Announcing New Medical Director for Richard H. Fine People's Clinic: Dr. Anne Rosenthal

Dear Colleagues,

It is my distinct pleasure to welcome back Dr. Anne Rosenthal who, as of Feb. 1, 2019, will assume the Medical Directorship of the Richard H Fine People's Clinic, a major primary care clinic for the SF Health Network and a very important teaching site for UCSF. Anne has been the Medical Director of Castro-Mission Health Center (CMHC), a SFDPH Community Primary Care site serving LatinX, LGBT, and other diverse communities in San Francisco. Prior to CMHC, she was the Associate Medical Director at Maxine Hall Health Center, located in San Francisco’s Western Addition. In her leadership roles at MHHC and CMHC, Anne led the management teams and supervised clinical staff and operations. She oversaw QI programs and practice transformation initiatives using team-based care and behavioral health integration to support improvements in patient access, quality of care, clinical productivity, and patient and staff experience. As a primary care physician, Anne has worked as a public health PCP for over 14 years.  Anne attended medical school at UCSF and was a resident in the UCSF/SF General Hospital Primary Care Residency (SFPC) program from 2001-2004.  She had her resident clinic in what was then called ‘GMC’ and served as a preceptor in the clinic.  Anne is particularly adept and inter-professional work; before attending medical school, Anne worked for 2 years as a Medical Assistant and 5 years as a Physician Assistant in a variety of safety net settings across the Bay Area.  Anne served as the Site Director for SFPC’s Resident Clinic at MHHC and CMHC from 2008-2018, and as the CME Coordinator for San Francisco Health Network Primary Care 2011-2015. She has trained and mentored medical students, residents, and new PCPs throughout her career, and is devoted to developing the public health primary care pipeline. Anne was born and raised in New Jersey but has lived in San Francisco for 30 years. She and her partner live with their 2 children in Bernal Heights. We are very excited to have her rejoin the RFPC team!

My deepest gratitude and admiration goes to Dr. Claire Horton, who did a marvelous job directing RFPC for around a decade. Claire recently stepped down to assume the role of Chief of the Medical Staff at ZSFG. Another set of thanks goes out to Dr. Vanessa Thompson and Dr. Lisa Ochoa-Frongia, both Associate Medical Directors who assumed co-interim Medical Director roles in the interim period. They have done a marvelous job. Finally, a big thank you to the search committee - chaired first by Dr. Claire Horton and then Dr. Reena Gupta, for leading the effort to identify and interview Anne, and to Kelly Kiser, for providing seamless administrative support for the search.

Dean Schillinger MD
UCSF Professor of Medicine in Residence
Chief, UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine
Director, UCSF Health Communications Research Program
Center for Vulnerable Populations
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

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