Naomi Wortis, MD
Professor
Family Community Medicine
School of Medicine

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Director of Community Programs, Department of Family & Community Medicine Co-Director Advocacy, Community Engagement, Quality Improvement, and Leadership Curriculum, Family & Community Medicine Residency Program

Training: MD: Harvard Medical School Residency: University of California, San Francisco Fellowship: UCSD Faculty Development, Addressing the Health Needs of the Underserved

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• Clinical practice at the Family Health Center at San Francisco General Hospital
• Council member for UCSF’s Office of University Community Partnerships

Awards

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• Vitamin Settlement Endowed Chair in Community Medicine II, UCSF, 2017
• Academy of Medical Educators Member, UCSF, 2015
• Achievement Award for Excellence in University-Community Partnerships, UCSF, 2009
• Vitamin Settlement Endowed Chair in Community Medicine III, UCSF, 2007
• Hellman Family Award for Early Career Faculty, UCSF, 2006
• Chancellor’s Award for Public Service, UCSF, 2005

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2017

Interests

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• service-learning
• community partnerships
• community-based participatory research
• social advocacy
• health disparities
• population health
• health equity
• civic engagement
• medical education
• community engaged scholarship
• adolescent health
• community-oriented primary care
• Community health

Websites

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• University Community Partnerships (partnerships.ucsf.edu)

Publications (6)

Top publication keywords:
Immunization ScheduleSeizuresBordetella pertussisInfantAutopsyWhooping CoughChild, PreschoolAge FactorsVaccinationImmunization, SecondaryGestational AgePatient DischargePertussis VaccineBrain DiseasesPneumonia

• Medical Management of Vulnerable & Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice & Populations, Eds TE King & MB Wheeler
  Community Engagement and Partnership 2016 Wortis N, Beck E
• Medical Management of Vulnerable & Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice & Populations, Eds TE King & MB Wheeler
  Health and the Community 2007 Wortis, N, Beck, E, and Donsky, J
• Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
  Engaging a University in Self-Assessment and Strategic Planning to Build Partnership Capacity: The UCSF Experience 2006 Wortis N, Goldstein E, Vargas RA, and Grumbach, K
• Bayview Hunters Point Health & Environmental Assessment Task Force Community Survey
  2001 Grumbach K, Mann J, Pierce K, and Wortis N
• The National AHEC Bulletin
  HealthTech: A Tale of Community Partnerships 2000 Wortis N and Donsky J
• Pertussis deaths: report of 23 cases in the United States, 1992 and 1993.
  Pediatrics 1996 Wortis N, Strebel PM, Wharton M, Bardenheier B, Hardy IR