Lillian Gelberg

Dr. Gelberg is George F. Kneller Professor of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is a health services researcher and family physician who conducts community-based research on the health, access to care, and quality of care of homeless and other vulnerable populations. She earned her M.D. from Harvard and her M.S.P.H. from the UCLA School of Public Health.

Dr. Gelberg has studied homeless adults living in shelters and outdoor areas, and the health and use of health services among homeless and low-income housed patients; change in health status, use of health services, and the antecedents and consequences of victimization among homeless adults; delays in onset of treatment for tuberculosis patients; health status, contraception use, access to care, and patient satisfaction among homeless women in shelters and food programs; and the epidemiology and use of health services for homeless persons with HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C. Other areas of inquiry have included youth violence prevention; structures and processes that predict access to care in medical facilities providing care to impoverished women; and quality of care and patient satisfaction of adults and children treated in public health care clinics.

Dr. Gelberg has been PI of 12 grants and Co-PI of 12 grants, primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Dr. Gelberg is an alumna of the RWJF Clinical Scholars Program and Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program. She is recipient of the Association for Health Services Research 1995 Young Investigator Award and the 1997 Article of the Year Award, and first recipient of the Family Practice Excellence in Research Award from the California Academy of Family Physicians (2001).

Graduate Student Researchers Faculty Thomas Belin Joel Braslow Susan Ettner Arlene Fink Lillian Gelberg Sheryl Kataoka Jeanne Miranda Lisa Rubenstein Ken Wells Alex Young Bonnie Zima Partners Post-Doctoral Fellows Staff
	Lillian Gelberg, M.D. Dr. Gelberg is George F. Kneller Professor of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is a health services researcher and family physician who conducts community-based research on the health, access to care, and quality of care of homeless and other vulnerable populations. She earned her M.D. from Harvard and her M.S.P.H. from the UCLA School of Public Health. Dr. Gelberg has studied homeless adults living in shelters and outdoor areas, and the health and use of health services among homeless and low-income housed patients; change in health status, use of health services, and the antecedents and consequences of victimization among homeless adults; delays in onset of treatment for tuberculosis patients; health status, contraception use, access to care, and patient satisfaction among homeless women in shelters and food programs; and the epidemiology and use of health services for homeless persons with HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C. Other areas of inquiry have included youth violence prevention; structures and processes that predict access to care in medical facilities providing care to impoverished women; and quality of care and patient satisfaction of adults and children treated in public health care clinics. Dr. Gelberg has been PI of 12 grants and Co-PI of 12 grants, primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Dr. Gelberg is an alumna of the RWJF Clinical Scholars Program and Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program. She is recipient of the Association for Health Services Research 1995 Young Investigator Award and the 1997 Article of the Year Award, and first recipient of the Family Practice Excellence in Research Award from the California Academy of Family Physicians (2001).				Contact Info