KennethDavidPettersenMDMPH FASAM

Assistant Clinical Professor, Olive View - UCLA Medical Center

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Dr. Kenneth Pettersen is an adult primary care and addiction medicine physician at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, where he also trains UCLA residents and medical students as an Assistant Clinical Professor. He received his medical degree and completed a residency in internal medicine primary care at the University of California San Francisco. He is also board certified in addiction medicine and is a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. He co-directs the Medications for Addiction Treatment Bridge Clinic at Olive View - UCLA and collaborates across the LA County Department of Health Services on expanding access to addiction treatment in the safety net.

University of California (San Francisco)Residency, Internal Medicine, 2015 - 2018
University of California San Francisco School of MedicineClass of 2015
University of California, BerkeleyMasters of Public Health, 2013 - 2014
University of California, San DiegoBS, Human Biology, Magna Cum Laude, 2006 - 2010

PubMed

4 citations
First-Line Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes With Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors and Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists.
Caroline Hanna, Kenneth Pettersen, Nathaniel Pedley> ;Annals of Internal Medicine. 2023 Apr 1
21 citations
Plasmodium falciparum ookinete expression of plasmepsin VII and plasmepsin X
Fengwu Li, Viengngeun Bounkeua, Kenneth Pettersen, Joseph M. Vinetz> ;Malaria Journal. 2016 Feb 24
6 citations
A paradoxical decline: intracranial lesions in two HIV-positive patients recovering from cryptococcal meningitis
Kenneth D Pettersen, Peter G. Pappas, Peter Chin-Hong, Sanjiv M. Baxi> ;BMJ Case Reports. 2015 Oct 16

Journal Articles

Identifying priorities for data quality improvement within Haiti׳s iSanté EMR system: Comparing two methods
Nancy Puttkammer, Kenny Pettersen, Nathaelf Hyppolite, Garilus France, Jean Solon Valles, Jean Guy Honoré, Scott Barnhart, Health Policy and Technology, 12/7/2016

Books/Book Chapters

First Aid for the USMLE Step 1
Chapter: Gastrointestinal and Respiratory chapters
Pettersen KEditors: Le T, Bhushan V, Sochat M, Micevic K, Petersen M.The McGraw-Hill Companies, New YorkEdition 2014,2014

Abstracts/Posters

A Haitian man with tongue swelling: diagnostic reasoning and clinical challenges in rural Haiti.
Pettersen K, Pierre J, Canlatte M, Goldman RS, Society of General Internal Medicine, Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 4/21/2017
Developing Rheumatology Capacity in Haiti: Piloting a Rheumatology Training Program, Establishing a Teaching Clinic, and Advancing Medical Curriculum
Adeel Ashfaq, Kenny Pettersen, Rebecca Gordon, Claire W. Belliot, Ami Ben-Artzi, Nazaire St. Fort, Tu Tran, Jessica Jaswal, 6th Annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference, Boston, MA, 3/25/2015
Health systems strengthening in the post-2015 global development agenda
Pettersen K, 5th Annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference, Washington D.C., 5/11/2014
Organization and optimization of global health resources for US medical trainees: the Global Health Hub Resources Page Project
Pettersen K, Park E, Lipnick M, 5th Annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference, Washington D.C., 5/10/2014
Emergency Medicine Training for Senior Haitian Medical Students
Pettersen K, Ashley S, Edris M, Marc J, Salmon M, Miss J, 12th Annual UCSF Education Symposium, San Francisco, CA, 4/2013
Expression and Characterization of Plasmepsin X, a Plasmodium falciparum Aspartic Protease
Pettersen K, Bounkeua V, Vinetz JM, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 58th annual meeting, Washington D.C., 11/2009
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