Dr. Donna Washington presented Keynote Address
at the Harold Amos Faculty Development Program Annual Meeting


Dr. Donna Washington, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine at VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and UCLA, and a CRETSCMHD affiliated investigator presented the keynote address at the October 2004 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Harold Amos Faculty Development Program annual meeting.  Her talk, "Reducing Racial/Ethnic and Gender Disparities in Health Care" described her research in this area.

Information about the RWJF Harold Amos Faculty Development Program can be found at http://www.rwjf.org/reports/npreports/mfde.htm
 

About Dr.  Washington

Dr. Washington is a physician and health services researcher who has devoted her career to addressing the health care needs of vulnerable and underserved populations. Her research focuses on access to emergency department and ambulatory care, racial-ethnic and gender disparities in healthcare, and women veterans. In current research, she is examining racial-ethnic and gender disparities in Department of Veterans Affairs use.

Dr. Washington is a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges, received her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine, and a Masters in Public Health from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Public Health. She completed a Primary Care Internal Medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco - San Francisco General Hospital, followed by a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA. She is a recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Minority Medical Faculty Development Award, and currently holds a faculty position in the Department of Medicine at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and UCLA.


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