Health care disparities and health policy with a focus on injury and violence prevention, patient-provider communication, and Latino health.

Michael A. Rodriguez, MD, MPH, is Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the George F. Kneller Endowed Chair in Family Medicine. Dr. Rodriguez completed his undergraduate training at the University of California, Berkeley, attended medical school at UCLA, and completed his residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He obtained his public health degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford University, and a Picker/Commonwealth Scholar at UCSF.

Dr. Rodriguez conducts research, works with direct service and advocacy organizations, and helps inform policy on violence prevention and the healthcare needs of vulnerable populations. He is a leading researcher in the areas of the role of the healthcare system in addressing abuse and the healthcare needs of ethnically diverse populations across the age spectrum. He has used qualitative and quantitative methods to develop conceptual frameworks for understanding cultural issues, barriers to help seeking, and for improving the health care response to domestic violence. He has also developed effective techniques to recruit vulnerable populations with substantial socioeconomic and racial/ethnic diversity. Dr. Rodriguez is currently PI of a cohort study of domestic violence, a study to examine the impact of domestic violence on the health related quality of life of pregnant Latinas attending a large health maintenance organization in Los Angeles. He is also PI of an investigation to examine clinician, patient and caregiver perspectives of the role of health care systems in addressing elder abuse and neglect in ethnically diverse populations.

Dr. Rodriguez has published and lectured widely on the topics of violence prevention, medical education, and cross-cultural medicine. Dr. Rodriguez has been a violence preve