Through this work, Dennis worked on Medicaid expansion in Connecticut and addressing the social determinants of health around access to benefits and housing.įollowing his time at Yale, Dennis pursued a two year Equal Justice Works Fellowship in Los Angeles, CA with Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County. Dennis co-directed the Legislative Advocacy Clinic at Yale and helped found the first medical legal partnership in New Haven. During this time, Dennis focused on issues around legislative advocacy and the social determinants of health. Dennis took a leave of absence from medical school to pursue a J.D.
Through these experiences, he witnessed the connection between poverty, policy, and well-being.ĭuring his first two years of medical school, Dennis was inspired by his preceptorship at San Francisco General Hospital and his work with the UCSF Homeless Clinics to learn more about how to directly address the social and economic determinants of health.
While at Harvard, Dennis worked extensively with the Phillips Brooks House Association for Public Service and co-directed its English as Second Language Program in Boston’s Chinatown, taught for its Chinatown Citizenship Program and volunteered with its Homeless Shelter Program. A 2012 graduate of the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, Dennis earned his Bachelor’s degree in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard University. Research Interests: Language access, health literacy, Emergency Care in Latin America, Emergency Systems DevelopmentĪssistant Professor, UCLA School of Medicineĭennis Hsieh is an attending physician in the emergency department at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, CA and a recent graduate of the emergency medicine training program at Highland General Hospital – Alameda Health System, in Oakland, CA. Taira serves as the Lead Ambassador to Nicaragua for the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and was named an honorary professor of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua (UNAN), León.
The group has developed and implemented multiple open-access, language and resource appropriate curricula for Central American health care providers and given free trainings to over 500 Nicaraguan health care professionals. and Nicaraguan health care professionals aimed at improving emergency health care capacity in Latin America. Director of Project SEMILLA, a collaboration of U.S. Taira’s work has helped to quantify emergency and surgical capacity in limited resource settings as a member of the WHO’s Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (GIEESC). Her research domestically focuses on language access for limited English proficiency patients and interventions to improve care for limited health literacy patients as a means to eliminate health disparities. Taira is a Health Sciences Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Director of Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Olive View- UCLA Medical Center. The Program allows for volunteers to experience health care from a clinical perspective through patient contact and volunteer involvement.Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicineĭirector of Research, Dept of Emergency Medicineĭr. The Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center Care Extender Program was inaugurated in June of 1995 as seeks volunteers who are committed to a four hour shift once a week for a one year period. Once you are accepted into the program, you may choose to begin your volunteering rotation in one of the following critical areas: What is the Santa Monica-UCLA care extender program?
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