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| My route to clinical research has been somewhat circuitous. Although I received an MPH in research and epidemiology with my MD degree, upon finishing my family practice residency (with a stint in the Indian Health Service lobbed in), I chose private practice in a suburban multi-specialty group. Over the ten years I spent in practice I gradually began to realize that I was equally interested in the problems of populations as I was in the clinical problems of my patients. The research fellowship at UCSF offered the opportunity to obtain the necessary skills to begin a research career. I successfully completed the fellowship a year ago and, with the help of a mentor on the faculty, secured a minority supplement grant for three years of funding.
My research interest is in depressed mood in adolescents with type 2 diabetes. I have an academic researcher position at UCSF and continue to see patients in a clinical setting as well. I also maintain my position as an assistant clinical professor supervising students and residents.
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- HbA1C Awareness among African and Chinese American Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, American Diabetes Association, June 5, 2004
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- “Obesity in Children” at the Annual Family Medicine Board Review Course, UCSF, Feb. 19, 2004
- “Body Image in Minority Patients” at the Chronic Care Conference, San Francisco Department of Public Health, May 14, 2004
- “What Patients Hear and What They Do-Type 2 Diabetes Self-Management among African Americans and Chinese Americans in the Bay Area” at the Family Medicine Research Symposium, UCSF, Oct. 29, 2004
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