Dr. Alicia Fernandez Gives the 27th Annual Reza Gandjei Lecture

ARC Core Faculty and Executive Committee member Alicia Fernandez, MD, discussed the social drivers of health screening, as well as strategies for reducing health disparities, including via systems-level and community-based approaches as the chosen presenter of the UCSF Department of Medicine’s annual Reza Gandjei Lecture.

Dr. Fernandez' research expertise includes language and literacy barriers in healthcare, Latinx health, immigrant health, health care equity in chronic disease, particularly diabetes, and racism in medicine. She serves on the National Academy of Medicine as well as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

The lecture series is in memory of Reza Gandjei, a UCSF medicine resident in the 1990s who passed away soon after training. Reza was a Marshall and Rhodes Scholar with a passion for healthcare ethics and policy.

Dr. Fernández is Professor of Medicine at UCSF in the Division of General Internal Medicine and a general internist at ZSFG. She is the Associate Dean of Population Health and Health Equity for the UCSF School of Medicine, founding Director of the UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence, and the director of the Latinx and Immigrant Health Research Program at the UCSF Action Research Center (ARC) for Health Equity, also at ZSFG.

Watch the complete lecture here.