Gerardo Moreno, MD, MSHS: Department Interim Chair, Associate Professor
Dr. Gerardo Moreno is Associate Professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Family Medicine, and Director of UCLA PRIME-LA (Program in Medical Education) which focuses on Leadership and Advocacy for underserved communities. Dr. Moreno received his medical degree from the University of California Los Angeles, and completed his residency training in Family Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. He received a Masters of Science in Health Services from the UCLA School of Public Health and completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA. He is an educator and clinician investigator and areas of expertise include diabetes in older adults, the evaluation of health system and community level interventions for vulnerable populations, physician workforce diversity, social and structural determinants of health, language-based disparities in healthcare, and medical education programs.
Currently, he is the principal investigator of a multi-year evaluation of a novel primary care coverage program for low-income uninsured and undocumented patients receiving care in 23 community health centers across 21 California counties. Dr. Moreno co-directs the Community Liaison Core for the NIH/NIA funded UCLA Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR)/Center for Health Improvement for Minority Elders (CHIME). He was the 2015-2017 James C. Puffer M.D./ABFM Anniversary Fellow at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and is a past recipient of a National Institute of Aging (NIA-NIH) Paul B. Beeson Career Development Award in Aging (K23). Dr. Moreno has published clinical guidelines on diabetes among older adults and studies that have increased our understanding of health disparities and the social determinants of health, and has published on other important issues addressing physician workforce diversity, family medicine, primary care and medical education. He served as an associate editor for the Annals of Family Medicine and now serves on the journal’s Board of Directors. He serves on the Board of Directors for the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) and on the NIH Clinical Aging study section (NIA-C).
Denise Sur, MD: Department Vice Chairman, Clinical Professor and Residency Director
Dr. Denise Sur is a Clinical Professor and Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine. She is also the Residency Program Director for the UCLA-Santa Monica Family Medicine Residency program. Dr. Sur received her BA from UC Berkeley in Biology and her MD from UC Davis. After teaching for the family medicine residency at UMass, Dr. Sur joined the family medicine faculty at UCLA in 1991, where she has practiced and taught full-spectrum family medicine to our family medicine residents and UCLA medical students for over 30 years. Dr. Sur has been a long-standing member of multiple department and UCLA-Santa Monica hospital committees including Chairman of hospital’s Dept of Family Medicine, Credentials, and Medical Staff Executive Committee as well as our academic department’s Promotion’s Committee. Dr. Sur was also the hospital’s first female Chief of Staff.
Dr. Sur has published numerous articles and chapters in multiple areas of family medicine including Immunizations in Pregnancy, Evaluation of Fever of Unidentified Source in Young Children, Breast Cancer, Allergic and Non-Allergic Rhinitis, Pharmacologic and Non-Pharmacologic Treatment of Obesity, and Use of Antibiotics in the Treatment of Upper Respiratory Infections. Her personal interests including spending as much time possible and traveling with her spouse, children, grandchildren family and friends.
Daniel Lee, MD, MA: Clinical Professor, Associate Program Director
Dr. Lee is a Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He has been on the full-time faculty of the UCLA-Santa Monica Family Medicine Residency Program since 1994 and the Associate Program Director since 2015. Dr. Lee graduated from Baylor University with a BS in Physical Education in 1987 and he received his medical degree from the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical School in 1991. He completed his residency training at the UCLA-Santa Monica Family Medicine Residency Program in 1994. Additionally, Dr. Lee obtained a MA in Christian Apologetics from Biola University in 2002. In addition to practicing and teaching the full-scope of Family Medicine to residents and medical students, Dr. Lee holds several other positions at UCLA. He is the Associate Director of the Primary Care College for the 4th year medical students at UCLA. He is the faculty advisor for the Family Medicine Interest Group at the medical school. Dr. Lee is a long-standing member of the Pharmacy, Therapeutics, and Nutrition Committee and the Medical Staff Executive Committee at the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Lee has published numerous articles in primary care journals and textbooks. Furthermore, he occasionally does manuscript reviews for the American Family Physician journal and serves as an expert reviewer for the Medical Board of California. He enjoys many sports and he used to coach his son and daughter's various sports teams until they grew up. Of all sports, he enjoys playing tennis the most. He also guest speaks at various churches around Southern California whenever he gets a chance.
Monica Plesa, MD: Assistant Clinical Professor, Associate Program Director
Dr. Plesa joined the UCLA Department of Family Medicine in June 2013. Born and raised in Southern California, she graduated from UCLA with a BS in psychobiology and a minor in Spanish. After working for a non-profit for two years, she attended medical school at Albany Medical College in New York. She returned to UCLA to complete her residency in Family Medicine. After graduating in 2012, she stayed on with the department to complete a PGY 4 Chief Resident year, during which time she focused on improving resident education by implementing simulation center training. Dr. Plesa enjoys working closely with medical students and serves as the MS3 Clerkship Director for UCLA Family Health Center. Her medical interests include women’s health, pediatrics and procedures. Outside of work, she likes to eat good food, travel, and spend time with friends and family.
Arthur Ohannessian, MD: Assistant Clinical Professor
Dr. Arthur "Art" Ohannessian joined the UCLA Dept of Family Medicine in 2011 after obtaining his medical degree from the UCSD School of Medicine and completing his Family Medicine residency training at UCLA. He is currently an Associate Professor in the UCLA Department of Family Medicine and the Associate Medical Director for Family and Women’s Services for the San Fernando Health Center Group, one of the largest comprehensive health centers operated by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. He is actively involved in teaching both residents and medical students. His professional interests include providing high quality primary care services to underserved populations and developing health policy through advocacy efforts at the local, state, and national level. Dr. Ohannessian is an active member of American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and has served in multiple leadership roles, including serving as the past President of the Los Angeles chapter of the AAFP, and as the District IV Director for the California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP). During his free time, Dr. Ohannessian enjoys going to art festivals with his family, attending UCLA football games, and going camping in the Sierras.
Michelle Anne Bholat, MD, MPH: Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs
Dr. Bholat is the first Latina vice-chair of the UCLA Department of Family Medicine, Professor of Family Medicine and a graduate of the UC Irvine College of Medicine and the UCLA School of Public Health. In addition, she serves as the Public Health Commissioner for the 4th Supervisory District in LA County and received the LA County Department of Health Services Recognition of Service Award for “Excellent Leadership and Tremendous Dedication to Our Community and Patients.” With her interest in professional education and leadership, physician workforce and health care delivery systems for underserved and vulnerable populations, she serves as the Executive Director of the UCLA International Medical Graduate Program. She maintains her strong advocacy role supporting US born minority students and is an active member of the bipartisan National Hispanic Medical Association.
In addition to her medical education leadership role, she has led and organized physician colleagues with a wide range of specialties – addiction medicine, cardiology, diabetes care, emergency medicine, family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pain and palliative medicine and psychology, to work together to transform LA County’s current health care system to the underserved and vulnerable populations utilizing the Chronic Care Model as well as concepts of the Patient Centered Medical Home.
Neha D. Chande, MD, MHS: Assistant Clinical Professor
Dr. Chande joined the UCLA Department of Family Medicine as a Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor in 2016. She has completed her residency in Family Medicine and fellowship in Preventive Medicine and Population Health at UCLA. Her clinical interests include practicing full-spectrum inpatient and outpatient Family Medicine, providing care to underserved communities, preventive medicine including provision of vaccines, public health, and global health. She also enjoys teaching residents and medical students in the clinical setting. Dr Chande is also on staff as attending at the department’s University Family Health Center and Mid Valley Comprehensive Health Center. Dr. Chande recently started a fellowship in AAFP Vaccine Science. Prior to arriving at UCLA, she attended the University of California, Berkeley where she earned her BA in Public Health after which she completed her Masters degree in Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She received her medical training at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond, VA, where she participated in a program focusing on primary care in underserved communities. In her free time, she loves reading novels, getting outdoors, finding the perfect brunch place, traveling, and spending time with family and friends.
Anita Wong, MD: Assistant Clinical Professor
Dr. Wong joined the UCLA Department of Family Medicine in July 2018. She is from the Bay Area in Northern California, and graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in Molecular and Cell Biology and a minor in Education. She then attended medical school at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and remained at UCLA for her residency in Family Medicine, during which time she developed her passion for medical student and resident education. After graduating in 2014, she stayed at UCLA Family Medicine to complete a PGY 4 Chief Resident year. Her clinical interests include full spectrum inpatient and outpatient Family Medicine, with a focus on women's health, adolescent medicine, and outpatient procedures. She currently working on developing a curriculum for the intern class and improving the resident research curriculum. Outside of work, she enjoys hiking, traveling, watching football and basketball, and experimenting in the kitchen with her fiance.
Lillian Gelberg, MD: Professor and Director of Research
Dr. Gelberg is a family physician, health services researcher, and professor in UCLA’s Department of Family Medicine and School of Public Health. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, co-director of the UCLA Wireless Health Institute, and associate director of the UCLA Primary Care Research Fellowship. Her current research focuses on clinical trials to promote healthy lifestyle change in low income populations using leading behavior change methodologies supported by wireless technology. Over the past 2 decades, Dr. Gelberg has conducted community-based health services research to improve the health of our nation’s most vulnerable populations, and has developed the art and science of collecting data under the most difficult field conditions, including the shelters, meal programs, parks, streets, and busy community health centers of Los Angeles County. Dr. Gelberg has served as PI or Co-PI of more than 25 NIH funded grants, and has published over 100 articles and book chapters. She received the Academy Health 1995 Young Investigator Award and 1997 Article of the Year Award, 2001 Family Practice Excellence in Research Award from the California Academy of Family Physicians (first recipient), George F. Kneller Endowed Chair at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA (first recipient), and 2009 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine’s Curtis Hames Award which honors individuals who through the course of their career, have contributed in a major, outstanding manner to the development of family medicine research. Dr. Gelberg is an alumna of UCLA (BA biology ’77, MSPH public health/health services ‘97), Harvard University Medical School (MD ‘81), Montefiore Residency Program in Social Medicine (family medicine residency ‘84), and the RWJF UCLA Clinical Scholars Program (health services research fellowship ‘86) and Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program (faculty development award).
Phillip Brown, MD: Assistant Clinical Professor
Dr. Brown received his BA from the University of San Francisco and his MD from Howard University. After residency he stayed on as chief resident. Upon completion of his chief year he was hired as faculty. His areas of academic interest include endocrinology, mental-health related disorders, homeless health care, point-of-care ultrasound, and musculoskeletal injuries. In his free time he enjoys going to comedy shows, watching movies, playing ultimate frisbee, and volleyball. He is on a forever quest for the best pasta, tacos, and dessert in LA.
Derjung Mimi Tarn, MD, PhD: Professor
Derjung Mimi Tarn, MD, PhD is a Professor of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Tarn obtained B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biological Sciences from Stanford University, and her medical degree from New York Medical College. She completed a Family Medicine residency at the University of Southern California-Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in 2002, where she was a Chief Resident during her last year. Following her residency training, Dr. Tarn went to UCLA for a National Research Service Award (NRSA) Primary Care Research fellowship. She also was a UCLA Specialty Training and Advanced Research (STAR) program fellow, and during her research training obtained a Ph.D. in Health Services with an emphasis in Pharmaceutical Economics at the UCLA School of Public Health.
Dr. Tarn’s research combines qualitative and quantitative skills to understand physician-patient communication about medications. She has developed tools to understand conversations about new and continued medications, and described a medication prescribing communication index. Her analyses have demonstrated deficiencies in the ways physicians and patients communicate when patients receive new prescriptions. These findings have led to Dr. Tarn’s endeavors to develop behavioral interventions to improve prescribing education. Currently Dr. Tarn is the Principal Investigator of an NIH R01 grant investigating patient disclosure of dietary supplement use during primary care office visits. Dr. Tarn received an Honorable Mention for the Society of Teachers in Family Medicine (STFM) Best Paper Award in 2008 and was recognized by the California Academy of Family Physicians as the 2010 Researcher of the Year. She currently is a member of the STFM National Research Committee
Sports Medicine
Daniel Vigil, MD
Dr. Vigil is a Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery and serves as Chief of the Divisions of Primary Care Sports Medicine for these departments at UCLA. He is also the Associate Head Team Physician for the UCLA Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Dr. Vigil was a collegiate sprinter at Stanford, later earned his medical degree from Harvard, returned to California for his residency training in Family Medicine at Kaiser Permanente, then completed his Sports Medicine fellowship at UCLA.
Dr. Vigil cares for Family Medicine and Sports Medicine patients of all ages, while supervising UCLA medical students, residents, and Sports Medicine Fellows. In addition to his patient care and teaching duties at UCLA, Dr. Vigil is the Medical Director of UCLA Health Sports Performance Powered by EXOS, a collaboration between UCLA Health and EXOS to provide training and nutrition programs for athletes to reach their peak performance. Dr. Vigil is also the Associate Head Team Physician and Director of Primary Care for the Los Angeles Lakers as part of a collaboration between the Lakers and UCLA Health. Outside of UCLA, Dr. Vigil has been a team physician for several USA Track & Field teams at international competitions including the World Championships, World Cup, Continental Cup and Pan American Games. He has also served as a physician at the United States Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, CA. Dr. Vigil's research interests include heat illness and dehydration, overuse injuries and pre-participation screening, and the use of musculoskeletal ultrasound in the treatment of sports-related injuries. He has conducted research in these areas and has authored scientific articles, case reports, and book chapters in these and other areas of sports medicine.
Calvin "CJ" Duffaut, MD
Dr. Duffaut joined UCLA as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery after completing his Sports Medicine specialty training with UCLA in 2016. He received his medical degree from the University of Southern California and completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at LAC + USC Hospital. Dr. Duffaut earned his bachelor’s degree at UC San Diego where he played on the intercollegiate basketball team. He plans to further pursue research in the area of depression among intercollegiate student-athletes. In his position at UCLA, Dr. Duffaut cares for sports medicine patients of all ages and also provides primary care services at the UCLA Family Health Center. He also serves as the team physician of El Segundo High School. Dr. Duffaut is a member of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, American College of Sports Medicine and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Josh Goldman, MD MBA
Dr. Goldman is a Health Science Associate Clinical Professor within the Departments of Family Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery. At UCLA, Dr. Goldman specializes in the care of athletes and provides high-quality care to patients of all ages with both medical and musculoskeletal issues. He is considered an expert in non-surgical orthopedic issues as well as musculoskeletal ultrasound.
In addition to his UCLA Health clinical practice, he is the team physician for UCLA football, men's soccer, and women's beach volleyball teams. He has previously served as a team physician for UCLA baseball, softball, women’s water polo and men's volleyball as well as a volunteer team physician at the United States Olympic Training Center, USA Hockey, and the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP).
He also serves in many administrative roles within University. These include the Associate Director for the Orthopedic Institute for Children's Center for Sports Medicine, the Associate Director of the UCLA Steve Tisch BrainSPORT Program, and the Program Director for the UCLA Sports Medicine fellowship.
He received both his medical degree and Master in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, completed residency training in Family Medicine at UCLA, and completed his Sports Medicine fellowship training at UCLA. He is a member of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine where he serves on the Education and Fellowship committees, the PAC-12 Student-Athlete Health Conference Committee, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Dr. Goldman is a lifelong athlete himself, participating in high level soccer for the majority of his youth. He is now an avid runner and co-founder of the community-based running community, the Electric Athletic Club. He enjoys blending his personal passion for running with his sports medicine practice, helping runners achieve their training and competition goals.
Emily Miller, MD
Dr. Miller is a Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Orthopedic Surgery. At UCLA, she cares for Family Medicine and Sports Medicine patients of all ages. In addition she serves as a team physician for the UCLA Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and Beverly Hills High School. Her research interests include youth sports, activity promotion, and dance medicine. She was a dancer at Barnard College prior to receiving her medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine. She completed her Family Medicine residency at Lancaster General Health in Lancaster, PA. She then received her Sports Medicine specialty training at UCLA. She is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Medical Society for Sports Medicine and American College of Sports Medicine.
Aurelia Nattiv, MD
Dr. Nattiv became a full time faculty member in the Departments of Family Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery in 1994, serving as Director of the UCLA Osteoporosis Center.
Prior to coming to UCLA, Dr. Nattiv served on faculty at the University of Utah, and then was in private practice in Santa Monica. Her areas of research include assessment of bone health in young athletes with amenorrhea, disordered eating and stress fractures, as well as risk taking behaviors in athletes.
Dr. Nattiv is a team physician at UCLA, USA Track and Field, and is the medical representative for the U.S.A. Gymnatics National Health Care Advisory Board. She has served as a Member of the Board of Directors of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, and is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine and the U.S. Olympic Committee Sports Medicine Society.
Addiction Medicine & Palliative Care
Julio Meza, MD
Julio Meza, MD, is an Addiction and Family Medicine Physician at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a Psychiatry in Primary Care Certified Physician at UC Irvine.
Keith Heinzerling, MD, MPH
Keith Heinzerling, MD, MPH, Assistant Clinical Professor. Dr. Heinzerling received his BA in Human Biology and his MD from Stanford University. He completed residency in Internal Medicine/Primary Care at NYU Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital where he was Chief Resident in Medicine. He then completed the UCLA Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, during which he obtained an MPH from UCLA School of Public Health. Dr. Heinzerling’s current research and clinical activities are devoted to the discovery, development, and dissemination of effective medications for the treatment of addiction. He is the Principal Investigator on several clinical trials of potential medications for methamphetamine addiction and a study investigating possible genetic influences on response to anti-addiction medications. Dr. Heinzerling is the Medical Director for the UCLA Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and the UCLA Hollywood Research Clinic.
Timothy McCajor "Cage" Hall, MD, PhD
Timothy McCajor “Cage” Hall, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist and anthropologist and Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine. Dr. Hall grew up on a family farm in the San Joaquin Valley and in the Monterey Bay area and then studied medieval History and Literature at Harvard. He attended medical school at UCSD, where he also earned a PhD in psychological anthropology working with Tanya Luhrmann and Roy D'Andrade. He did postdoctoral work in Human Development at the University of Chicago for two years before coming to UCLA for residency in general psychiatry. He initially joined Family Medicine for postdoctoral training in Addiction Medicine in 2011.
Ironically, Dr. Hall initially went to medical school to be a psychiatrist, but for a while seriously considered Family Medicine instead, as the whole-patient, comprehensive approach of primary care resonated with him deeply. He has been very happy working as a psychiatrist in Family Medicine, supervising Family Medicine residents in their behavioral medicine rotations, and co-managing patients with their primary care physicians.
Clinically, he sees adult and older adult patients for general psychiatry concerns at FHC and at UCLA’s Center for AIDS Education and Research (CARE). Dr. Hall has carried out ethnographic and mixed-methods fieldwork in Prague, Czech Republic since 1999, looking at processes of sexual identity development and mental health concerns among gay and bisexual men. In Los Angeles he has an ongoing mixed-methods project since 2011 looking at sexual identity, substance use, and HIV risk factors among men who have sex with men (MSM) who do not identify as “gay”. He also participates as clinical staff on studies through the UCLA Vine Street Clinic. Clinical and research interests include bipolar and other mood disorders, personality disorders, dual diagnosis, sexuality and sexual identity, and HIV.
Steven Shoptaw, Ph.D.
Dr. Shoptaw is a licensed psychologist and the Director of the Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine and the Center for HIV Identification Prevention and Treatment Services at UCLA. He is Professor in the UCLA Departments of Family Medicine and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Vice Chair of Research in Family Medicine. His portfolio of work that focuses on the treatment of addiction and HIV prevention in the context of addiction in the Western U.S. where stimulant use is the single strongest predictor of HIV transmission. For over 20 years, he has conducted Phase Ib and IIa randomized clinical trials of medications and behavioral interventions both for stimulant and opioid use disorders. He was PI for a T-32 for NIDA on addiction. He is a member of the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) Executive Committee, and CRS-leader for Los Angeles where two trials of long-acting HIV prevention medication strategies (HPTN 085, HPTN 083) are being carried out. His CRS site has been chosen for HPTN 088, a Phase Ib trial of a trispecific antibody for HIV prevention. He is also on the protocol team for ACTG 5359, a trial of long-acting HIV treatment strategies for those with mental health and substance use disorders and other disruptive behaviors. In 2018, he was awarded a 5-year renewal of a cooperative agreement to continue a cohort of minority men who have sex with men to investigate interactions between non-injection use of methamphetamine, cocaine, opiates and binge drinking and transmission and progression of HIV.
David Wallenstein, MD
David Wallenstein is a general internist who specializes in palliative care (the supportive treatment of patients with life threatening and terminal illnesses) and in chronic pain management. Dr. Wallenstein, who is appointed in The Department of Family Medicine, is also a physician with The UCLA Palliative Care Service and works with The Sarcoma Program. He is also medical director for The Skirball Hospice Program at The Jewish Homes of Los Angeles and an instructor and preceptor in The UCLA Family Medicine International Medical Graduate Program. Dr. Wallenstein began his career in end of life care as an AIDS volunteer in the early 1980s, trained in clinical social work and after a career as a clinical social worker, decided to attend medical school. A Westwood native who attended UCLA’s lab school, UES, and The Cate School in Carpinteria, he is a graduate of both The College of The University of Chicago and of The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and received his medical degree from The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. Dr. Wallenstein trained in internal medicine at The University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago and in anesthesiology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore before completing a fellowship in pain medicine and palliative care under the direction of Dr. Russell Portenoy at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. In his leisure time, Dr. Wallenstein is an opera and classical music afficionado who rescues dogs and is involved in various aspects of animal welfare.
Timothy Weiss, MD
Dr. Weiss joined the Department of Family Medicine in 2014. He was raised in Southern California, and attended UCLA where he majored in biology and minored in music history. He then attended medical school at Loma Linda University, then came back to UCLA for his Family Medicine residency. After residency, he completed a fellowship in Palliative and Hospice Medicine at UCLA. He now spends his time working on the UCLA inpatient palliative service, seeing patients in Family Medicine clinic as well as palliative clinic, and working as a team physician and Associate Medical Director at Skirball Hospice. He works closely with fellows in training through the UCLA Palliative and Hospice Medicine fellowship, and also works with residents in clinic and in the hospital. In his non-working life, he hikes, runs, listens to a lot of music, and watches the Dodgers.
Behavioral Health
Robert Maurer, Ph.D.
Dr. Maurer is a clinical psychologist and a behavior scientist with the UCLA Family Practice Residency Program. He received his BA from UCLA and his Masters and Ph.D from the University of Houston in 1972. He is also an Associate Clinical Professor at the UCLA School of medicine. His presentations on success have reached audiences as diverse as corporations, hospital patients and staff, theatrical companies, government agencies, and the US Navy. He has served as a consultant to Walt Disney Studios, the US Air Force, Canyon Ranch Health Spa, Habitat for Human, and BP. Dr. Maurer has appeared on ABC’s 20/20 in connection with his work on conflict resolution. A Los Angeles Times article profiled Dr. Maurer’s seminars on creativity and change, entitle, “One Small Step can Change Your life” was published in the fall of 2004. It is currently available in ten languages. Dr. Maurer has won the Navy’s civilian award for his course on negotiation skills. He has published articles in medical textbooks on suicide assessment and male stress.
