Professor of Emergency Medicine
UCSF School of Medicine
San Rafael, California
After the University of Notre Dame and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Robert Rodriguez completed a combined Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine residency at UCLA and a Critical Care Medicine fellowship at Stanford. He is a former Department of Emergency Medicine Diversity Director and recipient of the 2013 UCSF Martin Luther King Jr. Award. He currently serves as a Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Associate Chair of Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine. He currently attends in the ED and ICU at two safety net trauma center hospitals. With multiple grants including an RO1 from NIAID, Dr. Rodriguez has led national research teams examining the effects of the pandemic on the mental health of frontline providers, vaccine hesitancy, and the disproportionate effects of the pandemic on vulnerable populations. Beyond his work at two safety net hospitals in California, he returned to his hometown to help in the ICU with a catastrophic surge of Covid-19 cases during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020. He has served on the Biden/Harris Covid-19 Advisory Board and as an advisor to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. He was named the American College of Emergency Physicians Humanitarian of the Year for California in 2021.
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Sunday, April 28, 2024
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