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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:

Biomedical Graduate EducationMD EducationGraduate Medical Education
MSTP EducationContinuing Medical EducationGlobal Health Education

Executive Leadership

Clarence H. Braddock III, M.D., M.P.H., M.A.C.P.

Clarence H. Braddock III, MD, MPH, MACP 
Vice Dean for Education
Chief Medical Education Officer

Marc A. Cohen

Marc A. Cohen, MD, MS
Senior Advisor to the
Vice Dean for Education

Sharon Younkin

Sharon Younkin, MS, PhD
Chief of Staff, Office of the
Vice Dean for Education


Biomedical Graduate Education

	Gregory S. Payne, Ph.D.

Gregory S. Payne, PhD 
Senior Associate Dean, Bioscience Graduate and Postdoctoral Education

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Medical School

Lee T. Miller, M.D.

Lee T. Miller, MD 
Associate Dean for Student Affairs

Jason Napolitano, MD

Jason Napolitano, MD
Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs

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Jennifer Lucero, MD 
Associate Dean for Admissions

Asst. Deans for Student Affairs

Asst. Deans for Curricular Affairs

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MSTP Education

Olujimi Ajijola, MD, PHD

Olujimi Ajijola, MD, PhD
Director
Medical Scientist Training Program

David W. Dawson, MD, PhD

David W. Dawson, MD, PhD
Director
Medical Scientist Training Program

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Graduate Medical Education

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Lisa Skinner, MD
DIO
Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, David Geffen School of Medicine
LSkinner@mednet.ucla.edu

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Global Health Program

Risa Hoffman

Risa Hoffman, MD, MPH
Director, Global Health Program

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