Executive Director, Health and Human Rights Initiative (HHRI)
UCSF Institute of Global Health Sciences
Triveni DeFries, MD, MPH, is the Executive Director of HHRI at the Institute of Global Health Sciences, the Medical Director of the Adult HRC and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UCSF. She previously served for several years as the Director of Education & Training for the UCSF HHRI. She studied Human Rights and Latin American Studies, completed an MPH in Global Health at Columbia University, and attended UCSF for medical school and residency in Internal Medicine.
I am the Rheumatology Clinic Chief at UCSF. I am responsible for all aspects of rheumatology clinical and teaching activities. I am committed to comprehensively aligning the rheumatology clinical program for ongoing success in all three of the traditional domains of academic medicine – clinical care, research and education.
Marianna Kong, MD serves as the Associate Director for Practice Transformation 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. Dr. Kong leads practice coaching and the Clinic First initiatives at the Center for Excellence in Primary Care, which aim to disseminate best practices in primary care teaching clinic transformation.
Cameron Dietiker, M.D. is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the UCSF Department of Neurology where she treats people with movement disorders in the Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Center at the Mt. Zion campus as well as the Memory and Aging Center at the Mission Bay campus.
Dr. Celeste Allen is a pediatrician who cares for children of all ages from birth to young adulthood. She has a particular interest in working with families who are under-resourced. She focuses on comprehensive care (care that addresses all of a patient's needs, in addition to physical ones). She is also committed to addressing social concerns that impact the lives of her patients and their families.
Allen earned her medical degree at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. She completed a residency in pediatrics at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland.
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