• Associate Program Director, Family and Community Medicine Residency, San Francisco General Hospital
• Director of Behavioral Sciences, Family and Community Medicine Residency, San Francisco General Hospital
  

• BA, John Carroll University, Psychology
• MA, Cleveland State University, Psychology
• PhD, Temple University, Psychology
• Internship, Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, Psychology

• Biopsychosocial model, family systems and health, and relationship centered care
• Training health care professionals for care of the underserved
• Health care communication and its role in reducing and eliminating health and health care disparities

• Saba GW. What do family physicians believe and value in their work? Journal of the Board of Family Practice. Issue: 3. 12:206-213, 1999.
• Saba GW. Live supervision: Lessons learned from behind the mirror. Academic Medicine. Issue: 8. 74:856-858, 1999.
• Saba GW. Preparing health care professionals for the 21st century: Lessons from Chiron’s cave. Family Systems and Health. Issue: 3. 18:353-364, 2000.
• Saba GW, Wong ST, Schillinger D, Fernandez A, Somkin CP, Wilson CC and Grumbach K. Shared decision making and the experience of partnership in primary care. Annals of Family Medicine. 4:54-62, 2006.
• Saba GW, Villela TJ. Family as the context of care. Medical management of vulnerable and underserved patients, ed. by King T and Wheeler M. New York: McGraw Hill, 2006.

Department of Family and Community Medicine
San Francisco General Hospital
Box SFGH-B80 WD83
1001 Potrero Avenue
Bldg 80, Ward 83
San Francisco, CA 94110

ph 415-206-5785

gsaba@fcm.ucsf.edu