Liliana Uribe-Bruce, MD

Biography: Formally trained in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, and Clinical Research, at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida, the National Institutes of Health Clinical Research Center (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, and The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.

Clinical practice in Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism. Clinical research expertise ranging from phase I to phase IV clinical trials. Volunteer Clinical Instructor at UCSD Family Medicine and Preventive Health, mentoring medical students and Medicine Residents towards academic progress while caring for medically underserved patients in San Diego County. Bicultural, bilingual English-Spanish.

Interests include disease prevention, chronic disease management in the area of diabetes, obesity and associated metabolic diseases, patient education, patient-centered clinical care, clinical research, academic medicine and public speaking. Areas of research include basic molecular endocrinology, clinical characterization of rare endocrine diseases, diabetes, obesity, thyroid and adrenal diseases, genetics, biobanks, health disparities, patient and community health education, community engaged research including seminar series and facilitating group discussions and community focus groups, ethics of informed consent, and phase I to IV drug development clinical trials.