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To improve health and healthcare, UCLA is committed to creating world leaders in health and science, discovering the basis for health and cures for disease, optimizing health through community partnerships, and healing humankind one patient at a time. We believe that a diverse student body is an integral part of education and is essential to the development of our future physicians, scientists and leaders. Students at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA are involved in service to the community and demonstrate a firm commitment to the humanistic, ethical, legal and cultural aspects of science and medicine.
Education Leadership Groups:
Clarence H. Braddock III, MD, MPH, MACP Vice Dean for Education Chief Medical Education Officer
Marc A. Cohen, MD, MS Senior Advisor to theVice Dean for Education
Sharon Younkin, MS, PhD Chief of Staff, Office of theVice Dean for Education
Gregory S. Payne, PhD Senior Associate Dean, Bioscience Graduate and Postdoctoral Education
Lee T. Miller, MD Associate Dean for Student Affairs
Jason Napolitano, MD Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs
Jennifer Lucero, MD Associate Dean for Admissions
Asst. Deans for Student Affairs
Asst. Deans for Curricular Affairs
Carlos Portera-Cailliau, MD, PhD DirectorMedical Scientist Training Program
David W. Dawson, MD, PhD DirectorMedical Scientist Training Program
Kate Perkins, MD, PhD Associate Dean for Graduate Medical EducationDesignated Institutional Official, UCLA Medical Center
