Alicia Fernandez, MD
Alicia Fernandez, M.D. is Professor of Medicine at UCSF, a general internist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, 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 the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations. which generates actionable research to increase health equity and reduce healthcare disparities.
Dr. Fernandez' research expertise includes language and literacy barriers in healthcare, health
care equity in chronic disease, particularly diabetes, and racism in medicine. Dr. Fernandez has served on the National Academy of Science Roundtable on Health Literacy since 2014. Dr. Fernandez is on the Board of Governors and Chair of the Science Oversight Committee at the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Since 2020, she serves on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine.
At UCSF, Dr. Fernandez is a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators. Along with colleagues at UCSF, she edits the textbook, Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients (Lange,2nd edition)