2024
The Department of Family Medicine invites you to the annual Dr. Ian McWhinney Lecture Series held on September 18, 2024, in Room 1150 of the Western Centre for Public Health and Family Medicine.
We are pleased to announce Dr. Lillian Gelberg as the 2024 Dr. Ian McWhinney Lecture Series speaker.
Dr. Lillian Gelberg is a family physician, health services researcher and professor in the department of family medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the Fielding School of Public Health and the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. Her research focuses on community-based research including health promotion intervention clinical trials to improve healthy lifestyles and prevent cancer, substance use disorders, obesity, and other chronic diseases. Her work with diverse, low-income patients and homeless populations, including Veterans and their families, is advancing the national agenda to end homelessness and to promote healthy lifestyle change via integration of prevention into primary care. Gelberg is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Association of American Physicians, and the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
