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My Office Hours
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5:30 pm | 9:30 am
5:30 pm | 11:30 am
12:30 pm | 10:00 am
5:30 pm | 10:30 am
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PLEASE NOTE: Blood pressure checks, immunizations, and injections are provided from 9:00am to noon and 2:00pm to 4:00pm on a drop-in basis.
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My Biography
Infectious Diseases is an area of Internal Medicine that is constantly evolving. There are now established infections that require novel approaches and treatments, such as tuberculosis and HIV. We have new infectious agents that challenge the future health of us all, like avian influenza. As the Director of HIV Services at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco, I do clinical research in, and lecture about, HIV medicine. As Director of Travel Medicine, I am challenged to keep up with developments in international health and tropical medicine. I spend several hours a week in the hospital andI enjoy the challenge of helping patients who are admitted to the hospital with complicated infections with hospital-based infectious diseases be cured of their complicated problems as quickly as possible.
I think Kaiser’s integrated model of care is the gold standard of health care. The fact that I can access not just the laboratory results, but the notes of other providers, and review the x-rays and specialized imaging studies done at any Northern California facility, should give the patient confidence that there is full coordination of care. Health Connect, Kaiser Permanente’s electronic records system, offers an incredibly rapid and complete source of medical information on the health of each of each member. An integrated approach to health care not only helps to prevent disease, but also facilitates rapid, accurate diagnosis and management of new problems as they occur. The coordination of care our superb clinicians provide is unparalleled in any other health care facility.
For fun, I enjoy running (I’ve run three marathons in the past) and attending the theatre, as well as reading good fiction. My husband Richard Wolitz and I raise two cats (or they raise us) and we love raising our daughter. To “live well and thrive” I wear my pedometer every day. I also make sure that I have three meals, and try (sometimes successfully!) to make sure my dinner is not the biggest meal of the day.
Undergraduate Education: AB in Biochemistry, Pomona College
Graduate Education: MA in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Harvard University
Professional Affiliations: Bay Area Consortium of HIV Providers; California Medical Association; Infectious Disease Society of America; San Francisco Medical Society; The Bay Area Providers of HIV Care
Professional Conferences: Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections; Infectious Diseases Society of America
Began Practice: 1982
Joined Kaiser Permanente: 1998
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My Credentials
| University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO |
| San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center, San Francisco, CA |
| UC San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA |
| UC San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA |
| Infectious Disease, American Board of Internal Medicine |
| Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine |
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