Kimberly Narain, MD, PhD, MPH, DABOM

Dr. Kimberly Narain is a primary care/internal medicine physician and obesity medicine specialist with expertise in health disparities, health policy and health services research. She uses advanced quantitative methods to identify structural factors (health insurance benefit, healthcare delivery system, socioeconomic policy and work structure design) underlying racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in the prevalence and treatment of obesity and obesity-related diseases (Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease). She endeavors to use her expertise to provide evidence regarding the most promising strategies to stem the tide of the obesity epidemic and facilitate the implementation of those strategies.

Dr. Narain received dual B.S. degrees in Microbiology and African-American studies from UCLA and an M.D. from Morehouse School of Medicine. She completed her residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Following residency, she completed a California Endowment Minority Health Policy Fellowship at Harvard Medical School. After leaving Harvard, she completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Fellowship at UCLA. Upon completion of this fellowship, Dr. Narain stayed on at UCLA as a Specialty Training Advanced Research Fellow in the Department of General Internal Medicine & Health Services Research and earned a Ph.D. in Health Services from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Prior to joining the faculty in the Department of General Internal Medicine & Health Services Research at UCLA, Dr. Narain was a post-doctoral fellow in the West Los Angeles VA Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation & Policy.