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2010-2011 Fellows and Projects
Julia Pratt, USC Keck School of Medicine
Pratt aims to address the prevalence of childhood obesity, adult diabetes and cardiovascular disease in the Boyle Heights Area by developing a Boyle Heights Farmer's Market, which will help to provide fresh, affordable, organic produce to area residents as well as create green food sector jobs, promote sustainable agriculture, activate public space, and enhance broad public awareness to change the food system through policy education and community advocacy. Community Site: TBD
Kimberly Komatsubara and Tressia Hing, UCLA Geffen School of Medicine
Komatsubara and Hing plan to address the unique health issues affecting the Asian American community in Los Angeles by developing hands-on workshops on diabetes, cardiovascular disease, mental illness, physician-patient relationship, and medication compliance. Community Site: Asian Pacific Health Care Venture Clinic
Patience Afulani, UCLA School of Public Health
Afulani aims to promote breast feeding and nutrition among African American women in South Los Angeles by developing a guide to counsel and educate women on breastfeeding, as well as holding weekly educational sessions with individual women. Community Sites: South LA Health Projects; Figuroa and Florence Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program Centers
Stephanie Liang, University of Southern California, School of Pharmacy
Liang plans to address medication adherence and health knowledge in patients affected by chronic diseases by holding information sessions for both patients and health care providers. Community Site: Community Health Alliance of Pasadena
Andrea Lu, USC Keck School of Medicine
Lu aims to address teen and elderly mental wellness in the Long Beach Asian American community by mentoring teens bi-weekly, giving presentations at senior citizen homes, and leading workshops at high schools in the San Gabriel Valley. Community Site: Pacific Asian Counseling Services
Ekaterina (Katia) Vaisberg, UCLA Geffen School of Medicine
Vaisberg plans to address the issues of obesity and type II diabetes by partnering with the KP KIDS program at the Venice Family Clinic to hold swim classes at the Westside Family YMCA. She will also work to expand the KP KIDS model to other sites throughout the community. Community Sites: Venice Family Clinic; Westside Family YMCA
Roland Palvolgyi, UCLA Geffen School of Medicine
Palvolgyi aims to address the prevalence of hepatitis B in underserved communities around Los Angeles County by providing hepatitis B screening at health fairs and conducting monthly educational workshops and seminars. Community Sites: Asian Pacific American (APA) Health CARE; Asian Pacific Liver Center
Shannon Snook, USC Keck School of Medicine
Snook plans to address the issue of nutrition in underserved communities by creating a community garden in the Boyle Heights community. Community Site: TBD
Ali Arastu, USC Keck School of Medicine
Arastu is working to address disparities in traditional public school health education in inner-city high schools by leading wilderness retreats to promote student self-efficacy and interest in entering a health-related field. Community Site: TBD
Sybil Zachariah, UCLA Geffen School of Medicine
Zachariah will target the physical and mental well being of pediatric inpatients at the Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA by creating ArT HEALth!, an art-therapy based initiative which will provide art supplies, project ideas, and guidance for these patients. Community Site: Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA
James Lee, UCLA Geffen School of Medicine
Lee plans to address the unequal access to health services in the Asian Pacific American community by conducting 10 community health fairs that will provide free screening for diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, and hypertension, as well as provide educational workshops and appropriate referrals for care. Community Site: Asian Pacific American (APA) Health CARE
Sean Prendergast, UCLA School of Public Health
Prendergast will work to provide necessary chronic medications for the homeless clients of the UCLA Mobile Clinic. Community Site: UCLA Mobile Clinic
Ashley Roberts and Anne Sutkowi, UCLA School of Public Health
Roberts and Sutkowi plan to address the issue of teen suicide among high school youth by implementing their STRIDES program, a skill-building and physical activity curriculum aimed at increasing protective factors against suicide. Community Site: TBD
2009-2010 Fellows and Projects
 Saskya Byerly (USC Med), Kimberly DeQuattro (USC Med), and Kristen Gregory (USC Med) will be doing a comprehensive education and mentoring program targeting high risk young women in the East Los Angeles area. They plan to reach out to those at high-risk for teen pregnancy, assist and educate those already pregnant and to provide support and parenting skills to young mothers.
 Matthew Calzetta (USC Med) is developing a community garden project in the Boyles Heights community, as part of the Romero Clinic. This garden will provide increase green space in a low-income urban neighborhood, promote fresh produce to community member’s diets, promote exercise and movement, and improve mental health.
 Lynne Chang (UCLA Med) is planning to do an outreach-based syringe exchange program for the homeless injection drug users in Los Angeles as well as improve delivery of health services and and education to that population.
 Lucy Chow (UCLA Med) will be working to develop the Asian Pacific American Helath Collaboration Access Resource and Education (APA Health CARE) to provide health screenings for obesity, hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol and hepatitis B at various health fairs throughout the year in the Los Angeles area.
 Adam Cohen (UCLA MPH) will be bringing music to local Los Angeles hospitals as well as recruiting others to join him. He hopes of bringing psychologic and physical healing to those suffering through music.
  Jeffrey Delacruz (UCLA Med) and Brian Raffetto (UCLA Med) will be working together on the KP Kids after school childhood obesity project at Venice Family Clinic, helping to encourage exercise and proper nutrition in underserved youth. They plan to expand the program to include more children and other sites.
 Stephania Hayes (USC Occupational and Physical Therapy) will be working with residents of board & care homes to improve their quality of life, especially mental health, through goal-oriented activities.
 Kenneth Kim (UCLA Med) will be assisting low-income and uninsured patients to access needed medications through facilitating their enrollment in the Patient Assistance Program, which offers no cost medications to the uninsured.
  Erin Grieb (UCI Med) and Wonita Youm (UCI Med) will be working with Children’s Hospital of Orange County Primary Care clinics and the Medical Initiative Against Homelessness to address pediatric obesity and cardiovascular disease. They plan weekly one hour patient education classes and physical activities for the children.
 Matthew Hakimi (UCLA Med) plans to work with the UCLA Schoolof Dentistry to provide dental care and eye screening via the UCLA Eye Mobile clinic to the patient populations served by the UCLA Student-Run Free clinics.
 Cianna Leatherwood (USC Med) will be providing health education to homeless youth in the Hollywood area, including information on sexually transmitted illnesses, drug and alcohol use.
 Carolina Rodriguez (USC Social Work and Nursing) will be developing a case management intervention to better deliver medical and mental health care for low-income and uninsured patients.
 Ariel Strauss (UCLA Law) will be working with the UCLA Student-Run Homeless clinic to provide Supplemental Security Income application assistance to homeless clients in order to gain them access to subsidized housing and Medi-Cal health coverage.
 Cyrus Taghavi (UCLA Med) will serving the UCLA Student-Run Homeless clinic population that suffers from chronic low back pain, utilizing educational workshops to teach exercises to improve strength, proper lifting technique and proper footwear.
 Jasmine Walton (USC Dental) will be exposing high school students to service by role modeling, developing their confidence in science, teaching them practical skills, and working them through problems based learning cases to encourage the development of underserved inner city youth into future health care professionals.
2008-09
Courtney Burks, UCLA School of Public Health
Courtney is planning to create a free, student-run clinic or screening service for the Latino community in East Los Angeles, involving medical, dental, nursing and public health students.
Joseph Chan and Henry Guan, UCLA School of Medicine
Joseph and Henry will target diabets and obesity in at-risk teens and pre-teens at the Boys and Girls club and YMCA to provide a safe place for adolescents to exercise and to provide them basic health knowledge about obesity and diabetes.
Stacy Chan and Ashley Quan, UCLA School of Medicine
Stacy and Ashley will provide healthcare professionals language tools to communicate health issues to non-English speaking Chinese patients to improve cultural awareness on patients' views of health as well as address hepatitis B, type II diabetes and osteoporosis.
Tyler Gonzalez, UCLA School of Medicine
Tyler is planning to work with a pediatric diabetic clinic to help educate patients about diet, exercise, and lifestyle change in underserved areas of Los Angeles.
Daniel Karlin and Mark Lin, UCLA School of Medicine
Daniel and Mark will establish micro-clinics where health professionals will provide clinic members with basic education about the disease, followed by hands-on workhops to acquaint patients with equipment and medications to allow individuals to ultimately collectively educate each other.
Victoria Lin, UCLA School of Medicine
Victoria will implement a program to teach Easter Medicine including acupressure and deep breathing exercises for stress reduction to the medically indigent, homeless population in West Los Angeles.
Sonya Soni, USC School of Public Health
Sonya will create a USC student run primary care health clinic adjacent to the USC Dental Health Clinic on Skid Row, to provide medical services, mental health counseling, prescriptions, and referral services to Los Angeles' uninsured and underserved population.
Hilda Wiryawan, UCLA School of Public Health
Hilda is planning to help uninsured populations in the community clinics in Los Angeles by connecting them with social workers to assist in Medi-Cal application in order to improve health care access.
Victoria Yung, UCLA School of Medicine
Victoria will be implementing a smoking cessation program at the Student Run Homeless Clinic in Santa Monica, to provide non-prescription and prescription aids to quit smoking as well as a support system.
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