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April 2000
City Honors Two UCSF Physicians The City of San Francisco last week honored two UCSF physicians for their longstanding work with underserved populations. At the first-ever Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Women's Health Forum on April 7, Patricia Robertson, MD, and Alicia Fernandez, MD, received Lifetime Achievement Awards. Mayor Willie Brown also proclaimed a "Patricia Robertson and Alicia Fernandez Day" in their honor. The health forum, hosted by Mayor Brown, Supervisor Leslie Katz, and Department of Health chief Mitchell Katz, was co-sponsored by UCSF, Kaiser Permanente, California Pacific Medical Center, and others. The first meeting of its kind in the nation, the forum focused on the recent Institute of Medicine report on lesbian health and featured a host of UCSF-affiliated speakers and attendees. The forum is expected to generate draft standards for LGBT health care to be issued by the San Francisco's Department of Public Health. Other officials hearing testimony at the event included State Assemblymembers Carole Migden and Kevin Shelley, Supervisor Mark Leno, City Treasurer Susan Leal, School Board member Juanita Owens, Health Commission Chair Roma Guy, and regional Department of Health & Human Services director Catherine Dodd. Robertson, associate professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology and co-director of UCSF Lesbian Health Research Center, received the Lifetime Achievement Award "for being a consistent and visionary voice, a pioneer and pacesetter, in lesbian health care." Noting that she co-founded San Francisco's Lyon-Martin Women's Health Services, as well as the international Lesbian Health Fund, award presenter Kevin Shelley added, "She has been an architect of lesbian health services locally and nationally, and her vision and devotion have touched the lives of countless people and earned the gratitude of the community." Fernandez, UCSF assistant professor of medicine at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center, was honored for "significantly improving the quality of medical care for immigrant populations and the urban poor." Director since 1999 of the inpatient service of SGHMC’s medicine department, she is also a primary care physician, seeing Latino patients in the Community Health Network’s General Medical Clinic. Her research interests are the social factors affecting the treatment of chronic diseases, particularly diabetes, and the use of health services by the urban poor. Working with an interdisciplinary team, she is currently exploring alternatives to hospitalization for patients with substance abuse and chronic illness. UCSF's own Center for Lesbian Health Research presented a day-long follow-up to the forum on April 8 at the Laurel Heights campus, focusing on cutting-edge research issues. Over 50 participants received briefings on recent research and discussed opportunities for funding and collaboration. Links: UCSF Opens Lesbian Health Research Center |
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