Gena Lewis, MD

• Founder and Medical Director of the Medical Legal Partnership with East Bay Community Law Center
• Co-Director of the CAP (Community Advocacy Primary Care) rotation for pediatric medical residents and medical students
• Medical Director of the Reach Out and Read literacy program in the Primary Care Department
• Consultant for Too Small to Fail (Campaign promoting new research on the science of children’s brain development, early learning and early health)
• Medical Director Pediatric Advice Line, Children’s First Medical Group

Volunteer Activities

• President, AAP California, Chapter 1
• Board Member of Kerry's Kids mobile medical group for homeless children

Recent Publications and Lectures

• A Multi-Institutional Medical Educational Collaborative: Advocacy Training in California Pediatric Residency Programs, Academic Medicine, Vol. 88, No. 3/March 2013
• Parenting Press, Childhood Vaccines 4/21/2010
• Parenting Press, Nutrition for Parents 1/28/2010
• Faculty lecturer for National AAP PREP the Course 6/2002 and 3/2003: subject matter included anemia, sports medicine and ear, nose and throat issues for the general pediatrician
• Lecturer Boalt Law School 2010 Spring Semester Social Inequities of Health
• Faculty for Asthma Forum, Clinical Effort Against Second Hand Smoke UCSF 12/2012
• California Housing conference, Safe Housing 8/2013
• Medical-Legal Partnership and Immigrant Health, AAP NCE 10/2014

Certification and Licensure

• Medical Board of California
• DEA license
• National Provider Identification
• American Board of Pediatrics
• Recent Awards & Honors
• Teaching Award, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland: 2001, 2008, 2011
• AAP Achievement Award 2005