UCSD Community Wide 

GENERAL

2000 Summer Clinical Institute
UCSD Warren Lecture Hall
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0980
Contact: Kathie Gorham
(858) 551-1326 kgorham@ucsd.edu

The Pacific Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center, based in the UCSD School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, annually convenes a Summer Clinical Institute to enhance the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of those offering treatment and recovery services, or for those performing health, correctional and social services, for patients troubled by alcohol and other drug use.

Best Buddies
UCSD Price Center, 3rd flr.
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 93093-0077
Contact: Volunteer Connection
(858) 534-1414 volconn@ucsd.edu

The Best Buddies program matches UCSD students with developmentally disabled peers in one-on-one interactions focusing on friendship and support. The program sponsors regular group outings, field trips and the annual Best Buddies Ball. 

CalWORKs Training and Education Program 
140 Arbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92103
Contact: Liana Beckett, MFT
(619) 497-6676 lbeckett@ucsd.edu

The UCSD Department of Psychiatry provides CalWORKs Welfare to Work eligibility staff, case managers and home visitors with additional knowledge and skills in identifying and referring CalWORKs participants who need mental health, domestic violence, and/or alcohol and other drug services.

Cambodian Home Health Project
402 Dickinson Street, L-030
San Diego, CA 92013-0809
Contact: Sheila Pickwell, Ph.D., CFNP, Clinical Professor, Department of Family &
Preventive Medicine
(619) 543-5480 spickwell@ucsd.edu

Home visits to Cambodian refugees are made by UCSD School of
Medicine faculty members. The program provides follow-up medical services to refugees at UCSD and other health care facilities.

Casa de San Juan—UCSD Program
402 Dickinson Street, L-030
San Diego, CA 92103-0809
Contact Sheila Pickwell, Ph.D., CFNP, Clinical Professor, Department of Family & Preventive Medicine
(619) 543-5480 spickwell@ucsd.edu

Faculty Family Nurse Practitioners provide health services in a residential facility for undocumented women and teenagers who are waiting for amnesty hearings or other legal procedures. About 500 detained aliens, from throughout the world, are screened annually.

The Center for Community Health
UCSD, Division of Community Pediatrics
2251 San Diego Avenue, Suite B150
San Diego, CA 92110
Contact: Phil Nader, M.D., Division Head, Department of Community Pediatrics
(619) 681-0688 sdhealth@ucsd.edu

The Center for Community Health involves multidisciplinary faculty, staff, and students across the UCSD School of Medicine and the Graduate School of Public Health at San Diego State University with interests in community-based research and programs. The Center for Community Health increases synergy among medicine and public health leading to innovative solutions addressing community needs. It is a focal point of interaction with the community for education, research, and service, and a training and consulting center that provides local organizations with strategies and techniques for using data in policy development and advocacy. The center also facilitates joint educational opportunities for health profession in San Diego.

Clinica Medical Central—UCSD Program
402 Dickinson Street, L-030
San Diego, CA 92103-0809
Contact: Lauren Hunter, CMN, MN, Department of Reproductive Medicine
(619) 543-5480 lhunter2@san.rr.com

Prenatal care and family planning services provided by 
nurse/Midwives (NMW) in a clinic (located at 420 Dickinson St.) in an area of San Diego that has less pre-natal care available than any other ZIP code in San Diego.

The Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC)
UCSD Community Pediatrics
2251 San Diego Avenue, Suite B150
San Diego, CA 92110
Contact: Hilary Hahn, Ed.M., Director, Community Services,
Department of Community Pediatrics
(619) 681-0659 hrhahn@ucsd.edu

COPC, a federally-supported initiative, is a neighborhood partnership between UCSD faculty, staff, students, and community members from City Heights and the Mid-City area (92105) of San Diego. The center offers educational, health, and housing activities designed to strengthen partici-pants’ abilities to secure and retain employment.

Doctors Ought to Care (DOC)
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0602
Contact: Ruth Covell, M.D., Associate Dean, UCSD School of Medicine
(858) 534-1509 rcovell@ucsd.edu

First- and second-year UCSD Medical School students offer health education on-site at San Diego City schools from grammar school through community college levels. They give presentations on alcohol, tobacco, AIDS, and rape, in English or Spanish depending on the group’s primary language.

Dual Diagnosis Demonstration Project
140 Arbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92103
Contact: Annete Witt, LCSW
(619) 497-6673 awitt@ucsd.edu

The UCSD Department of Psychiatry provides integrated treatment for those suffering from substance abuse and other mental disorders, including assertive case management. A recovery and relapse program, family program and psychopharmacological management is offered.

Evidence Based Healthcare Program
UCSD Extension
9600 N.Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037
Contact: Grace Miller, Director, Ed Vantage
(858) 534-2320 gmiller@ucsd.edu

This program assists healthcare professionals in defining a health problem in a precise and answerable manner, searching for and critically appraising the evidence, determining the implications of that evidence for clinical practice, implementing changes based on the evidence, and evaluating the impact on clinical practice.

Healthcare Executive Leadership Program
UCSD Extension
9600 N.Torrey Pines Road
La Jolla, CA 92037
Contact: Grace Miller, Director, Ed Vantage
(858) 534-2320 gmiller@ucsd.edu

This program provides professionals with essential business knowledge and skills related to the management of healthcare. It involves mastering healthcare finance and systems and managing in a complex healthcare environment.

Immigrant/Refugee Health Studies Program
402 Dickinson Street
San Diego, CA 92103
Contact: Lawrence Palinkas, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Family & Preventive Medicine
(619) 543-5493 lpalinkas@ucsd.edu

This program studies underserved Latinos in California so as to provide health policy makers an overview of the challenges faced by immigrant and low income Latinos in meeting their health care needs, an assessment of these challenges and their clinical and social significance, and a profile of patients whose health care needs are not being addressed by current state policies.

INTERFACE/UCSD Tattoo Removal Program
1809 National Avenue
San Diego, CA 92113
Contact: Kathy Mayo
(858) 581-3080 kmayo@ucsd.edu

Volunteer UCSD physicians, in collaboration with Logan Heights Family Health Center, perform laser removal of tattoos which impede employment, or surgical removal of tattoos when laser is not practical. 

La Jolla Depressive and Manic-Depression (DMDA) Support Group
VA Medical Center
La Jolla Village Drive, Room 2011
La Jolla, CA 92161
Contact: Janet Kaul
(858) 535-4783 jkaul@ucsd.edu

This DMDA Support Group, affiliated with the National DMDA, is a freesupport group which meets weekly for people affected by depression or manic-depression.

Macular Degeneration ASSIST Registry
Shiley Eye Center
9415 Campus Point Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0946
Contact: Barbara Brody, M.P.H., Director, Outreach and Education
(858) 822-1234

The Macular Degeneration ASSIST Registry is a free public service that provides quarterly newsletters with updates on the latest research and treatment for this affliction to people in the San Diego area. The registry is completely confidential.

Multiple Sclerosis Clinic
200 W. Arbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92103-8671
Contact: Chris Mooney, R.N.
(619) 543-3512 cmooney@ucsd.edu

This is a multidisciplinary clinic with neurology, physical therapy, nutrition, and neuropsychological services for patients with Multiple Sclerosis.

Neuropsychiatric and Behavioral Medicine
3427 Fourth Avenue
San Diego, CA 92103
Contact: Robert Heaton, Ph.D., Professor, Director, Department of Psychiatry
(619) 497-6673 rheaton@ucsd.edu

A group of faculty members of the Department of Psychiatry provide comprehensive and sophisticated neuropsychological evaluations for children and geriatric patients.

Outreach Core, UCSD Superfund Basic Research Program
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0517
Contact: Keith Pezzoli, Ph.D., Urban Studies and Planning Dept.
(858) 534-3691 kpezzoli@ucsd.edu

The Outreach Core connects UCSD’s research on Superfund toxics to community-based partners in education and industry. The education partnership involves environmental science curriculum development and teacher training in several of San Diego’s high schools and direct experimental guidance in the particular science laboratory. The industry partnership enables the collaborative development and sharing of knowledge about basic aspects of Superfund toxicants.

Physician Referral and Health Information Department
200 W. Arbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92103-8938
Contact: Lori Marquez
(800) 926-8273 lmarquez@ucsd.edu

This is a convenient, one-call information and referral center for UCSD Medical Center, UCSD Medical Group and the affiliated hospitals and physicians of UCSD Healthcare.

Por La Vida-Taking Action for Tobacco Free Communities
2260 Island Avenue
San Diego, CA 92102
Contact: Ana M. Navarro, M.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of
Family & Preventive Medicine
(858) 534-3415 anavarro@ucsd.edu

This program relies on community lay health workers who are trained to conduct educational sessions among friends and/or family members. The project targets the Latino community which has significant barriers to health care access and focuses on fostering tobacco-free communities.

Project Dulce (A Community Diabetes Care Program)
Contact: Ruth Covell, M.D., Associate Dean of UCSD School of Medicine or Jerold Olefsky, M.D., Professor of Medicine
(858) 534-4842; (858) 534-6651 rcovell@ucsd.edu

The Community Diabetes Care Program, Project Dulce, was developed by Community Health Improvement Partners (CHIP) in response to the devastating personal health and health system impacts of uncontrolled diabetes among San Diego’s uninsured and underserved populations. The goal of Project Dulce is to improve the quality of life among low-income persons with diabetes, specifically focusing on the Latino population, by proactively addressing cultural, behavioral, and health system barriers to optimal diabetes management. Project Dulce is currently a project of the Whittier Institute, managed in part by UCSD.

Rancho Bernardo Chronic Disease Studies
16766 Bernardo Center Drive
San Diego, CA 92128
Contact: Mary Lou Carrion-Peterson
(858) 534-7150 mcarrionpetersen@ucsd.edu

This massive program has followed the health of recruited Rancho Bernardo residents since 1972. The studies have led to more than 350 scientific publications documenting important discoveries about cancer, stroke, heart disease, osteoporosis, depression, diabetes, dementia, blood pressure, hormone replacement therapy, exercise, diet, aging, behavior change and gender differences.

Refugee Health Screening Program
402 Dickinson Street, L-030
San Diego, CA 92103-0809
Contact: Sheila Pickwell, Ph.D., CFNP, Clinical Professor, Department of Family & Preventive Medicine
(619) 543-5480 spickwell@ucsd.edu

In this program, UCSD faculty, Family Nurse Pratctitioners (FNPs) give physical examinations to about 2,500 refugees a year. The refugee population currently consists largely of Somalis, Ethiopians, Bosnians, Kosovars, Iranians, Russians and Vietnamese.

San Diego BRIGHT Families Project
7071 Convoy Court, Suite 101
San Diego, CA 92111-8229
Contact: Dana Gardner, Program Coordinator, Department of
Reproductive Medicine
(858) 514-7549 dmgardner@ucsd.edu

The San Diego BRIGHT Families Project is a UCSD-coordinated collaboration working with eleven different San Diego agencies and program partners to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies in San Diego County and to reduce the number of children growing up in homes without fathers. As a community based education/mentoring collaborative it has recruited and trained 800 mentors throughout San Diego linking them with young men and women needing support. The California State Department of Health, Office of Community Challenge Grants funds this program.

Scripps Family Practice Residency (UCSD Affiliate)
450 4th Avenue, Suite 201
San Diego, CA 91910
Contact: Michele Faketty
(619) 691-7557

This is a UCSD-affiliated program that increases opportunities for family medicine training in the Latino community, improves the ability of all primary care providers to meet the needs of Latino patients, involves academic and community family physicians in research directed towards Latino health care needs, and increases the number of Latino academic family physicians. Clinical training is provided primarily at the San Ysidro Community Health Center.

The Shingles Prevention Study
VA Medical Center
3350 La Jolla Village Drive
La Jolla, CA 92161
Contact: Michael Oxman, M.D., Professor, Department of Medicine
(858) 642-6286 mnoxman@ucsd.edu

This is a national randomized clinical study to determine whether immunization with a specific virus vaccine will prevent shingles and postherapetic neuralgia in older adults. Community education about shingles, its diagnosis, and its treatment is an integral part of the study’s mission. Volunteers in San Diego are invited to enroll.

St. Vincent de Paul Behavioral Health Case Management
140 Arbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92103-0603
Contact: Annette Witt, LCSW
(619) 497-6673

UCSD Department of Psychiatry social workers provide diagnostic assessment,crisis intervention, medication monitoring and case management service for residents of the short term shelter (Paul Miralile Center) run by St. Vincent de Paul.

St. Vincent De Paul Village Medical Clinic
1501 Imperial Ave
San Diego, CA 92101
Contact: Margaret McCahill, M.D., Director of Clinical Services, Associate Clinical
Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
(619) 233-8500 mmccahill@ucsd.edu

UCSD faculty and residents from the Departments of Family Medicine, Psychiatry, and Medicine fully staff the clinic providing free health care to homeless and low-income families. Medical care, including mental health services, is available for all ages.

The UCSD Cardiovascular Center Faculty Ambassadors Program
200 W. Arbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92103-8411
Contact: Steve Blair, Director, Cardiovascular Center External Relations
(619) 543-3499 sblair@ucsd.edu

The UCSD Cardiovascular Center Faculty Ambassadors program features a series of evening events with faculty, physicians, and scientists speaking on a variety of topics relevant to heart disease prevention, discovery, and treatment. Events held bimonthly and admission is free.

UCSD Drug Information Service
135 Dickinson Street
San Diego, CA 92103-8765
Contact: Philip Anderson, Director
(900) 288-8273 phanderson@ucsd.edu

The UCSD Drug Information Service answers questions from health professionals on medications: side effects, dosage, identification, interactions, and handles calls from nursing mothers on drug use during breastfeeding.

UCSD Huntington’s Disease Research Group
8950 La Jolla Drive, Suite 1200
La Jolla, CA 92093
Contact: Mark Jacobson
(858) 552-8585 mjacobson@vapop.ucsd.edu

This research group coordinates local and national research efforts on Huntington’s Disease, a genetically inherited neurological disorder causing involuntary movements, cognitive difficulties and personality changes. Research areas include neuropsychological studies of cognition and memory, neuroimaging studies of neuroanatomical changes, observational studies for those at risk for the disease, assessment of severely impaired individuals, as well as genetic research and predictie testing. Some 30,000 to 50,000 Americans suffer from the disease for which there is currently no cure.

UCSD Medical Student-Run Free Clinic
UCSD Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0696
Contact: Carol Bloom-Whitener or Ellen Beck, M.D.
(858) 534-6110 cbloomwhitener@ucsd.edu

UCSD Student-Run Free Clinic is the collaborative effort of medical students and faculty from UCSD and community partners Harvest for the Hungry, Third Avenue Charitable Organizations (TACO), and Baker Montessori Elementary School. The student-run and faculty-supervised health clinics provide no- or low-cost medicine and free basic healthcare to the underserved. Limited free dental care is available. Clinic workers also refer clients to social and community services, provide counseling, and make presentations on health-related issues. Through involvement in this project, medical, pharmacy, and acupuncture students obtain vital experience in primary care medicine, public health, and community service.
Currently, three clinics operate weekly in Pacific Beach, Downtown San Diego, and Southeast San Diego. Pacific Beach: Methodist Church, 92109. Downtown San Diego: First Lutheran Church, Third Avenue, 92101. Southeast San Diego: Baker Elementary School, T Street, 92113.

UCSD Multidisciplinary Tuberculosis Clinic
200 W. Arbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92103-8374
Contact: Muppy Haigler, Nurse Practioner
(619) 543-2534 mhaigler@ucsd.edu

This clinic provides inpatient and outpatient consultations, Preventative TB therapy, and follow-up for active cases of TB. The clinic team is staffed by members of pulmonary medicine, infectious diseases, the pharmacy, and the TB control staff of the San Diego County Department of Health Services.

UCSD Outpatient Psychiatric Services
140 Arbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92103
Contact: Stephen Shuchter, M.D., Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry
(619) 497-6673 sshucter@ucsd.edu

The UCSD Outpatient Psychiatric Services, which include the UCSD Gifford Clinic and UCSD Psychiatric Associates, provide state-of-the-art diagnostic, psycho-therapeutic and psychopharmacological services for adults, couples and families.

UCSD Pain Management Patient Education Series
9300 Campus Point Drive, #7651
La Jolla, CA 92037
Contact: Mark Wallace, M.D., Associate Clinical Professor, Department
of Anesthiology
(619) 543-3640 mswallace@ucsd.edu

This is an eight-week program to assist patients and their families in learning new coping skills for living with and managing their pain.

UCSD Partners in Health Program Evergreen Building
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0696
Contact: Phyllis Coleman, Associate Director, Development, Health Sciences
(858) 822-1040 pcoleman@ucsd.edu

This is an annual giving program committed to raising funds for the health sciences. Gifts to this program enable UCSD Healthcare to uphold its mission of delivering the finest healthcare.

UCSD Violence Prevention Fellowship
UCSD Medical Center
200 W. Arbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92103-8896
Contact: David B. Hoyt, M.D., Professor of Surgery
(619) 294-6400 dhoyt@ucsd.edu

This program provides training in community-based violence prevention to healthcare professionals, and conducts violence prevention-based interventions through the hospital. Current programs include the development of an at-risk youth mentoring program and after-school violence prevention programs.

Wound Care Health Clinic
Hillcrest, 92103; Downtown San Diego, 92101
Contact: David Vincent, Program Manager, Family Health Centers of San Diego
(619) 515-2371

The Wound Care Health Clinic is a collaborative effort of the UCSD Division of Internal Medicine, Family Health Centers of San Diego, San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency, Comprehensive Health Center, and the San Diego Urban League. The clinic offers the injection drug user a system of care that provides heath promotion and prevention services. The overall goal is to provide medical healthcare services and to begin the process of integration or reintegration of health, stability, and recovery. This process includes ongoing contact with street-based out-reach workers; a relationship with medical providers; access to health insurance benefits, case-managed social and healthcare services, and a medical home for continued health services; and intensive prevention case management services linked with recovery resources for those ready to enter treatment and recovery. The Wound Care Clinic operates each Monday from 6:00–9:00 P.M. in San Diego in a self-contained vehicle with an examination room, counseling room, and laboratory.

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