Lydia Tinajero-Deck, MD
Professor
Pediatrics
School of Medicine

Many people have brought me to this place and for that I am grateful. I have the honor and privilege of practicing medicine at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland's Primary Care Clinic. With cultural humility, I go forward trying to listen to my patients and their families.

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My goal is to help my patients be healthy and live out their fullest potential to be all they are meant to be: good students, good citizens and enjoy their days with family and friends. This common goal, I share with all my colleagues at our federally qualified health center in Oakland. We advocate daily within our community and state to improve health care for kids. Teaching our residents and medical students rounds it all out to "pass it forward" this wonderful art of medicine and this honor to serve children in our community and beyond.

" There is always light. If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it." --Amanda Gorman

Awards

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• Excellence in Mentoring Award for UCSF Teaching Faculty, UCSF-The Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, 2023
• Outstanding Community Based Attending, UCSF Benioff Children's Hosp Oakland -Pediatric Residents Housestaff, 2021

Education & Training

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• Teaching and Curriculum Teaching Scholar Program 2023
• Teach for UCSF Certificate 2021
• DEI Champion Training 2019
• Pediatrics Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland 1996
• MD Medicine UC San Francisco 1992
• BS Biological Sciences UC Irvine 1987

Interests

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• Overweight prevention and management
• Diabetes prevention in pediatrics
• Cultural humility
• Latinx community
• Social determinants of health in pediatrics
• Culinary Medicine
• Nutrition
• Physician wellness
• Immigration health
• Mentorship
• Resident Curriculum

Publications (7)

Top publication keywords:
Pediatric ObesityHealth PersonnelObesity, MorbidInsulin ResistanceDyslipidemiasBeveragesBlood GlucosePostprandial PeriodFruitCardiovascular DiseasesPolycystic Ovary SyndromeSleep Apnea SyndromesPrediabetic StateCommunity Health ServicesCitrus sinensis

• Greater Improvement in Obesity Among Children With Prediabetes in a Clinical Weight Management Program.
  Childhood obesity (Print) 2023 Tester JM, Xiao L, Chau CA, Tinajero-Deck L, Srinivasan S, Rosas LG
• Food Insecurity Influences Weight Trajectory in Children with Obesity.
  Childhood obesity (Print) 2022 Tester JM, Xiao L, Tinajero-Deck L, Juarez L, Rosas LG
• Application of the Medical Neighborhood to Children with Severe Obesity.
  Childhood obesity (Print) 2018 Christison AL, Vaidya S, Tinajero-Deck L, Hampl SE
• Community Healthcare and Technology to Enhance Communication in Pediatric Obesity Care.
  Childhood obesity (Print) 2018 Siegel RM, Haemer M, Kharofa RY, Christison AL, Hampl SE, Tinajero-Deck L, Lockhart MK, Reich S, Pont SJ, Stratbucker W, Robinson TN, Shaffer LA, Woolford SJ
• Children's Hospital Association consensus statements for comorbidities of childhood obesity.
  Childhood obesity (Print) 2014 Estrada E, Eneli I, Hampl S, Mietus-Snyder M, Mirza N, Rhodes E, Sweeney B, Tinajero-Deck L, Woolford SJ, Pont SJ, Children's Hospital Association
• Gender differences in prediabetes and insulin resistance among 1356 obese children in Northern California.
  Diabetes & metabolic syndrome 2013 Tester J, Sharma S, Jasik CB, Mietus-Snyder M, Tinajero-Deck L
• Orange juice limits postprandial fat oxidation after breakfast in normal-weight adolescents and adults.
  Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) 2012 Stookey JD, Hamer J, Espinoza G, Higa A, Ng V, Tinajero-Deck L, Havel PJ, King JC