Meet the Speakers - Bios

Andrea Anderson

Andrea A. Anderson, MD

Andrea A. Anderson, MD is a bilingual Family Physician with Unity Health Care, a non profit organization providing health care services to the poor and underserved of Washington DC at over 30 sites.  Dr Anderson is the Assistant Medical Director and cares for patients at the Upper Cardozo Neighborhood Health Center in Columbia Heights, an ethnically and economically diverse community.  Upper Cardozo is a large health center, with about 80,000 patient visits annually.  She is the Unity Director of Resident and Student Education, coordinating medical rotations for area clinicians in training.   She organizes and directs Unity’s training program on Health Literacy and Cultural Competency. Finally, she is the Medical Director of Reach Out and Read of Metro DC, the local coalition of the national ROR program that seeks to make literacy promotion a standard part of pediatric primary care.  Dr Anderson’s special interests include advocacy for early childhood literacy, health services for immigrant families, community medicine education for medical students and residents, health literacy, and national primary care workforce reform.

A native of New York, she attended the Ursuline School for Girls before completing her BA in Human Biology/African American Studies and MD in the eight year Program in Liberal Medical Education at Brown University.    During this time she was accepted as a National Health Service Corps Scholar, committing herself to the service of underserved communities.  She was awarded the Ralph Ellison Award from the National Medical Fellowships, and the Janice M. Glasgow Award from the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA).  Dr Anderson completed her residency in Family Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, a large LA County Hospital serving a diverse population.   She served as the Chief Resident and an Academic Medicine Fellow. She was chosen as a Fleet Fellow to receive complete private loan repayment in recognition of community service and social justice.  During her training she worked in the Caribbean and Latin America.  She was a 2002 recipient of the Graduate Medical Education award given by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) to highlight young physicians with great potential to contribute to the field of Family Medicine.  Recently she testified on primary care workforce reform before Capitol Hill members and Health Care Reform Analysts at a briefing sponsored by the National Association of Community Health Centers.  She has also testified for early childhood literacy funding for Reach Out and Read on Capitol Hill.

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