Raul Gutierrez, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine
Dr. Raul Gutierrez is an associate clinical professor at UCSF with over 10 years of experience working with immigrant children. He is the co-founder and co-director of the BRIDGES clinic, a multidisciplinary team committed to a holistic and community supported approach to wellness among recently immigrated children and their families located within the Children's Health Center at Zuckerberg San Francisco General.
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Additionally, he developed guidelines for intentional and thoughtful healthcare for immigrant students within Oakland school-based clinics. He serves at the co-director of pediatrics with the UCSF Health and Human Rights Initiative as well as the Center of Excellence for Immigrant Child Health and Wellbeing with Benioff Children's Hospitals. He is the vice-chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Immigrant Child and Family Health.
Education & Training
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
- Internship and Residency Pediatric Leadership for the Underserved (PLUS) UCSF, Department of Pediatrics 06/2010
- MD University of Michigan School of Medicine 05/2007
- BS Biological Sciences Stanford University 06/2001
Interests
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- Latinx Health
- School Based Health
- Health Eqiuty
- Immigrant Health
- Advocacy
Websites
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- CoE Immigrant Child Health and Wellbing (immigrantchild.ucsf.edu)
- Health and Human Rights Initiative (humanrights.ucsf.edu)
Publications (3)
Top publication keywords:
Emigration and ImmigrationDemographyEmergency Service, HospitalTransients and MigrantsPandemicsHealth Services AccessibilityHumansOne HealthEmigrants and ImmigrantsChildUndocumented ImmigrantsDelivery of Health CareDisastersRelief WorkPolicy
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Academic Health Centers and Humanitarian Crises: One Health System's Response to Unaccompanied Children at the Border.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2023 Devaskar SU, Cunningham CK, Steinhorn RH, Haq C, Spisso J, Dunne W, Gutierrez JR, Kivlahan C, Bholat M, Barakat S, de Leon Siantz ML, Romero S, Lefteris CT, Gaffney S, Deville J, Lerner C, Liu J, … -
Impact of Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric on Latinx Families' Perceptions of Child Safety and Health Care Access.
The Journal of emergency medicine 2022 Caballero E, Gutierrez R, Schmitt E, Castenada J, Torres-Cacho N, Rodriguez RM -
Healthy Communities: Shifting Toward Inclusive Immigration Policy.
Pediatrics 2021 Gutierrez JR