PROGRAMS FOR FELLOWS AND JUNIOR FACULTY

THE COMMONWEALTH FUND/HARVARD UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP IN MINORITY HEALTH POLICY

FELLOWS' BIOS: 2000-2001

ALICE HUAN-MEI CHEN, M.D., M.P.H.

Medical Director / Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, General Medicine Clinic, San Fransisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA

Dr. Chen’s primary interest is in issues of health care access, particularly in how poverty, cultural differences, and policy intersect to create barriers to care. Her work focuses on developing clinical systems and programs to improve care for underserved communities and specifically to improve access to quality health care for limited-English speaking patients. She was previously a Soros Physician Advocacy Fellow at the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum and a Health Policy Scholar in Residence at The California Endowment. She is currently a California Health Care Foundation Leadership Fellow, and serves on numerous advisory committees for cultural and linguistic access issues. Current projects include redesigning diabetes care at SFGH; improving access to specialty care through electronic referrals; working with the California Academy of Family Physicians to develop a CME course for physicians on language barriers in health care; and partnering with the advocacy group, PALS for Health, to educate limited-English speaking patients on how to navigate the U.S. health care system.

Dr. Chen is a graduate of Yale University, Stanford University Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health. Her training includes a primary care internal medicine residency and chief residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and the CFHU Fellowship.

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