UCLA National Clinician Scholars Program
Advancing Health and Health Care Through Scholarship and Action
UCLA National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) is committed to solving the most pressing societal challenges of our time—not least among them, addressing disparities and quality of care in an ever-changing healthcare landscape.
Inspired by the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program (CSP), which for more than 40 years fostered the development of physician leaders able to transform health and healthcare, the university proudly launched the new UCLA NCSP in 2016. This post-doctoral education program builds upon the CSP legacy, with early career physicians and post-doctoral nurses participating in an intensive, highly-customized, two-year program that places them in community settings to conduct priority research directly benefiting the health of Southern California residents.
The UCLA National Clinician Scholars Program is committed to solving the most pressing societal challenges of our time while training the next generation of transformative healthcare leaders.
UCLA NCSP is joined by five other sites including the University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, Yale University, and most recently, Duke University and UCSF. The NCSP retains the experience and central values of the highly successful RWJF/VA Clinical Scholars Program, including a commitment to teaching rigorous research design, ensuring Scholars develop a nuanced understanding of how the health system and social determinants affect health, engagement of those who can help apply research results, and emphasizing the outcomes and impact of research. Yet the NCSP builds upon this core strength, moving in a new direction by partnering directly with institutions and agencies sponsoring individual scholar positions, with a strong focus on commitment to partnering agencies and creating generalizable lessons for improving health of patients and communities.
Melissa Powell, PhD, RN
Lilian Bravo PhD, RN (completed the UCLA NCSP) is on faculty at University of Miami SON
Charisse Ahmed PhD, RN (completed the UCLA NCSP) is a postdoc at ucla (can get you the details)
Adrienne Martinez, PhD, RN (completed the UCLA NCSP) is in leadership in research at AltaMed
Hafifa Siddique, PhD, RN (completed the UCLA NCSP) is on faculty at Drew University SON
Patricia Soderlund, PhD, PMHNP, RN (completed the UCLA NCSP) is at University of Minn Duluth
Maria Yefimova, PhD, RN (completed the UCLA NCSP) is at UCSF Med Center as something like the Director of Research
School of Nursing Faculty & NCSP Alumni
