Joan Addington-White

Dr. Joan Addington-White is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) within the Department of Medicine’s Division of General Internal Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. She serves as Residency Director for the San Francisco General Hospital Primary Care Internal Medicine Training Program (SFPC), a leading public hospital training program focused on cultivating leaders in clinical care, research, policy, and systems administration for vulnerable populations. Her clinical interests include inpatient/outpatient medicine, complex medical cases, HIV primary care, and care for incarcerated patients. She is deeply involved in medical education, particularly health equity curricula and mentoring diverse residents.

Education:

• B.A. in Comparative Religion, Bowdoin College (1982)
• Junior Year Abroad, Ghandian Social Work Institute (1981)
• M.D., University of Chicago (1990)
• Internal Medicine Residency, Northwestern University (1993)
• American Board of Internal Medicine Certified (2023)

Research & Awards: Dr. Addington-White leads the Song-Brown Healthcare Workforce Training Program as Principal Investigator. Her work emphasizes health equity and advocacy, reflected in publications like her 2025 paper on community-engaged residency curricula. She has received numerous accolades, including the Master Clinician Award (2024–2025) and the UW Health Clinical Educator Excellence Award (2018).

Labs/Teams: She oversees the Health Equity pathway in the Internal Medicine residency and collaborates on initiatives like the SFPC program.