Catherine Juillard, MD, MPH – Associate Professor-in-Residence of Surgery
Dr. Juillard is a surgeon who has her roots in public health. Before going to medical school, Dr. Juillard was a rural health volunteer for the Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa, which is where her interest in public health and health equity were cemented. As a surgeon, Dr. Juillard’s main research interests are identifying risk factors driving disparities in susceptibility to surgically treated diseases and inequity in access to treatment, then creating ways to mitigate these disparities. She looks to apply public health research principles to these issues in order to develop innovative solutions.
Dr. Juillard went to Stanford University for undergraduate studies, then the University of California, Los Angeles, for medical school and general surgery residency. She completed a fellowship in trauma and surgical critical care at the University of California, San Francisco, where she stayed on as faculty until 2018. While at UCSF, Dr. Juillard was the founding co-Director for the Center for Global Surgical Studies and the Director of the Wraparound Program at San Francisco General Hospital. In 2018, Dr. Juillard joined the faculty at UCLA and co-founded the Program for the Advancement for Surgical Equity in the Department of Surgery.