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Directors
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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
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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
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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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