For detailed information about the program, please access the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program website and the UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program website
Paul J. Chung, MD MS (CSP 2000-2002)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy & Management
Chief of General Pediatrics
Email: paulchung@mednet.ucla.edu
Dr. Chung is an associate professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, an associate professor of health policy & management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, a senior natural scientist at RAND, and chief of general pediatrics at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital. He is also health services research director of the UCLA Children's Discovery & Innovation Institute, co-principal investigator of the UCLA/RAND Prevention Research Center, and an associate director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA.
His personal research interests focus on child, adolescent and family disease prevention and health promotion. Current and recent projects include family leave policy for parents of vulnerable children, community-academic-policy partnerships in research, pediatric primary care redesign, pediatric quality of care, early childhood development, academic achievement and health, childhood obesity, and adolescent health behaviors including substance use, delinquency, and sexual health risks. In 2009, Dr. Chung received the Nemours Child Health Services Research Award, given annually to a single emerging child health services researcher in the United States. In 2011, he became chair of the Academic Pediatric Association (APA) Public Policy and Advocacy Committee, which includes membership on the APA Board of Directors. He also co-chairs the APA's Task Force on Childhood Poverty and serves as an associate editor of Academic Pediatrics.
Tumaini Coker, MD MBA (CSP 2004-2006)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Email: tcoker@mednet.ucla.edu
Rebecca Dudovitz, MD MSHS (CSP 2009-2012)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Email: rdudovitz@mednet.ucla.edu
Debra Lotstein, MD MPH (CSP 2002-2004)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Email: dlotstein@mednet.ucla.edu
Bergen Nelson, MD MSHS (CSP 2008-2011)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Email: bnelson@mednet.ucla.edu
Elizabeth Barnert, MD MPH (CSP 2012-2014)
Email: ebarnert@mednet.ucla.edu
Adam Schickedanz, MD (CSP 2014-2016)
