Dr. Juan Carlos Lozano is a family doctor passionate about bridging gaps in healthcare access and promoting health equity through enhancing healthcare for underrepresented communities. He graduated in 2023 from the Scripps Health Family Medicine residency in San Diego with a focus on border health at the US-MX border and continued as an attending at Otay Family Health Center, a federally-qualified health center (FQHC) in Chula Vista. He is now a National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) fellow working on multiple quantitative and qualitative health services research-oriented projects. Through these projects, he has been able to reaffirm his commitment to community-engaged work and to develop an insight into the policymaker perspective to help translate equitable healthcare practices and health economic analyses into policy. He was also selected as an inaugural fellow for the Learning Health Systems (LHS) Embedded Scientist Training and Research Centers (LHS-EStaR) Program and received a $25,000 grant to assess and develop a new Chronic Care Model for Diabetes Management (CCM-DM) with food vouchers that address food insecurity and uncontrolled diabetes outcomes.

Further key projects Dr. Lozano is involved in include the development of a health economic model to predict primary care investment effects on California’s overall health expenditures, a qualitative approach to assessing the impact of community healthcare workers' trust-building strategies in the Central Valley, and racial and ethnic differences in patients’ healthcare experience and satisfaction at UCSF Health. Among several other mentors, his mentorship includes primary care leader and health policy advisor Dr. Kevin Grumbach, health economics expert Dr. Jim Kahn, founder of the Latino Center of Excellence (LCOE), Dr. Alicia Fernandez, NCSP UCSF program director, Dr. Hilary Seligman, and IgNITE Laboratory PI and implementation scientist, Dr. Elaine Khoong. He is honored to receive mentorship from various UCSF/UCLA clinician-investigators who have started paving the road toward health equity and policy for all.

While Juan Carlos continues to provide primary care at the San Francisco General Hospital’s Family Health Center (FHC), he enjoys precepting family medicine residents and is enrolled in the Advanced Training in Clinical Research (ATCR) Master’s Program at UCSF. Ultimately, Juan Carlos hopes to become one of the many building blocks that will connect our healthcare road to universal healthcare—while helping eliminate obstacles of health inequality along the way.