Leigh Kimberg, MD

Dr. Kimberg is a Professor of Medicine at UCSF and the Program Director of the Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved (PRIME-US) in the UCSF School of Medicine. She has practiced primary care internal medicine in the safety net in San Francisco for three decades, first at Maxine Hall Health Center and, now, in the Richard H. Fine People’s Clinic at SFGH. Dr. Kimberg’s professional interests focus upon promoting health equity and improving healthcare for under-resourced communities impacted by structural inequities through policy and advocacy, quality improvement, research and medical education. She is particularly focused on ways to prevent and mitigate the effects of trauma and interpersonal and structural violence on marginalized communities. Dr. Kimberg is the Interpersonal Violence Prevention Coordinator for the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH), serves on the San Francisco Family Violence Council, and directs a program called ARISE (Aspire to Realize Improved Safety and Equity), initially funded by the Office of Women’s Health, US Health and Human Services; ARISE aims to build and evaluate multi-sector university-healthcare-community partnerships to prevent and mitigate trauma, support resilience, and promote health equity and social justice. Dr. Kimberg serves on the Clinical Advisory Committee for the ACEsAware initiative led by the California Office of the Surgeon General. This initiative is designed to improve the capacity of the healthcare system to prevent and mitigate the impacts of childhood adversity and trauma for children and adults. Additionally, she is currently a member of the Clinical Advisory Committee for the UCSF led state-wide demonstration project for ACEsAware, called CALQIC. Through PRIME-US, Dr. Kimberg and the PRIME-US team strive to build an innovative medical education program to support, nurture and equip diverse medical students to become leaders in caring for under-resourced communities and promoting health equity.