Gerardo Moreno (0000-0002-3476-4274)

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Dr. Gerardo Moreno is Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Director of UCLA PRIME-LA (Program in Medical Education) which focuses on Leadership and Advocacy for underserved communities. He is a clinician investigator and his current research focuses on studying effective healthcare delivery in communities for uninsured vulnerable populations including undocumented residents and older adults. His areas of expertise include diabetes in older adults, the evaluation of health system and community level interventions for vulnerable populations, physician workforce diversity, social and structural determinants of health, language-based disparities in healthcare, and medical education programs. Dr. Moreno has published clinical guidelines on diabetes among older adults and studies that have increased our understanding of health disparities and the social determinants of health among Latinos, and has published on other important issues addressing physician workforce diversity and medical education. Dr. Moreno has a continuity clinic at a Los Angeles County health center and trains family medicine residents and UCLA medical students. He serves on the Board of Directors for the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) and on the NIH Clinical Aging study section (NIA-C).

Dr. Moreno is an educator and clinician investigator with formal training and expertise in health services outcomes research and community-based participatory research (CBPR). He co-directs the Community Liaison Core for the NIH/NIA funded UCLA Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR)/Center for Health Improvement for Minority Elders (CHIME). He was the 2015-2017 James C. Puffer M.D./ABFM Anniversary Fellow at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and is a past recipient of a National Institute of Aging (NIA-NIH) Paul B. Beeson Career Development Award in Aging (K23). He received his medical degree from the University of California Los Angeles, and completed his residency training in Family Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. He received a Masters of Science in Health Services from the UCLA School of Public Health and completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA. He is a past recipient of a UCLA CTSI Community Engagement Research Program (CERP) pilot award that focused on examining the participation of older minority adults in research. Dr. Moreno was also a co-investigator of an NIH funded research project that examined medication adherence among patients with chronic conditions and language barriers.

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University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine: Los Angeles, CA, US

2010 to present | Associate Professor (Department of Family Medicine)

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Gerardo Moreno

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University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine: Los Angeles, CA, US

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University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine: Los Angeles, CA, US

University of California Los Angeles: Los Angeles, CA, US

University of California San Francisco: San Francisco, CA, US

University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine: Los Angeles, CA, US

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Portals of Change: How Patient Portals Will Ultimately Work for Safety Net Populations.

A Collaboration Among Primary Care-Based Clinical Pharmacists and Community-Based Health Coaches.

Impact of a "Chart Closure" Hard Stop Alert on Prescribing for Elevated Blood Pressures Among Patients With Diabetes: Quasi-Experimental Study.

Formal Advocacy Curricula in Family Medicine Residencies: A CERA Survey of Program Directors.

The Termination of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) Protections and Medical Education in the U.S.

Psychometric Properties of the Altarum Consumer Engagement (ACE) Measure of Activation in Patients with Prediabetes.

An Effectiveness Evaluation of a Primary Care-Embedded Clinical Pharmacist-Led Intervention Among Blacks with Diabetes.

Su salud a la mano (your health at hand): patient perceptions about a bilingual patient portal in the Los Angeles safety net.

Diabetes Prevention Program attendance is associated with improved patient activation: Results from the Prediabetes Informed Decisions and Education (PRIDE) study.

Perceptual and Structural Facilitators and Barriers to Becoming a Surgeon: A Qualitative Study of African American and Latino Surgeons.

Primary care provider adherence to an alert for intensification of diabetes blood pressure medications before and after the addition of a "chart closure" hard stop.

Community College Pathways to Medical School and Family Medicine Residency Training.

A Digital Language Divide? The Relationship between Internet Medication Refills and Medication Adherence among Limited English Proficient (LEP) Patients.

Medication Related Self- efficacy among Linguistically Diverse Patients with Chronic Illnesses.

Interest in Family Medicine Among US Medical Students and Its Association With a Community College Academic Pathway.

Intensive procedure preferences at the end of life (EOL) in older Latino adults with end stage renal disease (ESRD) on dialysis.

Physician experiences with clinical pharmacists in primary care teams.

Linguistic Isolation and Access to the Active Kidney Transplant Waiting List in the United States.

A National CERA Study of the Use of Laborists in Family Medicine Residency Training.

Migration, Health Care Behaviors, and Primary Care for Rural Latinos with Diabetes.

Strengthening the Community College Pathway to Medical School: A Study of Latino Students in California.

Microaggressions During Medical Training.

Predictors of Primary Care Physician Practice Location in Underserved Urban or Rural Areas in the United States: A Systematic Literature Review.

Efficacy of Behavioral Interventions on Biological Outcomes for Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction among Latinos: a Review of the Literature.

Implementing Community Engagement as a Mission at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Disparities in the Use of Internet and Telephone Medication Refills among Linguistically Diverse Patients.

Immigration Policies and the U.S. Medical Education System: A Diverse Physician Workforce to Reduce Health Disparities.

Latinos with diabetes and food insecurity in an agricultural community.

What physicians from diverse specialties know and support in health care reform.

Perceptions from latino and african american older adults about biological markers in research.

Community college pathways: improving the U.S. physician workforce pipeline.

Neighborhood perceptions and health-related outcomes among Latinos with diabetes from a rural agricultural community.

Hablamos juntos (together we speak): a brief patient-reported measure of the quality of interpretation.

Language concordance, interpersonal care, and diabetes self-care in rural Latino patients.

Primary care residents want to learn about the patient-centered medical home.

Physical Activity, Physical Performance, and Biological Markers of Health among Sedentary Older Latinos.

The Language Abilities of Resident Physicians.

Guidelines abstracted from the American Geriatrics Society Guidelines for Improving the Care of Older Adults with Diabetes Mellitus: 2013 update.

Management of cardiovascular disease risk factors in older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus: 2002-2012 literature review.

Implementation of language assessments for staff interpreters in community health centers.

American Geriatrics Society identifies five things that healthcare providers and patients should question.

Patient-reported quality of pain treatment and use of interpreters in spanish-speaking patients hospitalized for obstetric and gynecological care.

The association among specialty, race, ethnicity, and practice location among California physicians in diverse specialties.

Do physicians with self-reported non-English fluency practice in linguistically disadvantaged communities?

Hablamos Juntos (Together We Speak): interpreters, provider communication, and satisfaction with care.

Self-reported fluency in non-english languages among physicians practicing in California.

Impact of interpreters on the receipt of new prescription medication information among Spanish-speaking Latinos.

Eight years of building community partnerships and trust: the UCLA family medicine community-based participatory research experience.