Margot Kushel, MD

Dr. Margot Kushel is a Professor of Medicine at University of California San Francisco, and Division Chief of the Division of the Center for Vulnerable Populations, and the Director of the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative.  She is a practicing general internist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Margot's research focuses on the causes and consequences of homelessness and housing instability, with the goal of preventing and ending homelessness and ameliorating the effects of homelessness on health.  Her work uses community-based participatory design and strategic science principles. She speaks at a local, state and national level about issues of homelessness, and provides testimony to legislative bodies.  She received her AB from Harvard College, her MD from Yale and completed residency, chief residency and fellowship in internal medicine at UCSF.