Marianna Kong, MD

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. She also serves as an Associate Medical Director in the UCSF Health & Human Rights Initiative's Human Rights Collaborative, which provides forensic medical evaluations to survivors of torture and ill-treatment applying for asylum. 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.