder Treatment in Overlooked Populations

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February 23, 2024 Bruno Lewin, MD, DTMH
Chair, Regional Immunization Practice Committee
Director, Travel Advisory Service LAMC
Core Clinical Faculty, Department of Family Medicine
Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center

Topic: Global Health is Local Health - Latent TB, Hepatitis B, and Chagas Disease

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october 27, 2023 Theodore C. Friedman, MD, PhD
Chairman, Department of Internal Medicine
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science
Topic: Lifestyle Medicine to Treat and Reverse Chronic Illness

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September 23, 2023 Manuel Tapia, MD, MPH
Associate Clinical Professor, Family & Community Medicine (FCM)
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine

Topic: Advancing on the journey of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Oppression

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July 28, 2023 José E. Rodríguez, MD, FAAFP
Associate Vice President for Health Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
University of Utah Health
Professor, Department of Family & Preventive Medicine
Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine
Associate Medical Director, Redwood Health Center

Topic: From Minority Tax to Diversity Capital

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June 23, 2023 Lars Peterson, MD, PhD
Family Physician
Health Services Researcher
Senior Physician Scientist
American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM)
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
University of Kentucky

Topic: Writing and Reviewing a Research Paper

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May 26, 2023 Alhelí Calderó Villarreal, MDH, MPH
PhD candidate, Joint Doctorate Program in Public Health, Global Health
University of California, San Diego

Topic: Border and Global Health Research on Health Inequalities and Environmental Structural Violence

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April 28, 2023 Jesse Clark, MD, MSc
Professor in Residence, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease and Department of Family Medicine
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Medical Director, UCLA Vine Street Clinic (UVSC)
Investigator of Record
Director, UCLA South American Program in HIV Prevention Research (SAPHIR) training program

Topic: Partner Management for Sexually Transmitted Infections

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March 24, 2023 Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH
Senior Vice President, Research and Policy
American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM)

Topic: Primary Care: The essential, not basic, foundation of Health Systems

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February 24, 2023 Dilara K. Üsküp, PhD, PhD
Investigator, University of California Department of Family Medicine
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Sciences

TOPIC: Centering the Margins: Health Equity in California

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