Kathleen Clanon, MD, FACP

Biography

Kathleen Clanon is a clinician, educator, program director, and medical administrator specializing in improving health care of low-income people. She is the primary doctor for 100 people with HIV, practicing at Highland Hospital in Oakland. She helped start and grow multidisciplinary HIV prevention and care programs in Alameda County, California that have served thousands of people.

She was the Clinical Director of the Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center based at UCSF from 2001 to 2012, where she provided the clinical leadership for a 5 state program for teaching and coaching clinicians on HIV care and on Quality Management. She teaches and consults on QM for the Federally-funded National Quality Center, including working with many small and large clinical sites in the States of California, Texas, and Michigan, and more recently the Health Ministries in Thailand, Haiti, and Guyana.

Dr. Clanon serves as the Medical Director of the Health Care Services Agency of Alameda County, is the inspiration and author of Alameda County Care Connect, a Whole Person Care pilot that believes “Housing is Healthcare,” and is desperately clinging to her membership in the UC Berkeley Alumni Chorus, where she is a second string alto.