Donna L. Washington, MD, MPH

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Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Veterans Affairs
Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
11301 Wilshire Boulevard, 111G
Los Angeles, CA 90073
Phone: (310) 478-3711 ext. 49479
Fax: (310) 268-4933
donna.washington@va.gov

Dr. Washington is a physician and health services researcher who has devoted her career to addressing the health care needs of vulnerable and underserved populations. Her research focuses on access to emergency department and ambulatory care, racial-ethnic and gender disparities in healthcare, and women veterans. In current research, she is examining racial-ethnic and gender disparities in Department of Veterans Affairs use.

Dr. Washington is a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges, received her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine, and a Masters in Public Health from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Public Health. She completed a Primary Care Internal Medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco - San Francisco General Hospital, followed by a fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA. She is a recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Minority Medical Faculty Development Award, and currently holds a faculty position in the Department of Medicine at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and UCLA.

Content last updated September 19, 2008.