Lisa Ochoa-Frongia, MD
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Lisa Ochoa-Frongia, M.D. is a clinician-educator and Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF, in the Division of General Internal Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). Dr. Ochoa-Frongia is a practicing primary care physician and Associate Program Director for the ZSFG Primary Care General Internal Medicine Track of the UCSF Internal Medicine Residency Program (SFPC).

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She is also the former Associate Medical Director of Richard Fine People's Clinic and Ambulatory Site Director for the UCSF Internal Medicine Residency at SFGH.

Dr. Ochoa-Frongia's scholarly interests include best practices in the treatment of mental and behavioral health conditions in primary care, behavioral health integration in safety-net clinics, curricular development and mental health curricula for primary care providers. She is the PI for a 5-year HRSA Training Enhancement award for a project entitled Training for Residents Integrating Skills, Treatment, Advocacy and Resilience for Mental and Behavioral Health (TRI-STAR).

Awards

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• Academy of Medical Educators, UCSF, 2023
• Zuckerberg San Francisco Department of Medicine Physician COVID19 Clinical Service Recognition Award, UCSF, 2022
• Academy of Medical Educators Excellence in Teaching Award, UCSF, 2021
• Zuckerberg San Francisco General Performance/Quality Improvement Award, Zuckerberg San Francsico General Hospital and Trauma Center, 2018

Education & Training

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• Internal Medicine Residency Program UCSF 2014
• M.D. Mount Sinai School of Medicine 2011
• Bachelor of Arts Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Princeton University 2005

Interests

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• medical education
• integration of behavioral health and medical care
• Primary care of vulnerable and medically underserved populations
• career mentoring of residents and students
• health disparities

Websites

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• Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression in Adults: An Educational Module for Safety-Net Primary Care Providers (education.smiadviser.org)
• ZSFG Primary Care General Internal Medicine Track (zsfgdgim.ucsf.edu)
• TRI-STAR Program: Training for Residents Integrating Skills, Treatment Advocacy and Resilience for Mental and Behavioral Health (zsfgdgim.ucsf.edu)

Grants and Projects

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• Training for Residents Integrating Skills, Treatment Advocacy and Resilience for Mental and Behavioral Health (TRI-STAR-MBH), HRSA, 2022-2027

Publications (8)

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• Depression Treatment After a Positive Depression Screen Result.
  JAMA internal medicine 2024 Garcia ME, Ochoa-Frongia L, Neuhaus J, Hong JC, Hinton L, Livaudais-Toman J, Feldman MD, Mangurian C, Appelle N, Karliner LS
• Effectiveness of a Digital Health Intervention Leveraging Reinforcement Learning: Results From the Diabetes and Mental Health Adaptive Notification Tracking and Evaluation (DIAMANTE) Randomized Clinical Trial.
  Journal of medical Internet research 2024 Aguilera A, Arévalo Avalos M, Xu J, Chakraborty B, Figueroa C, Garcia F, Rosales K, Hernandez-Ramos R, Karr C, Williams J, Ochoa-Frongia L, Sarkar U, Yom-Tov E, Lyles C
• Telemedicine and Depression Screening After the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  JAMA network open 2024 Garcia ME, Neuhaus J, Livaudais-Toman J, Feldman MD, Ochoa-Frongia L, Khoong E, Karliner LS
• Bring It Up: An Adapted Collaborative Care Model for Depression in a Safety-Net Primary Care Clinic.
  Psychiatric research and clinical practice 2024 Ochoa-Frongia L, Garcia ME, Bendahan T, Ponce AN, Calderon C, Pumar M, Yee K, Schillinger D, Loewy R, Mangurian C
• Effectiveness-implementation hybrid trial of Spanish language, digital cognitive-behavioral therapy (dCBT) intervention for depression and anxiety - protocol for the SUPERA (SUpport from PEeRs to expand Access) study.
  Contemporary clinical trials 2023 Aguilera A, Arévalo Avalos MR, Rosales K, Reyes Y, Hernandez-Ramos R, Ramos G, Garcia E, Hoang T, Ochoa-Frongia L, Fortuna LR, Schueller SM
• Collaborative Care for Depression among Patients with Limited English Proficiency: a Systematic Review.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2017 Garcia ME, Ochoa-Frongia L, Moise N, Aguilera A, Fernandez A
• Breast and cervical cancer screening and health beliefs among African American women attending educational programs.
  Health promotion practice 2011 Ochoa-Frongia L, Thompson HS, Lewis-Kelly Y, Deans-McFarlane T, Jandorf L
• Influence of frozen-section analysis of sentinel lymph node and lumpectomy margin status on reoperation rates in patients undergoing breast-conservation therapy.
  Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2007 McLaughlin SA, Ochoa-Frongia LM, Patil SM, Cody HS, Sclafani LM