People

Triveni Defries, MD, MPH

Executive Director, Health and Human Rights Initiative (HHRI)

UCSF Institute of Global Health Sciences

Triveni DeFries is a physician board-certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine. She practices primary care and addiction medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. She is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Core Faculty in the Institute of Global Health Sciences. She is the Executive Director of the UCSF Health & Human Rights Initiative and co-leads the national Asylum Medicine Training Initiative. She is a Medical Expert with Physicians for Human Rights.

Celeste Allen, MD

HS Clinical Professor

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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.

Rebeccah Brusca, MD, MPH

Director of Medical Education, HRC

Internal Medicine

Dr. Rebeccah McKibben Brusca is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and an academic hospitalist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG). She graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine before completing her residency training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital Osler Internal Medicine Program.

Cameron Dietiker, MD

HS Assoc Clinical Professor

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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.

Andrew Gross, MD

Clinical Professor

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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.

Raul Gutierrez, MD, MPH

Pediatrics Co-Director

Pediatrics

J. Raul Gutierrez, MD, is a UCSF Associate Professor of Pediatrics focusing his efforts in immigrant health. He is the Co-Director of the Bridges Clinic for Immigrant Children at Zuckerberg San Francisco General as well as co-chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Immigrant Child and Family Health. He is part of a cross-bay team developing a Center of Excellence in Immigrant Child Health and Wellbeing at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals. 

Marianna Kong, MD

Associate Medical Director, HRC

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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.

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Cecilia Lipp, MS

HHRI Program Manager

UCSF Institute of Global Health Sciences

Cecilia Lipp, MA, MSL, is the Program Manager of the Health and Human Rights Initiative at the UCSF Institute of Global Health Sciences. She is a graduate in Multicultural Community (ISF) from UC Berkeley, Master's in Philosophy and Religion from CIIS, and received a Master's in Studies of Law (MSL) from UC Law SF.  Her work at UC Law SF was focused in health policy, refugee law and human rights, with support from the UCSF – UC Law Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy.