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I am Director of Veterans Health Administration’s Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education, a demonstration project advancing interprofessional education in VA’s patient-centered primary care settings. I have additional national responsibilities as Director of Advanced Fellowships, which includes the VA’s relationship with a portfolio of programs providing advanced preparation for health professionals to become leaders in fields of strategic importance to VA including fields such as geriatrics, social work, clinical informatics, women’s health, patient safety, health services research, and many others. After studying anthropology and biology at Grinnell College, I received my M.D. at Rush Medical College then completed Internal Medicine Training at UC Irvine. I subsequently received the M.P.H. from UCLA, and was a Robert Wood Johnson/VA Clinical Scholar at UCSF. Although I have national responsibility in the VA, I am based in Southern California with my office at the Long Beach VA Medical Center. I am a practicing primary care general internist and I hold the academic rank of Professor of Clinical Health Sciences, University of California, Irvine.