• Assistant Medical Director, Family Health Center
• Medical Director, Refugee Medical Center

• MD, University of California, San Francisco
• Family Medicine Residency, San Francisco General Hospital, UCSF
• Women’s Health Fellowship, University of California, Davis
• Fellowship, University of California, Davis, Primary Care Outcomes Research, Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care
• Fellowship, University of California, Davis, K30 Mentored Clinical Research Training Program, School of Medicine

• Health Insurance and its impact on access to health services
• Women’s Health-particularly preventive health and chronic disease management
• Health Disparities-determinants of health and access to health services

• Ward L. Does immigrant status reduce family planning service utilization in California? Masters Thesis, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. 2000.
• Rodriguez M, Ward L, and Perez-Stable E. Health insurance coverage and access to health care: Impact of Latina ethnicity and foreign-born status. A study for the California Project on Access to Care. 2001.
• Rodriguez M, Ward L, and Perez-Stable E. Breast and cervical cancer screening: Impact of health insurance status, ethnicity, and nativity. Annals of Family Medicine. Issue: 3. 3:2004.
• Ward L and Franks P. Health insurance change and total health expenditures in the United States. Annals of Internal Medicine, (under review) 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 415-206-8123

lward@fcm.ucsf.edu