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Welcome to our new Philip R. Lee Health Policy Fellows!

Christopher Koenig, PhD

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Christopher J. Koenig received an M.A. in Language Education and M.A. in Communication Studies from the University of Texas, Austin. He received a PhD at UC Los Angeles. His dissertation, “The interactional dynamics of treatment counseling in primary care,” is a conversation analytic study of the treatment phase in adult primary care. Individual chapters examine how physicians prescribe new medications and how adult patients assert agency in treatment decisions, how physicians’ referential practices impact patient understanding to a newly prescribed medication, and how physicians and patient achieve intersubjectivity understandings with regard to the treatment regime. He specializes in ethnographic research methods using audio- and video- recordings to examine verbal and non-verbal communication patterns. He has studied various communication variables that examine the provider-patient relationship, medication regime congruence, patient agency, patient-centeredness, and quality of care in the medical visit. Currently, he holds joint postdoctoral appointments at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies (PRL-IHPS) at UCSF and at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute (PAMFRI) where he is a research fellow.

Anna Loeb, MA

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Ms. Loeb is a second year medical student at UCSF. While in high school she volunteered in rural Paraguay through AMIGOS de las Americas and later worked as a project supervisor in Honduras and the Dominican Republic; she was also a training director with AMIGOS and served on their Peninsula Chapter Board of Directors. Ms. Loeb has also worked with the Peninsula Family Advocacy Program (FAP), a medical-legal collaborative of the Legal Aids Society of San Mateo, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Ravenswood Family Health Center in East Palo Alto. Her experiences with FAP and with physicians who combine direct patient care with community advocacy inspired her to become a physician. In medical school she has helped organize the annual Domestic Violence Awareness Conference, and this summer she is working with LEAP (Look to End Abuse Permanently) to integrate screening for domestic violence into the safety net clinics in San Francisco. In the future she looks forward to providing patient care in a community clinic, while also addressing health policy issues.

Samali Lubega, MPH

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Ms.Lubega is a second year medical student at UCSF. She completed her BA in Human Biology at Stanford University in 2005. Her previous research focused on psychosocial factors in HIV/AIDS primary care, and HIV vaccine preparedness and prevention education among vulnerable populations. Through the Philip R. Lee Fellowship and Health and Society Pathways to Discovery Program, she is initiating a project developing a patient education curriculum for the prevention and treatment of HIV/Hepatitis C co-infection.

Anisha Patel, MD, MSPH, MSHS

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Dr. Patel is a fellow at UCSF with the Department of General Pediatrics and the Institute. She received her MD and MSPH in maternal and child health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed her pediatric residency and chief residency at Stanford University. While a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at UCLA, she obtained a masters of science in health services research and worked on a community-based-participatory research project to prevent overweight among middle school students in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Dr. Patel first became interested in childhood obesity during her residency training when, determined to have a larger impact, she ventured outside the clinical setting to develop a multi-faceted obesity prevention program for elementary school students in the school setting. Her work with the Los Angeles school district led her to advocate on their behalf for the availability of fresh drinking water in the schools, which in turn led to her testifying on behalf of legislation to make that possible. Dr. Patel’s current research focuses on the development of school-based interventions and policies to encourage healthy beverage consumption among children and adolescents. Her long-term goal is to lead national efforts to reduce disparities related to obesity among children and adolescents.

Pamela Stoddard, PhD
Discipline: Sociology/Public Policy

Dr. Stoddard received her doctorate in Public Health from UCLA in 2009. Her research focuses on social and structural determinants of health among Latino populations, with an emphasis on health behavioral pathways for chronic disease prevention that have the potential to reduce health disparities and health care costs. Dr. Stoddard’s short-term goal is to continue her work on identifying populations most at risk for chronic disease and related unhealthy behaviors. Her longer-term goal is to develop effective policies and strategies for prevention from a health behavioral perspective. She hopes to participate directly and actively in policy development, providing the prevention evidence base for the deliberation and formulation of policies.

Erika Yoo, MD

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