Michael Rodriguez m.d., m.p.h.

Pilot Investigator

Pilot Study
"Healthy Abuelos: Establishing a Community Partnership to Enhance Recognition and Treatment of Depression in Older Latinos."

Address
UCLA Family Medicine
Box 957087
10880 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1800
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7087

Phone
(310) 794-0294

Fax
(310) 794-6097

Email
mrodriguez@mednet.ucla.edu

Biography
Dr. Michael A. Rodriguez completed his undergraduate training at the University of California, Berkeley; received his medical degree from the UCLA School of Medicine; completed his residency from the UC San Francisco’s Family Medicine Residency Program; received his Master of Public Health degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health; was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at Stanford University; and was a Picker/Commonwealth Scholar at UCSF.
Dr. Rodriguez is a Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA where he teaches UCLA residents, graduate and undergraduate students, while continuing to practice family medicine.  Dr. Rodriguez has significant expertise in the principles of community-based participatory research and the development of initiatives focused on improving the health and health care of individuals, families, and communities.  His research activities focus on the role of the healthcare system in addressing family violence and the healthcare needs of ethnically diverse populations across the age spectrum.

Dr. Rodriguez has served as the principal investigator on a number of federally and privately funded research projects including NIH, DHHS, NIA and AHRQ as well as by other private foundations.  Along with his numerous publications and lectures in the field and his contributions to research, Dr. Rodriguez has been a violence prevention consultant with UNICEF, the Pan American Health Organization, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  He has also served on the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on the Training Needs of Health Professionals to Respond to Family Violence and is Chairperson of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California.