Juan Carlos Lozano is a family doctor passionate about bridging gaps in healthcare access and promoting health equity through enhancing healthcare for underrepresented and marginalized communities. He graduated in 2023 from the Scripps Health Family Medicine residency in San Diego with a focus on border health at the US-MX border and continued as an attending at a safety-net clinic in Otay, Chula Vista. During his time in the NCSP fellowship, Juan Carlos hopes to develop his research skills (quantitative and qualitative), his commitment to community engagement, and develop an insight into the policymaker perspective, so he can help translate equitable healthcare practices and health economic analyses grounded in equity into policy. To develop these skills and experiences, he is involved in multiple projects and is honored to receive mentorship from clinician investigators who have started paving the road toward equity.
Current projects include the evaluation of a new Chronic Care Model for Diabetes Management (CCM-DM) with food vouchers to address food insecurity, the development of a health economic model to predict primary care investment effects on California’s overall health expenditures, a qualitative approach to assessing the impact of community healthcare workers in the Central Valley, and racial and ethnic differences in patients’ healthcare experience and satisfaction at UCSF Health. Among several other mentors, his mentorship includes primary care leader and health policy advisor Dr. Kevin Grumbach, health economics expert Dr. Jim Kahn, founder of the Latino Center of Excellence (LCOE), Dr. Alicia Fernandez, NCSP UCSF program director, Dr. Hilary Seligman, and IgNITE Laboratory PI and implementation scientist, Dr. Elaine Khoong. NCSP has also provided Juan Carlos with the opportunity to partner with UC Merced to further advocate for the thoughtful implementation of community healthcare workers.
While Juan Carlos continues to provide primary care at the San Francisco General Hospital’s Family Health Center (FHC), he enjoys precepting family medicine residents and is enrolled in the Advanced Clinical Research Training Master’s Program at UCSF. Ultimately, Juan Carlos hopes to become one of the many building blocks that will connect our healthcare road to universal healthcare—while helping eliminate potholes of health inequality along the way.
Research Interests: Investigating the sequelae of oppressive systems affecting underrepresented communities' health outcomes and researching health disparities to impact health policy and health care delivery.