• Director of Community Programs
• Director, UCSF Community Partnership Resource Center
• Co-Director, Area of Concentration in Community Health and Social Advocacy
• Co-Director, Community-Oriented Primary Care Curriculum

• MD, Harvard Medical School
• Residency, UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital, Family & Community Medicine
• Chief Residency, UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital, Family & Community Medicine
• Fellowship, UCSF Dept of Family & Community Medicine, Faculty Development
• Fellowship, UC San Diego Dept of Family and Preventive Medicine, Faculty Development--Addressing the Health Needs of the Underserved

• Community health: community health work to address health disparities, community health initiatives with partners in San Francisco ranging from training peer health educators to expanding job training opportunities, community needs assessment survey in Bayview Hunters Point, clinical practice in one of the San Francisco Department of Public Health clinics.
• Civic engagement and community partnerships:efforts to improve the institutional infrastructure at UCSF to support more civic engagement activities, co-founded and direct UCSF’s Community Partnership Resource Center (CPRC) focusing on improving well-being and reducing health disparities in the southeast sector of San Francisco.
• Service-learning: service-learning as a modality for introducing trainees to the role health professionals can have engaging with communities to improve health at a community-wide level. She is involved in numerous service-learning curricula.

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• Wortis N and Donsky J. HealthTech: A Tale of Community Partnerships. The National AHEC Bulletin. XVII(2): 43-44, 2000.
• Grumbach K, Mann J, Pierce K, and Wortis N. Bayview Hunters Point Health & Environmental Assessment Task Force Community Survey. Brisbane, CA: Fong Brothers Printing, Inc., 2001.
• Wortis N, Beck E, and Donsky J. Health and the Community. In Medical Management of Vulnerable & Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice & Populations. McGraw Hill Medical. (In Press)

Department of Family and Community Medicine
San Francisco General Hospital
Box SFGH-B80 WD83
1001 Potrero Avenue
Bldg 80, Ward 83
San Francisco, CA 94110

ph 415-502-8008

nwortis@fcm.ucsf.edu