2000 Summer Clinical Institute
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.
Director: David Deitch
Contact: Kathie Gorham
Email: kgorham@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)551-1326

AIDS Education & Training Center (AETC) - Owen Clinic
AETC is a federally funded program that develops, coordinates and provides HIV/AIDS clinical training and continuing education for community-based clinicians in San Diego County, Imperial County and Tijuana. The program includes weekly HIV conferences, consultation services, off-site clinics at Donovan State Prison and Bailey County Jail, and participation in binational border health education and with the San Diego County Ryan White Planning Council. The AETC staff is available to assist with planning and coordination of small and large HIV-related conferences.
Director: Heather Baldwin
Email: hbaldwin@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)543-2415

AIDS Research Institute
This institute provides a centralized resource for both the UCSD and San Diego community with regard to all HIV/AIDS research and activities which take place at the university, including clinical trials, education, outreach.
Director: Flossie Wong-Staal, M.D.
Contact: Carole Sussman
Email: csussman@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)534-5545

Alzheimer's Disease Research Center
This center is engaged in diagnosis and analysis of the clinical and cognitive impairments associated with Alzheimer's disease and other related illnesses.
Director: Leon Thal, M.D.
Contact: Joyce Zillner
Email: jzillner@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)622-5800

Asian/Pacific Islander Breast Cancer Outreach Program
UCSD students outreach to local Asian markets and shops to help educate women about breast cancer prevention and early detection procedures. The focus is on older women with Asian and/or Pacific Islander descent for whom studies show a rising increase of breast cancer and many of whom lack the necessary information to help prevent and/or detect breast cancer early.
Director: Georgia Sadler
Contact: Glenda Macaraeg
Email: gmacarae@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)898-1470

Best Buddies
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.
Director: Chad Hicks-Beach
Contact: Randon Woodard
Email: rwoodard@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)534-4298

Black Cosmetologists Promoting Health Program
This program trains African American cosmetologists to serve as peer community health educators for their clients and their extended community. The cosmetologists promote awareness of prevention, early detection, prompt treatment and clinical trials opportunities.
Director: Georgia Sadler
Email: gsadler@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)534-7611

Brain Awareness Week Outreach Program
Area schools, businesses and community/civic organizations are provided with visiting UCSD neuroscientists who update audiences on the strides being made in various areas of brain research. This program is offered each year during national Brain Awareness Week, the third week in March.
Director: Marky Pitts
Contact: Michael Dabney
Email: mdabney@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)822-0761

Breast Health Reminder Service
Sponsored by the UCSD Cancer Center, this is a web-based service which reminds women by e-mail when it is time to do their monthly breast self-exam and when to schedule their annual clinical breast exam and mammogram. This is a free community service available to anyone with an e-mail address. To register for the service, visit the UCSD Cancer Center web site at http://cancer.ucsd.edu and click on the link to the Breast Cancer Reminder Service. The registration page asks visitors to register for the monthly or annual reminder, or both. Visitors then designate the date each month and/or the month each year they wish to receive their e-mail reminder, enter their e-mail address and click the submit button.
Director: Anne Wallace, M.D.
Phone: (858)534-7600

California Children's Services (CCS), UCSD Pediatrics Program
In this state-funded program for children with severe medical problems. UCSD pediatricians provide case management services at school-based sites where special needs children receive therapy and ensure that they also have access to other services: medical, educational, nursing, nutrition, dental, transportation, and social.
Director: Robyn Phelps
Phone: (858)560-3400

California NeuroAIDS Tissue NetworkA member of the National NeuroAIDS Tissue Network, this is a federally funded tissue and specimen bank at UCSD focusing on the neurologic complications of HIV infection. Study participants receive semiannual neuropsychological assessment. Data are matched with autopsy, pathology, and tissue samples and are available to approved neuroAIDS investigators.
Director: Igor Grant, M.D.
Contact: Sid Wall
Email: swall@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)543-8090

California Smokers' Helpline 1-800-NO-BUTTS
This telephone program is designed to help people quit smoking. Helpline services are free to the public. A choice of services, including self-help materials, a referral list of other programs and one-on-one counseling over the phone, is offered. Services also are available in Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Vietnamese, Korean, Hearing Impaired, and for tobacco chewers. The program is funded by the California Department of Health Services.
Director: Shu-Hong Zhu, Ph.D.
Contact: Judith Mills, MPH
Email: jamills@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)713-1514

California Tay-Sachs UCSD Disease Prevention Program
This is a prototype program for the control of genetic disease, and is a statewide effort designed to prevent the inhereted genetic disorder of Tay-Sachs disease. The program provides community outreach services, testing and genetic counseling via statewide network centers in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Oakland and Sacramento, as well as San Diego.
Director: Michael M. Kaback, M.D.
Contact: Nancy Levy
Email: nlevy@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)495-7737

California Teratogen Information Service and Clinical Research Program
This program provides information about street drugs, prescriptive and non-prescriptive drugs, chemicals, infectious diseases, and physical agents which may be harmful to an unborn child. This service is offered to pregnant women, fathers, physicians, and
Director: Kenneth Lyons Jones, M.D.
Contact: Robert Felix
Email: bdefects@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)543-2128

CalWORKs Training and Education Program
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.
Director: Liana Beckett, MFT
Phone: (619)497-6676

Cambodian Home Health Project
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.
Director: Sheila Pickwell, Ph. D, CFNP
Email: spickwell@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)543-5480

Casa de San Juan - UCSD Program
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.
Director: Sheila Pickwell, Ph. D, CFNP
Email: spickwell@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)543-5480

Center for Community Health
This center serves the community by creating a conduit for exchange of information and ideas among UCSD faculty, students, staff and community members. The goal is to increase knowledge and skills in multidisciplinary collaboration, community-based practice, policy development and advocacy, along with clinical training.
Director: Phil Nader, M.D.
Contact: Judi Lopez
Email: j1lopez@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)681-0681

Circadian pacemaker disorders in aging
Circadian pacemaker (body clock) disorders in aging are studied among volunteers over 60 years of age. Volunteers who exercise regularly and those with sleep problems are included.
Director: Daniel F. Kripke, M.D.
Email: dkripke1@san.rr.com
Phone: (858)534-7131

Clergy Cancer Education Program
The potential for collaboration of churches to promote awareness of three main cancer issues--cancer prevention activities, clinical trials opportunities, and pain management and palliative care options--is explored. The program involves clergy and lay church leaders from 24 churches in San Diego and Imperial counties.
Director: Georgia Sadler
Email: gsadler@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)534-7611

Clinica Medical Central/UCSD Program
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.
Director: Lauren Hunter, CNM, MN
Email: lhunter2@san.rr.com
Phone: (619)543-5480

Communicating Breast Cancer Information to Deaf Women
A small cohort of deaf women, trained about breast cancer early detection, seeks to reach out to a larger group of deaf women with breast cancer information.
Director: Georgia Sadler
Email: gsadler@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)534-7611

Community Breast Cancer Screening
UCSD Nurse Practitioner faculty members provide breast screening services to low income and inadequately insured women through the California Breast Cancer Early Detection Program. Screenings are performed at the workplace and in conjunction with mobile mammography.
Director: Sheila Pickwell, Ph. D, CFNP
Email: spickwell@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)543-5480

Community Oncologists' Clinical Trials Education Program
This program focuses on clinical trials for patients with special emphasis placed on educating minority patients.
Director: Georgia Sadler
Email: gsadler@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)534-7611

Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC)
Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, COPE was created to contribute to the redevelopment of San Diego's enterprise communities. It brings university faculty, staff and students together with the City Heights community to address needs and utilize assets and resources in the areas of education for the future, access to health care and employment and housing opportunities. UCSD is the only medical school in the country to receive this grant.
Director: Vivian Reznik, M.D.
Contact: Hilary Hahn
Email: hrhahn@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)681-0659

DOC For A Day
This is an annual program exposing inner city youth to the possibility of pursuing careers in science or medicine. UCSD School of Medicine students work in small groups with youths teaching physical exams, neurological exams and cardiology. The medical students also conduct a panel discussing issues they faced in entering a career in medicine.
Director: Sandra Daley, M.D.
Email: sdaley@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)534-0764

Dual Diagnosis Demonstration Project
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.
Director: Annette Witt, LCSW
Phone: (619)497-6673

Evidence Based Healthcare Program
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.
Director: Grace Miller
Email: gmiller@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)534-2320

Family Medicine/Psychiatry Residency Outreach at St. Vincent De Paul
This Outreach Program offers medical and mental health services to San Diego's homeless community at St. Vincent de Paul Village Medical Clinic. This is the first program in the nation to combine training of physicians in Family Medicine and Psychiatry while offering services to the homeless community.
Director: Margaret McCahill, M.D.
Contact: Debbie Johnson
Phone: (619)233-8500

Free Clinic Project

This medical, student-run, faculty-supervised clinic offers free medical and dental services to the poor in San Diego. The clinic is offered in Pacific Beach, downtown San Diego, and Southeast San Diego communities.
Director: Ellen Beck, M.D.
Contact: Carol Bloom-Whitener
Email: cbloomwhitener@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)534-6110

Healthcare Executive Leadership Program
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.
Director: Grace Miller
Email: gmiller@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)534-2320

Health-insurance Access Through Schools (HATS)
School-based outreach workers assist low- and middle-income parents in getting health insurance for their children. Parents receive assistance with insurance application and education on why and how to use preventive health services.
Director: Howard Taras, M.D.
Phone: (619)681-0647

HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center
HNRC is a federally funded multidisciplinary research center focusing on the neurological, psychiatric and behavioral complications of HIV infection. It also studies the long term effects of methamphetamine dependence in people who are HIV positive and negative.
Director: Igor Grant, M.D.
Contact: Rodney von Jaeger
Email: rvonjaeger@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)543-5055

Immigrant/Refugee Health Studies Program
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.
Director: Lawrence Palinkas, M.D.
Email: lpalinkas@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)543-5493

Institute of Psychiatry and Children's Hospital and Health Center
A specifically designed outpatient service for child and adolescent psychiatric referrals emphasizes rapid accessibility and a multi disciplinary approach to treatment in areas such as ADD, hyperactivity, learning, eating, affective and anxiety disorders, autism and persuasive disorders.
Director: Saul Levine, M.D.
Email: slevine@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)576-5832

INTERFACE/UCSD International Surgical Program
Volunteer plastic surgery teams perform reconstructive surgery in developing nations for children with congenital and acquired deformities.
Director: Marek Dobke, M.D.
Contact: Kathy Mayo
Email: kmayo@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)581-3080

INTERFACE/UCSD Tattoo Removal Program
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.
Director: Jack Fisher, M.D.
Contact: Kathy Mayo
Email: kmayo@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)581-3080

La Jolla Depressive and Manic-Depression (DMDA) Support Group
This DMDA Support Group, affiliated with the National DMDA, is a free support group which meets weekly for people affected by depression or manic-depression.
Director: Janet Kaul
Email: jkaul@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)535-4783

Lifesharing Community Organ Donation
This is a community-based, non-profit organization involved with recovering organs and tissues for transplantation, educating the community about organ donation and supporting transplant recipients and donor families.
Director: Rudy Morgan
Contact: Sharie Shipley
Email: sshipley@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)292-8750

Macular Degeneration ASSIST Registry
Participants in the Shiley Eye Center's Macular Degeneration ASSIST Registry, dedicated to helping people with macular degeneration achieve better lives, receive newsletters, updates on the latest research and information on new technology and vision aids.
Director: Barbara Brody, M.P.H.
Contact: Kellie Maclean
Email: gangwisch@eyesight.ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)822-1234

Morse High School/UCSD Medical Center
This partnership enhances and promotes the health and science program at Morse High School and provides students with academic and pre-professional activities to prepare them for careers in the health profession.
Director: Eileen Callahan
Email: ecallahan@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)543-6163

Multiple Sclerosis Clinic
This is a multidisciplinary clinic with neurology, physical therapy, nutrition, and neuropsychological services for patients with MS.
Director: Jody Corey-Bloom, M.D., Ph.D.
Contact: Chris Mooney, R.N.
Phone: (619)543-3512

National Youth Sport Program
UCSD pediatric faculty, residents, nursing and office staff volunteer annually with San Diego City College (SDCC) chapter of the NCAA to sponsor a National Youth Sports Program Summer Sports Camp, providing physical exams, administrative support, immunizations, and medical care. The five-week camp for disadvantaged youth, ages 10-16, gives them exposure to sports, fitness, and the importance of education.
Director: Paulette Hopkins
Phone: (619)230-2015

Neuropsychiatric and Behavioral Medicine
A group of faculty members of the Department of Psychiatry provide comprehensive and sophisticated neuropsychological evaluations for adults, children and geriatric patients.
Director: Robert Heaton, Ph.D.
Phone: (619)497-6673

New Beginnings Partnership
This is an interagency, county-wide process that provides intergrated social, health, and educational services to a middle school in City Heights and is a national model for sustained interagency collaboration. Partner agencies include the County of San Diego Department of Health, Human Services & Probation, San Diego Unified School District, San Diego Community College District, Housing Commission, Head Start/Neighborhood House, Home Start, and Children's Hospital.
Director: Sandra Daley, M.D.
Contact: P.R. Nader, M.D.
Email: pnader@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)681-0688

Normal Aging Vision Study
The Shiley Eye Center at UCSD conducts this study to observe the effects of aging and eye disease on vision. There is no cost to participate. Volunteers must have healthy eyes and be age 50 and older. People with glasses and contacts are accepted.
Director: Pamela Sample, M.D.
Contact: Barbara Brunet
Email: brunet@eyecenter.ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)822-1643

Outreach Core, UCSD Superfund Basic Research Program
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.
Director: Keith Pezzoli
Email: kpezzoli@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)534-3691

Pacific Asian Grocery Store Cancer Education
This project uses Asian grocery stores to disseminate information about cancer prevention, early detection, and clinical trials into the Asian and Pacific Islander communities in San Diego. A subprogram includes breast cancer awareness.
Director: Georgia Sadler
Email: gsadler@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)534-7611

Physician Consultation to Schools
UCSD pediatricians with expertise in school health are available for consultation to school health programs. Consultation includes back-up for school nurses, health policy development and revision, development of expanded health services for students and meeting health needs of children with special needs safely without wasting resources.
Director: Howard Taras, M.D.
Email: htaras@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)681-0665

Physician Referral and Health Information Department
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.
Director: Pam Bylen
Contact: Lori Marquez
Email: lmarquez@ucsd.edu
Phone: (800)926-8273

Por La Vida
This program combines service to the Latino community of San Diego with research in public health education and screening programs. UCSD faculty work in collaboration with San Diego State University faculty to conduct a variety of programs emphasizing cancer prevention. The hallmark of Por La Vida is involvement of consejeras, lay teachers from the community, to provide health education using culturally relevant approaches.
Director: Ana Navarro
Contact: Carmen Moreno
Phone: (858)822-2055

Por La Vida Intervention Model in Cancer Education
This program involves community lay health workers who are trained to conduct educational sessions among friends and/or family members. The project targets the Latino community with significant barriers to health care access and focuses on nutrition cancer control and breast and cervical cancer early detection.
Director: Ana M. Navarro
Contact: Carmen Moreno
Email: camoreno@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)822-2055

Por La Vida Taking Action for Tobacco Free Communities
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.
Director: Ana M. Navarro
Email: anavarro@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)534-3415

Rancho Bernardo Chronic Disease Studies
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.
Director: Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, M.D.
Contact: Mary Lou Carrion-Petersen
Email: mcarrionpetersen@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)534-7150

Refugee Health Screening Program
In this program, UCSD faculty Family Nurse Pratctitioners (FNP) give physical examinations to about 2,500 refugees a year. The refugee population currently consists largely of Somalis, Ethiopians, Bosnians, Kosovars, Iranians, Iraqis, Russians and Vietnamese.
Director: Sheila Pickwell, Ph. D, CFNP
Email: spickwell@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)543-5480

Samahan National City
This nurse-midwife faculty-run clinic serves mainly low-income and Medi-Cal Filipino and Hispanic women. Faculty midwives and students provide full scope obstetric and family planning services to the women whose babies are delivered at the UCSD Medical Center.
Director: Lauren Hunter, CNM, MN
Phone: (619)543-5480

Samahan/UCSD Medical Group Mira Mesa
This nurse-midwife faculty-run clinic serves Filipino and Hispanic women at UCSD Medical Group Mira Mesa offices. Faculty midwives provide full scope of obstetric and family planning services to patients whose babies are delivered at the UCSD Medical Center.
Director: Lauren Hunter, CNM, MN
Email: lhunter2@san.rr.com
Phone: (619)543-5480

San Diego and Imperial Counties Diabetes and Pregnancy Program
This pregnancy program identifies and develops clinical sites for diabetes and pregnacy care. It acts as a resource center and makes referrals to providers trained in the California Diabetes and Pregnancy Program Guidelines for Care.
Director: Madonna Carlson
Contact: Barbara English
Email: baenglish@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)467-4990

San Diego BRIGHT Families Project
This project of the UCSD Department of Reproductive Medicine is a teen pregnancy prevention mentoring program. Volunteer mentors share information about reproductive health with youth and young adults, ages 12-25.
Director: Maria Leech
Contact: Anette Blatt
Email: ablatt@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)514-7549

School Physician Consultation
This program provides specialists to help school districts with health needs. The program links schools and students with health services, assists school districts in dealing with difficult issues, assists with grant applications, and helps with school policies and procedures.
Director: Howard Taras, M.D.
Email: htaras@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)681-0665

Scripps Family Practice Residency (UCSD Affiliate)
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.
Director: Marianne McKennett
Contact: Michele Faketty
Phone: (619)691-7557

Senior Community Services/UCSD Program
In this program for seniors, Family Nurse Practitioner faculty provide screenings for health problems, medication interactions and referrals for further care. Breast cancer screening clinics are provided twice a year.
Director: Sheila Pickwell, Ph. D, CFNP
Email: spickwell@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)543-5480

Senior's Only Care (SOCARE)
The SOCARE program provides comprehensive assessment of elderly patients' health by a team of skilled geriatric specialists who can identify current and potential health problems and recommend assistance and treatment.
Director: Joe Ramsdell, M.D.
Contact: Teresa Gambol
Email: tgambol@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)294-3777

SIRA Public Lecture Series
The Sam & Rose Stein Institue for Research on Aging (SIRA) provides a free monthly public lecture that brings UCSD scientists into the community to present their research findings on aging and on the diseases associated with aging, answer questions regarding their area of expertise, and familiarize people with the most recent scientific advances.
Director: Dennis Carson, M.D.
Contact: J. Adam Milgram
Email: amilgram@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)534-4405

St. Vincent de Paul Behavioral Health Case Management
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.
Director: Annette Witt, LCSW
Phone: (619)497-6673

St. Vincent de Paul Village Clinic
Nurse-Midwives provide prenatal, well-woman gynecologic and full scope obstetric care to low income or homeless women, who then deliver their babies at the UCSD Medical Center.
Director: Lauren Hunter
Email: lhunter2@san.rr.com
Phone: (619)543-5480

St. Vincent de Paul Village Medical Clinic
This clinic provides more than 26,000 visits yearly to the homeless community by approximately 100 medical school trainees. All care, lab services and medications are free. This is the medical home of the UCSD Combined Family Med-Psychiatry Residency Program.
Director: Margaret E. McCahill, M.D.
Contact: Debra Johnson
Email: combres@pacbell.net
Phone: (619)233-8500

Student Health Service - Student Health Advocates
In this program, UCSD undergraduates are trained to provide health education to their peers and high school students in the community. The program involves students from Torrey Pines High School through the Teens Educators Advancing in Community and Health (TEACH) program, and tenth grads biology students at Morse High School through the Science and Education Partnership Act. Student Health Advocates are trained by San Diego Unified School District instructors to conduct sexually transmitted disease presentations in high schools throughout the district.
Director: Debbie Pino-Saballett, MPH
Email: dpinosab@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)534-2419

Student Tobacco Outreach Program (S.T.O.P.)
UCSD students trained by S.T.O.P. make presentations about the harmful consequences of smoking at local junior high schools with the goal of preventing tobacco use.
Director: Samuel Cooper
Email: sncooper@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)453-6349

Teen Outreach Mobile Medical Van
Faculty from the Departments of Pediatrics, Internal Medicine and UCSD Family Medicine nurse practitioners volunteer to staff a fully equipped Teen Outreach Mobile Medical Van, operated by Logan Heights Teen Health Center, three nights a week to provide health screenings for homeless, runaway and disenfranchised youth, ages 12-24.
Director: Lawrence Friedman, M.D.
Contact: David Vincent
Email: dvincent@lhfhc.com
Phone: (619)239-0268

The Pediatric Pharmacology Research Unit
This program develops and executes research protocols in conjunction with industry to bring pharmaceuticals forward for pediatric labeling. The PPRU has clinical facilities associated with the UCSD Medical Center and the Children's Hospital and Health Center of San Diego.
Director: James D. Connor, M.D.
Contact: Angela Fornataro McMahill, J.D.
Email: amcmahill@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)622-5734

The Shingles Prevention Study
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.
Director: Michael Oxman, M.D.
Email: mnoxman@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)642-6286

UCSD Clinical Trials Center/Research Orientation Sessions
These sessions offer an introduction to a variety of research programs available to the general public. People interested in research participation are invited to attend a weekly research orientation which includes Clinical Trials Process, Medical Inservice (a UCSD physician leads discussion on specific health conditions), free diagnostic tests (pulmonary function tests), and ongoing clinical trials.
Director: Joe Ramsdell, M.D.
Contact: Zana Parman
Email: zparman@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)822-1320

UCSD Drug Information Service
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.
Director: Philip Anderson
Phone: (900)288-8273

UCSD Healthcare Women's Health Seminar Series
This seminar series is comprised of free, public seminars organized to bring current, usable information to women in the community to help them better maintain their health and the health of their families. The seminars are broadcast on UCSD-TV.
Director: Victoria Powell
Email: vpowell@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)623-0068

UCSD Huntington's Disease Research Group
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.
Director: Jody Corey-Bloom
Contact: Mark Jacobson
Email: mjacobson@vapop.ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)552-8585

UCSD Medical Center's Day with a Doctor
The UCSD Medical Center's Day with a Doctor hosts 20 high school students who participate with house staff physicians in a day at the hospital. The students are chosen by the San Diego School District and have demonstrated an aptitude for science in their high school classes.
Director: Eileen Callahan
Email: ecallahan@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)543-6163

UCSD Mother, Child & Adolescent HIV Program
This program provides comprehensive and coordinated HIV services, including medical care, clinical trials, patient education, case management, counseling and support groups, to women, children and adolescents. The program collaborates with community outreach programs, health centers, social service agencies and youth programs to improve access to care.
Director: Stephen A. Spector, M.D.
Contact: Mary Caffery
Email: mcaffery@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)543-8080

UCSD MultiDisciplinary Tuberculosis Clinic
This clinic provides inpatient and outpatient consultations, preventive 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.
Director: Antonino Catanzaro, M.D.
Contact: Muppy Haigler
Email: mhaigler@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)543-2534

UCSD Options for Recovery Case Management and Street Outreach Programs
These programs provide perinatal case management services and street outreach for women who are pregnant and/or parenting and using drugs or alcohol.
Director: Frances Williams-Fant
Email: frwillia@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)514-8740

UCSD Outpatient Psychiatric Services
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.
Director: Stephen Shuchter, M.D.
Phone: (619)497-6673

UCSD Owen Clinic
The UCSD Owen Clinic is among America's top HIV care programs providing state of the art, comprehensive and compassionate healthcare to people with HIV/AIDS.
Director: Christopher Mathews, M.D., M.S.P.H.
Contact: Doris Gauff
Phone: (619)543-3995

UCSD Pain Mgmt Patient Education Series
This is an eight-week program to assist patients and their families in learning new coping skills for living with and managing their pain.
Director: Mark Wallace, M.D.
Phone: (619)543-3640

UCSD Partners in Health Program
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.
Director: Phyllis Coleman
Email: pcoleman@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)822-1040

UCSD Partnership of Immunization Providers (PIP)
PIP is one of four national Childhood Immunization Demonstration Projects designed to improve the delivery of immunizations to preschool children.
Director: Mark Sawyer
Contact: Michelle De Guire
Email: mdeguire@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)681-0650

UCSD Pediatric Pulmonary and Cystic Fibrosis Center
This center features a specialized team of doctors, nurses, nutritionists and respiratory therapists who care for infants, children, and adolescents with asthma, apnea, and all types of lung disease. It offers special programs for individuals and families affected by cystic fibrosis.
Director: Michael J. Light, M.D.
Phone: (619)294-6125

UCSD Regional Burn Center Community Outreach
The Burn Center's Community Outreach Program provides continuing education about burn care for health care providers through lectures, clinical observation and videos; fire and burn safety education at health fairs and community schools, and the Baby Be Safe project for parents. Programs for burn survivors include monthly support groups, peer counseling, and school re-entry and youth support.
Director: Cindy Rutter, RN
Email: crutter@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)543-2328

Women's Health Discussion Group
The UCSD Department of Reproductive Medicine holds a free monthly Women's Health Discussion Group which covers such topics as hot flashes, hormone replacement therapy, osteoporosis, breast cancer, heart disease, sexuality, and complimentary therapies.
Director: Paula Amato
Contact: Pamela Malcom
Phone: (858)534-8972

Women's Health Initiative
The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) is the largest and longest nationwide study of postmenopausal women in history. It is designed to answer key questions about cancer, cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis. UCSD's WHI concentrates particularly on minority populations. Of the 5,500 local women enrolled, nearly 30 percent are minority. There is a WHI site in Chula Vista which is key to outreach to the Latina population.
Director: Robert Langer, M.D.
Email: rdlanger@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858)622-5771

Women's Institute - Chula Vista and El Cajon
This is a nurse midwifery faculty-run clinic in El Cajon and Chula Vista. Patients are primarily low-income Latina women who are seen by faculty and students for prenatal, well-woman and newborn care. The women deliver their babies at UCSD Medical Center.
Director: Lauren Hunter, CNM, MN
Email: lhunter2@san.rr.com
Phone: (619)543-5480

YWCA Battered Women's Shelter Clinic-UCSD Program
At the YWCA Battered Women's Shelter Clinic, UCSD family nurse practioner faculty provide health screening and follow-up health care to the women and children living temporarily in this shelter.
Director: Sheila Pickwell, Ph. D, CFNP
Email: spickwell@ucsd.edu
Phone: (619)543-5480