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Patrick Dowling, MD, Family Medicine, Santa Monica, CA, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center

PatrickDowlingMDMPH

Family Medicine • Santa Monica, CA

Preventive Medicine

Chair, UCLA Dept of Family Medicine, the Kaiser Benefit Fund Endowed Professor of Community Medicine, Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Commissioner , LA County Public Health Commission; 2008 to present; Chair 2015-16; 2020-21

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Summary

  • I am the Chair of the Dept. of Fam Medicine at the UCLA Sch of Med. and Vice Chair of the LA County Public Health Commission. I am boarded in Fam Med & Prev. Med & trained in FM at Cook County Hosp in Chicago under Dr. Jorge Prieto. Later I spent 7 yrs as Assoc. Chair of the Dept of FM at Cook. Previously I served as FM residency director at Brown University and LA County Harbor UCLA Medical Ctr. After completing residency training i worked at a United Farmworkers (UFW) clinic in Coachella and a migrant health center on the Mexican border in Brawley Calif. My central interest is the provision of high quality, cost effective, accessible care to underserved populations & URMs in remote rural areas and urban central cities; it is my belief that this can best be accomplished by linking graduate medical education programs to those underserved communities. I have served on the board of the Charles R Drew University and the Drew-UCLA program in medicine in South Central LA for the past 14 years .

Education & Training

  • University of Michigan School of Public Health
    University of Michigan School of Public HealthMPH, Public Health, Health Policy , 1984 - 1986
  • Cook County Health and Hospitals System
    Cook County Health and Hospitals SystemResidency, Family Medicine, 1974 - 1977
  • Cook County Health and Hospitals System
    Cook County Health and Hospitals SystemInternship, Transitional Year, 1974 - 1975
  • The University of Toledo College of Medicine
    The University of Toledo College of MedicineClass of 1974
  • Univ. of Michigan Sch of Public Health
    Univ. of Michigan Sch of Public HealthMPH, Public Health

Certifications & Licensure

  • CA State Medical License
    CA State Medical License 1977 - 2025
  • IL State Medical License
    IL State Medical License 1975 - 1987
  • American Board of Preventive Medicine Public Health & General Preventive Medicine

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • Utilizing International Medical Graduates in Health Care Delivery  
    Dowling PT, Bholat MA, Prim Care, 12/2012
  • Double Blind Placebo-controlled evaluation of PROMETA for meth dependence  
    Ling W, Shoptaw S, Dowling, PT, Addiction, 1/2012

Press Mentions

  • Nearly 200 UCLA Volunteers Treat the Uninsured at the Annual Care Harbor Free Clinic
    Nearly 200 UCLA Volunteers Treat the Uninsured at the Annual Care Harbor Free ClinicOctober 31st, 2018
  • Shared Language, Culture Helps Immigrant Physician Care for San Diego's Underserved
    Shared Language, Culture Helps Immigrant Physician Care for San Diego's UnderservedJuly 16th, 2017
  • ‘Bodega Clinicas’ Draw Interest of Health Officials
    ‘Bodega Clinicas’ Draw Interest of Health OfficialsFebruary 12th, 2016

Professional Memberships

Other Languages

  • Spanish

Hospital Affiliations

Dr. Patrick Dowling, Dr. Patrick Dowling, MD, Dr. P Dowling