People

Triveni Defries, MD, MPH

Executive Director, Health and Human Rights Initiative (HHRI)

UCSF Institute of Global Health Sciences

Triveni DeFries, MD, MPH is the Executive Director of the UCSF Health  & Human Rights Initiative. She is an expert clinician and trainer on medical evaluations of asylum seekers and survivors of torture and ill-treatment. She is an Assistant Professor at University of California, San Francisco Department (UCSF) in the Division of General Internal Medicine and core faculty in the Institute of Global Health Sciences. She is a physician who is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine.

Celeste Allen, MD

HS Clinical Professor

M_PEDS-GENERAL PEDIATRICS

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.

Cristina Biasetto

Mental Health Director

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Cristina Biasetto, LCSW, is the Mental Health Director of HHRI, a Licensed Clinicial Social Worker and clinical coordinator of the UCSF Trauma Recovery Center. She brings to the HHRI her expertise on psychological evaluations of persecution and torture survivors and her knowledge of trauma-informed care. She also contributes to the HHRI with her professional experience in the design, management, and implementation of psychosocial assistance programs for asylum seekers, refugees, and torture survivors.

Rebeccah Brusca, MD, MPH

Co-Associate Medical Director

Internal Medicine

Dr. Rebeccah McKibben Brusca is an Assistant 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.

Jess Ghannam, PhD

CLIN PROF - VOL

UCSF Institute of Global Health Sciences

Dr. Jess Ghannam is in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Institute for Global Health Sciences in the School of Medicine at UCSF. His research areas include evaluating the long-term health consequences of war on displaced communities and the psychological and psychiatric effects of armed conflict on children. Dr. Ghannam has developed community health clinics in the Middle East that focus on developing community-based treatment programs for families in crisis.

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

Assistant Clinical Professor

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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.