Norma Sanchez, MD, MPH

Biography

Instructor

Clinical Science

Dr. Norma Sanchez is a Southern California Permanente Medical Group physician based at the West Los Angeles Medical Center. Dr. Sanchez served as a preceptor at the Kaiser Permanente Inglewood Medical Offices for third-year medical students from the UCLA School of Medicine. She is active in community service, and was a volunteer physician at the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Los Angeles.

Education and Training

Degrees: BA, University of California, Berkeley
MPH, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
MD, Charles R. Drew University School of Medicine and Sciences; University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine

Residency: Resident, family medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Professional Positions

Job Coach: Exceptional Children’s Foundation; 2007-2008

Co-Coordinator: Journey Southbay Mobile Clinic; 2013-2015

Resident Clinic Director, Department of Family Medicine: Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; 2014

Academic Co-Chief Resident, Department of Family Medicine: Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; 2014-2015

Physician, Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center: Southern California Permanente Medical Group; 2015-present

Honors and Awards

Graduate Opportunity Fellowship: University of California, Los Angeles; 2003

Robert C. Fraser Scholarship: California Community Foundation; 2009

Resident of the Year, Department of Family Medicine: Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; 2015

Scholarly Activities

Peer-reviewed research manuscripts

Sanchez N, Kataoka S, Langley A, Jaycox L, Stein B, Vona P. A quality improvement model for disseminating school mental health care. Abstract, J of Investigative Medicine, 2010; 58 (1):173.

Presentations

Kataoka S, Miranda J, Jimenez V, Sanchez N, Gillespie J (2004). Quality of Care for Children in Special Education. In Quality of Care in Real World Settings: Strengths and Gaps, Symposium, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Annual Meeting.
Sanchez N, Kataoka S, Langley A, Jaycox L, Stein B, Vona P (2009). Responding toCommunity Violence: A Quality Improvement Model for Disseminating School Mental Health Care to Low-income Ethnic Minority Youth, Oral presentation, David Gergen School of Medicine Josiah Brown Poster Fair and UCLA/ Project EXPORT Work Meeting.
Sanchez N, Kataoka S, Langley A, Jaycox L, Stein B, Vona P (2010). A quality improvement model for disseminating school mental health care. Oral presentation, American Federation for Medical Research, Western Regional Meeting 2010.
Marquez LF, Parma M, Sanchez N, Cheng J (2014). Putting patients at the center of themedical home: Patient Satisfaction Survey for Harbor-UCLA Family Medicine Health Center, Oral presentation, UCLA Multi-Campus Research Forum.