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  - Elisabeth Wilson, MD, MPH
Director, PRIME-US,
UCSF Assistant Clinical Professor, Family & Community Medicine

As the program director, Dr. Wilson is responsible for the PRIME-US program and operations. She received her medical and public health degrees from Tufts University and completed the UCSF Family Medicine Residency at San Francisco General Hospital in 2001, followed by a three-year research fellowship. Since joining the faculty in 2005, Dr. Wilson has pursued her commitment to reducing health disparities and increasing workforce diversity through medical education, research and clinical work. Dr. Wilson has been involved in PRIME-US since its early planning and served as interim director during the successful PRIME-US 2006-7 pilot year.


  - Alma Martinez, MD, MPH
Executive Director, PRIME-US
UCSF Clinical Professor, Pediatrics

Dr. Martinez, a neonatologist, has been a member of the UCSF faculty since 1994. Dr. Martinez is the program's executive director of and, as such, is responsible for connecting PRIME-US with other School of Medicine programs, pipeline programs such as the Post-Baccalaureate program, other UC schools, the University of California Office of the President, and the community at large. Dr. Martinez, who also serves as director of outreach and academic advancement for the School of Medicine, has worked for many years on ways to attract students from underrepresented communities into medicine.



 

- Karen Sokal-Gutierrez, MD, MPH
JMP-site director for PRIME-US
JMP site Director

Dr. Karen Sokal-Gutierrez is an Associate Clinical Professor at the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program. She is the Site Director for the newly-developed Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved (PRIME-US), coordinating recruitment and training of medical students to care for underserved populations; faculty for the Contextually-Integrated Case Based Curriculum and Introduction to Research for the students’ masters thesis; medical consultant for the UCB Health Research for Action Center; and member of the UCB Center for Child and Youth Policy.

Dr. Sokal-Gutierrez completed her undergraduate degree at Yale University and her medical degree at UCSF. Her post-doctorate training is in pediatrics, preventive medicine, and public health, with a specialty in maternal-child health. Over the past 20 years, she has worked as a physician in community health clinics, an administrator in public health programs, a researcher in public health interventions, and an educator for medical students, physicians, nurses, early childhood teachers, and parents. She is recognized nationally as an expert in children’s health and safety in child care, and parenting education on early childhood health, especially for low-income and low-literacy populations. She is very active in advocacy and education through the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Community Pediatrics; and coordinates an annual health volunteer group to El Salvador providing training and technical assistance for rural community health workers and child care programs on maternal-child health issues.

 

 



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