Dr. Alicia Fernandez Appointed to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

ARC Core Faculty and Executive Committee Member, Alicia Fernandez, MD, was appointed to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Dr. Fernandez joins UCSF School of Medicine colleague  Sei Lee MD, MAS, in developing evidence-based recommendations on preventive care.

As an independent, volunteer panel of national experts in disease prevention and evidence-based medicine, the Task Force works to improve the health of people nationwide by making evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services.

Dr. Fernandez is a Professor of Medicine at UCSF, a general internist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and Associate Dean of Population Health and Health Equity for UCSF SOM. She is the founding Director of the UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence, a HRSA and UCSF funded initiative to increase academic diversity. Dr. Fernandez directs the Latinx and Immigrant Health Research Program at ARC, which generates actionable research to increase health equity and reduce healthcare disparities.