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Phuoc Le

Co-FounderHeal Initiative

Biography

Internist, Pediatrician, Associate Professor at UCSF and UC Berkeley, Dr. Le is also a social entrepreneur in the global health space. In 2014 he co-founded the HEAL Initiative at UCSF, a global health delivery fellowship program that trains and transforms front line health providers to make service to the poor their first career choice. After 3 years of operation, the HEAL Initiative has over 60 fellows working with partner organizations in 7 countries, seeing nearly 1,000,000 patient visits per year.

Dr. Le graduated from Dartmouth College, Stanford Medical School, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and completed his residency at Harvard. He was named one of the top 10 hospitalists in the US in 2015, was awarded the Humanitarian Award by the Society of Hospital Medicine in 2016, and was an Eisenhower Fellow in 2017.