Marianna Kong, MD
Assistant Professor
Family Community Medicine
School of Medicine

Marianna Kong, MD serves as the Physician Practice Transformation Specialist at the Center for Excellence in Primary Care at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and is a faculty member in the Department of Family & Community Medicine.

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Dr. Kong leads the Clinic First initiatives at the Center for Excellence in Primary Care, which aim to disseminate best practices in primary care teaching clinic transformation. Dr. Kong is also a primary care provider in the San Francisco Department of Public Health at the Silver Avenue Family Health Center. She completed her residency in family and community medicine at UCSF, and obtained her medical degree at Harvard Medical School. Her interests include primary care transformation and innovation in underserved communities, immigrant/refugee health, and social determinants of health.

Education & Training

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• Residency Family and Community Medicine University of California San Francisco 2015
• MD Harvard Medical School 2012

Publications (7)

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Family PracticeFocus GroupsDelivery of Health Care, IntegratedQuality ImprovementInterprofessional RelationsEducation, Medical, ContinuingLeadershipInternal MedicineContinuity of Patient CarePrimary Health CareColoradoInternship and ResidencyHospitals, TeachingFaculty, MedicalPhysicians, Family

• Storylines of family medicine XII: family medicine and the healthcare system.
  Family medicine and community health 2024 Ventres WB, Stone LA, South-Paul JE, Campbell KM, Petty AR, Ekanadham H, Stange KC, Etz RS, Miller WL, Ferrer RL, Kong M, Bodenheimer T, Strasser R, Reece SCM, Freeman J, Westfall JM
• Making a Business Case for Team-Based Care.
  Family practice management 2023 Kong M, Bodenheimer T, Willard-Grace R
• Primary Care Urgently Needs Support for Interprofessional Teams.
  The Permanente journal 2022 Kong M, Bodenheimer T
• Models of Faculty Involvement in Primary Care Residency Teaching Clinics.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2020 Bodenheimer T, Knox M, Kong M
• Quality Improvement Models in Residency Programs.
  Journal of graduate medical education 2019 Bodenheimer T, Dickinson WP, Kong M
• Capsule Commentary on Misra-Hebert et al., Implementing Team-Based Primary Care Models: A Mixed-Methods Comparative Case Study in a Large, Integrated Health Care System.
  Journal of general internal medicine 2018 Kong M
• Continuity of Care in Residency Teaching Practices: Lessons from "Bright Spots".
  The Permanente journal 2018 Dubé K, Gupta R, Kong M, Knox M, Bodenheimer T