Gerardo Moreno, MD, MS

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Fellowship

UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, 2007-2010

Dr. Gerardo Moreno is Professor and Chair of the Department of Family Medicine, and the Kaiser Permanente Endowed Professor of Community Medicine. Dr. Moreno was elected (2023) to the National Academy of Medicine, a distinction that is among the highest honors in the fields of medicine and health. He serves as immediate past Board Chair (2023-2024) for the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), and is a standing member of on the NIH AGCD-3 Standing Review Committee study section.

He is also the Executive Director of UCLA PRIME-LA (Program in Medical Education) which focuses on Leadership and Advocacy for underserved communities. He is also Co-PI of the HRSA funded UCLA Underrepresented in Medicine Center of Excellence (UCLA UIM-COE).

Dr. Moreno 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. He is the principal investigator of a multi-year evaluation of a novel primary care coverage program for low-income uninsured and undocumented patients receiving care in 23 community health centers across 21 California counties.

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. He is a former associate editor for the Annals of Family Medicine, and has published clinical guidelines on diabetes among older adults, and studies that have increased our understanding of diversity in the physician workforce and health equity/disparities and the social determinants of health. His contributions extend across family medicine, primary care, community health, and medical education. In addition to his research and leadership roles, Dr. Moreno maintains a continuity clinic and actively trains residents and medical students, furthering his impact on future clinicians.

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 co-directed 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).

Dr. Moreno 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.