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Dr. Wagahta Semere is an Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF and Primary Care Physician at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. She trained in Internal Medicine and completed a Chief Residency year at Yale New-Haven Hospital. She stayed at Yale to complete her health services research training through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program. Dr. Semere’s research is focused on developing strategies that include harnessing technology to better engage racial/ethnic minority patients and their families in diabetes management. She is a UCSF John A.

A veteran communications expert specializing in consumer health education and multicultural communications, Muriel develops and manages integrated communications campaigns aimed at educating consumers, and changing and improving behaviors. She directs audience research, discerns areas of opportunity and crafts unique strategies to influence and educate specific audience segments. In many cases, this means addressing varying language and cultural issues among key populations and sub-populations.